Conventions – Page 5 – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.