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.
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)
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.
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.
It’s the convention time of year!
- garbage[38]: #camperchat.
- OPNsense 16.7.4 released.
- Is ARM-like chips the future and which of the BSDs will have a head start?
- g2k16 Hackathon Report: Alexander Bluhm. Last g2k16 item, I think.
- Michael W. Lucas’s PAM Mastery is available in ebook and physical form.
- Related: Michael W. Lucas’s SemiBUG “PAM is Un-American” talk was live-tweeted.
- MeetBSD 2016 is at UC Berkeley November 11-12. (via)
- pkgsrc-2016Q3 is now frozen.
- Libreboot and BSDs. I couldn’t handle the misplaced apostrophe.
- Cray J98 Project – FreeBSD and the Cray Disk. (via)
- FreeBSD: Bhyve with UEFI VNC support. (via)
BSDNow 160’s title is linked to Allan Jude being at EuroBSDCon, happening right now. (Groff is there too!) Episode 160 is available in any case, and I bet there will be some sort of interview(s) coming out of this.
I’ve never had as many hackathon links as I did for g2k16 over this week and last.
- “LiteBSD is variant of 4.4BSD operating system for microcontrollers“. (via)
- More g2k16: Florian Obser, Vincent Gross, Antoine Jacoutot, Matthieu Herrb, Martin Pieuchot, and Patrick Wildt.
- OpenBSD on HP Stream 7.
- “PAM Mastery” print layout done.
- Coincidentally, Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk about PAM at next week’s SemiBUG meeting. The 20th, I think.
- The Raspberry PI Platform and The Challenges of Developing FreeBSD.
- One Floppy NetBSD Distribution. (via)
- Beastie tequila.
- “I made a fanzine for fun in scribus, first issue is about DragonFly ! :)“
- OpenBSD Planet.
This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but some good links, including a meaty one about HTTPS implementation at NetFlix with FreeBSD.
Bryan Everly wants to start a BSD User Group in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the US. If you are anywhere near there and would go (and you should; user groups are great), tell him.
Addendum: Near Chicago works too, as joshua stein pointed out.
Last minute again.
- Introducing the Netgate SG-1000 microFirewall (Pre-loaded with pfSense) (via)
- I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password. (via)
- OpenBSD: Use the space freed up by sparc and zaurus to import LLVM. (via)
- g2k16 hackathon: Undeadly has reports about ddb, vmm + vmd, package signing, ports + wifi, fuse, and a lot more.
- iXsystems to Host MeetBSD California 2016 at UC Berkeley.
- doas mastery.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/09/05.
- Google, MAKEDEV isn’t supposed to make party. Just sayin.
- Support for zaurus platform discontinued. [OpenBSD]
- LLVM/Clang imported into -current [OpenBSD]
- Anyone have experience with virtualization using bhyve?
- FreeBSD 10.3 vs. OpenBSD 6.0.
- “What does this GNU sort joke mean? I only know high level programming…“
- ChiBUG: OpenBSD on the Chromebook Pixel 2015. (via)
- Was the $500,000 DARPA lost contract the last big funding/deal/project OpenBSD was to get/got?
BSDNow episode 158 has an interview with Diane Bruce about ham radio and Raspberry Pi hardware, plus the usual news.
NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow night, with George Neville-Neil presenting DTrace work used as college-level teaching material, and talking about more places it could be used. Go if you are near New York City, interested in teaching, or you know – BSD. It’s in a different location than the normal monthly meetings.
A week of travel didn’t get in the way of links! RSS feeds are still fantastic tools for those who know how to use them.
- See Michael W. Lucas talk about BSD, several places.
- OpenZFS Cheat Sheet.
- Ubuntu’s fall from grace. About Ubuntu/FreeBSD. Articles that use the phrase “rock-solid” for an operating system are usually junk. (via)
- A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To. This is a repeat, so if you saw this link here before, just read comments from the source.
- PC-BSD becomes TrueOS. Also explained here.Guess I have to change the tag. (via)
- Installing PC-BSD as a Primary Operating System. And this page needs to be updated.
- backlight battery indicator. Sort of like a terminal beep.
- EuroBSDCon 2016, happening later this month in Serbia. Registration is open.
- OpenBSD 6.0: why and how. (via)
- Setting up a Web Server: OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/29.
- OPNSense 16.7.3 released.
- Let’s Encrypt client imported into -current. OpenBSD-current.
- OpenBSD 6.0 released. Last CD-ROM release.
- The Voicemail Scammers Never Got Past Our OpenBSD Greylisting. My favorite thing about his writeups is that they can be duplicated.
I’m a day late posting this because of travel, but: BSDNow 157 has an interview with Richard Yao about ZFS (on Linux?), and more story links. I found the “NetFlix and Fill” article link interesting – those are BSD appliances they are talking about that eat so much of the Internet’s traffic.
KnoxBUG’s next meeting is tomorrow night, and Mark Sumter is presenting on ZFS. Visit if you are near Tennessee.
I don’t know how I ended up with 3 pfSense items to lead with – it just happened.
- pfsense 2.3.x passive ftp.
- PFsense DMZ on ESXi.
- Assistance with routing issue with pfSense VM.
- FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System. (via)
- User manages to get OpenBSD and FreeBSD working with Libreboot. (via)
- HardenedBSD switches to LibreSSL in base as the default crypto lib. (via)
- BSD Question.
- Hardened Operating Systems.
- Performance Improvements for FreeBSD Kernel Debugging. (via)
- SNI support added to libtls, httpd in -current.
- Cover reveal for “PAM Mastery”.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/22.
- Synth – A simple, fast drop-in alternative to 3Ps: Portmaster, Portupgrade, and Poudriere (for FreeBSD and DragonFly). Surely you knew of this already? (via)
It’s been a very slow news week, but at least there’s a new BSDNow episode: The Fresh BSD Experience. There’s an interview with the FreeBSD Foundation intern, Drew Gurkowski, and a lot of ARM news.
For once, I’m not working on Saturday, so even though this is last minute, at least I’m not in a race with the clock.
- ZFS High-Availability NAS. (via)
- Steam on FreeBSD. (via)
- Reminder: Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 23rd.
- Want to help move a cabinet of BSD User Group equipment, in NYC?
- “results-oriented and non-ideological“.
- BSD, guava. (via)
- OpenSSH is/has been deprecating DSA keys. This affects FreeBSD, and probably DragonFly too.
- The third “Hosting files using ZFS” class is available.
- connect doesn’t restart. OpenBSD pkg_add.
- OPNSense is at version 16.7.2 and gained a team member.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/15.
- Linux kernel, the port. (via)
- MidnightBSD 0.8 out. (via)
- UEFI multibooting: FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.
BSDNow 155: no Allan, but an interview with Myke Geiger about using FreeBSD in an ISP role, and a bunch of news items.
The Lumina release is the highlight of the week.
- Lumina 1.0.0 released. It’s a BSD-first desktop environment, hooray!
- OpenBSD Gaming Resource. I’ve wanted this for all BSDs – just hopping through ports/pkgsrc/dports. (via)
- OpenBSD binpatches and package updates.
- xautobacklight.
- FreeBSD Core statement on recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities.
- OpenBSD removes armish support. (via)
- n2k16 hackathon report: guenther@ on RELRO support in binutils and arch specific cleanup.
- tmpfs on its last legs. For OpenBSD.
- 200 packages with the greatest number of patches. In pkgsrc.
- Anyone used a TrueNAS system?
- Enlightenment on OpenBSD! Dunno about those last steps…
- When BSD and Ubuntu meet on the dance floor, magic should happen.
- new shadow passwd functions.
- FreeBSD on a tiny system; what’s missing. (via)
- Ha!