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2015/10/172015/10/16

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/17

Another good week for BSD releases and events.

Why do you love FreeBSD?
Announcing FreeNAS-10 ALPHA
tame(2) is now pledge(2), and Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current
The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief
OPNsense 15.7.16 Released
EuroBSDcon-2015 Recap
NetBSD-7.0 developer interviews: Pierre Pronchery, Antti Kantee, Christos Zoulas, Mateusz Kocielski
Tom’s Hardware Reviews the FreeNAS Mini
Call for testing: FreeBSD i915 driver (via)
bhyve gains a sysctl-like interface.
By chance, DMA in FreeBSD is newer than what’s in DragonFly.
A summary from the recent BSDCon Brasil.

2015/10/15

BSDNow 111: Xenocratic Oath

BSDNow episode 111 is up, with an interview of Brandon Mercer, talking about OpenBSD and healthcare. There’s the usual news, plus several ‘how-to-build-something’ articles up for discussion.

2015/10/102015/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/10

I didn’t get to run through as much of the source commits as normal this week, but there’s still plenty to read.

Why do you use *BSD?
Service to read BSD 4.2 UNIX reel tape to file?
vnStat, a network monitoring tool.
Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? (via)
Assigning programs to specific video ports.
Recent OpenSMTPD errata and you
The Rise and Fall of the Operating System. Talks about rump kernels, developed on NetBSD, I think. (via)
junk filled files.
EuroBSDCon 2015 OpenBSD Presentations Online.
An interview of Jeff Rizzo about NetBSD 7. (via)
What to expect in NetBSD 7.
NetBSD-7.0 developer interview: Leonardo Taccari (via)
FreeBSD using radius for login (via)
What does the OpenBSD crowd think of Intel SGX? (via)
Closing a door, via many places, which had a link to this BSD-related note.
Verisign youtube channel has vBSDcon videos (via)

2015/10/08

BSDNow 110: Firmware Fights

BSDNow 110 is now available. It’s back to the text summary format, so I can tell you easily that it includes an interview with Benno Rice, about Isilon and their interactions with FreeBSD.

2015/10/05

True and False code reading, NYCBUG edition

NYCBUG is having “true(1) and false(1), The Classical Code Reading Group of Stockholm, NYC*BUG Mix Tape Edition” happen this Wednesday the 7th. You may remember a similar event at the end of August. This will be led by George Brocklehurst from the original event, with NYCBUG members present. If you missed the previous one, try this out – by all accounts, these code readings are inordinately fun.

2015/10/032015/10/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/03

There’s lots to read through this week – just for BSD! I’ll have even more tomorrow.

FreeBSD cloud use cases?
Nvidia and X.
The September issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Reporting bugs and the BSD community.
(Net)BSD newbie, some questions
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/28.
Faces of FreeBSD: Allan Jude. You may have already seen that face on BSDNow.
OPNsense 15.7.15 Released.
FreeNAS: A Worst Practices Guide.
A status report on Michael W. Lucas’s two upcoming FreeBSD Mastery books, plus his other work.
tame testing.
More l2k15 Hackathon reports.
NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer and pkgsrc. They even document it.
Rebase when pushing to pkgsrc-wip’s new Git home.
pkgsrc-2015Q3 is released.
DTrace in NetBSD, though only simple scripts work right now.
NetBSD gains PCI Extended Configuration Space support.
Home server advice often boils down to “how are your backups?“
OpenBSD parts in Toyota Highlander.
Teaching to contribute to BSD. (from a just-run class)

2015/10/01

BSDNow 109: Impish BSD

BSDNow 109 is up at the Jupiter Broadcasting site, though not yet at the bsdnow.tv domain. This week’s interview is with Warner Losh, which is where the ‘imp’ reference comes from.

2015/09/28

BSDTalk 257: NetBSD Developer Christos Zoulas

BSDTalk 257 is 15 minutes of conversation with Christos Zoulas, available now.

2015/09/262015/09/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/26

This took some catching up.

MidnightBSD 0.7 is out. (via)
OPNsense 15.7.14 Released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/21.
New email gateway release 3.4 “rocky”, based on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
FreeBSD on recent Lenovo Thinkpad W541. (via)
*BSD and thinkpads. (via)
Broadwell support in OpenBSD .
LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released.
Two OpenBSD hackathon summaries.
“sid is a Static Intrusion Detection and integrity checking system” for NetBSD.
sesutil additions on FreeBSD.
rmt over ssh on OpenBSD.
BSD 2.11, I assume emulated?
Network drivers are a cross-pollination success story for BSD.
New source/port change summaries for OpenBSD, on GMane.
“Cheap hardware for router, perhaps fileserver?“

2015/09/24

BSDNow 108: ServeUp BSD

BSDNow 108 is up at the Jupiter Broadcasting site, though not listed ont he episodes page. It has an interview with Andrew Pantyukhin, and I haven’t watched it yet to find out what else.

2015/09/192015/09/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/19

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.

2015/09/17

BSDNow 107: In Their Midst

BSDNow 107 has the usual roundup of news, including some things I appear to have completely missed, and an interview of Aaron Poffenberger, who apparently gets BSD material into Linux conventions.

2015/09/16

BSDTalk 256: Allan Jude

BSDTalk 256 (or as I like to think of it, BSDTalk 16^2) is out with 16 minutes of interview of Allan Jude at vBSDCon, about his work on the FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.

2015/09/16

OPNsense: On the Shoulders of Giants, right now

“OPNsense: On the Shoulders of Giants” is happening right now in New York City, at Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St., with Issac ‘.ike’ Levy. .ike is the one who persuaded me to go to pfSense for my border devices at work, so it’s interesting to see what he has to say about OPNSense. Of course, it may be too late by the time you read this – sorry! I thought I had pre-scheduled this post but apparently I did not.

2015/09/122015/09/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/12

This was a quieter-than-normal week, probably because of the North American holiday at the start of it, but I found enough articles by the end.

Andrew Tanenbaum (creator of Minix) encourages you to go to BSDCon Brasil 2015. (though it has already happened by the time I saw this.)
ctwm, an extension to twm in NetBSD.
Lumina, and by extension at least PC-BSD, gains a Start menu.
gpart can’t yet replace fdisk in FreeBSD.
The rge(4) driver is removed in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained the sesutil(8) utility, for managing SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) devices. It turns the light on and off!
A history of modern init systems.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/07.
Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
(OPNSense) System Health – whats next?!
FreeNAS News, issue 23.
Defeating Cryptolocker attacks with ZFS.

2015/09/10

BSDNow 106: Multipath TCP

BSDNow 106 is up. The interview is with Nigel Williams about, you guessed it, multipath TCP. There’s the normal roundup and not a pun to be seen anywhere. I feel so confused!