SEMIBUG is hosting a presentation by David Maxwell on security and NetBSD, tonight. It’s hosted online so if you can read this, you can attend.
Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.
- OpenBSD build KDE software using kdesrc-build tutorial for beginners.
- How old various Unix signals are.
- SEMIBUG: NetBSD and Security, Oct 18th. Online.
- We are stuck with
egrepandfgrep(unless you like beating people) - A kiosk computer running OpenBSD
- Valuable News – 2022/10/10
- Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)
- Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)
- Further memory protections committed to -current
- A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools
- Automatic mounting of volumes on FreeBSD
This special episode of BSD Now has an interview with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s some history being reported there by the people that lived it.
No theme this week for the BSD section.
- Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
- OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
- Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
- Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
- Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
- OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
- bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
- Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
- SCALE19X Conference Report.
- HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
- Valuable News – 2022/10/03.
The first link and the title for this week’s BSD Now doesn’t have anything to do with BSD as far as I know, but I think it’s funny.
The social meeting for NYCBUG is tonight, at Torch & Crown Brewing. Go, if you are near.
- Next NYCBUG social gathering is this Wednesday.
- Ultima Online’s 25th anniversary. Linked here cause it works on OpenBSD without Wine, according to the comment. (via)
- Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch.
- How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie.
- A DMD 5620 Terminal Emulator. This is a terminal I’ve never seen before.
- EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different).
- EuroBSDCon 2022.
- EuroBSDCon 2022.
- The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather[sic] is like.
- Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use.
- Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails.
- Toolchains Adventures Q3 2022.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/26.
- How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update.
BSD Now this week is titled ‘EuroBSDCon’, but as far as I know they weren’t there – haven’t listened to the episode yet. Any readers here go?
Check the first link; it’s time-dependent.
- Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It’s online and he’s certainly an authoritative speaker.
- Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there’s multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
- A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
- Open Source in Enterprise Environments – Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
- FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
- AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
- Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
- Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
- How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
- “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!
This week’s BSD Now is the normal roundup of stories. I won’t point you at anything specific; it’s all good.
In-person. Though it might be canceled; I am preposting this and it hasn’t been settled as of right now. Go, if you are near Chicago and it happens.
I got subscribed to the UNIX Heritage Society mailing list and it’s already turned up some good stories.
ps(1)gains support for tree-like display of processes. OpenBSD, though it would be useful everywhere, hint, hint.rcctl(8)gains a “configtest” action.- Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed.
- Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD.
- “interesting old-timey UNIXes” – I do not know where these intersect with the more well known branches of the family tree.
- Time overflows have always been with us.
- A fresh look at FreeBSD. (via)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy. By Rob Pike. Note the timestamp, for 2 reasons.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/12.
- Installing BSD on an older Dell Laptop: having some issues.
- -current has moved to 7.2. OpenBSD.
- rpki-client 8.0 released.
- ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 20th.
This week’s BSD Now has two things I want to highlight – articles on Linux ABI and on dma. You’ll just have to click through.
Yay, another week that overflowed with links!
- Creating a wireguard connection between my home and colo.
- How I configure dma for mail delivery in jails on my internet hosts.
- “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report.
- New FreeBSD Quick Guide: Video Playback on FreeBSD.
- Support for ‘kill -SIGNAME …’ was added in 4BSD.
- 3D printed FreeBSD desk toys.
- Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.
- “Return of the Emperor” – text-based game.
- Best laptop for OpenBSD? From the comments: jcs.org’s list.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/05.
- g2k22 Hackathon Report: Martijn van Duren on
snmpd(8)improvements. - OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings.
This week’s BSD Now includes a link to depenguin.me, a way to install BSD using a rescue boot environment, which is going to come in handy for someone reading this. I know I’ve linked to it before.
This is an overflow week.
- FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop. (via)
- BSDCan 2022 playlist. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal 2022/07-08 – Science/Systems/FreeBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD August 2022 Status Report.
- FreeBSD Foundation August fundraising report.
- Running Unix commands in real life.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/29.
- Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail.
- OPNsense 22.7.2 released.
- OPNsense Business Edition 22.4.3 released.
- Writing FreeBSD Kernel Modules in Rust. (via)
- Several /sbin daemons are now dynamically-linked.
- BSDCan 2022 videos are available.
This is a different than usual episode of BSD Now: an interview of Mateusz Piotrowski.
Catchup since I was on the road last week.
- The POSIX Shell And Utilities. For “The Shell Hater’s Handbook“. (via)
- TIL: Terminal shortcuts.
- NetBSD 9.3 and whimsy.
- How do you create zpools? Via @michaeldexter.
- FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2022 Status Update.
- Some sample *BSD desktops from Root Unix.
- Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?
- Valuable News – 2022/08/15.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/22.
- ZFS volumes and VirtualBox.
- More Netflix/BSD high-traffic stories.
The highlight of this week’s BSD Now for me is the Ctrl-C / signal deep dive.
Done while on the road.
- Beastie In For Checkup: Analyzing FreeBSD with LockDoc. (via)
- A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI.
- FreeBSD Foundation Soliciting Proposals for Handbook Writing.
- RAID 1C support added. Mirroring and encryption, if you are like me and can’t ever remember RAID levels.
- OpenBSD Webzine #11.
- sftp-server(8) gains support for home-directory request.
- Desktop Environments preferred by various distributions, over time.
- Emulating the Amstrad CPC on NetBSD. (via)
- ravynOS – Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD. A fork of helloBSD, I think. (via)
- FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults. I think I’ve linked to earlier editions. (via)
- Coffee with Brian Kernighan. (via)