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2014/05/192014/05/17

Open source opportunity right now

If ever there was a golden moment, this would be it: with the news that networking hardware from the US is suspect, as is China’s, the best networking setup seems to be one you can look at yourself. Someone get those OpenCompute Networking machines going! More port density! Running BSD!

(Suggestions on how I can get a system with 24+ 1G ports are welcome; I need that at work immediately.)

2014/05/182014/05/18

Lazy Reading for 2014/05/18

Another week, another linkpile. I’d probably have more links if it wasn’t for Lost Alpha coming out.

Novena in the X-Ray. I like being able to see the ferrite cores inside the Ethernet ports.
Hardening Android. It’s a good idea. (via)
How to run the previous command with sudo quickly. Linked more because I never remember CTRL-a as the nondestructive alternative to CTRL-u.
UNIX on the Game Boy Advance. 5th Edition UNIX, too. There’s some good history included. (via)
Have you changed your password lately?
What happened to/with BIND 10? Some good points in that presentation. (via)
One of the better casemods I’ve ever seen.
Wearable NFC. Slightly less invasive version of RFID or magnet implantation. (via)
SIGGRAPH 2014 Technical Papers Preview Trailer. The trailer has some neat stuff in it, and here’s the actual papers. (via)
LibreSSL status report. Notable: a commercial company supports OpenSSL, but the code quality was horrible. Commercial sponsors don’t necessarily make everything better. Michael Lucas has notes too, and there’s video. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Dragonfly (the bug) closeups.

2014/05/172014/05/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/17

Some leftovers from last week since I’m catching up, so get ready to read.

What’s wrong with systemd. Matches some of my thoughts – Linux is transitioning from being against the monolith of Microsoft, to assuming a dominant place. (via)
DiscoverBSD summary for 2014/05/12.
PC-BSD Digest 28 has images of the new AppCafe.
PC-BSD Digest 29 summarizes how PBIs are changing (for the better).
NanoBSD and Raspberry Pi. (via)
UNIX: Automating your server inventory (Mostly can apply to BSD systems)
BSD Magazine for April: Free Pascal and other topics.
LibreSSL will be portable. I still want a portable pf.
FreeBSD 8.3 is EOL.
Epoch, an init replacement to avoid systemd, may work on OpenBSD.
DMARC is causing some changes for FreeBSD mailing lists. (hey, this will affect DragonFly, too, maybe.)
The pkgsrc-wip@ mailing lists are now switched to tech-pkg@ for NetBSD.
OpenBSD now stack-shuffles.
FreeBSD has added the mrsas(4) driver. (Why doesn’t it show up in a man page search at the site?)
Sometimes, Google DTRT.
FreeBSD has added the LM75 i2c temp sensor driver.
JabirOS 2.0, a fork from FreeBSD 10.
Michael W. Lucas has some notes from the pre-BSDCan FreeBSD Devsummit.
If you dig into the BSDCan schedule, some of the presentation have slides linked. Undeadly has linked to a number of them directly.

2014/05/162014/05/17

BSDNow: BSDCanned Goods

Episode 037 of BSDNow is coming from the going-on-right-now BSDCan. It’s mostly an interview with Matthew Ahrens.

2014/05/12

BSDNow 036: Let’s Get RAID

I missed this last week: BSDNow episode 36 is out with an interview of David Chisnall of FreeBSD, plus a RAID tutorial, and other stuff as always.

2014/05/102014/05/10

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/10

Short week, cause I’m on the road…

The NetBSD Foundation 2013 Financial Report. (via)
PC-BSD Digest 27 – they’re mushing pkg and PBI management together.
Decent VPS providers with BSD images. There’s more out there than I realized.
FreeBSD Foundation newcons highlight.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/05/05.

2014/05/06

Book sales today

It’s Day Against DRM, and O’Reilly and No Starch Press are having significant sales on – of course – DRM-free ebooks. That represents a good slice of the BSD-centric books out there.

2014/05/062014/05/01

NYCBUG tomorrow: Bhyve

NYCBUG has a presentation from John Baldwin, happening on the 7th (tomorrow!), all about Bhyve, the BSD hypervisor.

2014/05/032014/05/03

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/03

Updated late this week because of circumstances.

Michael W. Lucas is appearing at PenguinCon.
Do you use Kerberos or SRP in libssl? Ted Unangst wants to know. (Thanks, Amit Kulkarni)
Speaking of which, OpenSSH no longer requires OpenSSL.
OpenBSD 5.5 is out.
BSD for embedded devices?
The FreeBSD Foundation has a spring fundraising campaign started.
PC-BSD has a FAQ up for their new Lumina desktop environment.Writing your own desktop environment is a lot of work. Supporting all the Linuxisms in the existing ones is possibly worse…
pkgsrc Perl package status is now automatically generated.
Peek and poke freely on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD’s new AppCafe handles package management – or at least the interface. I haven’t looked hard enough to know if it’s using pkg.
CheriBSD is feeding back.
OpenSSH is getting pulled into parts?
/dev/full is always what it says it is. (related: lindev(4) is gone.)
OpenBSD 5.5 is out. Here’s the signing policy that goes with it.

2014/05/01

BSDTalk 240: George Neville-Neil and time

BSDTalk 240 is 35 minutes with George Neville-Neil talking about NTP and the precision time protocol.

2014/05/01

BSDNow 035: Puffy Firewall

BSDNow 035 is up with a whole lot of pf content, including an interview of Peter Hansteen, of “Book of PF” fame. There’s a 3rd version of that book coming out soon.

2014/04/262014/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/26

Another active week.

RetroBSD recently moved to Git and GitHub, and is now buildable on Mac OS X.
ALTQ is gone, at least for the OpenBSD version of pf.
So I’ll bring up this point again: pf is fragmenting, and we should do something about it.
The EdgeBSD presentation from FOSDEM 2014. (via)
OpenBSD could use some VLAN testing.
FreeBSDNews is running an swag contest.
netbsd.fi replaces onetbsd.org.
Here’s a GSoC project that could help everyone. (thanks, Tomáš Bodžár)
I’ve linked to some parts of this work, but Undeadly has a summary of the man page search improvements in OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/04/14 summary.
LibreSSL started because of a leaky water heater.
I always like threads about small hardware.
FreeNAS hardware unboxing.
Man, everybody likes pfSense.
Lua in pkgsrc is getting versioned.
Why would you do this?

2014/04/23

BSDNow 034: It’s Gonna Get NASty

BSDNow 034 is about Network Attached Storage – specifically with an interview of John Hixson at iXSystems about FreeNAS development.

2014/04/22

LibreSSL gets started

Remember the joke I and probably a zillion others made about OpenOpenSSL? It’s happening, except it’s called LibreSSL. (thanks, Tomáš Bodžár)

2014/04/192014/04/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/19

I’ve got “coverage” of most every BSD this week.

OpenBSD has brought in OpenSSL – and is modifying it severely. Instead of linking to the many commits as they tear it into little bits, I’ll just link to this Lobste.rs post. Will it be OpenOpenSSL? It looks like it’s for internal consumption only. Undeadly has a similar summation. Apparently there’s a running blog of the changes, or at least the snarky comments.
Have you never been to BSDCan? Dan Langille asks the question. As he points out, BSD conventions are awesome, where you get to meet some smart people and put names to faces.
“I have been given the option of Linux or BSD at work…” A discussion of BSD as a Java development platform.
FreeBSD has added the if_nf10bmac(4) driver, for the “NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core”, which appears to be a programmable network card? I’m not sure how it all works together.
Goodbye EISA on FreeBSD. (Gone long ago on DragonFly.)
NetBSD src and pkgsrc changes are being twittered. (NetBSD link does not work just now when I tried it.)
PC-BSD Digest 26 mentions the addition of a new desktop environment called Lumina, built just for PC-BSD.

2014/04/17

BSDNow 033: Certified Package Delivery

As you can guess from the title, this week’s BSDNow talks about building OpenBSD packages in bulk among other things, and also interviews Jim Brown of bsdcertification.org.

2014/04/17

BSD Magazine for March

The March issue of BSD Magazine is out, and this month has an article written by Siju George about how his company is using DragonFly and Hammer for backups.

2014/04/122014/04/11

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/12

Some out-of-the-ordinary things this week.

BSDTV, a new YouTube channel. It has several videos from the recent NYCBSDCon.
pfSense 2.1.1 is out. No, wait, it’s 2.1.2!
Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository. Applies to DragonFly, too.
DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/04/07.
A partially tongue-in-cheek suggestion for an OpenOpenSSL.
FreeBSDNews.net is now owned by? maintained by? iXSystems, which seems to be singlehandedly building as much FreeBSD ecosystem as possible – that’s good!
Bitrig is dropping i386 support.
FreeBSD Journal #2 is out.
The OpenBSD Foundation reached their goal for the year.
The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off their campaign.
PC-BSD Digest 25 is out.
Mount your NetBSD ISO directly from the file server.
FreeBSD supports UDP-Lite, which appears to be the network protocol equivalent of turning over a bucket of ball bearings and saying “Grab what you can.”
OpenBSD starts to bring back 4.4BSD more.
Peter N. M. Hansteen wants to know what you do with OpenBSD in a conference-presentationish sort of way. Specifically, EuroBSDCon.
Jordan Hubbard talks about compiler choices for FreeBSD, and points out that the processor choices these days are Intel or ARM, and that’s it.

2014/04/11

BSDNow 032: PXE Dust

I should have seen that pun coming a long time ago. BSDNow 032 is up with an interview of Dru Lavigne and the usual assortment of other recent BSD items.

2014/04/07

Still hiring

Just to remind people: I’m hiring a system administrator.