FreeBSD – Page 14 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2017/08/052017/08/04

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/05

Spot the sarcasm!

FreeBSD 11.1 released.
Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD)
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD)
mandoc-1.14.2 released.
OPNsense 17.7 released.
hurray we won
X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via)
LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via)
Red Hat deprecates btrfs in RHEL 7.4. I found this relevant to recent comments.
Hosts/BSD – for when you need to run your BSD inside a penguin.
Aeris details. It’s nice of them to target BSD machines, too. I feel included. (via)
Contributing to FreeBSD.

2017/07/222017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/22

It’s accidental how-to week!

OpenSMTPD under OpenBSD with SSL/VirtualUsers/Dovecot (via) and
OpenSMTPD and Dovecot under OpenBSD with MySQL support and SPAMD. (via)
Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates, plus examples of usage on FreeBSD.
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive.
openbsd changes of note 625
BSDTW is in Taiwan, in November – and the call for papers is out. (via)
Watch out for wxallowed.
pfSense 2.3.4-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
Blog about my blog. Self-hosting and dogfooding, both good ideas. ~~Needs~~ Has RSS! (via)
BSD Pizza, a meetup in Portland, Oregon, on the 27th.

2017/07/152017/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15

Backlog: cleared.

Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
AF3e Status, 17 July 2017. That’s Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition.
Looking for a benchmark comparation between PF (OpenBSD) vs NPF (NetBSD)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (2017-07-10). (via)
pkgsrcCon 2017 report and also slides/video. (via)
Recommend BSD to Thinkpad users? Can’t find an actual thread, though.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs. (via)
OPNsense 17.7 RC1.
OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop.

2017/07/082017/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/08

This one wrote itself almost in one night from articles I had stored up.

2017/07/012017/06/30

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/01

I am entertained by how Github seems to randomly burp up historical software artifacts on a semi-regular basis. (see link below)

Historical: My first OpenBSD Hackathon. (via)
Using Let’s Encrypt within FreeBSD.org – lessons learned and advice. (via)
Which is the most laptop friendly BSD to learn with?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
Isotop – personalized OpenBSD ISO. (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
dired, an early directory editor/file browser. Dates from BSD 4.2 if I read the 1984 readme correctly. Note the UUCP address there! (via)
Lumina 1.3.0 released.

2017/06/252017/06/23

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/25

Back to overflow, which sort of makes my life easier.

BCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite. Linked before, so comments on source links are where to look if you are already familiar with BHCS.
Possible stack vulnerabilities in BSD-land.
How to disable cores in OpenBSD?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
MP-safe Networking in NetBSD. PDF, from BSDCan. (via)
BSDCan 2017 Recap from iXSystems.
Unix in Europe: between innovation, diffusion and heritage. October 19th, Paris, France. (via)
The Stack Clash, via many places.
pkgsrcCon 2017, in one week.
PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber? Note that this is for BSD-based, server-based routers. Follow the thread for lots of hardware talk.
OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make life harder for ROPers.

2017/06/172017/06/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/17

All found-this-week links, now.

2017/06/102017/06/09

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/10

I think I’ve finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.

2017/06/032017/06/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03

Even more overflow, pushing my pre-published posts forward.

2017/05/202017/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/20

There’s been enough this week I’ve already started next week’s BSD entry.

Installing OpenBSD 6.1 on your laptop is really hard (not). (via)
Switching to OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012). 2012 is the hardware, not the post date. (via)
Falling in love with NixOS. Not on BSD, but linked because the source has comments contrasting it with BSD packaging systems.
openbsd changes of note 621.
2017Q1 FreeBSD status report.
No sound with NetBSD in VMware.
Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat. (via)
A recap of the April KnoxBUG meeting.
Promoting FreeBSD at Events. (via)
NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.7 released.

2017/05/132017/05/12

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/13

A good topic range this week.

Why I love OpenBSD. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers. (via)
Unix Architecture Evolution Diagrams. 1972 Research Unix and FreeBSD, compared. (via)
Getting Michael W. Lucas to speak at your (possibly BSD) event.
4 Things About TrueNAS Replication Your Boss Wants To Know. Sounds clickbaity, but does actually describe TrueNAS usage.
OPNsense 17.1.6 released.
Health Tips for Unix Systems.
OpenBSD and You, the slides. (via)
gqrx on freebsd.
I did not know there was a Samba conference.
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold.

2017/05/062017/05/05

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/06

All the text in the links lined up this week, which is mysteriously satisfying.

2017/04/292017/04/27

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/29

It’s long article title week!

A PDF of the IPv6 handout, from the April SemiBUG meeting, is available.
Adventures in Time, part 1: Interfacing an Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator to a Computer Running NetBSD. (via)
Replace the RC4 algorithm for generating in-kernel secure random numbers with Chacha20. (via)
9 lessons from 25 years of Linux kernel development. None of those lessons are specific to Linux; they apply to all the BSDs, for instance. (via)
pfsense for a small ISP in both router and firewall settings?
Rate your favorite BSD on…
(finally) investigating how to get dynamic WDS (DWDS) working in FreeBSD!
OPNsense 17.1.5 released.
The many ways of running firefox on OpenBSD.
Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2017 Schedule.
iXsystems TrueNAS Certified with Veeam Backup.
OpenBSD 6.1 Song Released.

2017/04/26

DragonFly and bhyve

If you are using bhyve, and you want DragonFly on there as a ‘guest’ (not sure if that’s the right term), there’s a template available. (via)

2017/04/222017/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/22

Several “how to do this” items this week, which I like.

2017/04/152017/04/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/15

All done at the last minute!

OpenBSD imports new strstr() implementation from musl libc by Rich Felker. (via)
FreeNAS Corral is being relegated to “technology preview” status (via and via)
Free OSCON 2017 tickets from the FreeBSD Foundation.
The next KnoxBUG meeting on April 18th is “Caleb Cooper: Advanced BASH Scripting“. I’ll have a reminder.
1.3.0 Development Preview: New icon themes. (Lumina, via)
Linux user looking to try out BSD.
Media Server.
OpenBSD 6.1 Released.
openbsd changes of note 620.
Getting OpenBSD running on Raspberry Pi 3.
Update on NetBSD and Google’s Summer of Code 2017: student application period is over, ranking is in progress.
Let’s get meta: an interview with me (hubertf) about my NetBSD blog.

2017/04/082017/04/07

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/08

Why why why…

2017/04/012017/03/31

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01

Odd batch of links this week.

Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBSD phone link from BSDNow, earlier this week, led me to these two other projects: FreeBSD Robot + Teensy 3.1 and MiniBSD laptop computer.
*BSD for Dell XPS 13 (9350)
OPNsense 17.1.4 released.
vmm(4)/vmd(8) support for seabios and linux guests.
“Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit.
NetBSD and Summer of Code, FreeBSD and Summer of Code. Deadline is in a few days!
Upcoming NYCBUG events – next meeting is this Wednesday.

Your BSD-related fiction book of the week (year? decade?) :’git commit murder‘ is out, set at a (fictional) BSD convention.

2017/03/252017/03/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/25

More thinking topics than version changes this week, which is interesting.

Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It’s the PDF transcript from the FOSDEM 2017 “My BSD sucks less than yours” presentation, linked previously. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.3 released.
Ask HN: Why is BSD becoming more popular in embedded devices? Lots of half-informed theorizing there.
The BSD family tree. Not new, but the discussion at the source link is more to look at, along with other links.
Upgrading notes for pfSense 2.3.x users, where 2.3.x < 2.3.3.
tech@openbsd.org: regarding OpenSSL Licence change. Nothing goes well with OpenSSL. Hey, it rhymes! (via)
golang now has native support for OpenBSD’s pledge(2).
“And then the murders began.” – applied to tech BSD books.
TrueNAS and ZFS terms and explanations.

2017/03/042017/03/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/04

Slightly short this week, maybe because people are prepping for AsiaBSDCon? I have plenty of links for tomorrow’s Lazy Reading.

iXsystems Attends Container World 2017. I know what it’s really about, but it sounds like a convention where everyone talks about cardboard boxes.
NetBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017.
FreeBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017.
Can you run BSD packages on OSX
Java development on BSD?
Upcoming SemiBUG presentations. (March 21st, April 18th)
TrueOS Stable update released 2/22/17. (via)
Switch and FreeBSD. Only a rumor at this point, cause the license could be most any component. (via)