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2019/01/192019/01/18

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.

2019/01/052019/01/04

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.

2018/12/272018/12/23

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.

2018/12/05

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.)

2018/12/042018/12/01

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.

2018/11/202018/11/20

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!

2018/11/172018/11/18

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)

2018/11/08

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.

2018/11/032018/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03

Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.

setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualization FAQ.
The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases. (via)
Configure OpenSMTPD to relay on a network.
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1028.
BSD vs. System V death star poster.
MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track.
File versioning with rcs. Still built into all the BSDs, I think.
Halloween Sale Highlights. OpenBSD gaming.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Tokyo/Fall. (via)
Jailing the bhyve hypervisor. (via)
Everything suffers from bashism. (via)
FOSDEM 2019 will have a BSD devroom, and now’s your chance to submit a talk proposal. Due December 10th, with the conference in February.
NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Area. (via)
LISA 2018 Recap. I really like that iXSystems writes up every convention trip.
FreeBSD 12 has been branched into -STABLE. (via)
GhostBSD 18.10 Release. (via)

2018/10/212018/10/19

Lazy Reading for 2018/10/21

Still clearing…

MINITEL ALL, opening November 6th in New York City. They’ll have running consoles!
It is a badge and a fully functional computer: Supercon badges.
“We are captives to our phones, they are having a deleterious effect on society, and no one is coming to help us. On the upside, this is a great phone.” (via)
Pen mouse.
Unix in East Germany (1990) (via)
Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity. (via)
The Bounty of the Public Library. I have found University level education is there, for free, as long as the format can work for you.
Garbage collection and the underappreciated power of good enough.
How Lisp Became God’s Own Programming Language. (via)
Floppy in watch. Surely I’ve linked to this before.
Freedesktop.org: its past and its future. (via)
Legion of Lobotomized Unices. (via)
Maybe the worst conference talk I’ve ever been to.
What laptop are you using?
Why you should be willing to believe that ed(1) is a good editor.
High-res graphics on a text-only TRS-80. (via)
Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years. And of course Webamp. (via)

2018/10/152018/08/31

MeetBSD happening soon

Here’s your reminder: MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. That’s the end of this week. Go, if you are near.

2018/09/292018/09/28

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/29

EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.

FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
r/openbsd_gaming’s Game of the Year 2018 Contest: Call for Nominations.
Advances in OpenBSD packages [pdf] (via)
What’s in store for NetBSD 9.0. (via)
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Hiroshima. (via)
Deploying Anycast DNS using OpenBSD and BGP. (via)
“My FreeBSD Story“.
Display the size of installed packages ordered by size. Should work on any BSD with minor modification.
Add an new OpenBSD partition from unused space.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 3.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 16 – Configuration – Pause Any Application.
Valuable News – 2018/09/08, 2018/09/15, and 2018/09/22. There’s probably another one today.
The 2018Q3 pkgsrc freeze has started. (via)
pfSense 2.4.4 is out; 2.3.x is almost EOL. (via and via)
OPNSense ~~18.7.2~~ ~~18.7.3~~ 18.7.4 released.
FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI.
Oh wait, all the EuroBSDCon 2018 OpenBSD slides are in one spot. (via)
Using acme.sh for Let’s Encrypt certificates on pkgsrc.org servers. (via)

2018/09/27

BSDNow 265: Software Disenchantment

BSDNow 265 has a con report – the just-finished EuroBSDCon 2018 in Romania, plus the usual roundup of news items. One news item that will be useful someday: how to perform a BIOS update on a non-Windows computer.

2018/09/012018/08/31

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/01

Lots of event notices in here… Watch for what’s near you.

The next KnoxBUG meeting is September 5th, with a Trident demo. I’ll post a reminder.
OpenBSD.Amsterdam. Dedicated OpenBSD/vmd servers, which is a neat idea. Could probably do the same thing with vkernels.
MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. (via)
Configuring OpenBSD – System and user config files for a more pleasant laptop. Not all of it is OpenBSD-specific. (via)
Happy Bob’s Libtls tutorial. Also not wholly OpenBSD-specific; more libressl-specific. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 is happening March 21-24, Tokyo, Japan. (via)
Ravenports now on gcc 8.2.
Recent freebsd-jobs posts.
[talk] ARM – any Tier-1 *BSD options? Nice support work from Netgate.
libfuzzer, parts 1, 2, and 3 – a Summer of Code project for NetBSD. I linked the first one before, but hadn’t followed up until now. (via)
OpenBSD, SpamPD and the Startup Bug. (also via)
Public Access Multics. I am happy just typing that sentence.

2018/08/30

BSDNow 261: FreeBSDCon Flashback

No interview this week in BSDNow 261, but links to a recent 1999 convention video, details about TrueOS/Project Trident, and the usual.

2018/08/23

BSDNow 260: Hacking Tour of Europe

This episode has one of the more intriguing titles for BSDNow, and it’s because they are covering a recent hackathon and “BSDCam” (not BSDCan), which I did not know about. The tiny network terminal server mentioned this week may be of use to people, too.

2018/08/092018/08/10

BSDNow 258: OS Foundations

BSDNow 258 showed up a bit early this week: Among the normal news articles about technology and BSD conventions are notes about how HardenedBSD is setting up their non-profit board. I like seeing that sort of governance documented as it’s happening; it’s the right way to inform people.

2018/08/042018/08/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04

I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!

OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
Visualizing ZFS performance.
OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
Valuable News – 2018/07/27.

2018/08/022018/08/02

BSDNow 257: Great NetBSD 8

BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.

2018/07/212018/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/21

A few of the links are not directly BSD-ish, but related.

Adventures in Open Source. Interesting for the fixes, and for just hearing how tools are being used – I will look up syncthing as an easier-to-fiddle-with replacement for sftp.
Version Control Before Git with CVS. Not that long ago for BSD projects, depending where you look. (via)
Ghost in the Shell – Part 2.
“Slightly older Thinkpads“, same answer always.
“SDF is a great UNIX shell provider running on NetBSD“. Not new, but worth repeating. (via)
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS [pdf]. (via)
OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi “auto-join” Plenty of comments in the source link.
Valuable News – 2018/07/15.
pkgsrcCon 2018 report & videos. Slides linked too. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers.

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