Category: Conventions

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.

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.

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.

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.