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2015/11/142015/11/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/14

This is the sort of BSD link week I like, with lots of range and depth.

Many many more u2k15 reports.
Slides about pledge(). There’s a very good point (and followup) in there.
Why I Chose FreeNAS When I Started My Own Landscape Architecture Firm.
Initial 802.11n wireless support for iwm(4).
noice, a file browser that works on all the BSDs.
New [OPNSense] images based on 15.7.18.
first semibug.org meeting next Tuesday. I’ll post a reminder.
Videos: BSD History.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/09.
The ZFS ZIL and SLOG Demystified.
SeaGL 2015 Recap. (via)
DesktopBSD 2.0 M1 released. (via)
xorg for NetBSD/amiga. This will make someone happy.
ConnectX-4 Mellanox network card support in FreeBSD. Does well under load.
Re-rooting on FreeBSD.

2015/11/12

Locales everywhere

John Marino sent a helpful link to show the cross-platform work he’s been involved in: He brought the locale work from Illumos into DragonFly over the summer (look for his name on commits), and now it has been brought from DragonFly into FreeBSD, with Baptiste Daroussin reporting on the process. If there’s any OpenBSD/NetBSD developers reading, with an interest in locales, this may be useful..

(someone correct me if that’s not the right Illumos link)

2015/11/12

BSDNow 115: Controlling the Transmissions

It’s Thursday and there’s a new BSDNow: Controlling the Transmissions. The interview this week is with Hiren Panchasara, about “improving TCP”, though I haven’t yet listened to it for details. There’s also the normal news roundup.

2015/11/092015/10/23

SSH talk very soon

Reminder: Michael W. Lucas’s talk on SSH (based on his recent book) is happening on the 10th, at the Farmington Hills Public Library.

2015/11/072015/11/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/07

Not even checking source commits this week; there’s already plenty of news.

Ken Westerback at u2k15.
OpenBSD also is getting a hypervisor.
Running BSDi BSD/OS on VirtualBox.
Faces of FreeBSD 2015 – Michael Dexter
OpenBSD vs. nVidia
nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat. (via)
MINIXCon, February 1st, 2016, in Amsterdam. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/02.
LibreSSL 2.3.1 is out. (via)
Cyrix 486 Booting OpenBSD 4.7 (via)
starting from scratch bugs.
OPNsense 15.7.18 Released
Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2. SEMIBUG is a good name.
OpenBSD has a fork of less.
pfSense 2.2.5 is out, and the pfSense project is 11 years old.
A new issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBGPd and route filters.

2015/11/052015/11/06

BSDNow 114: BSD Schooling

“BSD Schooling” is the name of this week’s episode of BSDNow, and as you might guess from the title, Brian Callahan is the interview subject, talking about BSDs and education. It also points out interviews elsewhere, like Brian Acton of WhatsApp talking about how useful BSD is to work with, and another one where the CTO of HP appears to have the wrong idea of licensing. (also, an interesting but not surprising Stallman quote)

2015/11/022015/10/31

BSDTalk 258: Chris Henschen

Start the week with this brief interview of Chris Henschen, of fP Technologies, taken at the most recent vBSDCon. Their database product, filePro Plus, was recently ported to FreeBSD.

2015/10/312015/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/31

Another week that quickly went from “Gee, I hope I have enough links” to “I have to set time aside just to process the backlog of possibilities.”

Buy an x220.
A week of pkgsrc #12.
20Gb of Internet traffic on OpenBSD won’t work.
Nouveau runs on NetBSD with hardware GL support.
English-only in OpenBSD.
Help! Can’t install NetBSD 7 – problem with .iso file
Steam on the BSDs (not wine)
mge/etherswitch support in FreeBSD, especially for some Marvell chips.
Bluetooth LE Security Management channel support in FreeBSD.
mpsutil in FreeBSD has been updated. (for LSI Fusion-MPT 2/3 controllers )
add BSD to OS options in the forum user profile.
NetBSD 5.x is reaching end-of-life.
The Tor Browser for OpenBSD has been updated.
The 3rd quarter FreeBSD status report is out.
OpenBSD interviews: Ted Unangst, Brandon Mercer, Antoine Jacoutot, joshua stein, Landry Breuil, Henning Brauer, and Stefan Sperling.
Or just look at Undeadly’s complete list.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/16.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 is released.
FreeNAS ‘what’s new’ issue 26. FreeNAS is 10 years old.
A new FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS review.

2015/10/29

BSDNow 113: What’s Next for BSD?

BSDNow 113 has the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Jordan Hubbard, talking about BSD, and specifically NextBSD.

2015/10/242015/10/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/24

There’s a lot of developer interviews lately.

DragonFly BSD + FreeBSD (via)
truenas
Hubert Feyrer has a roundup of the recent NetBSD interviews.
OpenBSD 5.8 is released.
OpenBSD turns 20.
OpenBSD developers: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (via)
OpenBSD developers: Vadim Zhukov (via)
OpenBSD developers: Marc Espie (via)
OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele (via)
OpenBSD developers: Ingo Schwarze (via)
OpenBSD developers: Gilles Chehade (via)
OPNSense 15.7.17 released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/19.
EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online. The date is not a typo.
GhostBSD’s graphical ZFS installer. (via)
Grace Hopper Convention 2015. (FreeBSD Foundation)
W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port. (via)
Announcing NetBSD 7.0 for USB Flash Drives. (via)
pkgsrc-wip has finished the move to git. It should be easier to contribute.
FreeBSD on 96-core (dual socket) ThunderX system. (via)
Compilers in the BSD base system. (via)
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on SSH on November 10th, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Robert Bourne is returning to NYCBUG to talk on November 19th. Catch this if you can; it’s worth it.
I already scheduled reminder posts for both those events.

Your cross-platform software of the week: Syncthing. Runs on all the BSDs. (Via discussion on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2015/10/22

BSDNow 112: Tracing the source

It’s been an oddly quiet week for news, plus I have been busier than usual at work due to snow hitting the northeast. But! It’s Thursday and there’s a new episode of BSDNow. There’s an interview of Adam Leventhal and the usual news roundup.

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?“