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2014/08/092014/08/08

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/09

A relatively short week; I’m on the move today.

DiscoverBSD’s roundup for 2014/08/04.
FreeBSD installed. Your next 5 moves should be… (via)
switched from arch linux to openbsd, reference advice?
“make the Linux network stack as good as FreeBSD’s“. I’m leery of that statement. This comment may lead to more useful data.
FreeBSD ZFS snapshots with zfstools.
An old Macintosh IIci 25Mhz running Apache under NetBSD. Link was down when I checked it… probably from everyone else hitting it. (via)
MeetBSD 2014 is happening November 1-2 in San Jose, California. (via)
*NIX programming survey. (via)

2014/08/07

BSDNow 049: The PC-BSD Tour

BSDNow 049 is titled “The PC-BSD Tour”, and gives exactly that during the show. They also talk about some recent news items that I missed, and point at some interesting things, like some recent BAFUG videos that made it online.

2014/08/04

OpenBSD Ports class for NYCBUG

NYCBUG is holding a OpenBSD Ports ‘class’ on August 6th (day after tomorrow). You can make a port of something you need, or work on something existing, hackathon style. See the announcement for details – you need to warn someone you are coming for building access.

2014/08/022014/08/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/02

I was thinking this was going to be a short week, but nope.

Using pkgsrc for HPC. Follow the thread for discussion of pkgsrc as a self-contained tool system, including the compiler.
Debugging Firefox on pkgsrc.
CDE is in pkgsrc-wip.
tmux in NetBSD got updated.
pcc in NetBSD got an update, too.
NetBSD can work on a Kobo Touch?
FreeBSD’s 40G XL710 driver reached version 1.0.
FreeBSD has “pkgfs, a file system implementation for reading files out of a compressed tarball, aka package.” From Juniper.
FreeBSD has Chromebook2 support.
The FreeBSD Foundation semiannual newsletter is out.
The FreeBSD quarterly report is out.
a survey of FreeBSD ZFS snapshot automation tools
Keeping pf.conf in sync. Many different suggestions.
OpenBSD’s homegrown httpd is gaining fastcgi.
Ted Unangst has summarized links to all the g2k14 hackathon reports.
PC-BSD has something called syscache, which I’m seeing commits for but I haven’t found what it is exactly – a caching system for package info, I think?
DIscoverBSD for 2014/07/28.
BSDSec, a BSD-specific security site. (via)
List of VPSs that support BSD. (via)

2014/07/312014/07/31

BSDNow 048: Liberating SSL

As you can probably guess somewhat from the title, BSDNow 048 has an interview about LibreSSL, with Brent Cook. There’s also the normal news roundup, and other recent events.

2014/07/30

BSD Magazine: pkg pkg pkg

The July issue of BSD Magazine is out, and it contains several articles about pkg, for use on FreeBSD, PC-BSD, and DragonFly. The article on DragonFly and pkg was written by Siju George.

2014/07/292014/07/29

Rust ported to DragonFly

Rust has been ported to DragonFly by Michael Neumann. His blog has implementation details, and you can pull from his repo to get a buildable version. This may be useful, as he notes, for anyone wanting to build Rust on other BSDs.

2014/07/282014/07/28

BSDNow 047: DES Challenge IV

I missed this last week because I was on the road: BSDNow 047 is up, titled DES Challenge IV, has some followup on recent topics like pf in FreeBSD and the recent OpenBSD hackathon, plus an interview of Dag-Erling Smørgrav.

2014/07/282014/07/28

BSDTalk 243: Ingo Schwarze

It’s all multimedia day here, as BSDTalk 243 is also out with 16 minutes of conversation with Ingo Schwarze about mandoc. Mandoc is the man replacement in OpenBSD and built-but-not-yet-used in DragonFly. ‘man replacement’ is probably an oversimplification.

2014/07/262014/07/23

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/26

Part of this was done while traveling, but still a decent week for links.

A BSD-licensed timeout(1).
DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/07/21.
NetBSD has a start of a radeon driver.
FreeBSD has a Phabricator site, which is getting linked in some commits.
The OpenBSD cvsweb was down but appears to be back now.
Lua in NetBSD went from version 5.1 to 5.3.
Yay cross-pollination, sorta?
“*BSD on the desktop for an intermediate Linux user?“
NetBSD got a slight binary loading speedup.
OpenBSD + OSX/iOS and IPsec/l2tp setup, the thread and the followup.
Trying to establish the longest trust chain possible for an OpenBSD install.
OpenBSD’s new httpd is now installed by default. Lynx is no longer. (partially via)
ldapd/OpenBSD users may need this thread when upgrading.
DIAGNOSTIC does not slow down NetBSD.
Bitrig is nearing 1.0, according to an email on their tech@bitrig.org list. But I can’t find a way to link to the summary of what they have done. There’s the Bitrig roadmap, I guess?
An early draft (“prerelease”) of Michael Lucas’s next book, “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials“, is available.
Undeadly has a lot of articles written by recent OpenBSD Hackathon participants. Instead of linking to specific ones, I’ll just point you at the site. (undeadly.org can’t tag or search to a summary page.)
BSD, the movie. (via).

2014/07/192014/07/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/19

More than the usual source commit messages this week.

LibreSSL got another point release. And complaints. (via)
NetBSD 7’s branch date is planned.
FreeBSD 9.3 is released. EoL for 9.2 has been extended, too.
Cloning a FreeBSD/ZFS Machine with ‘zfs send’.
An OpenBSD hackathon means a lot of articles.
Troubleshooting Large, Stalling git/ssh Transfers.
pkg == systemd == government conspiracy. Surely, the writer can’t be real.
Installing and Using TarSnap. A BSD-friendly service.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/07/14 roundup.
OpenBSD has OpenSSH and put together LibreSSL. OpenSSL bought… libressh.org? Use whois libressh.org to see. (no link; use your own whois lookup.) (via)
NetBSD has updated to dhcp 4.3.0.
OpenBSD has imported ucpp. (hope that’s the right ucpp; there’s lots out there)
One of those times it’s OK to store passwords in cleartext.
PC-BSD is now using Samba 4.1 by default.
OpenBSD has a new httpd(8). Bonus long-in-the-tooth joke, too.
Yay, SSL library cross-pollination.
Cross-cross-cross pollination, here. (someone do it in DragonFly, too)
ssh (on OpenBSD) now supports Unix domain socket forwarding.
EruoBSDCon 2014 is happening in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September. The FreeBSD Foundation is funding travelers.
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to.

2014/07/18

Interlock Roc: Linux Workshop

There’s an open source meetup at a hackerspace near me, happening tomorrow. Well, today by the time most people read this. Anyway, it’s at Interlock, starting at noon. I don’t think I’ll make it, but I’m always happy to see this stuff happen in my own town.

2014/07/182014/07/17

BSDNow 046: Network Iodometry

BSDNow 046 interviews Brian Drewery, talks about tunneling through DNS ports (an useful trick to get around network paywalls, if it’s what I think it is), and of course more general discussion of BSD topics.

2014/07/17

H.O.P.E. starts tomorrow in NYC

HOPE X starts tomorrow in New York City and runs through the weekend. There will be some BSD people there. (see first line of link.)

2014/07/15

SYSRET fixed even if not broken

There’s a recently talked about bug in SYSRET that apparently affects a lot of operating systems, including Linux and several BSDs. It looks like DragonFly is not affected, but Matthew Dillon has put in changes just in case.

2014/07/122014/07/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/12

Finally, a much more eventful week. I already noted LibreSSL’s release.

DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/07/07.
PC-BSD Digest 31 – there’s now a PC-BSD IRC channel.
Your server can probably tell you the temperature.
Future of pf in FreeBSD? Follow the thread. (via)
DragonFly’s pf alterations discussed for OpenBSD. It wouldn’t be easy without some of the underlying DragonFly architecture, but something for everyone to remember: Henning Brauer is generous with his time and will help people updating pf.
mfiutil on FreeBSD.
ia64 processor support is gone from FreeBSD.
NetBSD now has BIND 9.10.0-P2.
FreeBSD now has bmake-20140620.
OpenBSD now has lynx 2.8.8rel2.
OpenBSD’s relayd now has a new filter language.
pkgsrc 2014Q2 binaries are out now for several platforms.
FreeBSD has a new core team.
More cross-pollination – also from Android?
OpenBSD-current users will need to update their kernel.

2014/07/11

Portable LibreSSL out

The portable (meaning ready to be brought into other operating systems) version of LibreSSL is out.

2014/07/10

BSDNow 045: ZFS War Stories

BSDNow episode 45 is up. This one is an interview with Josh Paetzel of iXSystems. No tutorial this week because Allan Jude is at the devsummit in the UK, an event I totally did not know existed.

2014/07/052014/07/05

In Other BSDS for 2014/07/05

Another ‘quiet’ week – lots of commit activity in the other BSDs, but not a lot to point at directly.

PostgreSQL/FreeBSD performance and scalability on a 40-core machine. (PDF link, via) There’s comparison to DragonFly’s results, mentioned here before. DragonFly’s solution of shared page tables is dismissed because it would require work to do, though I think that’s a symptom of FreeBSD’s more complex locking model rather than complexity of what’s in DragonFly.
pkgsrc-2014Q2 is out.
Here’s some notes on the systemd compatibility GSoC/OpenBSD project.
The FreeBSD ixgbe(4) driver understands RSS, and so does igb(4).
FreeBSD GENERIC kernels can now use vt(4), the replacements for syscons.
FreeBSD images can now boot UEFI.
FreeBSD 9/10 users using the WITH_NEW_XORG option have a temporary binary ports repository to use, to handle the change in the drivers.

2014/07/032014/07/04

BSDNow 044: Base ISO 100

The 44th BSDNow episode is out, with an interview of Craig Rodrigues, a tutorial on creating pre-patched OpenBSD ISOs, and the usual discussion of news items, including DragonFly’s recent pf changes.

(I don’t get the pun in the title this time, darnit.)