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)
The newest BSD Now is up with the usual suspects for topics: a FreeBSD release, a ZFS item, and something OpenBSD.
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time…
- CDBUG meetings going virtual.
- FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure.
- November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th.
- What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games?
- HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report.
- A list of games to try that probably all run on BSD.
- Performance tip(s) for those playing Minecraft on OpenBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD.
- Join the peer to peer social network Scuttlebutt using OpenBSD and Oasis.
- Argument processing in Unix and Windows.
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Adding a GUI to diff(1). Sorta BSD?
- FreeBSD July-September status report.
- My first FreeBSD port: Castor.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/02.
I’m a bit late noting it, but BSD Now 375 is almost all virtualization topics.
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really.
- Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via)
- The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via)
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via)
- Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via)
- History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via)
- Lenovo T420 FreeBSD Tweaks. Still valid; hardware still exists. (via)
- Automating OpenBSD Vultr VM deployment with Ansible. (via)
- Default OpenBSD Web Server. Out on GitHub, not within the main repo? (via)
- How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built.
- Port of the week: rclone.
- OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD 12.2 is out.
- Realtek RTL8188CUS – USB 802.11n WiFi Review.
- OPNSense 20.7.4 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/26.
- BSD hardware trends. (via)
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Porting OpenBSD’s diff(1).
This week’s BSD Now is all about releases – OpenBSD, NetBSD, BastilleBSD…
It’s apparently release week?
- Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
- NetBSD 9.1 released.
- OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
- REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
- TrueNAS 12.0 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
- FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
- FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
- how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
- People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
- OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
- Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
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.