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2020/04/182020/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/18

Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.

Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.

2020/04/16

BSD Now 346: Core File Tales

BSD 346 is out and has some interesting Unix history bits in amongst the other news.

2020/04/132020/04/12

FreeBSD – Office Hours

I’m posting now because it’s happening Wednesday and waiting for In Other BSDs on Saturday will be too late: the next FreeBSD Office Hours (livestream with Q&A) is happening on the 16th.

2020/04/112020/04/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/11

BUG meetings are canceled, but this can’t be surprising at this point.

Installing FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3. (via)
Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
SNMP Mastery is out. (related: The Print Book Trade, and Money)
NYCBUG meetings are suspended for obvious meetings, but there’s online chat.
BSDCan 2020 will be online-only.
No April ChiBUG meeting.
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging.
OpenBSD andIPv6.
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN. Linked cause there’s BSD support too. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2020Q1 release.
BSD Link Roundup 4.8.
Wifi renewal restarted.
LLDB work concluded.
Valuable News – 2020/04/06.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin on OpenBSD!
Testing AGS games on OpenBSD! That’s Adventure Game Studios.
OPNsense 20.1.4 released.

2020/04/09

BSD Now 345: Switchers to BSD

BSD Now 345 has the usual batch of recent stories to cover, plus a treat – a number of community feedback items on switching to BSD.

2020/04/042020/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/04

Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work.

2020/04/02

BSD Now 344: Grains of Salt

Everything else is topsy-turvy, but BSD Now is a constant: it’s out like usual this week. There’s a feature about text processing, a subject I inexplicably enjoy, and a lot of things that start with Z.

2020/03/30

Full history of DragonFly, documented

Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it. So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged copy.

2020/03/282020/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/28

I have multiple BSD based systems to update, reboot, and hopefully not physically visit in the next week or so.

pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE Now Available.
Booting [OpenBSD] from an FFS2 filesystem.
[packages] Retiring Python 2 support in IPython.
AnsiMail, based on ansible, not ANSI as older folks may immediately think. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/03/23.
Bob Beck Interview from EuroBSDCon 2018.
XIGMANAS 12.1.0.4 Ingva Released. Did not know this existed. (via)
More than 1/3 of commercial games for OpenBSD on sale on GOG.com. (via)
Question about a game. (Ultimate Doom, on OpenBSD, though it may apply to any BSD)
FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550.
OpenBSD’s ‘spinning’ CPU time category.
OpenBSD -current – Frequent asked questions.

2020/03/26

BSD Now 343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

BSD Now 343 is quite topical this week: viruses and VPNs. Release information, etc., too.

2020/03/212020/03/20

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/21

A bit short this week; I think everyone’s been occupied with other issues.

2020/03/19

BSD Now 342: Layout the DVA

For once, I couldn’t figure out what the name of this week’s BSD Now episode referenced. It’s Data Virtual Address, in ZFS, which gets covered in the show. There’s a specific bit about Go and OpenBSD that I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere, too. (see show notes)

2020/03/16

rcorder cross-pollination

rcorder-visualize.sh draws the dependencies for rc scripts using dot. Originally in NetBSD, then in FreeBSD, now in DragonFly.

2020/03/142020/03/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/14

Throwing all the links I can out there.

March/April BUG meetings canceled for NYCBUG and SEMIBUG.
FreeBSD Journal 2020/01-02. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD Find Installed Hard Disk Size Information. (via)
GhostBSD 20.02 Overview. (video, via)
Introduction to Flua on FreeBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Loader and Console Future. (via)
OPNsense 20.1.2 released.
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying. TrueNAS 12 will be the One True… NAS
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE+Qt5 progress, more.
My infrastructure as of 2019. Not a bad model.
Valuable News – 2020/03/02 and 2020/03/09.
OpenBSD Errata: March 13th, 2020 (sosplice). (via)
OpenBSD Errata: March 10th, 2020 (sysctl). (via)
New Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2020-002.
Accomplishment of porting ptrace(2) test scenarios.
Towards backtracing through signal trampolines and fresh libc++.
How to Set Up Windows SMB Shares on FreeNAS.
The Expression Amrilato (Renpy compatible).
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius (free visual novel on GOG).
cwm-like Window Manager for NetBSD and FreeBSD?
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Northgard.
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Dead Cells 1.7.6 with The Bad Seed DLC.
OpenBSD Full Disk Encryption with CoreBoot and Tianocore Payload.
Does anyone have KDE on FreeBSD working with multiple monitors?
Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news.
FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop.

2020/03/12

BSD Now 341: U-NAS-ification

BSD Now 341 is about unification, get it? It’s covering the merging of TrueNAS/FreeNAS, along with the usual roundup of news, including POWER9 and FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Go, and so on.

2020/03/102020/02/25

ChiBUG meeting, tonight, at a new location

ChiBUG meets tonight, and it’s at the Oak Park Library, not the usual place. Go, if you are near, and especially if you were too far away, before. This spot may be more accessible.

2020/03/072020/03/06

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/07

I have not yet even gone through my BSD RSS feeds for some days and I already have plenty of links for you.

Test your TOR.
Census Program II, an evaluation of open-source software dependencies. Linux-specific, but applies to ports and BSD. (via)
Arena Unix II swim cap.
OpenBSD versus Prometheus (and Go).
Unix’s /usr split and standards (and practice) and The /bin versus /usr split and diskless workstations. Dates back to early BSD history.
tinyc.games. Should work on BSD? (via)
POWER to the People – Making FreeBSD First Class Citizen on POWER. (via)
FreeBSD Finally Removes GCC 4.2.1 from Base System after 13 Years. (via)
Release of pkg 1.13 for FreeBSD. (via)
Xorg 1.20.7 on HardenedBSD Comes with IE/RELRO+BIND_NOW/CFI/SafeStack Protections. (via)
Open source licenses: 2019 year in review. (via)
Eternal Terminal. (via)

2020/03/05

BSD Now 340: Check my sums

BSD Now 340 is up, with dives into different BSD platform tools; very enjoyable if you like digging into how things work, which of course you do if you are reading this.

2020/03/022020/02/15

NYCBUG, Vixie: “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes”

Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. It’s tomorrow. Go, if you are near; this is one of the people who built basic blocks of the Internet’s infrastructure.

2020/03/022020/02/06

BSD Stockholm meeting, tomorrow

If you are near Stockholm, go to the Stockholm BUG meeting, tomorrow. I’m posting it a bit ahead of time to account for time zone difference.