BSD Now is out for this week; no specific theme but there is a link to something I didn’t know existed: the Scotland Open Source podcast.
Remember, BSDCan 2020 is still streaming if you read this early enough.
- Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe.
- BastilleBSD Template updates. (via)
- Bringing FreeBSD to EC2 with Colin Percival. A long and worthwhile story, on a non-BSDpodcast. (via)
- The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey.
- Peeking inside executables and libraries to make debugging easier. Applies to BSD as it says.
- Some new fnaify-supported games.
- Custom tab completions in oksh.
- VAX port needs help.
- FreeBSD 11.4 RC2 available.
- My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. I’ve had good luck with that series.
- Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
- Valuable News – 2020/06/01.
- BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction.
BSDCan 2020 is being streamed right now and tomorrow, with all talks available.
This week’s BSD Now has the most exciting title I’ve heard in some time, related to the type of disk being used in one of the stories. This week is mostly installation tales, really.
Something that makes me happy: Vermaden’s Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now.
- Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via)
- BSD Hardware – Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via)
- Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis.
- OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs. (via)
- Podcast interview on SNMP. Ostensibly about SNMP, but involves BSD people.
- NetBSD used to default to csh.
- Netatalk3 Mac file sharing on NetBSD.
- Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full. Linked cause I can never remember the right ifconfig syntax for a bridge.
- EXAPUNKS and Opus Magnum on OpenBSD.
- OPNsense 20.1.7 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/05/25.
This week’s BSD Now links to a bunch of what I call ‘resource’ articles, things that tell you how to do things and use stuff. It’s good reading if you have the time.
For once I started on these early in the week.
- Savaged by systemd, now available as an audiobook.
- OpenBSD in a laptop, part 1 and part 2. (via, via)
- FreeBSD and Google Season of Docs.
- WireGuard on FreeBSD Quick Look: Testing VPN in Jail Network. (via)
- Beautiful background pictures on OpenBSD.
- Communauté OpenBSD française.
- Valuable News – 2020/05/18.
- Hexen II (Co-op) – PlayOnBSD.
- BSD Weekly issue 20.
- Installation images renamed from .fs to .img. OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD 6.7 Released.
- Setting Up Windows iSCSI Block Shares on TrueNAS & FreeNAS.
- Even online, BSDCan 2020 needs volunteers.
- First seed for OpenBSD/powerpc64 planted by kettenis@. How plentiful is this architecture these days?
BSD Now covers this week’s OpenBSD release, along with other topics. I’ll point out the “FreeNAS Spare Parts Build” since everyone does that sooner or later.
We need a “BSD Games” site.
- OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2.
- FreeBSD 12.1 on a laptop.
- Backup and Restore on NetBSD. (via)
- Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests.
- Delver (Dungeon Crawler) on OpenBSD.
- Session Seven (free point & click adventure game) works with fnaify.
- PlanetFriend / The Great Adventurer – PlayOnBSD.
- Unciv (Civilitazion [sic] V remake) on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD Errata.
- FreeBSD 11.4 beta 1 out.
- BSD Weekly issue 19. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/05/11.
- List of useful FreeBSD Commands. (via)
- WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD.
- TLSv1.3 server code enabled in LibreSSL in -current.
- Related: Undeadly now also supports TLS 1.3.
This week’s BSD Now is about half an hour of mostly FreeBSD items, though there is one feedback link of interest to any newer Lenovo laptop users.
Good mix of history and current BSDs this week.
- FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!”
- Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via)
- Unix and Adversarial Interoperability. More BSD history, or prehistory. (via)
- You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
- NetBSD Core Team Changes.
- HamBSD Development Log 2020-05-07. (via)
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2).
- Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects. (NetBSD)
- Enable firefox dark mode.
- Valuable News – 2020/05/04.
- Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD. I am intrigued by the “Let’s Note” laptops mentioned.
- Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault.
- Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD. (via)
- What OSes we use here (as of May 2020).
- OpenBSD ksh port for macOS and Linux. (via)
- Time on Unix. (via)
- Munching Squares. PDP-7, so pre-BSD, pre-UNIX?
- virtualization in windows.
This week’s BSD Now is all FreeBSD and NetBSD news items – go read/listen; I have no special items to pick out but it’s all enjoyable.
Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here.
- cx: A directory history utility written in C. Started on BSD. (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation – 500% if_bridge Performance Improvement. (via)
- Catch up 2020-04-30.
- Playing Counter-Strike (CSMoE) on OpenBSD ft. Zombie mod.
- OpenBSD as a primary target for a game development club? Dev + Gaming + OS Study.
- Playing Doom 3 co-op (librecoop mod) on OpenBSD.
- using zfs rollback for cache clearing.
- Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD.
- Building a WireGuard Jail with the FreeBSD’s Standard Tools.
- oxbar: configurable X11 status bar for OpenBSD. (via)
- Improving libossaudio, and the future of OSS in NetBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/04/27.
- The Unix divide over who gets to chown things, and (disk space) quotas.
This week’s BSD Now has the normal links, but also shows off a “Open Source Retail Box Collection”, which is always fun to see – open source that reaches the shelf. Also: install stories!
Tab cleanout time!
- OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several)
- FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE.
- Valuable News – 2020/04/20.
- Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS.
- How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD.
- How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel.
- (lost the source links on those last few; sorry.)
- ‘“things to do” after you have FreeBSD installed‘.
- There’s a whole bunch of new jobs posted on the NYCBUG jobs@ list.
- Replacing existing Cisco ASA 5520 with pfSense HA Cluster.
- HardenedBSD April 2020 Status Report.
- EKCD – Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD.
- TrueNAS 11.3-U2 is Generally Available.
- Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops. Might have good news for general hardware support for other systems? (via)
- Debugging freebsd.org Resolution Failure. (via)
BSD Now 347 is up with the usual mix of articles, with the highlight for me being “Making Unix a little more Plan9-like”. However, there’s also the news that BSD Now is breaking out on their own, away from Jupiter Broadcasting, which is exciting news! Make sure you are looking at the correct RSS feed to catch their move.
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.
BSD 346 is out and has some interesting Unix history bits in amongst the other news.
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.