This week’s BSD Now talks about the usual hardware, but also gets into the recently announced Allen K. Briggs scholarship.
Aaron LI has ported timeout(1) to DragonFly. It’s a way to run a command with a time limit, and I’m happy to say it is a cross-BSD item, coming from NetBSD by way of FreeBSD.
It’s online, so everyone can go to “Chatting About TLS and Orcs, by Michael W. Lucas“, tomorrow night. I’m putting this reminder the day before because you have to mail rsvp@lists.nycbug.org to get the Zoom invite.
I am happy to be in the new year.
- Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see.
- On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database.
- BSD Games for Linux. (via)
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
- Starting with FreeBSD jails.
- A potted history of UNIX, just up to BSD. (via)
- The FreeBSD 92. Nakatomi Socrates BSD Easter Egg. Followup from last week’s link. (Thanks, D. Ebdrup.)
- The world’s chunkiest card reader.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/28.
- Use Android USB Tethering to Get Internet on FreeBSD. (via)
- It feels like the broad Unix API is being used less these days.
- A Big Sur look for WindowMaker on OpenBSD.
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date. Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.
As in, right now, and online, so join in and say hi.
Lots of history this week.
- Nakatomi Socrates BSD.
- FreeBSD src now in git. (via)
- Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via)
- The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via)
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via)
- Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship.
- Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/21.
- Youtube Install Video for MidnightBSD.
- Managing Jails with Ansible: A showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD. (via)
- LimeSuiteSDR is now ported to FreeBSD. (via)
- X86 bsd router suggestions.
There’s an Q&A session for this week’s BSD Now. I haven’t looked carefully enough to see if this is the last for the year, but there’s some fun what-are-you-running-at-home material in there.
Working on less traditional BSD links here.
- Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions.
- Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week.
- BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via)
- BSD Discord server. More linked in comments.
- Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific.
- There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly.
- CentOS killed by IBM – a chance to go new ways?
- Set your favorite pager.
- OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus.
- OPNsense 20.7.7 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/14.
This week’s BSD Now talks about shell history, Plan 9, and new-to-me ArisbluBSD, so it should be fun.
Straight from tabs.
- How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF.
- Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020).
- Show diff output in color.
- FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via)
- macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via)
- Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My only experience with DocBook. (via)
- FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved. (via)
- OPNSense 20.7.6 released.
- TrueNAS 12.0u1 is out with OpenZFS 2.0.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/07.
I haven’t had much to report this week, but there is a new episode of BSD Now.
Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week.
- Install FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Step by Step Guide. (via)
- Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1.
- Alpine Linux on FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Inside chroot(8). (via)
- Netatalk on OpenBSD or how to build a free Time Capsule. (via)
- Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation on NetBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD subversion to git move.
- MidnightBSD 2.0 released.
- Escape Goat 2 on OpenBSD.
- A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard.
- Building a new homelab server.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/30.
- How to deploy Vger gemini server on OpenBSD.
BSD Now isn’t getting back into the punning headline territory it used to occupy; this week’s broadcast is using the title of the first article discussed – so there’s virtualization, tools, and so on.
The NYCBUG Troff presentation is tomorrow night. If you want to attend – and you should, cause it’s online – you need to email to register. I’ve seen the presenter, James K. Lowden, before; he’s an enjoyable speaker. Go, even if you aren’t near.
The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of.
- For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near.
- Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via)
- The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via)
- Unix doesn’t normally do short
write()s to files and no one expects it to. Network buffers have the same problem. - FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet. See source link comments for more.
- OCR on FreeBSD – Tesseract It. (via)
- ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD? Strictly speaking, another FreeBSD desktop. (via)
- OPNSense 20.7.5 released.
- Tailscale on OpenBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report.
- Setting up a WireGuard® client with routing domains on OpenBSD. (via)
- MidnightBSD 2.0 release status.
- BSD Link Roundup 11.24.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/23.
This week’s BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you’re looking for presents, he’s selling extra books originally intended for convention sales…
Right outta RSS.
- Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64. (via)
- hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”. (via)
- Recommend me a small laptop/netbook for NetBSD?
- Why I use OpenBSD.
- FuguITA: OpenBSD live-cd.
- BSD statistics for October 2020. Not a good place to post this; it’ll get lost.(via)
- How to Set Up and Install TrueNAS CORE.
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with the Creative BT-W3.
- Unbound DNS Blacklist. On BSD of course.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/16.
I am posting it a bit late, but this week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-tos and history; a good mix.
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week.
- Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System.
- Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it).
- Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/11/09.
- OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update.
- Mktemp started on OpenBSD.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential. WSL 2 may be a dead end.
- OpenBSD Router Guide. (via)