This episode has one of the more intriguing titles for BSDNow, and it’s because they are covering a recent hackathon and “BSDCam” (not BSDCan), which I did not know about. The tiny network terminal server mentioned this week may be of use to people, too.
There’s a SemiBUG meeting scheduled for tomorrow; Michael W. Lucas talks about ed.
Update: might be a slightly late start.
Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.
- Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
- Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
- installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
- Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
- The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
- EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
- And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.
BSDNow 259 is out, and I happen to have just come off a 10-hour drive, so I will do nothing other than point you at the episode.
Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.
- Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
- Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
- Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
- The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
- The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
- TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
- Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
- Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
- Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
- Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
- OPNSense 18.7 released.
- FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
- Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
- Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
- looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
- Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)
BSDNow 258 showed up a bit early this week: Among the normal news articles about technology and BSD conventions are notes about how HardenedBSD is setting up their non-profit board. I like seeing that sort of governance documented as it’s happening; it’s the right way to inform people.
I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!
- OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
- rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
- More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
- Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
- g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
- Visualizing ZFS performance.
- OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
- An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
- Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
- Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
- Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
- ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
- Valuable News – 2018/07/27.
BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.
This is way overdue: I’m now posting Digest notes to bsd.network/@dragonflydigest, a BSD-specific Mastodon server.
It’s bothered me for a while that I’m autoposting Digest headlines to Twitter, which is useful for Twitter users but still supporting a walled garden. Mastodon is a better implementation of a similar idea, and bsd.network nicely groups all sorts of BSD people in one place. Right now I’m just posting the Digest headlines here into the Mastodon account there, but there’s added value from the additional BSD-specific conversation around it.
I haven’t (yet) found a way to translate the local timeline on bsd.network into a RSS feed, which would be super-handy…
A lot of this was early overflow posted ahead; I’ve been on the road.
- NetBSD 8.0 released.
- How to port your OS to EC2.
- Booting Without /usr is Broken. Another step away from history and its lessons. (via)
- “Is there a LibertyBSD community? how big is it?“
- Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2018)
- Valuable News – 2018/07/20.
- OPNSense 18.1.12, 18.7-rc2 released.
- A whole bunch of g2k18 hackathon reports.
- “How many desktop BSD users are there?“
- “Will NetBSD play well to being dual booted with Windows (XP)?“
- New Patreon rewards for $1 tier. Michael W. Lucas snark as fortune file, which seems like a good deal to me.
The newest BSDNow episode is number 256 but it’s numbered as a power of 2 which makes me irrationally happy. (Rationally happy? Squarely happy? Trying to add in a combination math and language joke there.)
Aaaaanyway, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, some Linux comparisons, ZFS, and so on. It’s the usual content, though I don’t mean that to sound dismissive. It’s more that I’ve been driving for the past 10 hours and have to go to work in 6, and I’m going directly from this keyboard to bed.
A few of the links are not directly BSD-ish, but related.
- Adventures in Open Source. Interesting for the fixes, and for just hearing how tools are being used – I will look up syncthing as an easier-to-fiddle-with replacement for sftp.
- Version Control Before Git with CVS. Not that long ago for BSD projects, depending where you look. (via)
- Ghost in the Shell – Part 2.
- “Slightly older Thinkpads“, same answer always.
- “SDF is a great UNIX shell provider running on NetBSD“. Not new, but worth repeating. (via)
- The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS [pdf]. (via)
- OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi “auto-join” Plenty of comments in the source link.
- Valuable News – 2018/07/15.
- pkgsrcCon 2018 report & videos. Slides linked too. (via)
- A plan for open source software maintainers.
BSDNow 255 doesn’t have an interview, and it doesn’t have interrogative punctuation in the title, either. My typographic issues aside, it covers zero-days, KDE, CI, new Core team for FreeBSD, and more.
Tonight’s SemiBUG meeting is piggybacking on an Azure User’s Group meeting, same general location. (This is why) Go, if you are near.
Some overflow, and thank goodness cause I don’t have a day without work this week.
- Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer. (via)
- Designing the software specification [for 386BSD] (via)
- A question about BSD kernel syscalls/abi.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q2 release. (via)
- pkgsrcCon 2018 in Berlin – Videos. (via)
- A FreeBSD sysadmin job posting.
- NetBSD 8.0RC2 is out.
- [NetBSD] Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 2. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/07/08.
- Introduce ‘auto-join’ to the [OpenBSD] wifi 802.11 stack. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
- pkgsrc-2018Q2 packages for illumos now available. (via)
- Michael W. Lucas got interviewed. Have you seen his Patreon video yet? (linked last week) It’s fun.
- Jupiter Broadcasting: Tech Talk Today 281. An interview of Allan Jude from BSDNow.
- Allan also shows up on podcast TechSNAP Episode 373: FreeBSD Already Does That.
- Need ZFS Config Advice.
BSD 254 has no interview but covers lots, including mostly-new-to-me BareOS. Also fun, this washing machine tidbit in their Beastie Bits.
Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.
Update: how did I miss this? PkgSrcCon 2018 is happening now in Berlin, and there’s a livestream. (via)
- BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
- 8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable status bar.
- Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
- Cinnamon 3.8.2 now available on pkgsrc/wip. A new (to me) desktop. (via)
- New FreeBSD Core Team Elected.
- OPNSense 18.1.11 released.
- MKSANITIZER – bug detector software integration with the NetBSD userland. (via)
- NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2. (via)
- [Question/Poll] – Does your work use BSD? What for?
- databasing and FreeNAS?
- How to deploy an OpenBSD VM in Amsterdam. (via)
- Bringup is Hard. The ‘What not to do’ section is quite correct. (PDF, via)
BSDNow 253: no interview, but it covers a range of topics I’d be proud to fit in an Other BSDs post. Of special interest (to me) this week: talking about fanless systems, cause it’s hot in North America, and Pinebooks, cause I still have a small computer fetish.
The article I linked yesterday about Ravenports got me wondering about what package are most popular. avalon.dragonflybsd.org is the default binary package archive for pkg, and it has httpd logs back to 2013, so I collated some information.
I read out a list of packages, and weighed them according to how recently they were downloaded. I also mushed together all the py/ruby/p5/php numbered packages, and excluded lib*.
After all that… there’s a lot of noise. One install of any desktop environment pulls in hundreds of packages automatically, so it’s hard to tell what’s installed by a human and what’s installed by dependency. That being said, here’s some highlights. This is me applying an arbitrary value and then arbitrarily snipping out a list… but it’s fun to see if nothing else.
18596 python27
13564 xorg-server
13499 perl5
13391 xterm
12098 xorg
8512 cups
8453 bash
8389 ffmpeg
8367 spidermonkey170
7884 python
7432 firefox
6997 sudo
6896 bind-tools
6702 openldap-client
5651 nano
5529 xfce4-conf
5052 xfce
4663 ruby
4447 vim
3133 tmux
2578 chromium
2248 zsh
2175 samba44
2132 python36
2007 mate-desktop
1765 mysql56-client
1699 fluxbox
1690 vim-lite
1517 CoinMP
1407 openjdk8
1395 samba46
1384 lumina
1367 kde
1355 mpg123
1353 spidermonkey24
1340 vlc
1338 thunderbird
1329 wpa_supplicant
1252 firebird25-client
1164 gimp
1103 zip
1083 youtube_dl
1044 php
941 freerdp
931 mercurial
927 lynx
866 evolution
848 gnome3
845 openjdk
842 openbox
842 epiphany
799 nmap
798 go
796 mutt
796 gnuchess
743 apache24
726 rxvt-unicode
722 irssi
652 firefox-esr
652 htop
649 rust
619 smartmontools
575 fvwm
529 windowmaker
477 openvpn
472 synth
451 fish
406 npm
403 inkscape
402 enlightenment
367 firefox-i18n
351 dwm
347 neovim
341 R
339 emacs25
320 emacs
320 unbound
312 tor
310 lua
300 cinnamon
300 wireshark
282 netcat
272 pidgin
258 postfix
258 joe
252 GraphicsMagick
251 dillo
249 icewm
242 mosh
236 rtorrent
225 weechat
219 audacious
218 smtube
216 calibre
190 xmms
187 pdksh
184 redis
184 openssh-portable
183 tk85
173 rdesktop
172 nedit
164 terminator
161 fetchmail
160 KeePassX
156 dnsmasq
eerielinux has written an exploratory article about Ravenports. It’s worth a read; Ravenports has been growing actively. You can install it in parallel with dports on DragonFly, or on a number of other operating systems.