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2017/10/142017/10/13

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/14

All at the last minute, this.

rcmds removed from FreeBSD. (Thanks, Jeremie)
Michael W. Lucas will be presenting on Tarsnap at the next SemiBUG meeting – the 17th.
There may be a OpenBSD porting workshop with NYCBUG in early December.
The anatomy of ldd program on OpenBSD.
How to create BSD bootable USB Stick ?
EuroBSDcon 2017: “travel notes” after the conference. (via)
pfSense 2.4.0-RELEASE Now Available! (comments)
OpenBSD 6.2 released.
openbsd changes of note 629.
FreeBSD and APRS, or “hm what happens when none of this is well documented..”
I’m thinking about OpenBSD again. (via)
Transition to Zstandard-compressed packages has begun.

2017/10/032017/09/22

Tor installs with NYCBUG, October 4th

Here’s your heads-up: NYCBUG is having an TOR installation party tomorrow. Go, if you are near.

2017/09/25

KnoxBUG: PacBSD developer Adam Jimerson

If you are near Knoxville, Tennessee, PacBSD developer Adam Jimerson is presenting on package manager porting to the KnoxBUG user group tomorrow night.

2017/09/232017/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/23

Thank goodness for overflow from last week, because I haven’t had time to read.

OpenBSD Daily Recap.
pfsense vs opnsense vs monowall vs smoothwall vs ?
*nix distros with default shells? Not actually sure what the author’s goal is.
X11 forwarding vs. Virtual Machine.
Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD. (via)
AMD RX 480 Support?
[NetBSD] buildbot in the binutils-gdb project. (via)
vBSDcon 2017: BSD at Work.
pkgsrc is in freeze for 2017Q3.
NYCBUG is having a Tor installfest on October 4th.
Simulation resources, from the August SemiBUG.
Another BSD, but not for computing: the “Federal Association of Sex Services (BSD)” – read article through.

2017/09/182017/09/14

Blind at a BUG

Brandon Werner, will be talking at the SEMIBUG meeting tomorrow night at 7 PM. He programs for a living and is blind, so it should be interesting even just to see his preferred tools.

(Mentioned previously for In Other BSDs but I want to make sure people catch this.)

2017/08/262017/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/26

The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.

RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
Which Unix had the first package manager?
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available.
subversion via ssh passphrase-less key. Really about capturing DNS changes.
deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
t2k17 Hackathon Reports: Daniel Jakots on updating ports, Nagios OpenBGPD plugin and…, Ian Sutton on ARM progress, My first time (Aaron Bieber), Philip Guenther: locking and libc, Andrew Hewus Fresh on Perl and Coffee, and No lock no cry… with CTF! (Martin Pieuchot).
Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL.
PFsense <-> EdgeOS IPSec tunnels.
Faster forwarding.
AF3e status, 22 August 2017. That’s ‘Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition’.
The Manifest – A podcast all about package management. I’m sure this will include BSD packaging systems at some point. (via)
BSDCan 2017 videos have started being uploaded. (via)

2017/08/21

SemiBUG meeting tomorrow

I was reminded of this thanks to the Google Calendar entry: SemiBUG is having their monthly meeting tomorrow night (the 22nd, in case that’s tonight by the time you read this), and it’s one of my favorite formats – a series of lightning talks with 2 slides, 5 minutes.

2017/07/222017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/22

It’s accidental how-to week!

OpenSMTPD under OpenBSD with SSL/VirtualUsers/Dovecot (via) and
OpenSMTPD and Dovecot under OpenBSD with MySQL support and SPAMD. (via)
Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates, plus examples of usage on FreeBSD.
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive.
openbsd changes of note 625
BSDTW is in Taiwan, in November – and the call for papers is out. (via)
Watch out for wxallowed.
pfSense 2.3.4-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
Blog about my blog. Self-hosting and dogfooding, both good ideas. ~~Needs~~ Has RSS! (via)
BSD Pizza, a meetup in Portland, Oregon, on the 27th.

2017/05/292017/05/25

KnoxBUG: Sam Fourman and FreeNAS

Tomorrow night, KnoxBUG’s monthly meeting has Sam Fourman of iXSystems talking about FreeNAS. Show up if you’re near!

2017/05/272017/05/25

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/27

A good chunk of this is overflow from last week.

The iXSystems Kansas Linux Fest report. I’d like to see the slides they used.
PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (via)
Best free alternative to pfSense?
OpenBSD laptop.
Is there a more clear PacBSD installation guide?
GhostBSD 11 ALPHA having issues with MATE Desktop.
documentation is thoroughly hard.
Logical Domains on SunFire T2000 with OpenBSD/sparc64. (via)
Are there are BSD projects similar to Googles Fuchsia OS?
Any interest in porting TFS (the new ZFS clone in Rust) to BSDs? The most fun response.
Can’t get Thinkpad t450s trackpoint working on OpenBSD.
openbsd changes of note 622.
Devuan Jessie 1.0 released. It’s Linux, but important here because it’s without systemd. (via)
Support for Controller Area Networks (CAN) in NetBSD.
KnoxBUG meeting on May 30th. Sam Fourman talking about FreeNAS.

2017/05/202017/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/20

There’s been enough this week I’ve already started next week’s BSD entry.

Installing OpenBSD 6.1 on your laptop is really hard (not). (via)
Switching to OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012). 2012 is the hardware, not the post date. (via)
Falling in love with NixOS. Not on BSD, but linked because the source has comments contrasting it with BSD packaging systems.
openbsd changes of note 621.
2017Q1 FreeBSD status report.
No sound with NetBSD in VMware.
Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat. (via)
A recap of the April KnoxBUG meeting.
Promoting FreeBSD at Events. (via)
NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.7 released.

2017/05/01

NYCBUG: Building Open Source Random Number Generators

The next NYCBUG meeting is May 3rd, in about 48 hours. Rob Seward will be presenting on random number generators. The same announcement for this meeting also notes the upcoming pkgsrcCon, BSDCan, and EuroBSDCon.

2017/04/292017/04/27

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/29

It’s long article title week!

A PDF of the IPv6 handout, from the April SemiBUG meeting, is available.
Adventures in Time, part 1: Interfacing an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator to a Computer Running NetBSD. (via)
Replace the RC4 algorithm for generating in-kernel secure random numbers with Chacha20. (via)
9 lessons from 25 years of Linux kernel development. None of those lessons are specific to Linux; they apply to all the BSDs, for instance. (via)
pfsense for a small ISP in both router and firewall settings?
Rate your favorite BSD on…
(finally) investigating how to get dynamic WDS (DWDS) working in FreeBSD!
OPNsense 17.1.5 released.
The many ways of running firefox on OpenBSD.
Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2017 Schedule.
iXsystems TrueNAS Certified with Veeam Backup.
OpenBSD 6.1 Song Released.

2017/04/172017/04/14

KnoxBUG tonight: Advanced BASH Scripting

If you are nearby, KnoxBUG is having a presentation from Caleb Cooper tomorrow night, titled “Advanced BASH Scripting“.

2017/04/172017/03/02

“IPv6 for the Vaguely Aware” at SemiBUG

I like it just for the title: Josh Grosse is presenting about IPv6 at the SemiBUG meeting scheduled for tomorrow. Go, if you are near.

2017/04/042017/04/02

Getting to yes.c with NYCBUG

It’s happening tomorrow night at the NYCBUG meeting: a yes.c code reading. (more details) Go, if you are close.

2017/04/012017/03/31

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01

Odd batch of links this week.

Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBSD phone link from BSDNow, earlier this week, led me to these two other projects: FreeBSD Robot + Teensy 3.1 and MiniBSD laptop computer.
*BSD for Dell XPS 13 (9350)
OPNsense 17.1.4 released.
vmm(4)/vmd(8) support for seabios and linux guests.
“Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit.
NetBSD and Summer of Code, FreeBSD and Summer of Code. Deadline is in a few days!
Upcoming NYCBUG events – next meeting is this Wednesday.

Your BSD-related fiction book of the week (year? decade?) :’git commit murder‘ is out, set at a (fictional) BSD convention.

2017/03/28

KnoxBUG meeting tonight

KnoxBUG is meeting tonight – there’s no speaker scheduled, so it will be open discussion.

2017/03/202017/03/02

SemiBUG: OpenBSD web stack with Michael W. Lucas

Michael W. Lucas will be presenting at SemiBUG tomorrow, talking about the OpenBSD web stack.

2017/03/042017/03/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/04

Slightly short this week, maybe because people are prepping for AsiaBSDCon? I have plenty of links for tomorrow’s Lazy Reading.

iXsystems Attends Container World 2017. I know what it’s really about, but it sounds like a convention where everyone talks about cardboard boxes.
NetBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017.
FreeBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017.
Can you run BSD packages on OSX
Java development on BSD?
Upcoming SemiBUG presentations. (March 21st, April 18th)
TrueOS Stable update released 2/22/17. (via)
Switch and FreeBSD. Only a rumor at this point, cause the license could be most any component. (via)