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2018/02/242018/02/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/24

Another across-the-BSDs week.

- What’s Next for Feature Development in FreeNAS/TrueNAS?
- Description of the 1969 proto-Unix system based on a 2812 line PDP-7 assembly kernel. (via)
- The Known Costs of Security Embargoes.
- Military Grade Data Wiping In FreeBSD With BCWipe.
- “Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt Debian developer to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years. (via)
- Christos Zoulas’s recent NYCBUG talk on reproducible builds in NetBSD is now available as video.
- How do I make quiet build/compile server for home ?
- Libreoffice failing to start after upgrade to 5.4.4.2 40m0(Build:2) (on NetBSD).
- Question about a distro.
- Every Journey Starts with a FAIL. (via)
- Meltdown fix committed by guenther@. Note the DragonFly cross-pollination.

2017/12/162017/12/15

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/16

Last minute, because for some reason I didn’t see much BSD stuff until Friday night.

2017/11/182017/11/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18

Whee!

2017/09/022017/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/02

Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.

FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
Introducing sandboxfs.
“TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
Setting up OpenBSD’s LDAP Server (ldapd) with StartTLS and SASL. (via)
Ansible OpenBSD Cookbooks. (via)
This crazy hardware porting example thread led me to some new hardware, some of which may run a BSD? The Pinebook is apparently bootable but I don’t know if that means usable.
Also: using the audio port for serial? First time I heard of that. (referring to previous crazy hardware links above)
Eventually all packaging systems eat an operating system. And then they aren’t packaging systems any more. (via)
DFS with Freenas for data replication between multiple sites?
openbsd changes of note 627
yet another introduction to yacc
OpenBSD 6.1, a an overview.

2017/06/172017/06/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/17

All found-this-week links, now.

2017/05/292017/05/25

KnoxBUG: Sam Fourman and FreeNAS

Tomorrow night, KnoxBUG’s monthly meeting has Sam Fourman of iXSystems talking about FreeNAS. Show up if you’re near!

2017/03/182017/03/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/18

Much better than last week, but there wasn’t any hurricane-force winds this week – which helps.

Complexity and Strategy. Talks about Microsoft products, but think about this in terms of any long-lived operating system code base – e.g. any BSD, or specifically OpenBSD given their correctness goals. (via)
Freenas 10 (now called Freenas Corral) released – the press release.
pfSense OpenVPN unattended deploy options?
Intel’s ACPICA is now available under a BSD license. Doing the right thing.
New mandoc -mdoc -T markdown converter
time scrolling. Remapping keyboard/mouse events in X.
/usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know. Linked here because the example is from a BSD environment. (via)
NetBSD 7.1 released.
iXsystems Attends AsiaBSDCon 2017.
“What exactly is BSD?“
openbsd changes of note 6, openbsd changes of note 7
EuroBSDCon 2017 Call for Proposals is out.
vBSDCon 2017 Call for Proposals is out.
Relayd and the Next Tech Book. Related to the next link,
Get your name in “Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition”

2017/02/042017/02/02

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/04

Note the end this week of pc98, the most focused of niche platforms.

2016/12/312016/12/29

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/31

Last anything for the year!

Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Pool (via)
Gave 9front a try under bhyve. It boots. (Restrictions Apply) (via)
Foxy’s (mis)Adventures with NetBSD (via)
FreeBSD Foundation Announces New Uranium Level Donation (via)
Peter Hansteen on OpenBSD and you (slides)
So that’s what water-cooling looks like.
FreeNAS Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide. (via)
MWL’s 2016 wrap-up. One of his 2017 goals: “Be sufficiently flexible to kick Ray Percival in the head at BSDCan.” Also more BSD books.

2016/10/292016/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/29

I get all the BSDs this week.

Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era. .ike presenting at NYCBUG on November 2nd. Go if you are near, vote if you can.
FreeNAS/ESXi – Link aggregation without a switch.
Dropping Linux and KVM in Favor of FreeBSD and Jails (2015). (via)
chromebook printing troubles
I used Virtualbox to install both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD… it said login incorrect upon reboot.
Internet Connection Problems
Continuous OpenBSD regress tests. (via)
*BSD on laptops
In this how-to we’ll set up an email server from scratch using NetBSD.
Allow reading of files but no copying on FreeNAS.
NetBSD 7.0.2 released.
OPNsense 16.7.7 released.
pkgsrcCon 2016 videos.

2016/10/222016/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/22

Oddball links for BSD this week – but pay attention to the first one.

Get a BSD person into ARIN. Useful.
“Any experience with OPNsense?“
Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game. Linked cause it exists as a FreeBSD port and in theory could as a dport.
We Surprised The Register.
Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin.
“Adam Jimerson: Introduction to PacBSD” happening at KnoxBUG on the 25th.
PCEngines APU question.
Installing Windows 10 Under the bhyve Hypervisor. (via)
Lumina Desktop 1.1.0 released.

2016/10/212016/10/21

BSDNow 164: Virtual COW/PI?

BSDNow 164 has a whole lot of conversation about things that start with V, plus an interview with Josh Paetzel of iXsystems about the upcoming MeetBSD, FreeNAS and other things.

2016/10/082016/10/07

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/08

This was an easy week to put together; there’s a lot of links this week. Last week was slow – maybe it was because of EuroBSDCon?

pfSense 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
386bsd/386bsd – Upgrade to 386BSD 2.0. (via)
A new addition to FreeBSD.org.
SNIA SDC 2016 Recap: Michael Dexter. Swordfish sounds interesting.
Review of OpenBSD 6.0. (via)
Steam on FreeBSD?
Is anyone here using netflix on FreeBSD?
New to BSD. Please help me choose a BSD.
FreeBSD/EC2 11.0-RELEASE.
Videos from OSHUG #46.
“PAM Mastery” print sponsor books.
process listing consistency.
EuroBSDcon 2016 Recap.
OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever. Devsummit report.
NYCBUG moved their cabinet without issue. It sounds like NYI is good people.

2016/10/012016/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/01

A relatively uneventful week, at least for BSD.

Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. (via)
Michael W. Lucas’s next BSD book.
Speaking of which, please pay for what you use.
What is happening with FreeBSD-11.
Does FreeBSD 11 support Broadwell integrated video or not?
Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change proposal. (via)
LibreSSL 2.5.0 released. (via)
OPNsense 16.7.5 released.
What desktop environment and window manager do you use?
Data Compression and Deduplication Demystified. TrueNAS-oriented.
OpenBSD 6.0 CD Set – Limited Edition signed by 40 developers. (via)
NetBSD/vax – worth continuing? (via)

2016/08/272016/08/25

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/27

I don’t know how I ended up with 3 pfSense items to lead with – it just happened.

2016/07/092016/07/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/09

I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.

garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
Core.9 is now in session.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
A request for BSD variants information.
BSD podcast?
The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
TrueNAS 9.10 out.
BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.

2016/04/092016/04/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/09

Back to the normal rotation; not done early, not done late.