This week’s BSDNow has Spectre/Meltdown followups, plus a turning of the tables: questions for the interviewers.
Done well ahead of time.
- ELI5: In 2018, what are the pros and cons between Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS in terms of kernel technology and user space tools.
- Adding IPv6 to an Nginx website on FreeBSD / FreshPorts.
- Should I use BSD?
- Certifications…are they worth it? Will they be in the future?
- OPNsense 18.1-RC2 released.
- CPU microcode update code for amd64. Hints of a new firmware update from Intel.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q4 release.
- Interview with Abdorrahman Homaei.
- A need for BSD items at freecodecamp. (via)
- DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/15.
- Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown.
The Meltdown/Spectre talk continues on BSDNow 229, along with an interview of @newnix, GhostBSD, and other recent news.
A full slate of BSDs this week.
- Church of BSD. From 2005, and it is accurate for that timeframe. (via)
- ADOM, newly updated at 3.0.6, but only at 1.1.1_6 in ports/dports, pkgsrc, and two years gone in OpenBSD. But the ADOM download page lists new BSD versions? I may not have investigated far enough.
- OPNsense® 18.1 Release Candidate 1.
- Does anyone run OpenBSD as a desktop (ie not a server)?
- SMB V2+ client on FreeBSD 11.
- Intel microcode updates now available for NetBSD. (via)
- Bitcoin Full Node on FreeBSD.
- July – September 2017 FreeBSD Status Report.
- Hijacking Your Free Beasties. (via)
- Operating System of the Year 2017 : NetBSD Third place. (via)
- A positive look at GhostBSD 11.1. (via)
- DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/08.
- OpenBSD-current now has ‘smtpctl spf walk’.
Continuing the all-Spectre, all-Meltdown week here at the Digest, BSDNow 228 talks about it for FreeBSD and will cover more next week. And oh yeah other news, including a mention of new-to-me NomadBSD.
Note the non-profit link; that may be useful to you.
- BSD on New Hardware.
- BSDCAN2017 Interview with Peter Hessler, Reyk Floeter, and Henning Brauer. (video)
- Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail.
- As noted here in a comment, you can name a BSD non-profit as a recipient of the ‘commission’ from Amazon purchases. Doesn’t cost you anything, or at least Amazon keeps that part of their pricing opaque.
- OpenBSD Workstation Guide. More hardware detail than I expected… and I really like the key storage idea. (via)
- Scripts to run an OpenBSD mirror, rsync and verify. (via)
- Best BSD for PowerPC machine?
- The LLVM Memory Sanitizer support work in progress. On NetBSD. (via)
- Linux Professional Institute and BSD Certification Group Join Efforts. (via)
- Thinking of joining Mastodon? Try bsd.network!
- Which BSD systems are affected by new Intel cpu bug?
- Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”
- Every day a bug is embargoed is actually two days. Looking at it that way, the 48 hours it took Matt Dillon to patch DragonFly turned into 367 days – and it was Google/Intel’s decision to have it that way. (via)
- MWL’s 2017 Wrap-Up. Ironically, systemd is a moneymaker for him.
I’m a bit late posting it, but: BSDNow 227 covers Open, Free, and Net this week.
More user group news: Helsinki, Finland, has a new BSD User Group: HelBUG. First meeting is February 7th. There’s no mailing list/site that I know of, yet.
I’m posting this waaaay ahead of time: next NYCBUG meeting is tomorrow. It’s a porting session, and here’s some of what to expect.
I’m a bit late posting this, since I’ve been on the road, but: BSDNow 226 is up, diving into recent FreeBSD status and Foundation reports, OpenBSD work, and other details.
There’s been a number of commits lately from Sascha Wildner with mentions of “Tianocore EDK II” a term that’s new to me. Googling for it tells me it’s a development environment for UEFI programs, useful for anyone booting on modern hardware.
Last minute, of course.
- OpenBSD 6.2 + CDE. (via)
- How to run a PFSense home router in a (linux) hypervisor on your desktop. (via)
- “Is TrueOS like the Ubuntu of the BSD’s?”
- Trouble mounting root during install from DVD.
- Do any of the BSDs support AMD RX 580 GPUs and the new Ryzen 5 CPUs?
- Qualcomm Atheros qca9565.
- OPNsense 17.7.11 released.
- PCEngine/BSD recommendations. Check the whole thread.
This week’s BSDNow talks about TrueOS, natch. Lots of other news, including an interesting odd hardware find.
The Semibug Christmas dinner is tomorrow. They need reservations, so if you want to go and haven’t told anyone yet – hurry!
Last minute, because for some reason I didn’t see much BSD stuff until Friday night.
No interview but a lot of topics in this week’s BSDNow.
Last minute, as always!
- The anatomy of tee program on OpenBSD. (via)
- Leaving Amazon AWS. (via, I think)
- FreeBSD Port-Knocking.
- s2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling (stsp@) on wireless (iwm(4), athn(4) and more) progress.
- DiscoverBSD for 2017/12/03.
- Cross-BSD pollination. (DragonFly->OpenBSD, via)
- FreeBSD 11.0 is end-of-lifed.
- OPNsense 17.7.9 released.
- BSDCan 2018 Call for Papers is out. (via)
- DTrace & ZFS Being Updated On NetBSD. (via)
- NetBSD desktop for newbies. (via)
- What sort of fun projects are you guys working on using Dragonfly?
- pledge() work in progress.
- arm64 platform now officially supported [and has syspatch(8)].
- “SSH Mastery” 2nd ed tech reviewers wanted.
BSDNow 223 covers a wide range: debuggers, Rust, Docker, EuroBSDCon 2017, pine64, and some network tools for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
There’s a NYCBUG get-together tonight at Suspenders in Manhattan, New York City, 7 PM. There’s no technical presentation, but who cares? Start the end-of-year-drinking!
Totally last-minute.
- “Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (1/2)
- Reflections on Hackathons.
- Cheap temp and humidity sensors. Probably BSD-compatible, given the list.
- OpenBSD Router Boilerplate. (via)
- Suggestions on High-end Laptop for dual-booting with BSD/Windows.
- The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD.
- Linux user picking a BSD for Personal Computer.
- DiscoverBSD for 2017/11/27.
- Two-factor authentication SSH with Duo in FreeBSD 11 (7:23)