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2018/08/182018/08/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/18

Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.

Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.

2018/07/17

SemiBUG meeting tonight

Tonight’s SemiBUG meeting is piggybacking on an Azure User’s Group meeting, same general location. (This is why) Go, if you are near.

2018/06/192018/06/20

SemiBUG, tonight: James Turner and BHCS

SemiBUG meets tonight at 7 PM, and James Turner is presenting about BHCS. I rarely say this, but: I wish I was closer to Michigan. Go, if you are near.

Update: the files referenced during the talk.

2018/06/062018/06/05

NYCBUG meeting, Bryant Park

NYCBUG is having an outdoors meeting in Bryant Park, today, 6:45 PM. Go, if you are near.

2018/05/262018/05/26

I have the normal list of links, but here’s a feature. At first glance, this looks like Netgate, the commercial entity behind pfsense, is not using FreeBSD for their new product. However, Jim Thompson of Netgate steps up and give a full-on explanation, and points out there’s already code out there to do this – it needs contributors.

Where did devio.us go?
Do Not Use sha256crypt / sha512crypt – They’re Dangerous. As the source link comments point out, FreeBSD’s implementation may be similar. I haven’t looked at other BSDs, and I’m not qualified to evaluate how dangerous this is or is not. (via)
Simple Desktop for OpenBSD 6.3. (via)
New Grammar for smtpd.conf.
An annotated look at a NetBSD Pinebook’s startup.
Valuable News – 2018/05/21.
Draining the manual-page swamp. (via)
WireGuard is available for OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System.

2018/05/15

SemiBUG, tonight

SemiBUG‘s having a hands-on server workshop tonight. Go, if you are near, and bring something networked to type on.

2018/05/052018/05/04

In Other BSDs for 2018/05/05

BUGs BUGs BUGs!

The May 15th SemiBUG meeting will be a hands-on web server workshop. Bring equipment.
The June 19th SemiBUG meeting will be on BCHS.
The May 2 NYCBUG meeting has no official presentation, but it’s happening.
BSD licensed bc in NetBSD. The GNU version was removed in other BSDs. (Thanks, Bill Sorenson)
SMTP client added to -current.
OPNSense 18.1.6 image refresh.
New talks, and the F-bomb. Michael W. Lucas convention talk mostly on ZFS.
Writing FreeBSD Malware. (via)
Introduction to email (pt. 2): Mail dialog / the “mail” command.
Spectre Variant 2 mitigation for kernel committed to -current.
p2k18 Hackathon report: Solene Rapenne (solene@) on joining the project, packages progress. I like hearing background on how people get brought into a community project.
Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD.
A crapload of p2k18 hackathon reports.
Getting my new laptop to work. (via)
sndio party.
NetBSD GSoC projects for 2018. (via)

2018/05/022018/05/02

NYCBUG, tonight

NYCBUG is having a social (i.e. no presenter) meeting this month – tonight, in fact. Go, talk BSD, drink.

2018/04/302018/05/02

KnoxBUG, tonight

There’s a social meeting for KnoxBUG tonight – go, if you are near.

2018/03/27

Testing on non-Linux: Perlmongers NYC

Jim Keenan is speaking tomorrow at the NYC Perlmongers meeting about testing on non-Linux platforms. i.e. BSD. Go, if you are near.

2018/03/202018/03/16

SemiBUG: QubeOS vs. OpenBSD, plus books

Tonight, there’s a QubeOS vs OpenBSD presentation at SemiBUG, plus Michael W. Lucas will be bringing copies of his new SSH Mastery book edition.

2018/03/172018/03/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, ~~PDF~~ document from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
8 months with TrueOS. (via)
This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
OPNsense 18.1.4 released.

2018/03/05

NYCBUG social meeting, this Wednesday

There’s no speaker scheduled, but NYCBUG is having a meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 PM. Go, if you are near.

2018/02/242018/02/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/24

Another across-the-BSDs week.

- What’s Next for Feature Development in FreeNAS/TrueNAS?
- Description of the 1969 proto-Unix system based on a 2812 line PDP-7 assembly kernel. (via)
- The Known Costs of Security Embargoes.
- Military Grade Data Wiping In FreeBSD With BCWipe.
- “Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt Debian developer to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years. (via)
- Christos Zoulas’s recent NYCBUG talk on reproducible builds in NetBSD is now available as video.
- How do I make quiet build/compile server for home ?
- Libreoffice failing to start after upgrade to 5.4.4.2 40m0(Build:2) (on NetBSD).
- Question about a distro.
- Every Journey Starts with a FAIL. (via)
- Meltdown fix committed by guenther@. Note the DragonFly cross-pollination.

2018/02/222018/02/16

BSD Pizza night in Oregon, tonight

Here’s everything I know about it.

2018/02/202018/02/19

SemiBUG tonight: Nick Holland

Nick Holland is giving a talk tonight on “Scripting Tips & Hacks” at SemiBUG. “Nick has been scripting roughly since scripts were hard-coded into
plugboards.” Go, see, if you are near Michigan.

2018/02/172018/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/17

Reached overflow again! That secretly makes me happy.

Discord channels for BSD’s?
SemiBUG’s speaker schedule for the next few months is published. Note next meeting is on the 20th.
SVS to mitigate meltdown. (NetBSD)
Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD. Another FOSDEM video, which I note because it shows code history imported back for multiple decades.
Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative. (via)
FreeBSD/EC2 history.
Under which circumstances is NetBSD a better option than the other BSDs?
Citrix ICA Receiver Support in BSDs.
SSH Mastery 2/e out. Technically not a BSD-specific book, but you know the author was using BSD as the base, and includes it in the material.
Which BSD distro is suitable as a Linux QEMU host if someone is curious about BSD?
Trying iocage to get an old version of FreeBSD.
Google Summer of Code and FreeBSD, NetBSD.

2018/02/06

HELBUG launch tomorrow

Another BSD User Group event tomorrow, the 7th: HELBUG, a brand new BUG starting in Helsinki, Finland. The announcement has details on where to find it and what they’ll be doing. Go, if you are near.

2018/02/05

NYCBUG: Reproducible Builds, February 7th

This Wednesday, NYCBUG has Christos Zoulas speaking on “Reproducible Builds on NetBSD“. See the announcement for details. Go, if you are near New York City.

2018/01/022018/01/01

Hello, HelBUG

More user group news: Helsinki, Finland, has a new BSD User Group: HelBUG. First meeting is February 7th. There’s no mailing list/site that I know of, yet.

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