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.
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.
BSDNow 113 has the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Jordan Hubbard, talking about BSD, and specifically NextBSD.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
BSDTalk 257 is 15 minutes of conversation with Christos Zoulas, available now.
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?“
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.
Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.
- OpenBSD (U)EFI bootloader howto. (via)
- System XVI: A replacement for systemd. (via)
- Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials. (via)
- The FreeBSD Journal Reaches New Milestone.
- BSDCam 2015 Trip Report: Mariusz Zaborski.
OPNsense 15.7.12 Released. OPNsense 15.7.13 Released.-
OpenBSD GPT support enabled.
- Moving to FreeBSD. (via)
- FreshBSD v4: beta version of the commit log search engine. (via)
- Looking for a laptop with a good CPU and solid out of the box OpenBSD experience.
- The pkgsrc-2015Q3 freeze has started,
- BSD News for 2015/09/14.
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.
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.
“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.
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.