This is the most straightforwardly-named BSD Now in a while: it’s an interview of Kyle Evans talking about his projects in FreeBSD.
This list of links runs in the same order of the BSD RSS feeds in my reader. What a coincidence!
- pkgsrc-2020Q3 released.
- The FreeBSD Town Hall was Wednesday and I didn’t post about it in time, but previous Town Halls are available.
- Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/12.
- OpenBSD Laptop. (via)
- Cryptographic Signing using
ssh-keygen(1)with a FIDO Authenticator. - RETGUARD for powerpc and powerpc64 added to -current.
- How to open source: going from NetBSD to Linux.
- Michael W. Lucas is having a book sale.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual roundup, with I think the highlight being a discussion of how SSDs can sometimes still not be fast enough for a ZFS scrub, depending on how it’s scheduled.
The ChiBUG monthly meeting has gone virtual, so go now if you are interested. The thread about it also includes some notes on how to connect under BSD that may be useful beyond this immediate event.
I always thought of cross-pollination – sharing of code between BSDs – as a good thing. This seems like the most basic way to do that: same base sh.
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT.
- OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via)
- duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via)
- Old School Disk Partitioning. (via)
- Why the Unix
newgrpcommand exists (sort of),
How the Unixnewgrpcommand behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still usenewgrp(to my surprise), touching BSD history. - FreeBSD laptop advice.
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 5).
- Valuable News – 2020/10/05.
- FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 Available.
- How to Recover From a BIOS Upgrade. Putting your boot sector back.
- FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 2 Primer for Users.
- fnaify 3.0 released.
This week’s BSD Now talks about ZFS, TrueNAS, IPC, wildcards, and the UNIX family tree, for a mix of the old and new.
No theme, but lots to read.
- Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
- OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
- FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
- FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
- “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
- Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
- About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
- Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
- k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
- Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
- ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.
This week’s BSD Now has FuryBSD, FreeBSD, and LDAP as topics, and I’m describing it that way because I feel like writing as many capital letters as possible.
Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed.
- On the use of a life. A BSD business.
- FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via)
- FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?
- Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via)
- k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van Duren on snmp, agentx, and other progress. An actual in-person meeting!
- Valuable News – 2020/09/21.
- A simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm(1).
- Unified pfSense documentation.
- New minecraft launcher in ports. OpenBSD.
- OPNSense 20.7.3 released.
This week’s BSD Now covers a bunch of releases, a good rc.d argument, and a “How I Did This” story. HIDT? That’s a good acronym.
No theme, just everything in a bucket.
- NetBSD-current now has GCC 9.3.0 for x86/ARM, with ASan, TSan (for 64bit archs), UBSan and LSan. (via)
- FreeBSD Core Team office hours this week.
- Interprocess Communication in FreeBSD 11 – Performance Analysis. (via)
- Rolling distribution releases versus periodic releases are a tradeoff. Linked here because BSD releases are both (point and -current)
- Over 1000 subscribers celebration thread!
- webcam on MidnightBSD.
- nut – testing shutdown and startup.
- GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, third evaluation report.
- FuryBSD 2020-Q3 The world’s first OpenZFS based live image.
- Retro UNIX. Sorta PreBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD 12.2 beta1.
- TrueNAS 12.0rc1.
- BSD Link Roundup 9.11.
- Firewall Ban-sharing across machines.
- Valuable News – 2020/09/14.
- My New Project: zedfs.com.
- login_ldap added to -current. (OpenBSD)
The theme of this week’s BSD Now seems to be about new roles for BSD, cause there’s talk about clustering and console changes.
Perhaps a performance tweaks mini-theme this week?
- Valuable News – 2020/09/07.
- OPNsense 20.7.2 Released.
- Quare FreeBSD?
- FreeBSD Mini Git Primer. (via)
- Install OpenBSD 6.7 with Disk Encryption and FVWM Ricing. Note for non-English speakers: “ricing” is a derogatory term. (via)
- NetBSD Tips and Tricks. (via)
- OpenBSD/FreeBSD performance.
- Beginner’s Guide to FreeBSD. More of an overview. (via)
- nut – testing the shutdown mechanism.
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 4)
- pkgsrc Developer Monotony. Common in any open source project in the long term, I think.
- MidnightBSD 1.2.8 and MidnightBSD 2.0-CURRENT.
This week’s BSD Now is a mix of historical content, and ZFS news items. Surely one or both of those interest you?
It’s a good mix this week.
- ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again.
- FreeBSD 11.3 EOL.
- Modernizing the OpenBSD console.
- Valuable News – 2020/08/31.
- FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync.
- 6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD)
- PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in OpenBSD.
- GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment.
- Find which package provides a given file in OpenBSD.
- The roles of OSs have changed. I like the alternate world suggestion.
- Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD. (via)
- In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? If you’ve been reading this Digest for some time, I bet you already know many of these. (via)
- My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]. (via)
No pun in this week’s BSD Now title, but that’s usual now. ZFS news is the bulk of this week’s episode.
No theme, but plenty of variety.
- A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel.
- Valuable News – 2020/08/24.
- “TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters.
- TrueNAS 12.0 beta out.
- MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out.
- pkgdb belongs in libdata, not var. Them’s fightin’ words!
- rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc. Them too!
- GhostBSD financial reports. I like seeing this out in the open. (via)
- What is the oldest BSD? Not as short an answer as you may think. (via)
- Tarsnap podcast episode with FreeBSD ex security officer Colin Percival. (via)
- From 8′ to 4″: massive pkgsrc performance gain by replacing a shell script with awk.
This week’s BSD Now is a nice round number, 365, and covers all sorts of subjects. I like the command line tools vs Hadoop link.
Started this with overflow from last week.
- New fnaify games: Eagle Island, Ruggnar, Camera Obscura.
- Trademarks disputes in tech. Linked for NetBSD mention.
- Android debugging in OpenBSD.
- Speed up pkgsrc on retrocomputers. (via)
- Important parts of Unix’s history happened before readline support was common.
- Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader.
- Sandbox for FreeBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations.
- PostgreSQL on FreeBSD advancements. (via)
- You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS.
- OPNsense 20.7.1 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/08/17.
- LibreSSL documentation status update.
- A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch.
- Changing from one dataset to another within a FreeBSD [iocage] jail.
- FreeBSD on SPARC64 (is dead).