If you are near Knoxville, Tennessee, PacBSD developer Adam Jimerson is presenting on package manager porting to the KnoxBUG user group tomorrow night.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
BSDNow 210 turns the tables and interviews the moderators, along with the normal news summary.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
A new episode of garbage has heaved forth, with an interview of Patrick Wildt from the recent Toronto hackathon.
I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.
- Smartisan Makes Another Iridium Donation to the OpenBSD Foundation. A phone manufacturer I was not familiar with.
- Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum.
- “If you do all the work, you can perform magic. But if you are asking others to help, nope.” (via)
- How to BSD + Plasma 5?
- t2k17 Hackathon Report: Bob Beck on buffer cache tweaks, libressl and pledge progress.
- t2k17 Hackathon Report: Ted Unangst OpenBSD with more ptys.
- The history of *nix package management.
- Undeadly to be Upgraded Next Week. To this!
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.
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.
You all have seen the hier(archy) man page, correct? BSDNow 206 gets into things like the new Lumina and Plasma desktops.