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2017/08/262017/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/26

The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.

RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
Which Unix had the first package manager?
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available.
subversion via ssh passphrase-less key. Really about capturing DNS changes.
deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
t2k17 Hackathon Reports: Daniel Jakots on updating ports, Nagios OpenBGPD plugin and…, Ian Sutton on ARM progress, My first time (Aaron Bieber), Philip Guenther: locking and libc, Andrew Hewus Fresh on Perl and Coffee, and No lock no cry… with CTF! (Martin Pieuchot).
Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL.
PFsense <-> EdgeOS IPSec tunnels.
Faster forwarding.
AF3e status, 22 August 2017. That’s ‘Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition’.
The Manifest – A podcast all about package management. I’m sure this will include BSD packaging systems at some point. (via)
BSDCan 2017 videos have started being uploaded. (via)

2017/08/242017/08/25

BSDNow 208: Faces of Open Source

No interview this week, but BSDNow 208 notes a certain recent software release and also links to something I’ve always wanted to see – a BSD games site. It’s OpenBSD oriented, but it probably applies pretty evenly across all the BSDs.

2017/08/21

SemiBUG meeting tomorrow

I was reminded of this thanks to the Google Calendar entry: SemiBUG is having their monthly meeting tomorrow night (the 22nd, in case that’s tonight by the time you read this), and it’s one of my favorite formats – a series of lightning talks with 2 slides, 5 minutes.

2017/08/21

garbage 41: Patrick Wildt

A new episode of garbage has heaved forth, with an interview of Patrick Wildt from the recent Toronto hackathon.

2017/08/192017/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/19

I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.

2017/08/17

BSDNow 207: Bridge over the river Cam

This week’s BSDNow talks about the recent BSD convention in Cambridge (which I somehow did not know about until afterwards), plus lots of other talk, and a link to this entertaining terminal emulator.

2017/08/122017/08/11

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/12

Questions are this week’s accidental theme.

Beta Update – Request for (more) Testing. (undeadly)
UMPC compatible with BSD’s?
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (v2). (via)
Any BSD with Skylake and Gnome?
openbsd changes of note 626.
htop. Mentioned because there is at least a passing BSD reference.
BSDCam 2017 Trip Report: Michael Lucas. (via)
August SemiBUG meeting rescheduled to the 22nd.
From a comment here: discussion of the FreeBSD release process, from a heavy user.
upcoming hackathon proposal: NYC BSD Tor bridges. Those monoculture stats for Tor are not good for Tor.

2017/08/102017/08/10

BSDNow 206: To hier is UNIX

You all have seen the hier(archy) man page, correct? BSDNow 206 gets into things like the new Lumina and Plasma desktops.

2017/08/052017/08/04

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/05

Spot the sarcasm!

FreeBSD 11.1 released.
Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD)
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD)
mandoc-1.14.2 released.
OPNsense 17.7 released.
hurray we won
X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via)
LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via)
Red Hat deprecates btrfs in RHEL 7.4. I found this relevant to recent comments.
Hosts/BSD – for when you need to run your BSD inside a penguin.
Aeris details. It’s nice of them to target BSD machines, too. I feel included. (via)
Contributing to FreeBSD.

2017/08/03

BSDNow 205: FreeBSD turning it up to 11.1

No interview, but the latest BSDNow has talk about the newest FreeBSD release and the inevitable more.

If you don’t get the title reference, here’s a video clip.

2017/07/292017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/29

I’ve been on the road, so this is a bit light.

What linux/BSD distros update Quicker? Yay graphs! (via)
Building a BSD home router (pt. 6): pfSense vs. OPNsense. (via)
SEMIBUG has a new website.
Building a BSD home router parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and possibly more since I wrote this link out. (via)

2017/07/28

BSDNow 204, Wayland, Weston, & FreeBSD

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!