Conventions – DragonFly BSD Digest

SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.

2021/10/022021/09/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/02

Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.

pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.

2021/06/24

BSD Now 408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021

No pun this time; the episode covers the title exactly – plus more recent headlines.

2021/06/132021/06/10

Lazy Reading for 2021/06/13

Lots of analog this week.

The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials. (via)
From the same place, Knobfeel.
Baking Magnetic Recording Tape. (via)
“The purpose of the web software industry is to extract value out of Open-Source Software (OSS).”
The possible return of Connections. (via)
The Computer Mouse Conference 2021 and The Mouse Sees. (also via)
XScreenSaver 6.0.1 is out. No new savers in this release, just bugfixes.
Explaining geometry with pizza. The pull quotes are the point.
Itanium UNIX history.
Some Plain Text Note Taking Tactics.
Playdate Update. The cranking hardware console. (via)
The little details you don’t think about when playing D&D.
50 Years of Text Games: 1993: Curses. Not the terminal software.

2021/04/072021/03/03

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.

2021/03/172021/03/17

FreeBSD Office Hours tonight

FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.

Update: rescheduled to sometime in the future.

2021/03/082021/03/08

ChiBUG meeting, tomorrow night

ChiBUG’s having a virtual meeting tomorrow night. Register now, especially if you want to hear what Paul Vixie has to say. (You should)

2021/03/032021/02/27

NYCBUG: Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia

NYCBUG’s on Zoom, tonight at 18:45 eastern.

2021/01/302021/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/30

A FreeBSD-heavy week.

Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD.
fzf, for BSD and other places. (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020.
FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via)
Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. (via)
GhostBSD Install and Review. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/01/25.
FOSSASIA, March 13-21, call for speakers. It’s virtual.
FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro. (via)
cool-retro-term. This will give you flashbacks if applicable.
OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released.
OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen). Maybe, maybe worth replacing this x220 with.
Mirage Online Classic, should play on any BSD.
Workaround for Bluetooth controllers on OpenBSD.
NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite.

2021/01/052021/01/03

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.

2020/11/26

BSD Now 378: Networknomicon

This week’s BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you’re looking for presents, he’s selling extra books originally intended for convention sales…

2020/11/072020/11/05

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…

2020/10/242020/10/22

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/24

It’s apparently release week?

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
NetBSD 9.1 released.
OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
TrueNAS 12.0 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

2020/10/032020/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/03

No theme, but lots to read.

Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
“Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.

2020/09/262020/09/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/26

Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed.

On the use of a life. A BSD business.
FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via)
FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?
Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via)
k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van Duren on snmp, agentx, and other progress. An actual in-person meeting!
Valuable News – 2020/09/21.
A simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm(1).
Unified pfSense documentation.
New minecraft launcher in ports. OpenBSD.
OPNSense 20.7.3 released.

2020/09/24

Jails talk tomorrow

Michael W. Lucas is doing a talk on Introductory Jails as part of FreeBSD Friday – mentioning it now instead of saving for In Other BSDs, cause Friday is tomorrow.

2020/08/152020/08/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/15

Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there.

BSDCan 2020 videos. (via)
File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via)
My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products of culture. Related to last week’s options links.
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar. 2012 but still accurate. (via)
EvilQuest on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD and Jails at BSD Rennes, an event I did not know about. Here’s more.
Drawing Pictures The Unix Way – with pic and troff.
Valuable News – 2020/08/10.
Recovering 2.11BSD, fighting the patches.
LLVM 10.0.0 imported into -current.
NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2. (via)
GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report.
GSoC 2020 Second Evaluation Report: Curses Library Automated Testing.