Conventions – DragonFly BSD Digest

2020/01/182020/01/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/18

Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one.

- Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1.
- VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595).
- ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for Papers ends tomorrow.
- Other BSD-related conferences. (via)
- SEMIBUG’s next meeting is next Tuesday, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. He knows.
- The slides from the January 8th NYCBUG meeting are available, showing off notqmail. For further edification, here’s a podcast on the same topic.
- iked(8) automatic IPv6 blocking removed. (OpenBSD)
- Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0.
- Working towards LLDB on i386.
- GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD. Completed just in time for GSoC 2020.
- OPNsense 19.7.9 released.
- Pinebook-Pro with Manjaro Linux running accelerated qemu-system-aarch64 FreeBSD -current. Emulated, so the comment there led me to this tweet about NetBSD on Pinebook.
- LPI and BSD working together.
- Switching DistroWatch over to FreeBSD – AMA.
- Valuable News – 2020/01/13.
- Using the OpenBSD ports tree with dedicated users.
- Run broot on FreeBSD. Can’t use without saying “I am broot!” over and over.

2020/01/112020/01/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/11

No theme evolved, but lots more links this week.

Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1.
BSD user groups in Italy. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via)
HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via)
Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments may also be interesting.
Valuable News – 2020/01/06.
The BSDCan 2020 call for papers closes on the 19th; get yours in soon!
ChiBUG meets on the 14th. I’ll post a reminder.
Using rsnapshot for easy backups.
Archives are important to retain and pass on knowledge. Someday, you will thank you.
Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. (OpenBSD)
FreeBSD end-of-year recap by adridg. FreeBSD, Calamares.
Hunspell on FreeBSD. (via)
Bastille Containers on FreeBSD.
Related: A practical guide to containers on FreeNAS for a depraved psychopath.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean. The comments in the source link note you can get any BSD installed that way.

2020/01/042020/01/03

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/04

It was an abnormally quiet week – probably because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because I cleared my BSD link backlog last week.

2019/12/302019/12/30

CCC 36 is over, but the videos are on Relive and will eventually be collected. CCC is one of the few remaining big not-a-corporate-event events; always worth viewing. (posting now so it doesn’t get lost in the new year.)

2019/12/222019/12/21

Lazy Reading for 2019/12/22

Accidental theme this week: roguelikes! Maybe with me that’s not so accidental.

Neal.fun. The old weird web. This will eat some hours.
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife. There’s a lot of things I can’t link to because they are hidden away just like this.
blinry’s Advent Calendar of Curiosities 2019. (via)
It’s Time to Get Personal. (via)
Tmux and Vim — configurations to be better together. (via)
OpenHAB, open source home automation software. (via)
36th Chaos Communications Congress, coming up.
Real time clock for your ISA slot.
A Spotify playlist of all songs mentioned in the Time Zone Database documentation. I love everything about this without even hearing the music. (via)
AI Dungeon 2: “My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”.
(via)
Roguelike Tutorial: Up-to-Date and Literate. (via)
Roguelike Tutorial – In Rust, via comments in the last source. There’s a lot more links in there, too.
Dungeon Generation in Enter The Gungeon. (via)
The Bloomberg Terminal, Explained. (via)

2019/12/142019/12/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/14

Lots of variety this week.

NetBSD Advent Calendar 2019. (via)
ARM64 and BSD discussion.
Notqmail, the presentation topic for the January NYCBUG meeting and maybe for SEMIBUG at some point too.
HAMBSD, presented at NorthernRST. (via)
BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility. This is neat.
“The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE on Azure.”
BSDCan 2020’s Call for Papers is out.
December 2019 Infrastructure Status. (HardenedBSD)
KDE plasma flavor now available. (FuryBSD)
Developers shouldn’t distribute their own software. Touches on BSD ports. “Note: This article presumes that proprietary/nonfree software is irrelevant, and so should you.”
Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news.
Manage Contacts the UNIX Way.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 19 – Configuration – Plank – Skippy-XD.
Valuable News – 2019/12/09.
Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible. (via)
Artworks for the Euro BSD Con 2020 in Austria.
Infinity Engine on OpenBSD.
Meet Radiant Award Recipient Claudio Jeker.
Playing CrossCode within a web browser.

2019/12/072019/12/07

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/07

Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra.

NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out.
Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending.
Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th.
Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th.
ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. (via)
ryzen build (for openbsd).
HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals. (via)
Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD. (via)
Related: syscall call-from verification.
e2k19 Hackathon Report: At e2k19 nobody can hear you scream (Claudio Jeker).
sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager. (via)
Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python pt.3.
Valuable News – 2019/12/02.
PlayOnBSD Shopping Guide now scraping for sales on GOG and Steam.

2019/11/302019/11/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/30

End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.

Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
[How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
Some notes on userspace routing.
Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.

2019/11/232019/11/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/23

Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future.

Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via)
The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments.
Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly).
Valuable News – 2019/11/18.
OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5).
And the followup Running OpenBSD on SPARC64 (HTTPd, packages, patching, X11, …)
GEOM NOP.
p2k19 reports: Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan,
Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing, Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby, krw@ adventures.
Creating new users dedicated to processes. Could work on any BSD except for doas.
Board of Directors and Officers elected. For NetBSD.
Support for Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet controller. For OpenBSD. 2.5Gb seems so arbitrary. (via)
Why is BSD>Linux?
Lessons Learned from Sendmail. Video. There’s lots of EuroBSDCon videos out there, but this is a good one cause this is one of the prototypical packages. (via)
BSD Link Roundup 11.18.
The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”.
Proof I Am a Monster.

2019/11/162019/11/15

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/16

Some commercial stuff this week, even.

A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via)
This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu)
FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product.
rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD.
Any games that can be recommended that requires virtually no configuration/setup on OpenBSD? Again, possibly valid for every BSD.
OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base. I mentioned this before, sorta, but it’s important.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest.
HEADS UP: ntpd changing. On OpenBSD.
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019.
HardenedBSD Status Report. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/11/12.
LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline.
Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX! NetBSD on VAX hardware at BSDCan 2019, in video. I feel like I was destined to type a sentence like that sooner or later.

2019/11/092019/11/07

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/09

Aaaand back to normal.

FreeBSD 12.1 is released.
ChiBUG is meeting November 12th. I’ll post a reminder.
U2F support in OpenSSH HEAD. Excellent news. (via)
What can software authors do to help Linux distributions and BSDs package their software?
Linux VS open source UNIX. (via)
Stabilization of the ptrace(2) threads continued.
Valuable News – 2019/11/04.
EuroBSDCon 2019 videos available. OpenBSD oriented, but there’s a full playlist for the conference.
OPNsense 19.7.6 released.
New openbsdstore available with 6.6 T-shirts. More wearable than CDs.
Will the Real UNIX Please Stand Up? An abbreviated but decent history.
FuryBSD 12.0-XFCE-11-06-2019-01 released.
asr has been renamed to stub in unwind.conf(5).
Linux Professional Institute Releases BSD Specialist Certification – re BSD Certification Group.
My peertube OpenBSD gaming channel. Peertube is getting popular.
Dead Cells running on OpenBSD.
MidnightBSD 1.2 now available.

2019/10/142019/10/09

The Digest and TeleVideo

Thanks to Erik Blomberg and the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I now know the Digest has reached a whole new operating system: CP/M. This entertains me.

(It’s the Digest being browsed in text mode on a TeleVideo TS-803, if you can’t see the screen well enough.)

2019/10/122019/10/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/12

I’m sure there’s some recent stuff I missed; I will catch it in next week’s roundup.

SeMiBUG meets Tuesday the 15th.
FreeNAS datasets and snapshots.
Defense at Scale. There’s a BSD system in there. (via)
History of UNIX Design and Interfaces. BSD history mixed in. (via)
1 day / 1 game: solene@ playing Unexplored on OpenBSD. Links to FLV.
OpenSSH 8.1 released. (via)
Care and Feeding of OpenBSD Porters. (via)
By the numbers: ZFS Performance Results from Six Operating Systems and Their Derivatives. This and following are vBSDCon 2019 videos. (via)
Transitioning from FreeNAS to FreeBSD. (via)
In-Kernel TLS Framing and Encryption for FreeBSD. (via)
20 Years of FreeBSD Jails. Last video. (via)
Ken Thompson’s Unix password. He doesn’t need it. (via)
OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits. (via)
Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64: a case study in OS portability. Old news but why not. (via)
Resurrecting Ancient Operating Systems on Debian, Raspberry Pi, and Docker. Very early BSD. (via)
FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook. (via)
Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance. Can’t tell if they are doing this on FreeBSD or not. (via)

2019/10/11

Bay Area FreeBSD Summit now

Posting this now cause tomorrow’s too late: the 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow. Go, if you are near.

2019/09/282019/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28

Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up.

KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs.
Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via)
ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases.
Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers (quick A.D. 2019 overview). (via)
Next NYCBUG meeting: Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, with Ori Bernstein. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
EuroBSDCon 2019.
1 day / 1 game : Red Alert with games/openra. It’s a FLV file.
Playing Ion Fury on OpenBSD. Another FLV link.
1 day / 1 game on OpenBSD: Sword of the Stars: The Pit by thfr@.
fnaify 2.0 out. (via)
Project Trident 12U7 now available.
List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style.
Valuable News – 2019/09/23.
OpenBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019.

Your book plug of the week: “Of course, if you don’t want to sponsor a book on SNMP I can’t blame you for that either. It’s a horrible topic that most of us would rather pretend didn’t exist.“

2019/09/26

BSD Now 317: Bots Building Jails

It’s Thursday, so BSD Now 317 is posted, with the usual news summary – and a recap of EuroBSDCon 2019.

2019/09/212019/09/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/21

Whee!

Ori Bernstein will be giving the October talk at NYCBUG.
EuroBSDCon 2019 is happening right now. It might be streamed, though I haven’t yet found a link for that. (via)
BSD Pizza Night: 2019/09/26, 7–9PM, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Pinebook Pro, coming soon. Good for ARM development, but not a normal workstation. (via)
The return of startx(1) for non-root users [with some caveats].
Setting up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd.
OpenBSD Moonlight game streaming client from a Windows + Nvidia PC.
2 more games added to the #PlayOnBSD shopping guide: Sumico and Unexplored.
Project Trident 12-U6 now available.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Hiroshima. (via)
Setting up buildbot in FreeBSD jails. (via)
Sourcehut makes BSD software better. (via)
bhyvearm64: CPU and Memory Virtualization on Armv8.0-A. (via)
UNIX artifacts on the way. Might be BSD? (via)
Valuable News – 2019/09/16.
This book is everywhere.

2019/09/13

BSD Now 315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

A little late linking this, but never mind: BSD Now 315 includes, among its other usual links, a recap of the vBSDCon experience, from the just-completed event.