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2016/05/072016/05/05

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/07

Another trifecta week.

GNOME 3.20.1 on OpenBSD, the usual screencast; not too bad for a server OS. (via)
A comprehensive guide for OpenBSD desktop?
Tredly – Containers for Unix. Powered by FreeBSD. (via)
Bootstrap pkgsrc under ‘bash on Windows’. This should be on pkgsrc.org.
OpenHUB’s NetBSD Project Statistics.
Dru Lavigne Will be Speaking @ KnoxBUG.
New Release Schedule and Lumina Desktop 0.9.0 Released. (via)
OpenBSD Foundation Announces Gold Sponsor.
libcrypto errata – May 2016. Related: regarding embargoes.
.NET framework ported to NetBSD. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/02.
GhostBSD 10.3 Alpha release! (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status report for 2016Q1.
p2k16 OpenBSD hackathon:

2016/05/05

BSDNow 140: Tracing it back to BSD

This week’s BSDNow is the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Samy Al Bahra, about ‘backtrace‘.

I’m talking multiple times a week about BSD-themed podcasts/video/whatever these days. This is great! 5-6 years ago I was probably the only BSD source posting more than weekly.

2016/05/042016/05/03

NYCBUG tonight: Urchin

NYCBUG is meeting tonight, and Thomas Levine will be there to talk about Urchin, a shell-based test framework. The announcement also has future meeting/speaker dates noted.

2016/05/03

bsdtalk264 – Down the Gopher Hole

BSDTalk 264 is out, and rather than an interview, it talks about a topic I’ve always enjoyed: Gopher, including ways to access Gopher resources even now.

2016/04/302016/04/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/30

I think I manage to link at least one story for every BSD type this week, or close to it.

FreeBSD GPIO Benchmark. (via)
ASLR now on by default in amd64. (via)
anti-ROP mechanism in libc.
The p2k16 hackathon has begun.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/25.
Rethinking Unix: A New Apropos Implementation from NetBSD. (via)
BSD at LinuxFest Northwest 2016.
UPnP on Pfsense: security risks and alternatives. (via)
OpenSMTPD, spamd, SpamAssassin and Dovecot on OpenBSD – part 1 (via)
a prog by any other name. Some BSD history.
OPNsense 16.1.12 released

2016/04/29

garbage[24]: It’s all fun and games until someone’s domain gets hurt

The garbage podcast for this week is up, with discussion of OpenBSD and TRIM, and, well, a very wide range of topics, going by the summary.

2016/04/28

BSDNow 139: Cheri-picking BSD

This week’s BSDNow has some news catchup, since they’ve been on the road, and an interview with Brooks Davis of FreeBSD-on-Cheri. (CheriBSD?)

2016/04/27

Old DragonFly users, please test

Not older people that use DragonFly, but people of any age using an older release of DragonFly: Bezitopo is Pierre Abbat’s topographical program, and he needs testers on versions 4.4 of DragonFly or before. Please give his open-source program a run if you are on the appropriate versions. Trying other BSDs, even though not requested, can’t hurt.

2016/04/26

First KnoxBUG meeting tomorrow night

Posting it now, because it’ll be too late by this weekend’s In Other BSDs: The inaugural meeting of KnoxBUG is tomorrow night. That’s Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The speaker is Kris Moore, of PC-BSD. The website has directions.

2016/04/232016/04/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/23

I apologize for ending with a question.

Why Linux can’t be distributed with ZFS included. “Because it’s not BSD” is the facile answer. (via)
pkgsrcCon2016 call for presentations. (via)
HardenedBSD delivers security PIE. (via)
NetBSD machines at AsiaBSDCon 2016. (via)
OPNsense 1.16.11 released.
Build a FreeBSD 10.3-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
libressl – more vague promises.
The BSD family of operating systems.
Does BSD distributions contain any GNU software?
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/18.
Question about NetBSD — How to update Compiled Binaries
BSD at LinuxFest Northwest
Year of the OpenBSD desktop
Installing ElectroBSD by exploiting “HardenedBSD”. (via)
FreeBSD and NetBSD Google Summer of Code projects. (via multiple places)
This may be a facetious question, but: are the new hyperconverged servers just… servers for people that don’t know what their operating system can do?

2016/04/22

garbage[23]: High-availability real-time clustering dealy

Garbage 23 is up cause it’s Friday and the content is initially summarized like this: “Brandon tries not to use Google for a week”. It’s apparently not that bad?

2016/04/21

BSDNow 138: Rushing into BSD

BSDNow 138, “Rushing into BSD”, has an interview with Benedict Reuschling, about the FreeBSD Foundation and Europe. There’s the usual news roundup, plus some notes about upcoming conventions.

2016/04/18

FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS out

I’d save this for an In Other BSDs note, but that’s a whole week away: FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS is published, available in electronic and printed editions. I suspect this would be interesting to non-BSD users, too.

2016/04/162016/04/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/16

This is one of those weeks where a bunch of release all tumble together by chance.

UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor. (still confusing)
PC-BSD 10.3 out; PC-BSD 11 out next. 10.3 was out last week; I missed this link before.
pfSense 2.3-RELEASE Now Available! (also seen here and here)
PostgreSQL – Add BSD authentication method. (via)
BSD and Toshiba Chromebook 2.
FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS. As Colin Percival points out, the last half-dozen releases have been on AWS too.
Undeadly and HTTPS. (via)
Penguicon 2016 Lucas Track Schedule. For being called “Penguicon”, there’s a lot of BSD events there.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/11.
OPNsense 16.1.9 released.
OPNsense 16.1.10 released.
Unix’s file durability problem, which leads in comment to disks from the perspective of a file system (McKusick), which I thought I had linked before but maybe not. (via)
FreeNAS, TrueNAS, and BadLock.
UbuntuBSD Should Heed Kubuntu’s Cautionary Tale.

2016/04/15

garbage 22: potential

Garbage number 22 is out, and talks about a number of things, including NVMe support in OpenBSD, programming in Go, and ‘reader-submitted issues’.

2016/04/14

BSDNow 137: FreeNAS Mini XL

No interview this week on BSDNow because of travel, but there’s still an episode, complete with news and an unboxing video of a new BSD product. I’m linking to a slightly different location because it’s not up on the normal site as of this writing.

2016/04/11

Hammer and FreeBSD

Tomohiro Kusumi would like to port Hammer (1) to FreeBSD, as noted in this bug discussion. It’s not even begun to happen, but if you can contribute, please do.

2016/04/092016/04/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/09

Back to the normal rotation; not done early, not done late.

2016/04/08

garbage[21]: Much ado about nothing

This week’s garbage podcast is out, with some OpenBSD topics and also some interesting direct experience of licensing violations.

2016/04/07

BSDNow 136: This is GNN

The GNN in the title is George Neville-Neil, interviewed on BSDNow 136 about the TeachBSD project, plus the usual collection of recent BSD news. The show title comes from this station advert.