BSDNow 040 has an interview with Karl Lehenbauer at FlightAware, a tutorial on OpenBSD’s packaging system, and more from BSDCan 2014.
BSDTalk 242 has 17 minutes of conversation with Chris Buechler (of pfSense fame), recorded at BSDCan 2014.
NYCBUG is having a meeting tomorrow night with the theme “Cloud and Colocation“. However! Suspenders, the usual restaurant location, has closed. (Aw, I liked it) This meeting is happening at the About.com offices, which means you can’t just show up – send email if you plan to attend.
Some meaty links this week.
- How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system? I ask that question because I saw this.
- Undeadly has a nice set of links to all the recent BSDCan 2014 presentation videos. I don’t see Francois Tigeot’s DragonFly talk in there, though – don’t know if it got recorded.
- Packaging on FreeBSD, for those who haven’t moved to pkg yet. (via)
- DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/05/26.
- 56 different BSD-oriented Twitter accounts.
- A recording of Michael W. Lucas’s recent OpenBSD webcast is available now. I think that link will work – might require giving your email.
- Getting files off your Android phone – this was on openbsd-misc@ but probably applies to any BSD. Follow the thread for answers.
- kornbrew, a run ‘n’ play missing package manager for BSD.
- NetBSD has moved to gcc 4.8.3.
- If you are using OpenBSD and encrypted vnd, you will need to migrate off of it before the next OpenBSD release.
- Google’s Compute Engine SDK runs just fine on OpenBSD, as Michael W. Lucas found out.
- PC-BSD Digest 30.
- Plugins in FreeNAS.
- Warren Block’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.
BSDNow episode 039 is up, with an interview of Jon Anderson about capsicum and casperd, a tutorial about encrypting DNS traffic, and a slew of other links including ones to the recent BSDCan event presentations.
Michael W. Lucas is doing a webcast for O’Reilly today, at 1 PM Eastern. The title is “Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD’s Real Purpose. You can also get his “Absolute OpenBSD” book, 2nd edition, for 50% off with the coupon code DEAL. I think that’s a today-only offer, so jump on it now.
BSDTalk 241 has Will Backman getting 26 minutes of conversation with Bob Beck at BSDCan 2014, the same fellow who presented the much-linked First 30 Days of LibreSSL talk.
Here’s a mascot I like: Groff the BSD Goat, who apparently made a debut at BSDCan 2014.
A relatively calm week – probably because there were many people at BSDCan.
- DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/05/19.
- Undeadly has a summary post linking to all the OpenBSD presentations at BSDCan.
- OpenBSD and the little Mauritian contributor. Hey, Loganaden was in the DragonFly GSoC… 3 years ago? It blurs together.
- Julio Merino’s trip to BSDCan 2014 and his thoughts on Jenkins and Kyua after. I completely agree with what he says about BSD conventions: being around so many other people all excited about the same topic really energizes you.
- CoovaChilli on FreeBSD.
- NetBSD has support for the HYT-221/271/939 humidity/temperature I2C sensor.
- Hey, that was nice of Mediatek to provide a free license for rum(4) in OpenBSD.
- The EuroBSDCon papers deadline is extended a bit.
- You can now see what your battery is supposed to have for capacity on OpenBSD.
- Apache 1.3 and 2.0 are already depreciated and probably coming out of pkgsrc.
- FreeBSD gains a driver for the Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710. There’s a long discussion on the list about the nonstandard i40evf name breaking things.
- FreeBSD has sendmail 8.14.9.
- FreeBSD has gained CUSE support. I can read what it does but don’t know where it’s used.
The May BSD Magazine is out, and Siju George has written an article about using Hammer on DragonFly. It’s a free download to read.
(link fixed)
This week’s full-length BSDNow episode has an interview of Brian Callahan (NYCBUG) and Aaron Bieber (COBUG) about BSD user groups, along with a number of other topics.
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.)
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.
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.
Episode 037 of BSDNow is coming from the going-on-right-now BSDCan. It’s mostly an interview with Matthew Ahrens.
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.
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.
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.
NYCBUG has a presentation from John Baldwin, happening on the 7th (tomorrow!), all about Bhyve, the BSD hypervisor.
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.