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.
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/SafeSta
ck Protections. (via) - Eternal Terminal. (via)
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.
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.
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.
Happy leap day!
- RSVP to the ChiBUG mailing list if you are attending the March 10th meeting, in its new location.
- The Vixie talk at NYCBUG is this week; this is worth making an extra trip for.
- Critical OpenSMTPd update.
- FreeBSD 12.0 EOL.
- A Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation.
- Valuable News – 2020/02/10, 2020/02/17, and 2020/02/24. Clearly I am behind.
- FreeBSD Enterprise Storage at PBUG.
- dig(1), host(1) and nslookup(1) moved to /usr/bin.
- a2k20 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on
xhci(4),dhclient(8), and scsi. - OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup.
- FOSDEM 2020 videos available.
- OPNsense 20.1.1 released.
- Warning! Active Directory Security Changes Require TrueNAS and FreeNAS Updates.
- Full name of root account in BSD. A chunk of history I had never heard.
- Managing a database of vulnerabilities for a package system: the pkgsrc study case. (PDF, via)
- Low power BSD-based AP/router?
- HashLink port for running Dead Cells. (via)
I am running a bit late posting about it, but BSD Now 339 is out, with conversations about recent different releases, plus as the title says, fundraising.
No theme this week cause I think I hit everything.
- Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder.
- NetBSD 9.0 is out, in case you missed the late update last week.
- Related: NetBSD 2020 Fundraising Campaign.
- What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD.
- FixedMisc [MirOS] 20200214 released, for “I ? Free Software” day. Tangentially BSD.
- Approaching the end of work on ptrace(2).
- LLDB now works on i386.
- A day as an OpenBSD developer. How do people discover ports?
- Daily life with the offline laptop. (Running OpenBSD) I like the “What do I like to do?” breakdown approach.
- An emulator for a Sun 2 workstation. I think that dates to the BSD timeframe.(via)
- HamBSD Hardware Wanted. Scotland. (via)
- Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD’s hypervisor. (via)
- Pine64 February Update: Post CNY and FOSDEM Status Report. The Pro runs NetBSD, so it applies, along with fitting my small computer fetish. (via)
- Can You Use FreeBSD for a Developer Machine in 2020? I’d argue that a ‘developer machine’ needs only a text editor and a file transfer program to qualify. (via)
- Stanford 1967 PDP-6 logbook, a PDF. (via)
- “SNMP Mastery” leaking out. BSD-first author, of course.
BSD Now 338 is up, which strangely is listed as the “100th episode” on the site, but I think that means it’s only indexed through #239. Anyway, it has the normal ingredients – a ZFS article, a convention note, and a link into a conversation about OpenBSD, among other things.
The next scheduled meeting for SEMIBUG is tonight. Go, if you are near.
UNIX history as an accidental theme this week.
Update: NetBSD 9.0 is released.
- Are there analogues to libxo out there?
- Unix Heritage Wiki. (via)
- Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming)
- PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question.
- Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via)
- UNIX Review Early 80’s Ad.
- Cycling / bike trips and opensource.
- Rob Landley about the /usr split. (via)
- awesome cli apps: A curated list of command line apps. Look for them in ports. (via)
- Using PKGSRC on Manjaro Linux aarch64 Pinebook-pro. (via)
- FreeNAS versus Unraid – Grudge Match. (via)
- Dependencies and maintainers. Tehcnically BSD related.
I like seeing cross-pollination, as I’ve said before. I really like it turning into informal cross-BSD standards.
This week’s BSD Now covers user groups and convention talks and releases and really the full gamut.
ChiBUG is having their monthly meeting at the normal place, Giordano’s, tonight. Next month is a new location.
Hamilton, Ontario, is having what I think is the inaugural meeting for their BUG, tonight. That’s I think the closest one to me so far.
Also, the Polish BUG is meeting tonight. I say “tonight” for both of these, but they are very different time zones.
The Dusseldorf BSD.nrw BUG is also also meeting tonight. Second Tuesdays are popular!
Linked cause I always forget the right shell command for UTF-8, to reduce the amount of ???? ??? ??? ??????? ??.
Another overflow week.
- Travel Grant Application for BSDCan is now open.
- Bram Moolenaar Uses This. I am curious about what specifically stopped him using BSD.
- Tildeverse. Several BSD communities in there.
- What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?
- Some effects of the ZFS DVA format on data layout and growing ZFS pools. Linked cause much ZFS discussion is about tools, not format.
- Open world games! OpenBSD.
- SerenityOS desktop running on an OpenBSD kernel. (via)
- Creating a ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail.
- FixedMisc [MirOS] 20200202 and MirKeyboardLayout 9x released!
- Finding out what directories exist with only basic shell builtins (a Unix shell trick). Tangentially BSD.
- Second (final) release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!
- Related: Help NetBSD test 9.0 Release Candidate 2.
- [packages] PostgreSQL major update.
- Valuable News – 2020/02/03.
- ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD. (via)
- FOSDEM BSD room video recordings. (via)
- [How-To] Running syslog-ng in BastilleBSD. (via)
- FreeNAS Plugins Development.
This week’s BSD Now has links to a number of about-BSD articles, as usual. Take note – there’s links to two European BUG meetings I didn’t have noted, under Beastie Bits.
NYCBUG meets tomorrow, at Chartbeat. You can bring in food, too! Go, if you are near.