I’m a bit late because of travel, but you still should see the latest BSD Now; the CHERI system is interesting and underappreciated.
I’m preposting this, so hopefully it is still accurate: SEMIBUG has a menu of lightning talks tonight. It’s online.
The last link has some interesting applications to try.
- logcheck – egrep: trailing backslash (\).
- Meta-programming in Shell. (via)
- MGR, a pre-X windowing system that I’ve never knowingly seen before. (via)
- The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD
gethostbyname(). - NetBSD 9.3 released.
- FreeBSD 2022Q2 report.
- svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base.
- Ada development on FreeBSD 13.1. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 EOL.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/08.
- /usr/games removed from the default $PATH. (OpenBSD)
- What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-to-do-this links, as you might guess from the headline.
Some useful tips hidden in there this week.
- How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD.
- Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB.
- OPNSense 22.7 released. (via)
- Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond.
- Valuable News – 2022/08/01.
- Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. The source link has a good comment about what’s wrong with sudo as currently used. Also, I did not know about .hushlogin.
- Even more randomness.
- HardenedBSD July 2022 Status Report.
- depenguin.me, reminded of this FreeBSD-on-shared-host-install by this Hetzner news.
- A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix. Ugh, NIS.
- Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration. (via)
- Microsoft’s Xenix – Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX.
This week’s BSD Now takes its title from one of the links talking about how cat(1) works, which reminds me of this article about how the very original implementation of grep was crazy fast.
Whee!
- arttime 1.8.0: “Enabled desktop notifications for BSD Unixes.”
- So I’ve patched KDE Plasma/Wayland under CheriBSD for pure-capability mode. It works. (via)
- How to use sshfs on OpenBSD.
- Guest Post: FreeBSD in Science.
- KDE Plasma 5.25 delayed on FreeBSD.
- My new Sony NW-A55 Walkman! Also a review. Linking just because rsync works to move files onto it, therefore BSD-compatible. I can’t simply put files on an iPhone the same way.
The lead link in this week’s BSD Now is the sort of thing I like to link to: debugging Lisp in space. There’s more than that.
No mini-theme this week.
- An assortment of timestamp formats found in our (Unix) logs.
- How efficient can cat(1) be?
- NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server.
- Related: rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too.
- Also: DragonFly too; I did it.
- Valuable News – 2022/07/18.
- Game of Trees 0.74 released.
- OpenBGPD 7.5 released.
- Using BSD make for your (small) project. A mini-tutorial. (via)
- NetBSD is using a fork of the tz database. There’s a backstory.
- -current has moved to 7.2-beta.
- What is the most minimalistic BSD for desktop?
BSD Now 464 is out for the week, and has the normal roundup. Nothing unusual to point out, just good reading.
SEMIBUG is having a presentation on Jupyter notebooks tonight, online. The presenter is using them for genome sequencing, so this should the interesting.
Started with overflow from last week.
- Toolchains adventures – Q2 2022.
- Your next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD’s ImportC.
- Comparative BSD cheatsheet?
- From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1.
- /bin/true used to be an empty file. (via)
- How we run a Minecraft server.
- Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd.
- Looking for a USB WiFi adapter that is compatible with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
- rpki-client 7.9 released.
- Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux. (via)
- How Unix didn’t used to support ‘#!’, a brief history.
- Valuable News – 2022/07/11.
- Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison. It’s been a long time since E17.
- helloSystem version 14-experimental is tagged.
This week’s BSD Now gets into some history, as you can guess from the title.
SLUUG, the St. Louis Unix Users Group, has a short presentation tonight from James Conroy: “What You Should Get with GIT” and a longer presentation of “Locking Down Your Web Browser” with Scott Granneman. It’s online so anyone can go. It’s not BSD-specific, but it will all apply. (Thanks to Johnathan Drews for the reminder.)
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Lots to read this week.
- OpenBSD has two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir.
- SSD TRIM in NetBSD HEAD (-current) (via)
- 0 Dependency Websites with OpenBSD & AsciiDoc. (via)
- Port of GNUBoy to OpenBSD using DRM framebuffer and wscons (no X11).
- pluart(4) baud rate correction.
- Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD.
- HardenedBSD June 2022 Status Report.
- OpenBSD Webzine #10.
- snmpd(8) filter-pf-addresses deprecated. (OpenBSD)
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2022Q2 branch.
- Full multiprocess support in lldb-server.
- Valuable News – 2022/07/04.
- In -current,
dhclient(8)now just logs warnings and executesifconfig(8). (OpenBSD) - r2k22 Hackathon Report: Job Snijders (job@) on rpki-client and more.
- Analyzing locks in OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge.
This week’s BSD Now has several links, though I’d want to point at the Yubikey/ssh/OpenBSD login one as the most interesting to me.
It’ll probably involve some drinking. Go, if you are near, and RSVP so there’s space.
There’s multiple online and offline BUG meetings this month; go if you can.
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- Unofficial social NYCBUG meeting, July 6th.
- Fear and loathing in FreeBSD, or qorg’s experiences with FreeBSD.
- Foundation Elects New Officers, Interviews Outgoing Board Members.
- How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson.
- FreeBSD 2022Q1 report.
- How do I prepare my own port for distribution?
- A little bit of fun – Booting the NetBSD 1.6.2 installer on my 486!
- Split Audio Files into Parts.
- Valuable News – 2022/06/27.
- Notable OpenBSD news you may have missed, 2022-06-28 edition.
- Port of GNUBoy to OpenBSD using DRM framebuffer and wscons (no X11).
- pluart(4) baud rate correction.
- Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD.
- GhostBSD virtual meetup July 22nd.
No pun, but lots of links in this week’s BSD Now, including a link to EuroBSDCon 2022, happening in Austria.
Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.
- Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
- Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
- Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
- (NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
- Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
- Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
- Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?
- Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 part 1 and part 2.
- Speeding up autoconf with caching. A followup to a BSD Now link.
- OpenBGPD 7.4 released.