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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
NeedsHas RSS! (via) - BSD Pizza, a meetup in Portland, Oregon, on the 27th.
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.
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.
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.
This one wrote itself almost in one night from articles I had stored up.
- Latest blog post – UEFI multi-boot setup with Linux and most of the BSDs! (via)
- State of graphics support across BSDs
- Daemons and friendly Ninjas. (via)
- FreeBSD 11.1-RC1 out.
- Kernel relinking status from Theo de Raadt.
- On the Insecurity of TIOCSTI.
- BSDCan 2017 – Trip report double-p.
- d2k17 hackathon report: Martin Pieuchot on moving the network stack out of the big lock.
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Alexander Bluhm on Network Stack Improvements and more.
- “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition” update.
- openbsd changes of note 624
- “My life long dream of working with cvs and ed has come true” (via)
- Assembling the history of Unix. Really, BSD prehistory. (via)
- FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.) (via)
- OPNSense 17.1.9 out.
- Request for testing: https://beta.undeadly.org/.
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.
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.
BSDNow has reached the magic 200 episode mark, and this week they cover a nice wide range of topics – including Illumos!
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.
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.
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.
All found-this-week links, now.
- KARL – kernel address randomized link. (via)
- g4u (Ghost for Unix) 2.6, a venerable imaging tool, released.
- Native Command Queuing – merging and testing. (NetBSD)
- New TrueNAS x10, a BSD-based storage product.
- secmodel sandbox : An application sandbox for NetBSD (draft). (via)
- FreeBSD 11.1-BETA is out.
- FreeNAS 11.0 is out. (via)
- Running OpenBSD on Azure.
- Newbie from Linux – have a Lenovo Ideapad – best BSD?
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Florian Obser on slaacd(8).
- d2k17 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacoutot on rc.d, syspatch, and more.
- The NetBSD repo and moving to Git. (via)
- Oil changes, safety recalls, and software patches.
BSDNow 198 is now available, almost all about the just-finished BSDCan.