ChiBUG meeting is at 6 PM at the normal place, which means you should go if you are near, and vaccinated.
NYCBUG tonight: George Rosamond and anonymity
Tonight, via Zoom: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. Go, even if you aren’t near.
In Other BSDs for 2021/07/03
I’ll post a reminder for the NYCBUG event.
- July 7th: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. George has strong opinions; you should hear them.
- The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture. A summary from an author of the IEEE article I linked before.
- Introduction to ZFS Replication.
- Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/06/29.
- Any Marathon fans up in here?
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o4.
- PDF/ePub/Comics readers on BSD, a discussion.
- History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom.
ChiBUG meeting tonight
ChiBUG’s in-person meeting is tonight. Go, if you are near. (and vaccinated, which you should be.) There will be stickers and of course pizza.
NYCBUG: Minimal Scripted Configuration
Tomorrow, for NYCBUG, Minimal Scripted Configuration from Eric Radman. Go, if you’re online.
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29
Some useful setup instructions in here.
- NetBSD: Using virtualization: QEMU and NVMM. Didn’t know this existed. (via)
- Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 26 – Configuration – Conferencing and Meetings.
- Valuable News – 2021/05/24.
- HardenedBSD Switching IRC Servers.
- NYCBUG is doing that too.
- And other spots.
- My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions.
- Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can.
- FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 3): Excursion – De-hardening OPNsense for 2022?
- FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 4): Demoting my ISP’s router.
- OPNsense 21.1.6 released.
- Opening a Garage Door Using OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi.
- KDE Plasma Wayland – a week in FreeBSD.
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o3.
- Why OpenBSD?
- SemiBUG, meeting soon with Jitsi?
ChiBUG meeting, virtual, today
The ChiBUG May 11th Meeting is today, and it’s virtual – so you can go and should.
Polyglot *BSD at NYCBUG, tonight
Brian Callahan presents for NYCBUG on compiler support in the BSDs, tonight. Send an email for a Zoom invite.
CharmBUG: meeting tonight
“OpenIKED: On The Road Again” is the topic tonight, at 6 PM eastern, at CharmBUG. (via)
ChiBUG online tonight
ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10
I’m hitting all the unixes.
- Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
- Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
- Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
- I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
- The pubnix history project. (via–via)
- Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
- FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
- Steam on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
- Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
- The state of toolchains in NetBSD.
HardenedBSD at NYCBUG, tonight
HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.
NYCBUG online Feb 3rd
Michael Dexter will be giving a talk for NYCBUG’s February 3rd meeting (6:45 PM Eastern) titled “Fifteen Years and Fifteen Minutes: Applying Occam’s Razor to FreeBSD with OccamBSD“. If you want to attend – and you should – email for the Zoom link; the address to email is in the linked message.
(I managed to miss putting this in In Other BSDs Saturday, but that’s OK; you should go cause this is a topic that isn’t covered anywhere else.)
NYCBUG meeting, tomorrow
It’s online, so everyone can go to “Chatting About TLS and Orcs, by Michael W. Lucas“, tomorrow night. I’m putting this reminder the day before because you have to mail rsvp@lists.nycbug.org to get the Zoom invite.
In Other BSDs for 2021/01/02
I am happy to be in the new year.
- Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see.
- On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database.
- BSD Games for Linux. (via)
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
- Starting with FreeBSD jails.
- A potted history of UNIX, just up to BSD. (via)
- The FreeBSD 92. Nakatomi Socrates BSD Easter Egg. Followup from last week’s link. (Thanks, D. Ebdrup.)
- The world’s chunkiest card reader.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/28.
- Use Android USB Tethering to Get Internet on FreeBSD. (via)
- It feels like the broad Unix API is being used less these days.
- A Big Sur look for WindowMaker on OpenBSD.
Casual CHARMBUG meeting, happening now.
As in, right now, and online, so join in and say hi.
NYCBUG meeting and presentation, tomorrow
The NYCBUG Troff presentation is tomorrow night. If you want to attend – and you should, cause it’s online – you need to email to register. I’ve seen the presenter, James K. Lowden, before; he’s an enjoyable speaker. Go, even if you aren’t near.
In Other BSDs for 2020/11/28
The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of.
- For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near.
- Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via)
- The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via)
- Unix doesn’t normally do short
write()s to files and no one expects it to. Network buffers have the same problem. - FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet. See source link comments for more.
- OCR on FreeBSD – Tesseract It. (via)
- ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD? Strictly speaking, another FreeBSD desktop. (via)
- OPNSense 20.7.5 released.
- Tailscale on OpenBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report.
- Setting up a WireGuard® client with routing domains on OpenBSD. (via)
- MidnightBSD 2.0 release status.
- BSD Link Roundup 11.24.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/23.
In Other BSDs for 2020/11/07
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time…
- CDBUG meetings going virtual.
- FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure.
- November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th.
- What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games?
- HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report.
- A list of games to try that probably all run on BSD.
- Performance tip(s) for those playing Minecraft on OpenBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD.
- Join the peer to peer social network Scuttlebutt using OpenBSD and Oasis.
- Argument processing in Unix and Windows.
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Adding a GUI to diff(1). Sorta BSD?
- FreeBSD July-September status report.
- My first FreeBSD port: Castor.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/02.
ChiBUG meeting, now
The ChiBUG monthly meeting has gone virtual, so go now if you are interested. The thread about it also includes some notes on how to connect under BSD that may be useful beyond this immediate event.