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2017/10/212017/10/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/21

Cobbled together Friday night because my new job oddly has less hours of work but less time to screw around. That’s for the best.

OpenBSD Jumpstart. (via)
dtrace and ZFS update (for NetBSD, via)
syspatch(8) Binary Updates Now for the Latest Release Only.
Monitoring OpenBSD router.
Sneaking in two threads (wait, more) about the DragonFly 5 release.
FreeBSD 11.0 EOL.
Why did OpenBSD silently release a patch before the embargo? Scroll to the end of the link for this item. Here’s the explanation. (via)
FreeBSD: Building software from ports (2/2).
Syspatch for one release only. (via)

2017/10/19

BSDNow 216: Software is storytelling

This week’s BSDNow has David Carlier of Afilias interviewed, plus a EuroBSDCon travel report and more.

2017/10/142017/10/13

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/14

All at the last minute, this.

rcmds removed from FreeBSD. (Thanks, Jeremie)
Michael W. Lucas will be presenting on Tarsnap at the next SemiBUG meeting – the 17th.
There may be a OpenBSD porting workshop with NYCBUG in early December.
The anatomy of ldd program on OpenBSD.
How to create BSD bootable USB Stick ?
EuroBSDcon 2017: “travel notes” after the conference. (via)
pfSense 2.4.0-RELEASE Now Available! (comments)
OpenBSD 6.2 released.
openbsd changes of note 629.
FreeBSD and APRS, or “hm what happens when none of this is well documented..”
I’m thinking about OpenBSD again. (via)
Transition to Zstandard-compressed packages has begun.

2017/10/12

BSDNow 215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps

There’s no in-reference in this week’s BSDNow, but I think they already did the “it goes to 11” reference. Among other news items, they’ve caught ClonOS, which I did not know about.

2017/10/072017/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/07

Assembled all on Thursday!

No Plan Survives Contact with the Internet. pfSense 2.4.0 delay, related to recent dnsmasq discoveries.
pfsense rant.
Exploring BSD for my CDN.
Ohio LinuxFest 2017 Recap.
First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished! Related: Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon.
OPNsense 17.7.5 released.
autoconf/clang (No) Fun and Games.
FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE out.
Upgrading from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.1 via freebsd-update and beadm.
ClonOS offers web-based container/VM management on FreeBSD base. (via)
LibertyBSD 6.1 released. (via)
Anybody interested in taking over my Emacs front-end to (Free)BSD pkg?
How to blank laptop screen?
Any way to control the battery charge levels (thinkpad)
Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance. (via multiple places)
pkgsrc-2017Q3 is out.

2017/10/05

BSDNow 214: The history of man, kind

BSDNow 214 has no interview, but does get into a convention report and a number of other topics, including the history of man pages. Is there a help format that has lasted as long as man pages? I don’t think so.

2017/09/302017/10/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/30

All the BSD activity for the week was absorbed by EuroBSDCon, I think.

Remember, BSDNow has links to the raw video of EuroBSDCon. (Update: finished video now available.)
BSD Pizza Night in Oregon. Unfortunately too late by the time I found it, but maybe there will be another?
FreeBSD 10.4-RC2 Available.
FreeBSD status report for 2017Q2.
lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
The new TNF Board of Directors are installed and patched for 2017. (via)
Do any of the BSD’s work to replace GPL’ed software on the grounds that the GPL is restrictive?
FreeBSD 10.4-RC1 with Xfce4 help.
OPNSense ~~17.7.3~~ 17.7.4 released.
EuroBSDcon 2017 Presentations Available. The OpenBSD ones.
FreeBSD: Building software from ports (1/2).
EuroBSDCon 2017 Reflection.

2017/09/28

BSDNow 213: The French CONnection

BSDNow 213 talks about the just-finished EuroBSDCon, and vBSDCon and other things. The episode 213 web page links to Youtube videos of all the talks, so there’s your evening schedule, filled.

2017/09/25

KnoxBUG: PacBSD developer Adam Jimerson

If you are near Knoxville, Tennessee, PacBSD developer Adam Jimerson is presenting on package manager porting to the KnoxBUG user group tomorrow night.

2017/09/232017/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/23

Thank goodness for overflow from last week, because I haven’t had time to read.

OpenBSD Daily Recap.
pfsense vs opnsense vs monowall vs smoothwall vs ?
*nix distros with default shells? Not actually sure what the author’s goal is.
X11 forwarding vs. Virtual Machine.
Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD. (via)
AMD RX 480 Support?
[NetBSD] buildbot in the binutils-gdb project. (via)
vBSDcon 2017: BSD at Work.
pkgsrc is in freeze for 2017Q3.
NYCBUG is having a Tor installfest on October 4th.
Simulation resources, from the August SemiBUG.
Another BSD, but not for computing: the “Federal Association of Sex Services (BSD)” – read article through.

2017/09/212017/09/22

BSDNow 212: The Solaris Eclipse

BSDNow episode 212 is out and I’m going to link it especially because I’ve been at work instead of posting like normal. Not surprisingly, it talks about the demise of Solaris and about vBSDCon and (links to videos from) BSDCan.

2017/09/182017/09/14

Blind at a BUG

Brandon Werner, will be talking at the SEMIBUG meeting tomorrow night at 7 PM. He programs for a living and is blind, so it should be interesting even just to see his preferred tools.

(Mentioned previously for In Other BSDs but I want to make sure people catch this.)

2017/09/162017/09/16

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/16

Not sure why, but there’s been a lot of BSD news the past few weeks. I am OK with that.

Late addition: NetBSD’s New York build cluster will be offline beginning Monday for about two weeks, which means no daily NetBSD or pkgsrc builds.

FreeBSD package management with Pkg (2/2).
[Semibug] next meeting: BSD accessibility.
I3 instances and NVMe: booya! Or how you can build FreeBSD from the source in under 11 minutes vs. 12+ hours on a desktop. Is there something like ‘quickworld’ on FreeBSD? (via)
iXsystems, Inc. is offering jobs to Sun/Oracle Refugees. (via)
BSD building/testing machines? (via)
Solaris to Linux Migration 2017. Some BSD mentions in there. (via)
openbsd changes of note 628.
Forward syslogs to a central server using TLS (OpenBSD). (via)
A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD. (via)
OPNsense 17.7.2 released.
vBSDCon 2017 Conference Reflection.
Screencasting with OpenBSD. (via)
t2k17 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback on dhclient progress, developer herding.

2017/09/14

BSDNow 211: It’s HAMMER2 Time!

BSDNow episode 211 is up – you can guess at least one of the topics, I’m sure. There’s also an interview of FreeBSD Foundation co-ops – which is neat, because I didn’t realize the Foundation had co-ops.

2017/09/092017/09/08

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/09

Already overflowed to next week.

New story: Savaged by Systemd. Lucas, what hast thou wrought?
A few questions about BSD
FreeBSD package management with Pkg (1/2). Applies to DragonFly, too.
OpenBSD Community goes platinum.
OPNsense 17.7.1 released.
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA3 Available.
A Brief History of Solaris (SunOS) Ports. Technically a BSD. (via)
My first patch to OpenBSD. (via)
Getting acme.sh to renew certs via cronjob on FreeBSD
GSoC 2017 Reports: Add SUBPACKAGES support to pkgsrc, part 1. (via)
Best BSD for Kaby Lake w/ Integrated Graphics.
FreeBSD – what processes in what jails are using swap?
LLVM libFuzzer and SafeStack ported to NetBSD. (via)
OpenBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (5th Gen). There’s a cost-saving tip in there for anyone planning a purchase.
Solaris reported dead again. Illumos is working fine, though.

2017/09/07

BSDNow 210: Your Questions, part 1

BSDNow 210 turns the tables and interviews the moderators, along with the normal news summary.

2017/09/05

New system: Ravenports

John Marino has assembled a new packaging and building system. It’s called Ravenports, and he wrote a short intro, and has a filled-out site to go look at.

This is big news, in part because he knows what he’s doing (John worked on dports and created synth) and because it’s cross-platform. The prior work on synth is part of the reason DragonFly works so well under pressure – the “build everything as fast as possible as complete as possible” strategy makes a great stress test.

There’s no need to change software management strategies yet. It can be used at the same time as dports, so it doesn’t necessarily change anything for the next DragonFly release.

2017/09/04

DragonFly at EuroBSDCon 2017

Francois Tigeot is going to be giving a talk about the DragonFly graphics stack at EuroBSDCon 2017. (14:00 September 21st in Paris) Registration is already closed because I didn’t realize how soon it was happening – sorry!

2017/09/022017/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/02

Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.

FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
Introducing sandboxfs.
“TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
Setting up OpenBSD’s LDAP Server (ldapd) with StartTLS and SASL. (via)
Ansible OpenBSD Cookbooks. (via)
This crazy hardware porting example thread led me to some new hardware, some of which may run a BSD? The Pinebook is apparently bootable but I don’t know if that means usable.
Also: using the audio port for serial? First time I heard of that. (referring to previous crazy hardware links above)
Eventually all packaging systems eat an operating system. And then they aren’t packaging systems any more. (via)
DFS with Freenas for data replication between multiple sites?
openbsd changes of note 627
yet another introduction to yacc
OpenBSD 6.1, a an overview.

2017/09/01

BSDNow 209 and garbage 42

For your audiovisual pleasure: BSDNow 209: “Signals: gotta catch ‘em all“, and garbage[42]: Interview with Purism’s Todd Weaver are both available now. Watch/download and listen on your (in the US) extended weekend.