BSD – Page 43 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Posting a bit late because I’ve been traveling, but: BSDNow 204, Wayland, Weston, & FreeBSD is up, with of course talk about windowing systems and an explanation of the “Scrub of Death” which is new to me.

2017/07/222017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/22

It’s accidental how-to week!

OpenSMTPD under OpenBSD with SSL/VirtualUsers/Dovecot (via) and
OpenSMTPD and Dovecot under OpenBSD with MySQL support and SPAMD. (via)
Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates, plus examples of usage on FreeBSD.
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive.
openbsd changes of note 625
BSDTW is in Taiwan, in November – and the call for papers is out. (via)
Watch out for wxallowed.
pfSense 2.3.4-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
Blog about my blog. Self-hosting and dogfooding, both good ideas. ~~Needs~~ Has RSS! (via)
BSD Pizza, a meetup in Portland, Oregon, on the 27th.

2017/07/20

BSDNow 203: For the love of ZFS

You can guess what BSDNow is about this week, can’t you? Well, there’s more than just ZFS, though there’s an excellent historical summary on the site.

2017/07/152017/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15

Backlog: cleared.

Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
AF3e Status, 17 July 2017. That’s Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition.
Looking for a benchmark comparation between PF (OpenBSD) vs NPF (NetBSD)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (2017-07-10). (via)
pkgsrcCon 2017 report and also slides/video. (via)
Recommend BSD to Thinkpad users? Can’t find an actual thread, though.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs. (via)
OPNsense 17.7 RC1.
OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop.

2017/07/14

BSDNow 202: Brokering BIND

I’m late noting this week’s BSDNow – I’m also changing the capitalization, since BIND in this case is an acronym. No interview this week but discussion of various BSDCan 2017 reports.

2017/07/082017/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/08

This one wrote itself almost in one night from articles I had stored up.

2017/07/06

BSDNow 201: Skip grep, use awk

Hey, BSDNow episode 201 took its title from something I already planned to link for In Other BSDs. This week has an interview with Peter McDonald and covers FreeNAS 11, among other things.

2017/07/012017/06/30

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/01

I am entertained by how Github seems to randomly burp up historical software artifacts on a semi-regular basis. (see link below)

Historical: My first OpenBSD Hackathon. (via)
Using Let’s Encrypt within FreeBSD.org – lessons learned and advice. (via)
Which is the most laptop friendly BSD to learn with?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
Isotop – personalized OpenBSD ISO. (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
dired, an early directory editor/file browser. Dates from BSD 4.2 if I read the 1984 readme correctly. Note the UUCP address there! (via)
Lumina 1.3.0 released.

2017/06/292017/06/29

BSDNow 200: Getting Scrubbed to Death

BSDNow has reached the magic 200 episode mark, and this week they cover a nice wide range of topics – including Illumos!

2017/06/252017/06/23

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/25

Back to overflow, which sort of makes my life easier.

BCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite. Linked before, so comments on source links are where to look if you are already familiar with BHCS.
Possible stack vulnerabilities in BSD-land.
How to disable cores in OpenBSD?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
MP-safe Networking in NetBSD. PDF, from BSDCan. (via)
BSDCan 2017 Recap from iXSystems.
Unix in Europe: between innovation, diffusion and heritage. October 19th, Paris, France. (via)
The Stack Clash, via many places.
pkgsrcCon 2017, in one week.
PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber? Note that this is for BSD-based, server-based routers. Follow the thread for lots of hardware talk.
OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make life harder for ROPers.

2017/06/242017/06/23

Ubiquiti Unifi and DragonFly

Should you need have Ubiquiti devices, and you need to get the Unifi management program running on your DragonFly server, this script will work for you. Some of the filepaths are different, but it’s otherwise complete.

2017/06/22

BSDNow 199: Read the source, KARL

No interview in this week’s BSDNow, but there’s a good run through recent BSD news, including some talk about a “Aeronix” machine project, which led me to some other interesting links.

2017/06/172017/06/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/17

All found-this-week links, now.

2017/06/15

BSDNow 198: You can’t handle the libtruth

BSDNow 198 is now available, almost all about the just-finished BSDCan.

2017/06/102017/06/09

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/10

I think I’ve finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.

2017/06/07

BSDNow 197: Relaying the good news

Slightly earlier than normal because of the magic of prerecording, BSDNow 197 is up and has an interview with Michael W. Lucas about his books. (I’m hoping for interviews from BSDCan next week.)

2017/06/032017/06/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03

Even more overflow, pushing my pre-published posts forward.