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2014/11/012014/11/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/01

Hardly any source commits to point at this week, but there’s still lots of stuff happening in BSD-land.

MeetBSD is happening right now.
OpenBSD 5.6 is being released right now too.
Michael W. Lucas has released the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials book.
Peter N. M. Hansteen’s 3rd edition of the Book of PF is out, and he’s running an auction for the first author-signed copy – with profits to OpenBSD. This is a good strategy. I have a copy of the book and will write a review here as soon as I can finish it – only up to chapter 3 right now. The presentation that spawned the book is updated and available.
FreeBSD 10.0 got an extension.
Don’t run wsmoused and X at the same time in OpenBSD.
NetBSD now has openresolv 3.6.1. It’s a resolv.conf management program I had not yet heard of.
FreeBSD has significant changes to /dev/random,
FreeBSD has gained TTM support in its AGP driver, and radeonkms in FreeBSD now supports AGP.
NYCBUG, upcoming.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/27.
The Apple Mac Takes Its Place In The Post-PC World. Unix-based computers are the best game in town, it appears. (via)
Lumina Desktop Build in FreeBSD / TrueOS. (video)

2014/10/31

BSDTalk 246: tor

BSDTalk 246 is available, and has 19 minutes of conversation about TOR, though I haven’t heard it yet to be sure.

2014/10/30

BSDNow 061: IPSECondwind

As you may be able to guess, BSDNow episode 061 has an interview with John-Mark Gurney about updating FreeBSD’s IPSEC setup, along with the normal collection of news items. There’s also a link to a new BSD-switching blog, and “mailing list gold”.

2014/10/252014/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/25

This week I was on top of the whole linking thing.

A Minecraft plugin for FreeNAS.
PC-BSD has a YouTube channel.
LibreSSL 2.1.0 is out.
OpenBSD 5.6 sneak peek.
Question about the current state of FreeBSD
Tanenbaum realizes BSD was a better idea. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/13.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/20.
FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon 2014.
KDEConnect in PC-BSD.
Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for meeting space in 2015.
The FreeBSD Forums are running new software.
A 14 year old IP reference.
NetBSD has imported openresolv 3.6.0.
Getting snmpwalk to talk to snmpd on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD (starts to) gain EFI support.
Security Engineering for Linux Users. (via)
vxlan, virtio console driver, added to FreeBSD.
Setting a dedicated serial link on your OpenBSD system.
Chromium has some issues in OpenBSD-current in some situations.

2014/10/24

BSDNow 060: Don’t Buy a Router

BSDNow episode 060 bypasses the pun and just commands you to obey. At least, I don’t know the reference if there is one. Anyway, there’s an interview of Olivier Cochard-Labbé of the BSD Router Project, along with the usual array of news.

2014/10/182014/10/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/18

Done at the last minute, like always, but surprisingly extensive this week:

DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/06.
FreeBSD Cheatsheet.
FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 is out.
Question about the BSD community as a whole.
mandoc now contains man.
PC-BSD now has a new Linuxulator and AppCafe.
GhostBSD 4.0 is out.
Frequent BSD author Michael W. Lucas is now a fulltime tech author.
Speaking of that, the first draft of his FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is up.
Introducing sysupgrade for NetBSD.
37 year old bug, 22 year old fix, patched this month. (via)
PC-BSD has branched 10.1.
FreeBSD has netmap support in libpcap.
FreeBSD’s ipfw has received some updates.
A PC-BSD 10.0.3 review.
Building packages at scale.
MeetBSD 2014 is coming up in California.
NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 are out.
The third quarter 2014 FreeBSD Status Report is out.
Send in your OpenBSD dmesg.
Importing pkg to NetBSD – an idea I support.

2014/10/162014/10/16

BSDNow: Behind the Masq and something else

Because I missed last week, there’s two BSDNow episodes to catch (assuming you are using me as notification for new ones.) Episode 58, Behind the Masq, has an interview with Matt Ranney and George Kolaand, and a tutorial that includes DNSMasq, for the title source. Episode 59, the title of which I can’t reprint accurately, has an interview with Hiroki Sato and the usual number of articles.

2014/10/16

EuroBSDCon, XDC 2014, and DragonFly

Francois Tigeot gave talks at EuroBSDCon and XDC 2014, and he’s posted slide and video links. He covers DragonFly and Postgres and video drivers, or at least I assume so cause I haven’t watched them yet. There’s other BSD-specific material available too, according to his post.

2014/10/042014/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/04

Whee!

FreeBSD 10.1 beta 3 is out – though it may be superseded by the time this article is published.
pkg is apparently supported in Salt and cdist. (via)
DiscoverBSD’s September BSD release list.
DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/09/29.
The September BSD Magazine is out. (via)
Undeadly has links to (all?) the EuroBSDCon 2014 OpenBSD papers.
OpenBSD 5.6 is available for pre-order, and at a new store.
Can’t tell if this is a joke or just dumb. No, it’s not a real problem.
Here’s an OpenBSD conversation about routing table changes and flaky ISPs, though much of it could apply to any BSD.
I daresay this counts as Shellshock fallout.
pkgsrc-2014Q3 is out and announced.
No more cvsup for FreeBSD.

2014/10/02

BSDNow 057: The Daemon’s Apprentice

This week’s BSDNow has an interview about mentoring with Steve Wills of FreeBSD, the usual array of news. This week has more small device news than normal – NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and pfSense on a mini-ITX system. And a mention of my desktop article! I’m relevant!

2014/10/012014/10/01

BSDTalk 245: Moving and home

BSDTalk 245 is up, with 7 minutes from Will Backman, the host. He’s setting up new storage for the (long!) history of BSDTalk podcasts, and he asks what people are using for ~ on the Internet.

2014/10/01

NYCBUG meeting tonight

At least, I assume NYCBUG’s meeting is tonight. It’s at BXL Cafe, and you can see the details in the announcement email. No RSVP required this time, because it’s a bar, so perhaps all you need is a liver.

2014/09/272014/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/27

Not even trying source links this week; there’s plenty else to link.

FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 2 is out. (has been out, but this is the announcement.)
The Open Source Software Engagement Award. An excellent, excellent move by Colin Percival.
Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD.
Outlining Thin Linux. The article linked to described a stripped down Linux that doesn’t have package dependencies just to run. That’s what BSD has been for several decades now…
DiscoverBSD for 2014/09/22.
pfSense has reached 2.2-beta.
“Can you recommend a good laptop that runs BSD well?“
NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi. (via)
Bash and PC-BSD.
The OpenBSD 5.6 theme song.
EuroBSDCon 2014 is going on right now. (via)

Update: EuroBSDCon is livestreaming! (via)

2014/09/26

BSDNow 056: Beastly Infrastructure

I normally post these on Thursday night, but I didn’t see it in my RSS feed. I think this one feed is behind. In any case, Episode 056 is a lengthy interview with Peter Wemm about the FreeBSD project infrastructure. Allan and Kris are at EuroBSDCon, so I expect there will be some European BSD people getting interviewed in upcoming episodes.

2014/09/242014/09/24

Bash vulnerability; check your dports

There’s a new bash vulnerability that could be a problem for a network-facing machine that happens to use bash. (See here for test.) As a BSD user, you can feel somewhat smugly superior since the default shell is tcsh and therefore it may not affect you – unless you’ve installed it from dports.

John Marino has already updated dports. A new binary is forthcoming, though you can always rebuild by hand if you don’t want to wait.

Update: oh, wait, not done.

2014/09/202014/09/20

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/20

Low on the source links this week, but there’s plenty else.

TrueOS, CD-sized. Warning: lots of ads on that page. (via)
FreeBSD with a swap file instead of a swap partition. (via)
FreeNAS in VMWare Workstation, part 1. Lots of screenshots, little explanation. (via)
FreeBSD 10.1 Beta 1 is available.
A summary of the OpenBSD GSoC systemd compatibility program.
DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/09/15.
Minix 3.3, with NetBSD userland and pkgsrc.
pkgsrc is now frozen in preparation for pkgsrc-2014Q3.
A pkgsrc pbulk cwrappers test.
PC-BSD gains pc-sysconfig, a system configuration utility.
Lumina supports OpenBSD now too.
FreeBSD has upgraded to OpenPAM “Ourouparia”.
OpenBSD has dropped sendmail.
openbsd-misc@ had discussion about low-power servers, with the APU mentioned often. (see below for update)
From this thread, this javascript program will get you web video instead of Flash on many sites.
From talk@nycbug, some cheap BSD laptop ideas. (look for “Cheap Laptops…” thread)

Update: from talk@nycbug, George Rosamond gives a nice APU setup summary.

2014/09/18

BSDNow 055: The Promised WLAN

BSDNow 055 has the normal news items, and an interview with Adrian Chadd, who has dome a lot of work on FreeBSD network device drivers (and some coordination with DragonFly, too, thank you Adrian), plus a lengthy news roundup.

2014/09/142014/09/14

Lazy Reading for 2014/09/14

I didn’t even notice, because this has been a difficult week for me, but I’ve hit over 6,000 posts on the Digest. I passed the 11-year mark too, a few weeks ago.

Wee Ada Lovelace. From a wee series, though this is the only computer-related one.
Being Productive with Emacs, part 1. (via)
The guy who didn’t invent email but really wants everyone to think so. (via)
Git Pretty. It’s a chart! (via)
How is a binary executable organized? Let’s explore it! Linux binaries, but mostly still applies. (via)
The network nightmare that ate my week. (via)
In a weird coincidence, the person who wrote that last link, Garrett Wollman, used to be a FreeBSD core team member and also knows a former coworker of mine, Scott Fybush. No point, just a strange connection when a faceless web page on the Internet resolves into someone you know indirectly through other channels.
Modernizing “less”. I’d be happier if it improved function, and was sent upstream. (via)
Breaking Madden: Jadeveon Clowney’s quest for 201 sacks in a game. I’ve posted links to prior gamebreaking attempts by this author before. I like how he’s doing his best to subvert the digital world presented by the game.
The Semantics of Software. “There are many parts to a praise-worthy open source project”. Read that section especially. (via)
The math is a bit beyond me, but I’d like to model the wifi signal in my home this way. (via)
“I want a sensible phone, not a smart phone“. This is why I’m still using a 4-year-old HTC Incredible – though it’s showing its age. (via)
Sweat the small stuff. I like the attention to detail, and the animated examples of what he’s doing with his software. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Tea Making Tips, from England in 1941. This 60-year-old WW2-era film is actually one of the better how-to-deal-with-tea guides I’ve ever seen. (via)

2014/09/132014/09/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/13

This has been a very hectic week for me, but I still have links for you.

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System book is getting a significant update.
Install Snort on FreeBSD. That place isn’t too far from me. (via)
uGet, Open Source Lightweight Download Manager, is Now Available for BSD.
loksh, a Linux port of OpenBSD’s ksh.
2Q buffer cache in OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/09/08.
PC-BSD’s 10.0.3 quarterly package update is out.
People are noticing the OpenBSD GSoC systemd replacement project.
“GCC is by far the weirdest compiler I’ve ever used.“
FreeBSD now supports the Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier.
FreeBSD has a ARM-based FPGA core programming tool. Not sure if that’s the right phrase.
FreeBSD’s bootloader can now talk to the pcibios.
Also, the UEFI bootloader can now talk serial/null console.
Thanks for the BSD help, Microsoft!?
procfs is gone from OpenBSD.
Low power server discussion, in a home context.
Building pkgsrc using cwrappers and pbulk.
How to get Bitrig on ARM.

2014/09/112014/09/11

Lumina for DragonFly

In a bit of perfect timing, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, Lumina, has been ported to DragonFly, thanks to mneumann! It’s not in dports yet, but it should be buildable from source…