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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FreeBSD 10.1 beta 3 is out – though it may be superseded by the time this article is published.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…

2014/09/11

BSDNow 054: Luminary Environment

BSDNow 054 has an interview with Ken Moore of PC-BSD about the just-released-as-a-port Lumina desktop environment, along with a slew of news items and a Lumina walkthrough.

2014/09/072014/09/05

Lazy Reading for 2014/09/07

I finished almost this entire thing just on September 1st. I blame school season restarting. Speaking of which, O’Reilly’s running a 50% off ebooks sale.

VAXen, My Children, Just Don’t Belong In Some Places. (via)
Taking it to Th’emacs. (via)
Running old UNIXes on the Raspberry Pi. (via)
In the Mind of the Fractal King. A reconstructed Benoit Mandelbrot interview. Does each question match the structure of the overall text? (via)
How I Start: Go. (via)
How to Secure SSH with Google Authenticator’s Two-Factor Authentication. Can you do this on BSD? I hope so. (via)
A 4-minute film about IBM culture – mostly before computing as we’d know it, from a longer 2011 film. (via SIGCIS)
Unix: Better network connection insights with mtr.
It’s a trap! Employment documents that require you to violate company policy. I had a similar situation once, handling abuse@ email for a Time Warner affiliate. I have some horrifying stories from that…
The truth about 2 spaces after the end of a sentence. (via)
Classic Papers in Programming Languages and Logic. Set aside some time for this. (via)
Building my own home router, part 1. I can figure out the other hardware – I just need a low-cost 24-port gigabit ethernet card so I can build a home switch. Yeah, yeah, I know. (via)
thx nsa.
The things that will last on the internet are not owned. (via)
Why do you think tech books don’t sell like they used to? (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: the final answer on how to say GIF . (video source – watch the outtakes, too.)

2014/09/062014/09/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/06

Why is it so warm out? I want autumn to start.

BSD compared to Linux, an explanation.
A description of what rcctl does. (via several places)
NetBSD runs on the OpenRISK 1000.
tmux-resurrect, making tmux survive machine restarts.
OpenBSD version numbering explained.
PC-BSD has its own subreddit.
Lumina is now available as a port – will it work on DragonFly? Someone try!
DiscoverBSD news for 2014/09/01.
NetBSD 5 systems now use modular xorg.
The 2014Q3 pkgsrc freeze is coming up.
PXE installs of OpenBSD with Serva.
Are you a “connoisseur of old time stamps“?
FreeBSD has some support for the Altera SOCFPGA.
Your cross-pollination moment of the week.
Yes, it runs (Retro)BSD.

2014/09/04

BSDNow 053: It’s HAMMER Time

Not the first time that pun has been deployed, of course, but: BSDNow 053 has a Hammer tutorial, along with an interview of Reyk Floeter about OpenBSD’s httpd, along with the usual recent news and some links to some things I haven’t seen, like pfSense tricks.

2014/08/302014/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/30

I went from 1 link to lots all in one night.

DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/08/25.
The Bitrig website has been redesigned, probably to prep for a 1.0 version “soon”.
Do any of the BSDs have an equivalent to initramfs?
FreeBSD now has /etc/rc.conf.d/<service> subdirectories.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC2 has been tagged.
The roadmap for PC-BSD’s Lumina has been updated.
And here’s a preview of what Lumina looks like and can do.
NetBSD now supports the (rare) arcofi(4) sound device.
NetBSD now has direct I/O for FUSE.
OpenBSD no longer needs rtsol(8) or rtsold(8).
OpenBSD is very close to replacing man with mandoc.
A script for OpenBSD and WPA&WPA2 Enterprise / LEAP connections.
Via openbsd-misc, how to set up IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 and IPSec.
So I wanted to try out BSD…
A week of pkgsrc #4.
The FreeBSD Foundation has an IPSec improvement project started.
VMWare Tools for FreeBSD 10. I could really use VMWare Tools for DragonFly.
DesktopBSD is attempting a comeback, and here’s discussion.
A thread about drive reliability. To paraphrase something else: “In the long run, they’re all dead.”

2014/08/282014/08/30

BSDTalk 244: Ken Moore and Lumina

BSDTalk 244 is 28 minutes of conversation with Ken Moore about Lumina, the new BSD-specific desktop environment for PC-BSD. I’ve been watching the PC-BSD source updates, and there’s a lot of activity.

2014/08/28

BSDNow 052: Reverse Takeover

It’s not about taxes, but reverse SSH tunnels. Episode 052 is also an interview with Shawn Webb about ASLR in FreeBSD, along with the normal commentary and news.

They also catch BIND’s removal in FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but not in DragonFly, which I just realized I should have linked before.

2014/08/232014/08/22

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/23

Another long list. These are making my Friday nights take some extra effort.

Oolite, an open source game based on Elite. Yes, it runs on BSD. I’m surprised I haven’t posted about it before. (via)
My Experience Switching from Slackware Linux to FreeBSD.
A week of pkgsrc, #3.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/08/18.
OpenBSD is gaining a rcctl(8) tool for automation.
Phabricator on FreeBSD installation notes.
20 years of FreeBSD ports.
“Does BSD perform disk caching less aggressively?” I bet the person asking was using two different machines at different times with different loads, which means he doesn’t know what he’s looking for.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s August Update is out.
Some people don’t like pkg.
The EuroBSDCon 2014 travel grant has been extended, and Google has grants to bring more female computer scientists there.
Spatializer support in NetBSD.
NetBSD is keeping up with the gpl2 version of GNU Make.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC1 has been tagged.
FreeBSD has a new automounter.
FreeBSD has a set of keymap conversion tools. Might be useful to someone?
FreeBSD now goes up to 256 CPUs. (I thought this already happened?)
Yay cross-pollination!
Apparently people don’t pay attention to file contents.
IPv6 tunneling on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD has replaced BIND with unbound in the base system.