Conventions – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2019/09/13

Vintage Computer Festival this weekend

Mentioning it here because it’s timely: the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is happening this weekend, and if I wait until the normal day I would post this – Sunday in Lazy Reading – it will be too late. Go if you are anywhere near. (Credit goes to joshua stein on the ChiBUG mailing list – don’t forget their meeting next Tuesday.)