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In Other BSDs for 2021/05/01

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 01 May 2021 13:01:15 +0000

There’s some opinions mixed in this week!

NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/17

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:48:09 +0000

I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.

Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
Michael Wl Lucas’s Penguicon 2021 schedule.

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 12:48:35 +0000

Dragged right out of my RSS feeds.

Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06.
Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too.
FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today.
Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support. (HardenedBSD)
OPNsense 20.1.8 released.
TrueCommand 1.3 out.
OpenBSD upgraders need to delete libperl.a.
Diablo (Hell/Hell co-op) – PlayOnBSD. (via)
Emulex – Cheapest 10GE for Your Homelab on FreeBSD. (via)
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro.
Via previous link: Everyone should buy the USEBSD sticker.

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/18

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:54:50 +0000

Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.

Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/04

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 13:57:14 +0000

It was an abnormally quiet week – probably because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because I cleared my BSD link backlog last week.

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/21

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 13:57:23 +0000

I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his ~~unnatural love of gelato~~ BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker.

NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions. (via)
Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. (via)
This is another reason to go to BUG meetings.
January 8th: next NYCBUG meeting, “What is notqmail?“. Note different location than usual.
FreeNAS 11.2-U7 is out, and a FreeNAS Hardware Guide. Speaking of which, FreeNAS 2020 plans, which mention bringing the interface to non-FreeBSD systems. What’s driving that? OpenSSH Key Shielding. (via)
Block bad hosts with PF. (via)
Packaging, Vendoring, and How It’s Changing. Related to BSD packaging. (via)
New PlayOnBSD Steam Grpup [sic] with Curator List of Games for OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/12/16.
e2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on GoT and wireless.
Arduino Development on OpenBSD.

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/16

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 13:54:12 +0000

Some commercial stuff this week, even.

A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via)
This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu)
FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product.
rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD.
Any games that can be recommended that requires virtually no configuration/setup on OpenBSD? Again, possibly valid for every BSD.
OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base. I mentioned this before, sorta, but it’s important.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest.
HEADS UP: ntpd changing. On OpenBSD.
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019.
HardenedBSD Status Report. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/11/12.
LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline.
Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX! NetBSD on VAX hardware at BSDCan 2019, in video. I feel like I was destined to type a sentence like that sooner or later.

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/27

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:50:25 +0000

All over the map this week.

Broken ports? (OpenBSD games)
Realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization.
What’s the point of the Single UNIX Specification?
Resuming ZFS send.
A Chapter from the FBI’s History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln. (via).
OpenBSD and NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Nagoya. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/22.
NetBSD audio – an application perspective. (via)
Project Trident STABLE-12 Now Available. (via)
A week of pkgsrc #13.
OPNsense 19.7.1 released.
New FreeNAS Mini Entry-Level & High-End Models Unveiled by iXsystems.
Bill Joy interview, 1984. I once heard him described as a flat-food person. (PDF, via)

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/29

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 12:52:25 +0000

Last minute, again.

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/25

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 25 May 2019 12:52:33 +0000

Watch for post-BSDCan slides and material and ideas to show up in the next few weeks.

NetBSD 8.1-RC1 is out.
BSDCan 2019 papers are showing up, plus this iXsystems recap.
pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 now available.
WANT TO PLAY A GAME? Ooh, look at the simulated phosphor! (via)
Valuable News – 2019/05/20.
How does BSD benefit you personally?
NetBSD For The ODROID-C2. (via)
g2k19 hackathon report from Claudio Jeker.
RunHyve. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3-b1 is out.
Automount Synology NFS shares from OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop with MATE. Don’t run the script via fetch like it says. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.8 released.
FreeNAS as your server OS. I didn’t know there was a hypervisor option within FreeNAS.

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/04

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 04 May 2019 12:44:53 +0000

I’m still not making through all the stuff I need to link to, but this is enough to keep you busy for today.

The FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey.
Some useful features of (GNU) date for things like time conversion. Compares to the FreeBSD version.
ZFS on Linux on FreeBSD for testing. Argh.
Informal CDBUG session this week – speak up if you are near.
Next Batch of Updated Plugins and How to Recover from Failed Plugin Updates. (iXSystems)
OpenBSD automatic upgrade. (via)
Mount your ZFS datasets anywhere you want.
Valuable News?-?2019/04/29.
stardew valley not working on openbsd 6.5 -current.
LLDB: extending CPU register inspection support.
What are the differences between Linux and OpenBSD? (via)
Writing Exploit-Resistant Code With OpenBSD. (via)
CFT: FreeBSD Package Base.
TrueCommand: Manage Multiple FreeNAS and TrueNAS Systems.

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 13:09:15 +0000

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 released~~ no 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.

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 13:57:34 +0000

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

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:55:21 +0000

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)

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/02

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 13:59:43 +0000

Inadvertent theme: release news.

Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using a packaging system.
I mentioned it before, but FOSDEM 2019, happening right now in Brussels, has a BSD Devroom with a lot of things happening in it; you could spend your entire Saturday in there.
And something that has me quite excited: The Pinebook Pro, among other hardware announcements for FOSDEM. BSD is being mentioned right there as something to install on it, rather than as an aftermarket hack like with Chromebooks – heartwarming, I tell you. (via)
Unix flowers. Look for birthtoken while you are at it. (via)
FreeNAS has Plugins? A casual look at it seems to push some features into pfSense territory.
Next NYC*BUG: 2/6.
OPNsense 19.1-RC1 released. Wait, 19.1 is out.
join-ing any open wifi network is now possible.
FreeBSD Training @ SCaLE 17x (March 8, 2019) (via)
NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor. (via)
ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE (first public release). (via)
Valuable News – 2019/01/18 and Valuable News – 2019/01/25 and Valuable News – 2019/02/01.
HardenedBSD 2018Q4 Status Report. (via)
Florian Obser on unwind(8).
MightnightBSD Roadmap.
SoloBSD 19.01-STABLE.
fnaify 1.2 released.
At The Gates, 4x strategy game running on BSD. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/17

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 13:54:37 +0000

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)

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:16:58 +0000

Still playing catchup with links.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
Process title and missing memory space.
Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/07

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:51:07 +0000

Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.

Update: how did I miss this? PkgSrcCon 2018 is happening now in Berlin, and there’s a livestream. (via)

BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable status bar.
Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
Cinnamon 3.8.2 now available on pkgsrc/wip. A new (to me) desktop. (via)
New FreeBSD Core Team Elected.
OPNSense 18.1.11 released.
MKSANITIZER – bug detector software integration with the NetBSD userland. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2. (via)
[Question/Poll] – Does your work use BSD? What for?
databasing and FreeNAS?
How to deploy an OpenBSD VM in Amsterdam. (via)
Bringup is Hard. The ‘What not to do’ section is quite correct. (PDF, via)

BSDNow 249: Router On A Stick

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 20:47:03 +0000

BSDNow 249 is covering a really wide range of topics including an uncommon amount of NetBSD, so I’m going to do the easy thing and repeat the summary: “OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows backup to FreeNAS, ZFS block …

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In Other BSDs for 2018/04/14

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:51:44 +0000

Totally last-minute summary, but I’m hitting every BSD category.

Godot running on OpenBSD, though I didn’t know what Godot was.
Finding what you’re looking for on Linux. BSD too. I link it because I always forget arguments to find(1).
OPNsense 18.1.6 released.
New M-Series storage devices from iXSystems.
How to write ATF tests for NetBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2 – Install. (via)
Using FreeBSD Text Dumps. (via)
Transparent network audio with mpd & sndiod. (via)
Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2018 Schedule. Several BSD presentations.
pkg vs. underlying OS upgrades.
The BSDCan 2018 schedule is posted.