The garbage[27] podcast is out, and it’s covering OpenBSD, iOS, and Android topics, or at least that’s what I guess from the summary, cause I’m still at work.
BSDNow 143 has the usual roundup of news, plus a conversation with Matthew Macy about graphics improvements in FreeBSD.
We need DragonFly people interviewed, since DragonFly graphics improvements have been leading the pack, so to speak. I’m linking to the Jupiter Broadcasting site again since I don’t see this episode up on the BSDNow site yet.
A reminder: Dru Lavigne is talking at KnoxBUG tomorrow (the 26th) at 6 PM. I’ve met Dru and she’s a good speaker with a wide range of experience – catch it if you are anywhere near.
Summer convention season is coming; start scheduling!
- Implementing pledge on linux using seccomp. (via)
- pkgsrcCon 2016 is in about a month and a half (July 2-3). They’re accepting talk proposals now, for lightning talks or extended presentations. (via kamil on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- A review of FreeBSD 10.3’s new features. (via)
- BSD OS’ include GNU tools re-written for BSDL?
- Practicing ZFS storage failure quickly and easily with QEMU. On Linux, but could probably work the same on FreeBSD. (via)
- pfSense 2.3.1 is out.
- pkgsrc-security@ has a new GPG key.
- KnoxBUG’s next meeting is May 26th and Dru Lavigne is the guest speaker.
- OPNsense 16.1.14 released.
- p2k16 hackathon: pirofti@ on octeon and TPM and jasper@ on gnome, puppet and more.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/16.
- FreeNAS vs TrueNAS.
- Hubert Feyrer’s recent NetBSD news roundup.
- *BSD on laptop, anyone?
BSDNow 142 is out. You might think the title is about Perl, the language, on BSD, but it’s because there’s an interview with FreeBSD developer Alfred Perlstein. I’m sure he gets that a lot. Among the other news on the episode is a note about ordering BSDNow shirts: do it today because it’s the last day they will be available! Also, you can order now and pick it up at BSDCan if you’re going to be there.
(I’m linking to the jupiterbroadcasting site because the bsdnow.tv site isn’t updated as of this writing.)
The May issue of BSD Magazine is available now. There’s articles on ZFS, OpenBSD’s arc4random, an interview of Fernando Rodríguez of KeepCoding, and more. It’s a free PDF download if you didn’t know.
The SemiBUG presentation with Ike Levy speaking is tonight – go if you can!
Some DragonFly links are sneaking in here just to get them cleared out.
- May 17th: Ike Levy speaks at SemiBUG. Go if you are anywhere near; Ike’s a good speaker and passionate about BSD.
- Speaking of scheduling: BSDCan 2016 is less than a month away.
- Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me. (via)
- BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. (via)
- FreeBSD PowerPC 32bit pkg repository (unofficial). ~19,500 packages, more to come. (via)
- As a Linux user, where should I start with experimenting with BSD?
- DragonFly i915 driver updated to Linux 4.3. (via)
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/09.
- Cons of staying on an old -RELEASE version ?
- More p2k16: ajacoutot@ on Gnome, rc and rcctl improvements, krw@ on pdisk, softraid and more.
- SROP mitigation committed. (OpenBSD)
- The 50th Quarterly pkgsrc Release, pkgsrc-2016Q1. Also, stats.
- Thomas Levine’s notes from the recent NYCBUG presentation on Urchin.
- NetBSD on the Sega Dreamcast, presented on a Dreamcast.
- How BSD was built, and how it lost the lead to Linux.
- Running Tor in a NetBSD rump unikernel. (via)
- Running FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD as a virtualised guest on Online.net.
- Meet Joe Maloney – Lead System Architect for PC-BSD. I like the transition from volunteer to employee.
- LinuxFest Northwest 2016: The Devil in the Details: Switching to BSD from Linux. Apparently one of the most popular videos.
I haven’t listened to it because I’m at work, but garbage episode 26 is up, along with news of shirts and stickers.
I took some liberty with the spelling of the title, but it’s more accurate that way: The newest episode of BSDNow has a roundup of BSD news (some of which is pretty major) and an interview of Ike Levy, AKA ‘the guy at NYCBSDCon who showed me how useful pfSense could be’. Ike is speaking at a SemiBUG meeting on the 17th, too, which I’ll post about.
Episode 25 of Garbage went up yesterday and I forgot to check for it, so I’m linking to it now. Among other things, they mention Garbage merchandise. I’d pay for a shirt that pointed out most technology is garbage, to take it from the page.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?)
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.
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.