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2015/03/212015/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/21

Not done in a last-minute rush before the weekend, yay! Done early cause I have to work over the weekend, boo!

Tarsnap Mastery is out in print form. (as is author Michael Lucas’s newest sci-fi)
Active Directory and FreeBSD. Might apply to all BSDs? (via)
GhostBSD 10.1-alpha1 is out. (via)
pfSense 2.2.1 is out.
making security sausage. “Even if most users will just run yummi-gummi-belli-rubrub or whatever to install binary fixes, they should be able to inspect the changes.” I just like that package manager name.
What differences would I notice when using BSD?
Suggestions for honeypotting on BSD?
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/16.
virtio on FreeBSD now works asynchronously.
OpenBSD papers from AsiaBSDCon 2015 are up.
Martin Pieuchot could use some OpenBSD hardware.
OpenSSH 6.8 is out.
Home server rack suggestions. Includes perennial favorite, the LackRack.
How to format your diffs for OpenBSD.
Good; they’re talking to each other.
The pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze is on.

2015/03/142015/03/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/14

I goofed up and didn’t complete last weeks’ In Other BSDs before it published, so you get some extra this week.

DiscoverBSD news for 2015/03/09.
FreeBSD Flame Graphs. (via)
pkgsrc-2014Q4 binaries for illumos/SmartOS, plus support policy.
15 years of FreeBSD Foundation.
autofs(5) on FreeBSD.
DisplayLink adapters now work on FreeBSD.
USB now consistently works on Raspberry Pi devices with FreeBSD.
W^X in your browser, via the OpenBSD Foundation.
OpenBSD and Summer of Code.
Pre-orders for OpenBSD 5.7 are possible.
Encrypted replication in PC-BSD.
Better i386 NetBSD radeon support.
The pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze starts in a few days.
3-way cross-pollination.

2015/03/12

BSDNow 80: The PC-BSD Tour II

The newest BSDNow video goes into PC-BSD and booting, and interviews Justin Gibbs about the FreeBSD Foundation.

2015/03/072015/03/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/07

Whee!

Which would be better as a free desktop; PC-BSD or OpenBSD?
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/02.
M0n0wall alternatives at DiscoverBSD.
BSD Magazine for February. (I think.)
A preview of PC-BSD’s upcoming 10.1.2 release.

2015/03/062015/03/06

Tarsnap Mastery book out

Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap Mastery book is out, in electronic form. While not a strictly BSD news items, it’s a service built on BSD, so worth looking at if you care about that – or about encryption.

2015/03/05

BSDNow 079: Just Add QEMU

The newest BSDNow episode talks with Sean Bruno about poudriere and QEMU. He’s using those tools on FreeBSD, but poudriere is useful for building dports on DragonFly, too. The usual news collection is there, too.

2015/03/03

Book release party in NYC tomorrow night

NYCBUG is having a book release event for “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System” with George Neville-Neil, one of the authors. It’s happening tomorrow night, at the Stone Creek Bar & Lounge: 140 E 27th St. George Neville-Neil will be talking about DTrace, and there’s copies of the book to buy/win.

2015/03/022015/03/01

BSDtalk 251: 10 Gigabits per Server

The just-posted BSDTalk 251 is 47 minutes long, and comes from vBSDCon 2013, with three people interviewed about Verisign and FreeBSD.

2015/02/282015/02/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/28

Well, this week just sort of took off for BSD links.

FreeBSD on the POWER8: It’s alive! (via)
Freenas and ESXI-Vmware snapshots
PHP 5.3 and Ruby 1.8.7 appear to be on the way out of pkgsrc.
PC-BSD gains a sort of automatic TOR-mode.
OpenBSD Foundation 2014/2015 newsletter.
OpenBSD 5.7 on Minnowboard Max.
Aww, no more punchcard utilities.
FreeBSD has some upgrades around tape utilities.
Installworld… installcloud?
“If you work for a lottery and you’re using random(3) to select the winning numbers, please let me know.“
uefisign(8), a UEFI Secure Boot signing utility.
pkg in pkgsrc. (via)
“How can I crate a bootable BSD via GNU/Linux?“
DiscoverBSD for 2015/02/23.
ZFS, and How to Make a Foot Cannon.
A week of pkgsrc #7.
BSDCan proposals and rejections.
NetBSD on IBM’s SoftLayer and Microsoft’s Azure and more

A late update: NYCBUG’s upcoming meetings and presentations, with the next one on March 4th, this week. If you have a local BSD user group, I would like to know about it!

2015/02/262015/02/26

BSDNow 078: From the Foundation (Part 2)

BSDNow 078 is up with more BSD Foundation interviews. It’s not a sequel, but a switch: the last one was with a FreeBSD Foundation member, and this week’s episode is with Ken Westerback of the OpenBSD Foundation. There’s the normal added news, too, with a description of what’s coming at BSDCan 2015.

2015/02/212015/02/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/21

There’s some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It’s inextricable from the rest of the links.

Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop. (also)
“Has Linux lost its way?” (via) (also)
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/16.
Curious if FreeBSD or any other BSD district would work better on a MacBook pro?
Which
Am I taking a realistic route to learning more about internals? (hey, it’s DragonFly!)
Speaking of which: cross–pollination.
More cross-pollination, and surprise from me; I didn’t know USB video link worked on any BSD.
The m0n0wall project has ended.
The end of ‘games’ as a separate object on FreeBSD.
Tetris: still changing.
autonet – simple automatic wifi chooser on OpenBSD.
pkgsrc binaries as an exit strategy from systemd.
IPFW now the default firewall (and on) in PC-BSD.
The updated roadmap to 1.0.0 for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, to go with the 0.8.2 release.
PC-BSD at SCALE.
s2k15 hackathon report.

2015/02/19

BSDNow 077: Noah’s L2ARC

The 77th episode of BSDNow is up, with a tutorial on making a patch in OpenBSD, an interview of Alex Reece and Matt Ahrens about OpenZFS, and the usual news roundup.

2015/02/142015/02/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/14

Happy Valentine’s Day!

The OpenBSD Foundation 2015 Fundraising Campaign. (via)
Anyone tried CloudByte before? (ZFS on FreeBSD).
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/09.
PC-BSD featured on itwire.com.
From the OpenBSD s2k15 hackathon: the stack overflow that wasn’t and Authenticated TLS ‘constraints’ in ntpd(8).
Jazz concert with OpenBSD synths.
“Help me add FreeBSD/amd64 build support to .NET CoreCLR“.
“Can you push a BSD OS through the wire/network?” The original poster has never heard of PXEbooting?
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT Images Now Available!
Speaking of which, PC-BSD now uses OpenNTPD by default.
An old large-disk anecdote from OpenBSD.
“world’s first Canadian cross device driver“
pkgsrc-2014Q4 packages for OS X now available.
NTP over HTTPS.
Aww, freebsd/wii.

Your not-BSD BSD link of the week: Badass Space Dragon.

2015/02/13

BSDNow 076: Time for a Change

BSDNow 076 interviews Henning Brauer about his work on OpenNTPD, which has recently been converted to a portable version, similar to OpenSSH. (Why? Amplification.) There’s also the normal array of other BSD stories, including DragonFly, yay!

2015/02/10

“Life with an OpenBSD Laptop” is tonight

If you’re in/near New York City, NYCBUG has a meeting tonight with Issac (.ike) Levy presenting “Life with an OpenBSD Laptop“.

2015/02/072015/02/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/07

This week is relatively quiet.

Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7. (via)
OpenBSD networking on Macbook Pro?
PC-BSD 10.1.1 is out.
Is there any RNDIS support in any BSD?
Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
Stuck between OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD (mostly Web and File Server)
devctl, a new device control utility in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained a VCHI driver for the Broadcom “VideoCore IV GPU”.
Things you can remove from FreeBSD.
PC-BSD gains ‘personacrypt’, for encryption of home directories.
OpenBSD gained iwm(4), for Intel 7260 wifi.

2015/02/05

BSDNow 075: From the Foundation

BSDNow 075 has an interview with Ed Maste about what the FreeBSD Foundation has been up to, and I’m guessing from the “Part 1” in the title there’s going to be more information in a subsequent show. There’s also a roundup of various BSD news items — more than usual, I think.

2015/02/022015/02/03

BSDTalk 250: WhatsApp

There’s two important numbers in this new, nearly-an-hour-long BSDTalk: Half a ~~million~~ billion, which are the number of people using FreeBSD via WhatsApp, and 250, which is the number of BSDTalk episodes so far. That’s a great milestone for BSDTalk. Oh, and the recording is from MeetBSD 2014, with Rick Reed talking.

2015/01/312015/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/31

I’m not sure how I ended up with so much BSD material this week, but hey, we all benefit!

A user’s experience with OpenBSD as a desktop. (via)
FreeBSD Jail Management Tools.
nanoBSD for servers – part 1. (via)
Sonicwall to pfSense?
My first OpenBSD port. (via)
Two new LibreSSL shirts, with cash going back to the project.
What did Sony do to make FreeBSD awesome graphics wise with Playstation 4?
pkgng and manual steps.
long term support considered harmful
The practical result of OpenBSD’s support policy. Rebuttal to previous link. (via)
PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC2 now available.
OpenBSD popularity vs Linux when talking about servers security (via)
Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split. (via)
pfSense-2.2-RELEASE now available! I’ll be upgrading systems to that at work this weekend…
SECURITY : OPENBSD VS FREEBSD. (via)
Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD.
Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015 and OpenBSD, a review.
Initial Zynq (Xilinx) support in NetBSD.
glass tty fonts in NetBSD, mentioned here, seen here.
portable cwm 5.6 is out.
Assistance for the “too much RAM” delay problem.
Slides for “OpenBSD: Redundant & Transparent Firewalls” (thanks Siju)
A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users. (via)

Your extended read: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, from the NANOG operators list. Follow the thread. It’s theoretically about Linux, but people name BSD solutions all through it. Hmm…

2015/01/29

BSDNow 074: That Sly MINIX

Episode 74 of BSDNow is up, with some interesting stories of Linux users switching to BSD, and an interview of Andrew Tanenbaum of MINIX fame.