NetBSD – DragonFly BSD Digest

It's Long Article Title week!

Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.

Check the first link; it's time-dependent.

Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It's online and he's certainly an authoritative speaker.
Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there's multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
“OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!

Catchup since I was on the road last week.

The last link has some interesting applications to try.

logcheck – egrep: trailing backslash (\).
Meta-programming in Shell. (via)
MGR, a pre-X windowing system that I've never knowingly seen before. (via)
The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD gethostbyname().
NetBSD 9.3 released.
FreeBSD 2022Q2 report.
svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base.
Ada development on FreeBSD 13.1. (via)
FreeBSD 13.0 EOL.
Valuable News – 2022/08/08.
/usr/games removed from the default $PATH. (OpenBSD)
What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?

Some useful tips hidden in there this week.

How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD.
Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB.
OPNSense 22.7 released. (via)
Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond.
Valuable News – 2022/08/01.
Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. The source link has a good comment about what's wrong with sudo as currently used. Also, I did not know about .hushlogin.
Even more randomness.
HardenedBSD July 2022 Status Report.
depenguin.me, reminded of this FreeBSD-on-shared-host-install by this Hetzner news.
A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix. Ugh, NIS.
Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration. (via)
Microsoft's Xenix - Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX.

No mini-theme this week.

An assortment of timestamp formats found in our (Unix) logs.
How efficient can cat(1) be?
NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server.
Related: rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too.
Also: DragonFly too; I did it.
Valuable News – 2022/07/18.
Game of Trees 0.74 released.
OpenBGPD 7.5 released.
Using BSD make for your (small) project. A mini-tutorial. (via)
NetBSD is using a fork of the tz database. There's a backstory.
-current has moved to 7.2-beta.
What is the most minimalistic BSD for desktop?

Started with overflow from last week.

Toolchains adventures - Q2 2022.
Your next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC.
Comparative BSD cheatsheet?
From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1.
/bin/true used to be an empty file. (via)
How we run a Minecraft server.
Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd.
Looking for a USB WiFi adapter that is compatible with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
rpki-client 7.9 released.
Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux. (via)
How Unix didn't used to support '#!', a brief history.
Valuable News – 2022/07/11.
Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison. It's been a long time since E17.
helloSystem version 14-experimental is tagged.

Lots to read this week.

A bit short cause I ran out of time.

qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I've linked to other stories about this hardware.

I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.

Valuable News - 2022/05/23.
deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
Blue Systems Farewell.
LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.

The NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.

"BSD" is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.

Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
where's all the code?
May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That's 1 week from now.
FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
VM (VM ( ... This is weird/dangerous.

How-to week rather than updates week.

Last news item is the saddest.

Does swap still matter? I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there's more.
System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.
FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.
Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.
Valuable News – 2022/04/04.
helloSystem 13.1-RC1.
Multiprocess support for LLDB.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS. Part 1 of 4.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor. (via)
Bill Jolitz has passed away. (via)

Mini-ZFS theme this week.

OpenBSD Webzine #8.
Heap Overflow in OpenBSD's slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
Nixxers is back!
Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
Does swap still matter? A long thread.
Toolchains adventures - Q1 2022.
ZFS Compatibility.
Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to.
Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.

Note the new-to-me book news in there.

The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
Testing parallel forwarding.
NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4) gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.
Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There's some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)

No theme, but decent material.

I realize my title is a little bit buffalo buffalo buffalo, but it makes sense: getopt(3) now has a double colon option to indicate an optional argument. I link to it because I like seeing the length of the trip to DragonFly. It started as a GNU option, then showed up in NetBSD, brought to FreeBSD, and now I'm posting about it.

Note the first three items are events with deadlines happening now.

There's a NetBSD chat happening online this morning - in a few moments.
Noting again: BSDCan 2022 is going to be online, and the CFP closes Monday.
FOSDEM 2022 is happening today and tomorrow, and there's several BSD events as usual. It's online so you can get there.
What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS.
The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API).
Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
OPNSense 22.1 released.
Smallest desktop of the day with BSD: Raspberry Pi 400.
Related: r/Hardware_for_BSD.
Valuable News – 2022/01/31.
d-ptr pitfalls.
HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report.
FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s.
Can't run Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.