Conventions – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2020/07/042020/07/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/04

This should be prime convention season, darnit.

Smallest device running BSD?
Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via)
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results.
BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP.
Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process.
Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD. (via)
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists. Touches early BSD UNIX.
Announcing FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes. (via)
pkgsrc-2020Q2 released.
End of support for NetBSD 7.
ChiBUG has a poll up about meeting. Vote, if you are near.

2020/06/062020/06/05

In Other BSDs for 2020/06/06

Remember, BSDCan 2020 is still streaming if you read this early enough.

Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe.
BastilleBSD Template updates. (via)
Bringing FreeBSD to EC2 with Colin Percival. A long and worthwhile story, on a non-BSDpodcast. (via)
The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey.
Peeking inside executables and libraries to make debugging easier. Applies to BSD as it says.
Some new fnaify-supported games.
Custom tab completions in oksh.
VAX port needs help.
FreeBSD 11.4 RC2 available.
My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. I’ve had good luck with that series.
Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
Valuable News – 2020/06/01.
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction.

2020/06/05

BSDCan: streaming now

BSDCan 2020 is being streamed right now and tomorrow, with all talks available.

2020/04/182020/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/18

Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.

Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.

2020/04/132020/04/12

FreeBSD – Office Hours

I’m posting now because it’s happening Wednesday and waiting for In Other BSDs on Saturday will be too late: the next FreeBSD Office Hours (livestream with Q&A) is happening on the 16th.

2020/04/112020/04/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/11

BUG meetings are canceled, but this can’t be surprising at this point.

Installing FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3. (via)
Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
SNMP Mastery is out. (related: The Print Book Trade, and Money)
NYCBUG meetings are suspended for obvious meetings, but there’s online chat.
BSDCan 2020 will be online-only.
No April ChiBUG meeting.
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging.
OpenBSD andIPv6.
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN. Linked cause there’s BSD support too. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2020Q1 release.
BSD Link Roundup 4.8.
Wifi renewal restarted.
LLDB work concluded.
Valuable News – 2020/04/06.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin on OpenBSD!
Testing AGS games on OpenBSD! That’s Adventure Game Studios.
OPNsense 20.1.4 released.

2020/02/082020/02/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/08

Another overflow week.

Travel Grant Application for BSDCan is now open.
Bram Moolenaar Uses This. I am curious about what specifically stopped him using BSD.
Tildeverse. Several BSD communities in there.
What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?
Some effects of the ZFS DVA format on data layout and growing ZFS pools. Linked cause much ZFS discussion is about tools, not format.
Open world games! OpenBSD.
SerenityOS desktop running on an OpenBSD kernel. (via)
Creating a ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail.
FixedMisc [MirOS] 20200202 and MirKeyboardLayout 9x released!
Finding out what directories exist with only basic shell builtins (a Unix shell trick). Tangentially BSD.
Second (final) release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!
Related: Help NetBSD test 9.0 Release Candidate 2.
[packages] PostgreSQL major update.
Valuable News – 2020/02/03.
ThinkPad T480 is my new main laptop which runs FreeBSD. (via)
FOSDEM BSD room video recordings. (via)
[How-To] Running syslog-ng in BastilleBSD. (via)
FreeNAS Plugins Development.

2020/02/012020/01/31

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/01

There’s a lot of releases happening.

Next NYCBUG meeting: February 5th. I’ll post a reminder.
Don’t forget there’s ChiBUG and SEMIBUG meetings coming up on the 11th and 18th, respectively.
FOSDEM 2020 is happening now and there’s a BSD devroom. (reminded via)
The MWL 2020 Asia Tour. Worth catching if you are on that side of the world; these events sound fun.
FreeBSD quarterly status report for 2019Q4.
“OpenBSD/arm64 on the Pinebook Pro with working wireless, USB and graphics!” (via)
Related: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a bored open source developer. (via)
HardenedBSD Tor Onion Service v3 Nodes.
The Idealistic Future of HardenedBSD.
LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD. (via)
Related: OpenSMTPD advisory dissected. (via)
Deploy Kubernetes Cluster on FreeBSD Bhyve (CBSD). (via)
Meet FuryBSD: A New Desktop BSD Distribution. (via)
Thoughts on FuryBSD 12.0. (via)
Insights into Why Hyperbola GNU/Linux is Turning into Hyperbola BSD. (via)
FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE Available. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release.
Valuable News – 2020/01/27.
Debugging FFS Mount Failures. On NetBSD, but FFS is everywhere.
First release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!
Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news. NetBSD.
GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Working towards LLDB on i386. NetBSD.
Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0. NetBSD.
Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn.
pppac(4) replaces tun(4) in npppd(8). OpenBSD.
[packages] firefox 71.0: pledge configuration change. OpenBSD.
Should you abandon Linux and switch to *BSD?
OPNsense 19.7.10 released.
OPNsense 20.1 “Keen Kingfisher” released.
BSD Link Roundup 1.29.
FreeBSD MiniConf at LCA2020 Conference Recap. (via)
Locking down the Instance Metadata Service: Announcing imds-filterd. I like new tools for not-BSD coming from BSD-using vendor.

2020/01/252020/01/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/25

BUGs BUGs BUGs this week. I’ll make sure to note the events again when they get closer, too.

Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. Turn-based apocalyptic survival, open source and probably runs on BSD. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for speakers for I assume February and April; March was I think filled after this was written.
SemiBUG’s next meeting is February 18th.
ChiBUG’s next meeting is February 11th at the normal place; the March 10th meeting will be at the Oak Park Library.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean.
An Excess of Operating Systems. Not directly BSD related, but the logo is there.
rebound(8) removed. (OpenBSD)
Valuable News – 2020/01/20.
The prekern architecture. (via)
BSD Weekly Issue 4. I missed the first 3. (via)
Migrating FreshPorts from one db server to another.
FreeBSD translations via Weblate.
The History of BSD and IP Stacks with Rodney Grimes, a podcast.
u2k20 Hackathon Report: Tracey Emery on GotWeb.
u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work.

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.

2020/01/112020/05/21

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.)