It’s on the RSS feed but not in the normal place, and it’s early, so I bet this week’s BSD Now is put together early because of travel. I’m linking to it early for similar reasons.
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/27
I have cleared out my backlog of general BSD stuff but am still a month behind on DragonFly news, which is the opposite of usual.
- OpenBSD 6.5 released.
- Michael W. Lucas’s FreeBSD Mastery: Jails is out.
- FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition.
- Related: Lucas is presenting for something like 24 hours straight at Penguincon 2019, including BSD topics. The ice cream-related presentations sound the most fun.
- pfSense VLAN Configuration, a question.
- Valuable News – 2019/04/22.
- Categorizing OpenBSD Bugs. (via)
- fh: file history with ed(1), diff(1), awk(1), sed(1) and sh(1). Almost BSD. (via)
- OS108-20190422 released with added splash. (via)
- powerpc64 architecture support in FreeBSD ports. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13
Straight open tab dump, again!
- FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
- Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
- Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
- Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
- Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
- [packages] libreoffice and password-protected .od* files. Not strictly BSD but could surprise someone.
- t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the hack(6) in hackathon, and other stories.
- t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on 802.11? progress, suspend/resume and more.
- t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on
dhclient,disklabel, and more. - Our plan for handling TRIM’ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs.
- Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD.
- From Zero to NVMM.
- Introducing funlinkat.
- Valuable News – 2019/04/08.
OPNsense 19.1.5 releasedno wait OPNsense 19.1.6 released.- April Plugins Update.
- Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple. The book is available to order now.
- NOWBSD.
A late update: BSDCan 2019 registration, plus an update.
BSD Now 292: AsiaBSDCon 2019
BSD Now 292 has a nice recap from attending AsiaBSDCon 2019, along with the normal news roundup. I advise everyone to go to a BSD convention if possible; they are always fun.
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/23
Heading towards spring, and I have weekend work, so pasting in everything I’ve got handy:
- Setting up RRDtool for OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
- EuroBSDcon CFP is open. (via)
- SPARCbook 3000ST – The coolest 90s laptop. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 18 – Global Dashboard.
- Fix Broken Dependency on FreeBSD. This seems dangerous.
- Using an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse.
- openrsync, the site. Apparently becoming another integrated Open* tool. (via)
- [tmux] style syntax changes. Not necessarily BSD-specific.
- pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available.
- Valuable News – 2019/03/18.
- Installing Snort on OpenBSD 6.4.
- rdist(1) – when Ansible is too much. (via)
- Sync Dropbox with TrueNAS and FreeNAS – Issue #65.
- FreeBSD Journal Jan/Feb 2019 Edition. (via)
- BSD Router Project 1.92. (via)
- A few questions from someone who used Linux.
- Getting ‘FreeBSD-10.2 is vulnerable’ messages on a 12.0 host.
- ZFS Encryption is still under development (as of March 2019).
AsiaBSDCon 2019 happening soon
A reminder: If you are near Japan, AsiaBSDCon 2019 is on March 21-24, in Tokyo. Go if you are near.
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/09
If these aren’t enough links, some of them are links to more links.
- Using MRTG on OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
- LLDB from trunk is running on NetBSD once again!
- Metasploit on OpenBSD. (via)
- Looking at NetBSD from an OpenBSD user perspective. (via)
- 2019 AsiaBSDCon registration is open (plus some NetBSD event info).
- GhostBSD: A Solid Linux-Like Open Source Alternative. A Linux site reviewing.
- Site membership and mailing list subscriptions, managed through shell scripts on OpenBSD.
- Sega Dreamcast running NetBSD, is it useful? (via)
- Nixers Newsletter 116. I keep meaning to link to these, regularly.
- Increasing coverage of signal semantics in regression tests.
- Valuable News – 2019/03/04.
- OPNSense 19.1.3 released.
- a2k19 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacoutot on ports, syspatch(8), and more.
- Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication.
- The Joy in Csh & Vi. Indirectly BSD.
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23
Built entirely from open tabs.
- Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
- pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
- HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
- QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
- Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
- openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
- Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
- Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
- SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
- Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
- OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
- How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
- mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
- Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
- Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
- FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/16
This is all backlogged links; I have even more tabs open.
- awesome-bsd, a list. (via)
- OpenBSD’s KSH.
- Revised KSH.
- Anyone using pfsense or similar for a medium size company?
- MirBSD errors “Device not configured” during installation on VirtualBox?
- Pull-based Backups using OpenBSD base. I like the ‘using native tools’ approach. (via)
- A bit of Sun’s history that still lingers on in Illumos. A BSD bit.
- Customizing OpenBSD xenodm. (via)
- Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
- OPNsense 19.1.1 released.
- How to parallelize Drist.
- Installing NetBSD on Wyse Winterm S10. (via)
- NomadBSD review. This… could be called a “distro”. (via)
- FreeNAS 11.1-U7 is now available. (via)
- Project Trident 18.12-U3 Available. (via)
- How to Install GNOME on FreeBSD. There’s a lot of ads on that page… maybe don’t bother. (via)
- OpenBSD gaming discovery. YES PLAY THESE EVERYONE CAN.
- Port of the week: sct. Applies to I think all BSDs.
- Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/02/08. If these links aren’t enough for you.
- What should I do if my BIOS doesn’t support toggle between integrated and accelerated graphics cards?
- is there a way to install any BSD flavor under an extended partition (MBR)?
- Vincent Delft talk at FOSDEM 2019: OpenBSD as a full-featured NAS. The one BSD I haven’t heard of for storage.
- Thoughts on FreeNAS 11.2. (via)
- Why BSD over Linux?
- mGBA emulator’s new 0.7.0 release gets pledge support on OpenBSD. (via)
- Quickly post-FOSDEM.
- End-Of-January Update. Includes possible FreeBSD Mastery: Jails cover.
- PostgreSQL vs. fsync. FOSDEM 2019 presentation, includes fsync on BSDs. (via)
BSD Now 284: FOSDEM 2019
As I had hoped, BSD Now was at FOSDEM 2019 and they provide a recap, along with links to some BSD events there, and of course other news.
BSD Now 283: Graphical Interface-View
The hosts of BSD Now are off to FOSDEM 2019, but they stayed on schedule by recording an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team, available now. He’s speaking at FOSDEM, too, along with a bunch of other BSD Devroom stuff.
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/26
There’s some convention stuff scattered in here; we’re heading towards the active season…
- Anyone running pfSense on non-netgate hardware in a prod environment?
- vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current.
- OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten. (via)
- 05/25/2019 : V BSDDAY in Brazil.
- The first report on LLD porting.
- Update Intel Microcode on FreeBSD. (via)
- VPS hosting provider recommendations for OpenBSD.
- The AsiaBSDCon 2019 RFP has only 5 days left. (via)
- pkgstat, an OpenBSD package statistics gatherer. (via)
- The risk that comes from ZFS on Linux not being GPL-compatible.
- Two views of ZFS’s GPL-incompatibility and the Linux kernel.
- HyperRogue on OpenBSD/macppc. (via)
- Less Known pkg(8) Features. Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.
- avoiding duplicate cronjobs.
- openrsync, a “clean-room BSD-licensed implementation of rsync”. (via)
- Nixers Newsletter 110. These newsletters are so jam-packed with links I’m just going to link to them directly instead of cherry-picking.
- Using a Teletype Model 33 mechanical terminal. Proto-BSD. Excellent in-depth explanation.
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/19
Overflow from the past two weeks. I’ll have my email and tab backlog cleared next week.
- Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output.
- New console font Spleen made default. There’s examples.
- OPNSense 18.7.10 released.
- Best BSD filesystem for ssd. All of them.
- LibGDX proof of concept on OpenBSD: Slay the Spire. Has video.
- 2018 recap.
- Ring in the new. KDE/FreeBSD.
- Man pages, as pages.
- Newcomer to FreeBSD.
- How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
- FreeBSD Journal is now free, starting with the latest issue. (via)
- SuperTuxKart, the open source Mario Kart clone, achieves beta status with network support. I didn’t know you could have a Beastie pilot. (via)
- wtf(1). (via aly on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Project Trident’s first -RELEASE. (via)
- Building Spotifyd on NetBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2019 call for papers closes today.
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/05
I like when I can get Net, Free, and Open items all in the same week.
- Is any C code from 1970s Unix still used today in macOS or BSD?
- razer blade stealth. The BSD part is at the end.
- Let’s try on OpenBSD: NeuroVoider.
- Is the BSD community dedicated to free software? Sealioning, maybe.
- Using the Open Suse build service to build for FreeBSD?
- Installing OpenBSD over FreeBSD.
- SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD.
- KDE4 on FreeBSD, post-mortem.
- toying with wireguard on openbsd
- How I did start using FreeBSD. (via)
- Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc, a Proposal. (via)
- pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement.
- NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
- Hyper-V and GhostBSD – lockup.
- Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. The source link also links to the slides, from EuroBSDCon 2018, and I don’t think I linked them before.
- Modern KDE on FreeBSD. (via)
- Welcome to New Subscribers and Goals for 2019. r/openbsd_gaming.
35th CCC today, streaming
The 35th Chaos Communication Congress starts today. (I linked to the multi-day schedule.) It’s one of the few places you can see hacking, from the ground up. So, even if you aren’t near it, you can still see it, live.
MeatBSD, soon
If you are going to MeatBSD, the reservations have to be in by Saturday. (Which is why I am posting it now instead of on Saturday for In Other BSDs.)
NYCBUG holiday party, tomorrow
NYCBUG’s holiday party is tomorrow at Suspenders. Go, if you are near New York City, and talk about what you’d like to see in a presentation. Chances are good someone there is familiar with the topic.
SEMIBUG: Why BSD?
Michael W. Lucas is reprising his MeetBSD keynote, “Why BSD?”, at the November SEMIBUG meeting, happening at the usual location, tonight. Go, if you are near.
Update: you can attend remotely!
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/17
Still lots of BSD stuff happening.
- DWM on FreeBSD, monocle not showing up.
- Play Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
- Project Trident RC3 available. (via)
- NetBSD 8.0 ? dmesg?????? / KOF2018-NetBSD. Yeah, I know it’s all question marks. Something in my publishing chain doesn’t understand all character sets. (via)
- FreeBSD 12.0-b4 available.
- Capsicum.
- FreeNAS.
- Polish BSD User Group OpenBSD Gaming talk (slides, PDF, Polish) (via)
- Linux and FreeBSD networking. (via)
- The Source History of Cat. (via)
- FreeBSD 10.4 EOL.
- Valuable News – 2018/11/11. You can tell my backlog size from this.
- ZFS Boot Environments Reloaded at NLUUG Autumn Conference 2018.
- OpenBSD in Stereo with Linux VFIO.
- Play “Crazy Train” through your APU2 speaker. This prompted the “Someday you will need this” tag for this post.
- pfSense with a hardware identifier.
- The Tor Project needs a data architect.
- Assembly language on OpenBSD amd64+arm64. (via)
BSD Now 271: Automatic Drive Tests
BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.