This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of NetBSD things including rc.d as you might guess, and covers Project Trident. Listen/read in if you are unfamiliar.
Built entirely from open tabs.
- Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
- pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
- HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
- QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
- Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
- openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
- Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
- Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
- SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
- Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
- OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
- How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
- mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
- Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
- Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
- FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.
This week’s BSD Now, the satisfyingly-numbered 286, covers a number of topics – including 2 things I have always been entertained by: small X tools and Windowmaker.
SemiBUG’s normal meeting place is not available this month, so there’s an informal get-together at Leo’s next door, like last month. It’s happening tonight at 7 PM.
Update: I put the wrong publish date on this – “tonight” is the 19th for this, not the 17th.
This week’s BSD Now (video) gets into a recent article about FreeBSD planning, plus a note about a famous book, plus of course more.
Whee!
- ZFS and GPL terror: How much freedom is there in Linux?
- Setting the boot logo on a Thinkpad. Done on an OpenBSD install but should nominally work for anything on a Thinkpad. Also, how to make a boot logo. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal Column. Start reading issues now if you like, and you have some large number of hours to spare – there’s a lot of material there.
- Security Vulnerability Mitigations from an OpenBSD hackathon, with video.
- Support for 2TB of memory added for OpenBSD amd64.
- Upgrading to FreeBSD 12.0 from FreeBSD 11.2 using beadm and freebsd-update.
- The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase.
- Final report on Clang / LLD state.
- Integration of the LLVM sanitizers with the base system.
- Revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer. (via)
- Customized resolution for OpenBSD in VirtualBox. (via)
- NetBSD desktop pt.6: “vi(1) editor, tmux and unicode $TERM”. (via)
- The hardware-assisted virtualization challenge.
- Upgrade process using GPT.
- EuroBSDcon 2019 – Lillehammer September 19-22, 2019. (via)
- Netflix and FreeBSD – Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video – FOSDEM 2019. Interesting – they track HEAD. (via)
- FreeBSD in Audio Studio – FOSDEM 2019; with video. (via)
As I had hoped, BSD Now was at FOSDEM 2019 and they provide a recap, along with links to some BSD events there, and of course other news.
NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow night, and the presentation is “Shell as a deployment tool“. Go, if you are near.
Inadvertent theme: release news.
- Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using a packaging system.
- I mentioned it before, but FOSDEM 2019, happening right now in Brussels, has a BSD Devroom with a lot of things happening in it; you could spend your entire Saturday in there.
- And something that has me quite excited: The Pinebook Pro, among other hardware announcements for FOSDEM. BSD is being mentioned right there as something to install on it, rather than as an aftermarket hack like with Chromebooks – heartwarming, I tell you. (via)
- Unix flowers. Look for birthtoken while you are at it. (via)
- FreeNAS has Plugins? A casual look at it seems to push some features into pfSense territory.
- Next NYC*BUG: 2/6.
- OPNsense 19.1-RC1 released. Wait, 19.1 is out.
- join-ing any open wifi network is now possible.
- FreeBSD Training @ SCaLE 17x (March 8, 2019) (via)
- NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor. (via)
- ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE (first public release). (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/01/18 and Valuable News – 2019/01/25 and Valuable News – 2019/02/01.
- HardenedBSD 2018Q4 Status Report. (via)
- Florian Obser on unwind(8).
- MightnightBSD Roadmap.
- SoloBSD 19.01-STABLE.
- fnaify 1.2 released.
- At The Gates, 4x strategy game running on BSD. (via)
The hosts of BSD Now are off to FOSDEM 2019, but they stayed on schedule by recording an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team, available now. He’s speaking at FOSDEM, too, along with a bunch of other BSD Devroom stuff.
There’s some convention stuff scattered in here; we’re heading towards the active season…
- Anyone running pfSense on non-netgate hardware in a prod environment?
- vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current.
- OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten. (via)
- 05/25/2019 : V BSDDAY in Brazil.
- The first report on LLD porting.
- Update Intel Microcode on FreeBSD. (via)
- VPS hosting provider recommendations for OpenBSD.
- The AsiaBSDCon 2019 RFP has only 5 days left. (via)
- pkgstat, an OpenBSD package statistics gatherer. (via)
- The risk that comes from ZFS on Linux not being GPL-compatible.
- Two views of ZFS’s GPL-incompatibility and the Linux kernel.
- HyperRogue on OpenBSD/macppc. (via)
- Less Known pkg(8) Features. Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.
- avoiding duplicate cronjobs.
- openrsync, a “clean-room BSD-licensed implementation of rsync”. (via)
- Nixers Newsletter 110. These newsletters are so jam-packed with links I’m just going to link to them directly instead of cherry-picking.
- Using a Teletype Model 33 mechanical terminal. Proto-BSD. Excellent in-depth explanation.
This week’s BSD Now talks about OpenRSync (OpenRsync? Dunno the capitalization on that), convention news, and someone building a “Sun Workstation”.
Overflow from the past two weeks. I’ll have my email and tab backlog cleared next week.
- Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output.
- New console font Spleen made default. There’s examples.
- OPNSense 18.7.10 released.
- Best BSD filesystem for ssd. All of them.
- LibGDX proof of concept on OpenBSD: Slay the Spire. Has video.
- 2018 recap.
- Ring in the new. KDE/FreeBSD.
- Man pages, as pages.
- Newcomer to FreeBSD.
- How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
- FreeBSD Journal is now free, starting with the latest issue. (via)
- SuperTuxKart, the open source Mario Kart clone, achieves beta status with network support. I didn’t know you could have a Beastie pilot. (via)
- wtf(1). (via aly on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Project Trident’s first -RELEASE. (via)
- Building Spotifyd on NetBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2019 call for papers closes today.
This week’s BSD Now discusses scp vulnerabilities, GhostBSD, and the recent EPYC hardware benchmarks that I have not linked because I don’t think they are useful information.
The normal meeting space isn’t available this month or next, so tonight’s meeting is an informal get-together at 7 PM at Leo’s Coney Island. I assume if you are near, you know Leo’s. Go if that’s you.
Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week.
- pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.
- GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via)
- Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via)
- People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded via)
- Linux network-scripts being deprecated is a problem for my home PPPoE link. Linked here cause this sort of CADT approach doesn’t happen so much on BSD…
- BSD BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT. (via)
- tons of updates, more coming… (hope I didn’t break anything ?) MirBSD.
- Valuable News – 2019/01/04.
- The process of upstreaming support to LLVM sanitizers has been finalized.
- Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published.
- How NetBSD came to be shipped by Microsoft. (via)
- MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up. More BSD books on the way!
- GhostBSD 18.12 Now Available. (via)
Your BSD smug linksfor the week: I saw these two posts in my RSS feed, one right after the other: “Get ready to patch your Linux systems with systemd, 3x new CVEs out there as of yesterday. These enable any user to escalate to root.” and “Windows 10 Bsod on three different machines after updates. On was new out of box. Any ideas? ”
This week’s BSD Now talks about merchandise! No, it’s really starting with a license discussion. A merchandise-finding episode would be a good idea, though.
I like when I can get Net, Free, and Open items all in the same week.
- Is any C code from 1970s Unix still used today in macOS or BSD?
- razer blade stealth. The BSD part is at the end.
- Let’s try on OpenBSD: NeuroVoider.
- Is the BSD community dedicated to free software? Sealioning, maybe.
- Using the Open Suse build service to build for FreeBSD?
- Installing OpenBSD over FreeBSD.
- SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD.
- KDE4 on FreeBSD, post-mortem.
- toying with wireguard on openbsd
- How I did start using FreeBSD. (via)
- Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc, a Proposal. (via)
- pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement.
- NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
- Hyper-V and GhostBSD – lockup.
- Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. The source link also links to the slides, from EuroBSDCon 2018, and I don’t think I linked them before.
- Modern KDE on FreeBSD. (via)
- Welcome to New Subscribers and Goals for 2019. r/openbsd_gaming.
As you may have guessed, this week’s BSD Now talks about the change of ZFS code origin in FreeBSD. There’s of course other things linked, including this tattoo.