Google Summer of Code – DragonFly BSD Digest

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/08

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:56:31 +0000

No theme this week for the BSD section.

Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
SCALE19X Conference Report.
HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
Valuable News – 2022/10/03.

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/19

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:57:19 +0000

You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.

Where cut comes into Unix (and a bit on the history of awk)
Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
~~helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.~~ As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.
Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/24

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:46:16 +0000

It’s apparently release week?

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
NetBSD 9.1 released.
OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
TrueNAS 12.0 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/05

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 12:55:09 +0000

It’s a good mix this week.

ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again.
FreeBSD 11.3 EOL.
Modernizing the OpenBSD console.
Valuable News – 2020/08/31.
FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync.
6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD)
PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in OpenBSD.
GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment.
Find which package provides a given file in OpenBSD.
The roles of OSs have changed. I like the alternate world suggestion.
Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD. (via)
In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? If you’ve been reading this Digest for some time, I bet you already know many of these. (via)
My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/15

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:57:20 +0000

Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there.

BSDCan 2020 videos. (via)
File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via)
My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products of culture. Related to last week’s options links.
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar. 2012 but still accurate. (via)
EvilQuest on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD and Jails at BSD Rennes, an event I did not know about. Here’s more.
Drawing Pictures The Unix Way – with pic and troff.
Valuable News – 2020/08/10.
Recovering 2.11BSD, fighting the patches.
LLVM 10.0.0 imported into -current.
NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2. (via)
GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report.
GSoC 2020 Second Evaluation Report: Curses Library Automated Testing.

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/08

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 12:52:52 +0000

Fun variety this week.

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/18

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 13:04:17 +0000

There’s a separate Summer of Code section this week.

The Homura Project.
First powerpc64 snapshots available. (OpenBSD)
Timecounters available to userland in -current.
Sponsor NetBSD (and pkgsrc) on Github. (via)
Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI.
Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM. Semisure this is still BSD. (via)
HardenedBSD July 2020 Status Report. (via)
Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker . (via)
NetBSD Summer of Code reports:
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2020Q2. “Picked with the roll of a d100”.
TrueNAS 12.0 beta available.
Valuable News – 2020/07/13.

Lazy Reading for 2020/06/14

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 12:58:10 +0000

Wide topic range, again.

Pie Marches On, the best book about pie making I’ve ever read – and it’s about 80 years old.
The Success and Failure of Ninja. (thanks, Tse Gratis)
Google Code-In is finished. Summer of Code and Summer of Docs is still running.
Remembering John Conway’s FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language. (via)
Jagged Little Tapes. One of the few things VHS did well.
Miniature cardboard synthesizers. (via)
Why sysadmins don’t like changing things, illustrated.
ADM-3A Dumb Terminal Home Automation Hub. “because why not?”
The Symbolic Links Virtual Machine. (via)
Wireless is a trap. I have come to agree with this.

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/31

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:59:47 +0000

I have a number of BSD user group notifications here – please tell me if you have a group and I’m not regularly posting about it.

NYCBUG meeting on the 4th: Setting up a convenient working environment, with Ivan Ivanov. I’ll post a reminder.
ChiBUG is meeting on the 17th. RSVP on the mailing list if you are going. I’ll post a reminder.
vBSDCon 2019 is happening next weekend, on September 5-7, in Reston, VA. Go if you are near; every report I read about last year’s event said it was a rollicking good time. The schedule is up.
FreeBSD on RISC-V as a voting machine test. BSD is common for embedded, high-security hardware – and people tend to not know because it’s embedded, high-security hardware. (via)
What happened to Bitrig? I haven’t heard anything in some years.
‘Cube 2: Sauerbraten‘ on FreeBSD.
Checking your pf.conf file without leaving the editor.
The Sudo Mastery hardcover.
Gcc 4.2.1 to be removed before FreeBSD 13, a firm timeline. (via)
Add [FreeBSD] kernel-side support for in-kernel TLS. (via)
Project Trident 12-U4 now available.
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Final.
GSoC 2019 Report: Implementation of compat_netbsd32 DRM ioctl/Getting DRM applications running under compat-linux.
Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Part 3.
Enchancing [sic] Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 3.
Making sense of OpenBSD ‘pfctl -ss‘ output for firewall state tables.
Valuable News – 2019/08/26.
OPNsense® partners with Sunny Valley Networks.
OPNsense 19.7.3 released.
[ports] Datadir added to default postgres flags.
link-local address change.
Using FreeBSD with Ports (1/2): Classic way with tools.

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/24

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:52:42 +0000

Incidentally, my employer, REDCOM, uses FreeBSD as a base for its main product, is deployed in rough areas and in high-security government locations, and is one of the few electronics manufacturers still working entirely in the U.S.. REDCOM also has jobs to fill in New York, where I work. Please, apply if you see a job that interests you – and tell me.

DistroTest.net, which happens to have runnable online versions of GhostBSD, FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OPNSense, and DragonFly. (via)
The VBSDCon schedule (Sept 5-7, very soon!) is up.
Update webmin/usermin if you have them installed.
Impact of Tariff Increases. Eventually relevant even if you aren’t a U.S. reader.
Project Trident 12-U3 and 19.08 now available.
Valuable News for 2019/08/14 and 2019/08/19.
Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, third evaluation report.
USBNET: A story of networking and threads that won’t stop pulling.
Getting the GNU gdbserver to work.
Fuzzing NetBSD Filesystems via AFL. [Part 2].
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Part 2.
Brutal Doom 64 on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD -stable gets package updates! Release OpenBSD doesn’t normally get packages?
Blueprint and progress status for mixed environment multilevel backup. Really, the thing to see is a spreadsheet.
When a hacker tries to infiltrate an OpenBSD machine. Pufferfish reference.
CFT: CBSD project switched to its own cloud images.
Instant Workstation.

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/17

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:57:13 +0000

This is a somewhat pre-made post coming off a week on the road, so I packed it chock-full.

The UNIX Philosophy in 2019. (via)
Converse to previous: Brian Will – Replacing the Unix tradition.
Summer Sun and microsystems.
How does a “real” Unix system feel compared to *BSDs and Linux?
GSoC 2019 Report Update: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/08/05.
Removal of route-collector mode in bgpd(8).
tpmr(4) driver added to -current.
OPNsense 19.7.2 released.
Linux kernel’s inability to gracefully handle low memory pressure. Linked cause you know what performs well under memory restriction? Any BSD. (via)
Devine Lu Linvega’s Uses This entry. Interesting to see his workstation details because his workstation is 2 machines, with Plan 9 variations, and segregated on work vs. distraction. (and sometimes FreeBSD.)
NetBSD light weight theme.
Wanting to install Trident to boot from my USB stick…
LibreSSL 3.0.0 Released. (via)
Play Windows Games On FreeBSD. Encapsulating setup. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/01

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 12:37:53 +0000

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.

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/23

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 12:54:38 +0000

Lots of announcements, lots of reading. Note the first item listed is happening today.

Book Fair, 23 June 2018. Michael W. Lucas is at the Scriptorium Book Fest today, in Michigan. Go if you are near and get a signed BSD book.
Escape from System D, Episode V. Interesting cause it mentions BSD and interesting for spot-on characterization of Twitter/Hacker News feedback. (via)
25 years of FreeBSD. (via)
NetBSD Summer of Code reports: libfuzzer, kernel address sanitizer, and kernel undefined behavior sanitizer.
Valuable News 2018/06/17.
FreeBSD Desktop, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I linked to a few of the early ones before, but I want to present a complete (so far) list.
FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 Available.
OPNsense 18.1.10 released.
httpd(8) Gains Simple Request Rewrites.
SMT Disabled by Default in -current.
More Mitigations for (potential) CPU Vulnerabilities.
LDAP client added to -current. This, or a similar LDAP client, should be present in all BSDs.
KDE on FreeBSD – June 2018. 5 is almost working in DragonFly, too, by the way. (via)
itch.io Summer Sale + General itch.io Feature.
“what’s good in openbsd superior than freebsd?“
HardenedBSD 11-STABLE v1100055.4 Released. (via)
“Today I stumbled upon a BSD Wikipedia page. Why should I choose BSD over a Linux based distro?“

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/31

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 12:57:50 +0000

Happy Almost Fool’s Easter Day! I have to be at work in a few hours, at 3 AM, so this is all I was able to find in the time I have.

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD? (via)
Userland PCI drivers. NetBSD. (via)
A nice note about OpenBSD right on the Void Linux page. (see lower left.)
40 years BSD Mail – 1978-03-25 – 2018-03-25. (via)
A Note on SYSVIPC and Jails on FreeBSD. (via)
Boosting the NetBSD release handling. (via)
How does DragonflyBSD compare to FreeBSD?
OpenBSD 6.3 Retro Gaming Station with a microsoft sidewinder gamepad pro. Works great!
Handling of daemon/gid/uid in application.
The February 2018 iXSystems newsletter.
Introduction to email (pt. 1): Email basics.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 1 – Simplified Boot.
What’s a good BSD to start out with?

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:37:00 +0000

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, ~~PDF~~ document from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
8 months with TrueOS. (via)
This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
OPNsense 18.1.4 released.

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/09

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 12:55:02 +0000

Already overflowed to next week.

New story: Savaged by Systemd. Lucas, what hast thou wrought?
A few questions about BSD
FreeBSD package management with Pkg (1/2). Applies to DragonFly, too.
OpenBSD Community goes platinum.
OPNsense 17.7.1 released.
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA3 Available.
A Brief History of Solaris (SunOS) Ports. Technically a BSD. (via)
My first patch to OpenBSD. (via)
Getting acme.sh to renew certs via cronjob on FreeBSD
GSoC 2017 Reports: Add SUBPACKAGES support to pkgsrc, part 1. (via)
Best BSD for Kaby Lake w/ Integrated Graphics.
FreeBSD – what processes in what jails are using swap?
LLVM libFuzzer and SafeStack ported to NetBSD. (via)
OpenBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (5th Gen). There’s a cost-saving tip in there for anyone planning a purchase.
Solaris reported dead again. Illumos is working fine, though.

DRM from Linux to DragonFly to Haiku

Justin Sherrill — Mon, 15 May 2017 13:44:59 +0000

Summer of Code project spotted via random search: “port Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Driver for i915, from the Linux kernel to Haiku with the help of DragonflyBSD’s Linux Compatibility layer…” Seen here, via this.

BSDNow 189: Codified Summer

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 23:13:15 +0000

BSDNow 189 has a nice roundup of BSD projects in Google Summer of Code, along with an interview of Wendell of Level1Techs.com.

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:25:42 +0000

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.

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/23

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 23 Apr 2016 13:05:30 +0000

I apologize for ending with a question.

Why Linux can’t be distributed with ZFS included. “Because it’s not BSD” is the facile answer. (via)
pkgsrcCon2016 call for presentations. (via)
HardenedBSD delivers security PIE. (via)
NetBSD machines at AsiaBSDCon 2016. (via)
OPNsense 1.16.11 released.
Build a FreeBSD 10.3-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
libressl – more vague promises.
The BSD family of operating systems.
Does BSD distributions contain any GNU software?
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/18.
Question about NetBSD — How to update Compiled Binaries
BSD at LinuxFest Northwest
Year of the OpenBSD desktop
Installing ElectroBSD by exploiting “HardenedBSD”. (via)
FreeBSD and NetBSD Google Summer of Code projects. (via multiple places)
This may be a facetious question, but: are the new hyperconverged servers just… servers for people that don’t know what their operating system can do?