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2015/06/202015/06/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/20

I compiled this all bit early, so hopefully nothing exciting happens between now and when it gets posted.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/16.
YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”. (BSD-friendly)
Signify shortcomings.
BSDCan 2015, a review.
BSDNow has an already-mentioned BSDCan presentation roundup, and various OpenBSD presentations are showing on the OpenBSD papers page, and there’s a video collection page too. (via)
Best laptop for FreeBSD or variants? (via)
Mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox [pdf] (via)
PkgsrcCon 2015 is definitely happening.
We’re about halfway through the pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze.
OpenBSD 5.8 has been branched. (Is that the right term?)
NetBSD has internal storage on the EdgeRouter. OpenBSD can boot there too. Is there something switch like (12+ ports) that boots a BSD? Other than Juniper? (speaking of which, I worked on an EX4300 a few days ago and liked it.)
Temperature handling in OpenBSD has been much improved.
FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black units now support HDMI.

2015/06/18

BSDNow 094: Builder’s Insurance

This week’s episode of BSDNow has an interview of Marc Espie of OpenBSD. There’s yet another Linux-user-going-BSD story, and a nice collection of links to presentations from the just-finished BSDCan 2015 event.

2015/06/172015/06/14

CDBUG and then NYCBUG: Mandoc

You have two options if you live on the eastern side of New York State: CDBUG is having a mandoc presentation from Ingo Schwarze on the 17th (tonight), and then Ingo is heading to NYCBUG’s meeting on the 18th (tomorrow). Note that you must RSVP and bring an ID for the NYCBUG meeting!

2015/06/132015/06/18

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/13

News is a bit light this week, probably because BSDCan was eating up people’s attention. I am assuming video will be up soon; I want to see the keynote.

Tarsnap GUI for the desktop. (via)
The pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze is starting tomorrow.
USB thermometer support, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
Intel is building BSD-specific utilities, if I read this right.
BSDCon Brasil has expanded their convention and have room to present more papers.
Putting FreeBSD 11 onto a Raspberry Pi 2.
Blobs blobs blobbity people care about concept more than reality.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/08.
FreeNAS in production.
Test the new OpenBSD audio(4) driver.
xhyve, a port of FreeBSD bhyve to Mac OS X.
autonet, a simple wifi network chooser for OpenBSD.
Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You. (via)

2015/06/11

BSDNow 093: Stacked in Our Favor

This week’s BSDNow has a talk with DragonFly’s very own Sepherosa Ziehau, about the huge amount of work he’s done on the network stack.

2015/06/062015/06/05

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/06

A more compact week.

usesthis.com has a BSD category. (via)
Another BSD technology comes to Windows.
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. 15 year old article. (via)
Next CDBUG meeting is June 17th.
BSD Magazine for May.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/01.
FreeBSD 8.4 is reaching end-of-life.
“The launchd on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD train is never coming“. (via)
There seems to be some sort of merging between PC-BSD and FreeNAS build scripts – or something more complex is happening?
FreeNAS 10 Hackathon.
My FreeNAS Lab.
Putting OpenBSD in the cloud.
Replacements for OpenBSD 5.7 disc 2 have been shipped.
There’s two new LibreSSL mailing lists.
Yay, cross-pollination!
OpenBSD now supports RTL8188CE wifi cards via rtwn(4).
Duovero Gumstix boards are (or will be?) supported on FreeBSD.
SRIOV support for Intel 10G cards on FreeBSD.

2015/06/04

BSDNow 092: BSD After Midnight

This week’s BSDNow has an interview with Matthew Holt about MidnightBSD, along with some new-to-me interesting items like Zocker and the testimony of yet another person interested in BSD because of systemd.

2015/06/032015/06/03

NYCBUG tonight: John Baldwin and NUMA

That’s Non Uniform Memory Architecture, and John Baldwin is talking about how it works on FreeBSD, tonight/now, in New York City for NYCBUG. There’s several more events this month with NYCBUG, so look at the announcement for tonight’s location and more dates.

2015/05/302015/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/30

A short but more interesting list this week, I think.

ZFS Mastery is out in print and electronic versions.
BSD management with Puppet.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/25.
Dell Networking OS 9 powered by NetBSD.
Lumina Desktop Status Update/FAQ.
PC-BSD 10.1.2: an Interview with Kris Moore.
A FreeBSD Foundation visit to the (a?) NYI datacenter.
“Patrol Read” support in OpenBSD.
syslog-ng and ELK on OpenBSD.
Yay for compatibility!
The Linuxulator on FreeBSD now does 1:1 threads and x86_64.
See this “Low Cost 10G Router” post on NANOG? Follow the very long thread, and you’ll notice a reoccurring theme: set up a BSD machine.
Bitrig at NYCBUG on 2015/05/06, video.

Your Not BSD link of the week: Never fix anything.

2015/05/28

BSDNow 091: Vox Populi

I always try to guess the interview topic from the episode title, but I wasn’t able to predict the several mini-interviews in this week’s BSDNow episode.

2015/05/232015/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/23

A calmer week, probably because of the U.S. holiday.

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is out (eBook format).
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/18.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 is out. (Update: hotfix)
freebsd-wifi-build (via)
bhyve on Pluribus, a platform I’m unfamiliar with. (via)
pkgSrcCon is happening July 4-5 in Berlin.
I like cross-pollination.
Diagnosing softraid failures on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD now has ntpd on by default.
OpenSMTPD vs. Logjam.
spamd/pf rule changes.
Various OpenBSD remote update methods.
FreeNAS status report.
iXSystems is gaining a dev blog.

2015/05/21

BSDNow: 090: ZFS Armistice

This week’s BSDNow episode talks with Jed Reynolds about ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD, and includes other news bits including about DragonFly’s swap encryption, OpenBSD defaulting to having openntpd on by default, and plenty more.

2015/05/162015/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/16

This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week. I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here.

Royal activity affecting your open source files.
Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve.
Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD. I’d be worried about keeping partially bad RAM in place, but this is probably being used on a larger scale.
25 year old col bug, fixed.
The start of NUMA support in FreeBSD.
Alpine POC and Routerboard support in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD now supports more than 8 audio channels.
NetBSD is starting to gain EdgeRouter support.
NetBSD gains in-kernel splash screen support.
Openresolv 3.7 is in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
EU study recommends OpenBSD. (Thanks, PCTF)
Now, sshd in OpenBSD defaults to ‘PermitRootLogin=no‘ (like in DragonFly!)
Device Developer’s Conference, happening in the UK over the next month or so. (via openbsd-misc)
OpenBSD has released, shipped, and there’s some discs with errors being replaced, though there’s a workaround.
From 0 to an OpenBSD install, with no hands and a custom disk layout. (via)
Livingston County, Michigan has a BSD user group starting up.
PC-BSD 10.2.1-RC1 comments.
BSDCon Brazil 2015 has a call for papers out.
New to BSD, Questions about Firewall configuration.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/11.
A week of pkgsrc #10.
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENTMAY2015 images now available
Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS
pfSense is now available as a “VMware Ready Virtual Firewall Appliance“.
Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap talk is online.
As is the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.
BSDTalk 253 has 30 minutes of conversation with George Neville-Neil about “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System”, 2nd edition.

2015/05/15

BSDNow 089: Exclusive Disjunction

This week’s BSDNow episode talks with Mike Larkin about memory protection in OpenBSD, along with the normal news summary.

2015/05/092015/05/07

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/09

Whee!

A week of pkgsrc #9.
WordPress versus FreeBSD.
OpenBSD now has disklabel templates.
Application management made easy. (PC-BSD video, via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/04.

2015/05/07

BSDNow 088: Below the Clouds

BSDNow 088 has an interview of Ed Schouten about FreeBSD, and all the normal roundups. Also “DragonFlyBSD has officially won the race to get an Intel Broadwell graphics driver”.

Maybe I need to start doing In Other BSDs posts on Wednesdays, cause BSDNow often has the links I’m already saving for the weekend.

2015/05/062015/05/04

NYCBug and Bitrig talk, tonight

John Vernaleo is giving a talk for NYCBug about Bitrig, tonight at 6:45 in New York City. See the announcement for details on location and etc.

2015/05/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/02

I’ve already mentioned the Hammer2/OpenBSD Summer of Code project (one of several), but here’s more:

The April issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBSD on an iBook G4
Midnight BSD 0.6 is out.
OpenBSD 5.7 is out.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.4 is out.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 RC1 is out.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/27.
FreeBSD project report for 2015Q1.
Hacking “/ on ZFS” and GELI Encrypted Drives, the Old-School Way
Michael W. Lucas is giving a “Tarsnap talk” at mug.org on May 12 to match his book.
vBSDCon is happening September 11-13 in Reston, VA.

(No mailing list links this week; I’m way behind in my reading because of work. Sorry!)

2015/04/30

Hammer spreads via GSoC

DragonFly committer Joris Giovannangeli has a Google Summer of Code project. He’s bringing Hammer2 to OpenBSD, in single-node form. It’s a very difficult project, but Joris is a very talented worker.

2015/04/30

BSDNow 087: On The List

BSDNow 087 has an interview with Christos Zoulas, about NetBSD and blacklistd, along with the usual collection of news stories that I’m trying not to peek at because I’m behind on my usual reading and I want to get my own collection together for Saturday’s In Other BSDs.