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2016/11/122016/11/11

In Other BSDs for 2016/11/12

Started out with a short list, but I managed to find some extra links by Friday.

b2k16 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot.
NetBSD 7.0/xen scheduling mystery, and how to fix it with processor sets.
Looking at the scheduler issue again. Part 2 from previous link.
TrueOS Launch message. Might be time to retire the PC-BSD tag.
Lynis – Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. (via)
Exit from Hell? Reducing the Impact of Amplification DDoS Attacks. Also as a paper. I’d like to compare the number of systems found as amplifiers vs. systems in general. e.g. are BSD less likely to create reflectors? (via)
“PAM is Un-American” talk now online. Buy the PAM Mastery book!
Devops with Chef on FreeBSD, an online course from BSD Magazine.
SemiBUG is meeting Tuesday. Joe Gidi will talk about ‘managing Android devices with BSD‘.

2016/11/112016/11/11

Full-offload scan and what it means

Imre Vadasz is working on full-offload scan support for wlan, imported from FreeBSD. That doesn’t change much from a user point of view, other that (I assume) reducing load and power usage a tiny amount. I’m reinforcing something most people don’t think about: there’s tiny computers inside your computer with their own firmware and processors, that you don’t directly control.

2016/11/10

BSDNow 167: Playing the Long Game

I’ve been on the road all week, so it seems like I just posted about the last episode. BSDNow 167 is online, and it returns to the interview format. Scott Long of Netflix is interviewed. He’s part of the reason most of the Internet runs through BSD.

2016/11/052016/11/04

In Other BSDs for 2016/11/05

Several pfSense links this week, which by complete coincidence is the same week that I’ve been adding network cards to my older pfSense devices at work to create radio links.

24/7 support plans for pfSense.
Vendor in NYC with pfSense xg-2758 in stock
Converting Pix 6.3 to pfsense – stuck on some rules
I’ve found that Windows 10 seems to perform better in VirtualBox than FreeBSD.
The October issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Unable to run Windows programs after reinstalling wine.
mksh on FreeBSD – custom PS1 help?
Can the BSD*’s pick up the Slack now that Debian 9 has failed. (via)
zfs-snap-diff: compare / restore files from zfs snapshots. (via)
A very valuable vulnerability. Discovered by a BSD-based company.
One More Week Until MeetBSD California 2016!
A char device which implements an Enigma machine (FreeBSD & Linux) (via)
garbage episode 39, Provenance. Might not have any BSD content? I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet.

2016/11/032016/11/04

BSDNow 166: Pass that UNIX pipe

BSDNow 166: pot jokes! No interview, but lots of topics.

2016/11/022016/10/28

Infrastructure presentation tonight at NYCBUG

Reminder: Isaac (.ike) Levy’s “Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era” presentation is tonight, at NYCBUG’s November meeting. Go, see.

2016/10/292016/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/29

I get all the BSDs this week.

Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era. .ike presenting at NYCBUG on November 2nd. Go if you are near, vote if you can.
FreeNAS/ESXi – Link aggregation without a switch.
Dropping Linux and KVM in Favor of FreeBSD and Jails (2015). (via)
chromebook printing troubles
I used Virtualbox to install both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD… it said login incorrect upon reboot.
Internet Connection Problems
Continuous OpenBSD regress tests. (via)
*BSD on laptops
In this how-to we’ll set up an email server from scratch using NetBSD.
Allow reading of files but no copying on FreeNAS.
NetBSD 7.0.2 released.
OPNsense 16.7.7 released.
pkgsrcCon 2016 videos.

2016/10/27

BSDNow 165: Vote4BSD

BSDNow 165 this week does not have an interview, but it goes in-depth on a number of recent BSD articles, including one on building kernel modules and some ‘high-end’ topics. The vote in the title is to remind you to like .ike.

2016/10/25

Goodbye, COMPAT_43

COMPAT_43 is gone, but it hasn’t worked in a long time anyway. Note that this is 4.3BSD, pre-everything.

2016/10/242016/10/21

KnoxBUG, PacBSD, tomorrow

A reminder: KnoxBUG is having a meeting tomorrow at 6 PM, at the Blount County Public Library. The presenter is Adam Jimerson, and he’s talking about PacBSD.

2016/10/222016/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/22

Oddball links for BSD this week – but pay attention to the first one.

Get a BSD person into ARIN. Useful.
“Any experience with OPNsense?“
Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game. Linked cause it exists as a FreeBSD port and in theory could as a dport.
We Surprised The Register.
Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin.
“Adam Jimerson: Introduction to PacBSD” happening at KnoxBUG on the 25th.
PCEngines APU question.
Installing Windows 10 Under the bhyve Hypervisor. (via)
Lumina Desktop 1.1.0 released.

2016/10/212016/10/21

BSDNow 164: Virtual COW/PI?

BSDNow 164 has a whole lot of conversation about things that start with V, plus an interview with Josh Paetzel of iXsystems about the upcoming MeetBSD, FreeNAS and other things.

2016/10/18

SemiBUG tonight: Monitoring

I should have posted this sooner: SemiBUG is having a meeting in about half an hour at Altair Engineering. Mike Wayne is presenting about monitoring. Run now if you are near.

2016/10/152016/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/15

A somewhat short week this week, for BSD.

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is out. Related: Older version EoLs.
EC2’s most dangerous feature.
Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up.
How to install LibertyBSD or OpenBSD on a libreboot system. (via)
vmm enabled. Runs OpenBSD on OpenBSD – sorta vkernelish?
OPNsense 16.7.6 released.
A remote BSD development job.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q3 release.
web-bsd-hunt
Vincent Delft’s site. Lots of OpenBSD notes.

2016/10/13

BSDNow 163: Return of the Cantrill

That’s Bryan Cantrill, of Joyent, interviewed in BSDNow 163. Joyent has been a major supporter of pkgsrc, though I don’t know if many people realize that. There’s the regular news roundup too, of course.

2016/10/082016/10/07

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/08

This was an easy week to put together; there’s a lot of links this week. Last week was slow – maybe it was because of EuroBSDCon?

pfSense 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
386bsd/386bsd – Upgrade to 386BSD 2.0. (via)
A new addition to FreeBSD.org.
SNIA SDC 2016 Recap: Michael Dexter. Swordfish sounds interesting.
Review of OpenBSD 6.0. (via)
Steam on FreeBSD?
Is anyone here using netflix on FreeBSD?
New to BSD. Please help me choose a BSD.
FreeBSD/EC2 11.0-RELEASE.
Videos from OSHUG #46.
“PAM Mastery” print sponsor books.
process listing consistency.
EuroBSDcon 2016 Recap.
OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever. Devsummit report.
NYCBUG moved their cabinet without issue. It sounds like NYI is good people.

2016/10/06

BSDNow 162: The Foundation of NetBSD

BSDNow 162 has an interview with Petra Zeidler of the NetBSD Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports NetBSD-the-operating-system. Plus the usual news, the highlight for me being a link to an explanation of what ^d really does.

2016/10/012016/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/01

A relatively uneventful week, at least for BSD.

Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. (via)
Michael W. Lucas’s next BSD book.
Speaking of which, please pay for what you use.
What is happening with FreeBSD-11.
Does FreeBSD 11 support Broadwell integrated video or not?
Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change proposal. (via)
LibreSSL 2.5.0 released. (via)
OPNsense 16.7.5 released.
What desktop environment and window manager do you use?
Data Compression and Deduplication Demystified. TrueNAS-oriented.
OpenBSD 6.0 CD Set – Limited Edition signed by 40 developers. (via)
NetBSD/vax – worth continuing? (via)

2016/09/29

BSDNow 161: The BSD Bromance

BSDNow 161 has sort of 2 interviews this week. has Allan Jude talking about his EuroBSDCon trip, plus Michael Shirk talking about Bro on FreeBSD. Also, lots of news items right on the BSDNow page.

2016/09/27

KnoxBUG: Mark Sumter: “Appreciating ZFS”

Mark Sumter’s giving a talk on ZFS at tonight’s KnoxBUG meeting. Hurry! I should have posted this sooner but work tied me up today.