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2019/10/192019/10/18

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/19

I’m leading with the most complex but perhaps also most unfulfilling link.

2020 OS MIGRATION. Or, how to make your project just one Linux distro among many.
Bell Labs: Celebrating 50 Years of Unix. (via multiple places)
Related: The UNIX Game. (via)
FreeBSD at Work: Building Network and Storage Infrastructure with pfSense and FreeNAS. Video from vBSDCon. (via)
Replacing an Oracle Server with FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and PostgreSQL. More convention video. (via)
The Ubuntu package roulette. For contrast with BSD packages; people usually assume, wrongly, that Linux packaging systems are more complete.
Valuable News – 2019/10/07, Valuable News – 2019/10/14, and Valuable News – 2019/10/18. Yeah, I’m running behind on my RSS.
Threading support in LLDB continued
OPNsense 19.7.5 released.
OpenBSD 6.6 Released.
OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits.
FreeBSD 12.1-RC2 Available.
A Ghidra loader for the Linear eXecutable format.

2019/10/17

BSD Now 320: Codebase: Neck Deep

This week’s BSD Now is double-coloned. Colonned? I don’t know the plural possessive of colon, but there’s a nice selection of links to follow there.

2019/10/152019/10/11

SeMiBUG meeting, tonight

SeMiBUG meets tonight, 7 PM, Altair Engineering. Go, if you are near.

(not sure about capitalization on semibug…)

2019/10/142019/10/09

The Digest and TeleVideo

Thanks to Erik Blomberg and the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I now know the Digest has reached a whole new operating system: CP/M. This entertains me.

(It’s the Digest being browsed in text mode on a TeleVideo TS-803, if you can’t see the screen well enough.)

2019/10/122019/10/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/12

I’m sure there’s some recent stuff I missed; I will catch it in next week’s roundup.

SeMiBUG meets Tuesday the 15th.
FreeNAS datasets and snapshots.
Defense at Scale. There’s a BSD system in there. (via)
History of UNIX Design and Interfaces. BSD history mixed in. (via)
1 day / 1 game: solene@ playing Unexplored on OpenBSD. Links to FLV.
OpenSSH 8.1 released. (via)
Care and Feeding of OpenBSD Porters. (via)
By the numbers: ZFS Performance Results from Six Operating Systems and Their Derivatives. This and following are vBSDCon 2019 videos. (via)
Transitioning from FreeNAS to FreeBSD. (via)
In-Kernel TLS Framing and Encryption for FreeBSD. (via)
20 Years of FreeBSD Jails. Last video. (via)
Ken Thompson’s Unix password. He doesn’t need it. (via)
OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits. (via)
Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64: a case study in OS portability. Old news but why not. (via)
Resurrecting Ancient Operating Systems on Debian, Raspberry Pi, and Docker. Very early BSD. (via)
FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook. (via)
Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance. Can’t tell if they are doing this on FreeBSD or not. (via)

2019/10/11

Bay Area FreeBSD Summit now

Posting this now cause tomorrow’s too late: the 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow. Go, if you are near.

2019/10/10

BSD Now 319: Lack Rack, Jack

This week’s BSD Now is up, with a nice general range of topics, including the perennial Lack Rack idea.

2019/10/092019/10/06

BSD.nrw meetup tomorrow

The BSD.nrw Dusseldorf-Wersten BSD user’s group is meeting tomorrow at 19:00 at The Schalander. It probably helps if you speak German; I had to rely on Google Translate for this one. Go, if you are near.

2019/10/072019/10/02

ChiBUG meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG meets tomorrow, the 8th. Go, if you are near Chicago.

2019/10/052019/10/04

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/05

There’s been a lot of BUG meetings lately; I think it’s time to form some more.

Fixing up KA9Q-unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..” Packet radio!
ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits.
How To Set Up Buildbot on FreeBSD. (via)
Next ChiBUG meeting: October 8th. I’ll post a reminder.
pkgsrc-2019Q3 is out.
Fuzzing Filesystems on NetBSD via AFL+KCOV. (PDF, via)
NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack. (via)
OPNsense 19.7.4 released.
Project Trident 12-U8 available.
FreeBSD 12.1-beta2 available.
sysupgrade(8) Added to OpenBSD 6.5.
OpenBSD moving towards 6.6.
Valuable News – 2019/10/01.
Cannot destroy ‘pool/data’: dataset already exists.
Support for the sgi platform discontinued. (OpenBSD)

2019/10/03

BSD Now 318: The TrueNAS Library

This week’s BSDNow, number 318, “The TrueNAS Library“, covers some links I’ve picked up before but also has BSD and presidential library news, an uncommon combo.

2019/10/032019/10/02

Reminder: set hostname

You should set hostname in /etc/rc.conf. I am mentioning this now because not doing it kept me from running X apps from a DragonFly system on a Windows 10 system with vcxsrv, and I wasted half an hour of my life figuring that out. Apparently this is a lesson I need to keep relearning.

2019/10/022019/09/27

NYCBUG tonight: Plan 9

Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, presented by Ori Bernstein, is happening tonight at the ever-mighty NYCBUG. Go, if you are near.

2019/09/302019/09/23

KnoxBUG tonight: home labs

KnoxBUG meets tonight, with home labs being the topic. Go, if you are near.

2019/09/282019/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28

Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up.

KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs.
Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via)
ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases.
Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers (quick A.D. 2019 overview). (via)
Next NYCBUG meeting: Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, with Ori Bernstein. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
EuroBSDCon 2019.
1 day / 1 game : Red Alert with games/openra. It’s a FLV file.
Playing Ion Fury on OpenBSD. Another FLV link.
1 day / 1 game on OpenBSD: Sword of the Stars: The Pit by thfr@.
fnaify 2.0 out. (via)
Project Trident 12U7 now available.
List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style.
Valuable News – 2019/09/23.
OpenBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019.

Your book plug of the week: “Of course, if you don’t want to sponsor a book on SNMP I can’t blame you for that either. It’s a horrible topic that most of us would rather pretend didn’t exist.“