NetBSD – Page 13 – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSDNow 096 has the usual new links, even more BSDCan 2015 video links, and an interview with Jun Ebihara about some of NetBSD’s lesser-known architectures.

(I like trying to guess the interview subject from each week’s obscure title; I was going to guess RetroBSD… which would make a good topic to explore.)

2015/06/272015/06/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/27

More and more BSDCan videos keep showing up. (See the bottoms of individual speaker pages on the BSDCan site.) Here’s the PC-BSD summary.

A pfSense SG-2440 review at Maximum PC.
pfSense 2.2.3 is out.
Puppet and OpenBSD.
I love cross-pollination.
There’s a new BSD user group in Vancouver, Canada. “VanBUG”.
TrueOS/PC-BSD/FreeNAS keep showing as building from the same source tree. That makes sense.
Ingo Schwarze’s slides (PDF) from his recent CDBUG/NYCBUG presentations. (via)
NetBSD 7.0_RC1 is out.
Commit jokes are the best jokes.
FreeBSD on Azure.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/22.
BSDCan 2015 trip reports one and two.
PC-BSD Documentation can now be Translated Using Pootle.
out with the old, in with the less. Notable link to “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers“.

2015/06/202015/06/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/20

I compiled this all bit early, so hopefully nothing exciting happens between now and when it gets posted.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/16.
YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”. (BSD-friendly)
Signify shortcomings.
BSDCan 2015, a review.
BSDNow has an already-mentioned BSDCan presentation roundup, and various OpenBSD presentations are showing on the OpenBSD papers page, and there’s a video collection page too. (via)
Best laptop for FreeBSD or variants? (via)
Mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox [pdf] (via)
PkgsrcCon 2015 is definitely happening.
We’re about halfway through the pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze.
OpenBSD 5.8 has been branched. (Is that the right term?)
NetBSD has internal storage on the EdgeRouter. OpenBSD can boot there too. Is there something switch like (12+ ports) that boots a BSD? Other than Juniper? (speaking of which, I worked on an EX4300 a few days ago and liked it.)
Temperature handling in OpenBSD has been much improved.
FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black units now support HDMI.

2015/05/162015/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/16

This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week. I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here.

Royal activity affecting your open source files.
Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve.
Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD. I’d be worried about keeping partially bad RAM in place, but this is probably being used on a larger scale.
25 year old col bug, fixed.
The start of NUMA support in FreeBSD.
Alpine POC and Routerboard support in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD now supports more than 8 audio channels.
NetBSD is starting to gain EdgeRouter support.
NetBSD gains in-kernel splash screen support.
Openresolv 3.7 is in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
EU study recommends OpenBSD. (Thanks, PCTF)
Now, sshd in OpenBSD defaults to ‘PermitRootLogin=no‘ (like in DragonFly!)
Device Developer’s Conference, happening in the UK over the next month or so. (via openbsd-misc)
OpenBSD has released, shipped, and there’s some discs with errors being replaced, though there’s a workaround.
From 0 to an OpenBSD install, with no hands and a custom disk layout. (via)
Livingston County, Michigan has a BSD user group starting up.
PC-BSD 10.2.1-RC1 comments.
BSDCon Brazil 2015 has a call for papers out.
New to BSD, Questions about Firewall configuration.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/11.
A week of pkgsrc #10.
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENTMAY2015 images now available
Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS
pfSense is now available as a “VMware Ready Virtual Firewall Appliance“.
Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap talk is online.
As is the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.
BSDTalk 253 has 30 minutes of conversation with George Neville-Neil about “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System”, 2nd edition.

2015/04/30

BSDNow 087: On The List

BSDNow 087 has an interview with Christos Zoulas, about NetBSD and blacklistd, along with the usual collection of news stories that I’m trying not to peek at because I’m behind on my usual reading and I want to get my own collection together for Saturday’s In Other BSDs.

2015/04/042015/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/04

If you’re part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule. I’m able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I’m on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/30.
Lumina 0.8.3 is released.
Building PC-BSD Utilities From Source. (video)
BSD Magazine for March.
Directly building FreeBSD AMI images.
FreeBSD daily status reports, a little more human-readable.
4 new commands in FreeBSD DDB.
The FreeBSD boot loader can now take your GELI passphrase.
A probably definitive answer on OpenBSD and clang.
pf tables mean no reloading.
BSD contributor Paul Schenkveld has died.
If you are in the UK, there’s a mini OpenBSD ports hackathon happening now.
NetBSD systems can now resize / on reboot, if space is available.
LibreSSL in pkgsrc, soon.
NYCBUG’s next meeting is April 8th, with Christos Zoulas presenting blacklistd.

2015/03/282015/03/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/28

It’s been a quiet week in BSD-land, at least in terms of me finding links.

“I know BSD isn’t secure because I can’t install Norton.“
“Oops” and there’s D-Link DIR-655 support in FreeBSD.
The ata driver in FreeBSD is ~~removed~~ modified. (see comments)
Steam available on PC-BSD. Old news, but always good.
service(8) now available in NetBSD too.
How to check out older revisions of pkgsrc packages.
Tips on a DB9-RJ45 serial cable for Sun hardware, from OpenBSD.
URL blacklisting in OpenBSD.
lmc(4) and san(4), removed from OpenBSD.
RFC7427 support in OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/23.

2015/03/142015/03/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/14

I goofed up and didn’t complete last weeks’ In Other BSDs before it published, so you get some extra this week.

DiscoverBSD news for 2015/03/09.
FreeBSD Flame Graphs. (via)
pkgsrc-2014Q4 binaries for illumos/SmartOS, plus support policy.
15 years of FreeBSD Foundation.
autofs(5) on FreeBSD.
DisplayLink adapters now work on FreeBSD.
USB now consistently works on Raspberry Pi devices with FreeBSD.
W^X in your browser, via the OpenBSD Foundation.
OpenBSD and Summer of Code.
Pre-orders for OpenBSD 5.7 are possible.
Encrypted replication in PC-BSD.
Better i386 NetBSD radeon support.
The pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze starts in a few days.
3-way cross-pollination.

2015/02/212015/02/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/21

There’s some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It’s inextricable from the rest of the links.

Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop. (also)
“Has Linux lost its way?” (via) (also)
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/16.
Curious if FreeBSD or any other BSD district would work better on a MacBook pro?
Which
Am I taking a realistic route to learning more about internals? (hey, it’s DragonFly!)
Speaking of which: cross–pollination.
More cross-pollination, and surprise from me; I didn’t know USB video link worked on any BSD.
The m0n0wall project has ended.
The end of ‘games’ as a separate object on FreeBSD.
Tetris: still changing.
autonet – simple automatic wifi chooser on OpenBSD.
pkgsrc binaries as an exit strategy from systemd.
IPFW now the default firewall (and on) in PC-BSD.
The updated roadmap to 1.0.0 for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, to go with the 0.8.2 release.
PC-BSD at SCALE.
s2k15 hackathon report.

2015/02/142015/02/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/14

Happy Valentine’s Day!

The OpenBSD Foundation 2015 Fundraising Campaign. (via)
Anyone tried CloudByte before? (ZFS on FreeBSD).
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/09.
PC-BSD featured on itwire.com.
From the OpenBSD s2k15 hackathon: the stack overflow that wasn’t and Authenticated TLS ‘constraints’ in ntpd(8).
Jazz concert with OpenBSD synths.
“Help me add FreeBSD/amd64 build support to .NET CoreCLR“.
“Can you push a BSD OS through the wire/network?” The original poster has never heard of PXEbooting?
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT Images Now Available!
Speaking of which, PC-BSD now uses OpenNTPD by default.
An old large-disk anecdote from OpenBSD.
“world’s first Canadian cross device driver“
pkgsrc-2014Q4 packages for OS X now available.
NTP over HTTPS.
Aww, freebsd/wii.

Your not-BSD BSD link of the week: Badass Space Dragon.

2015/02/072015/02/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/07

This week is relatively quiet.

Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7. (via)
OpenBSD networking on Macbook Pro?
PC-BSD 10.1.1 is out.
Is there any RNDIS support in any BSD?
Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
Stuck between OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD (mostly Web and File Server)
devctl, a new device control utility in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained a VCHI driver for the Broadcom “VideoCore IV GPU”.
Things you can remove from FreeBSD.
PC-BSD gains ‘personacrypt’, for encryption of home directories.
OpenBSD gained iwm(4), for Intel 7260 wifi.

2015/01/312015/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/31

I’m not sure how I ended up with so much BSD material this week, but hey, we all benefit!

A user’s experience with OpenBSD as a desktop. (via)
FreeBSD Jail Management Tools.
nanoBSD for servers – part 1. (via)
Sonicwall to pfSense?
My first OpenBSD port. (via)
Two new LibreSSL shirts, with cash going back to the project.
What did Sony do to make FreeBSD awesome graphics wise with Playstation 4?
pkgng and manual steps.
long term support considered harmful
The practical result of OpenBSD’s support policy. Rebuttal to previous link. (via)
PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC2 now available.
OpenBSD popularity vs Linux when talking about servers security (via)
Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split. (via)
pfSense-2.2-RELEASE now available! I’ll be upgrading systems to that at work this weekend…
SECURITY : OPENBSD VS FREEBSD. (via)
Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD.
Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015 and OpenBSD, a review.
Initial Zynq (Xilinx) support in NetBSD.
glass tty fonts in NetBSD, mentioned here, seen here.
portable cwm 5.6 is out.
Assistance for the “too much RAM” delay problem.
Slides for “OpenBSD: Redundant & Transparent Firewalls” (thanks Siju)
A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users. (via)

Your extended read: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, from the NANOG operators list. Follow the thread. It’s theoretically about Linux, but people name BSD solutions all through it. Hmm…

2015/01/29

BSDNow 074: That Sly MINIX

Episode 74 of BSDNow is up, with some interesting stories of Linux users switching to BSD, and an interview of Andrew Tanenbaum of MINIX fame.

2015/01/172015/01/16

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/17

Lots of material this week.

New Update GUI for PC-BSD / Automatic Updates.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.0 Released.
(side note) I see these PC-BSD items in src updates, but these published summaries are so complete it’s better to wait and post them instead. Other software orgs, take note.
A week of pkgsrc, #6.
Making the switch.
Configuring X forwarding between BSD and Windows. (via)
The 4th quarter 2014 FreeBSD report is out.
Digital Ocean now supports FreeBSD.
Using TrueOS as a IPFW based home router.
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD. (via)
pfSense University classes are available online.
Jetpack, a FreeBSD-based app container, i.e. Docker, etc. (via)
No more install floppies for NetBSD, at least on amd64.
OpenBSD adds binary patching, at least on amd64.
Lid suspension is now on by default in OpenBSD.
OpenBSD on an Intel Galileo.
Security: OpenBSD vs FreeBSD. (via)
FreeBSD added Data Center TCP (DCTCP).
FreeBSD’s new page clustering strategy.
FreeBSD has a new MINIMAL kernel config.
FreeBSD has multiboot support for Xen Dom0.
Yay, cross-pollination!

2015/01/102015/01/09

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/10

I got this done early, for once.

Dissecting OpenBSD’s divert(4). (via)
Running ownCloud with httpd on OpenBSD (via)
OpenBSD 2014 by the numbers. (via)
Code rot & OpenBSD. Many comments at the original link. (via)
Accessing radio hardware switches in NetBSD.
What does this Etherswitch framework do?
FreeBSD now has Elf Tool Chain utilities, which appears to be BSD-licensed versions of binutils; possibly more?
FreeBSD is now on Gnome 3.
BSDCan 2015’s Call For Papers is out.
NYCBUG is meeting January 13th at a new location for “Designing Versatile Unix Utilities“, presented by Eric Radman.
There’s a new BSD user group in the Albany, NY area.
BSD Magazine for December 2014 is out. (via)

2015/01/032015/01/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/03

Remembered to do this all at the last minute, after I got the new server up.

LibertyBSD, an OpenBSD fork with no non-free firmware.
OPNSense, a FreeBSD-based firewall that is new to me.
OpenBSD projects that aren’t OpenBSD.
Broken build tracker for pkgsrc. (via)
pkgsrc-2014Q4 is out.
pkgviews is gone from pkgsrc.
NetBSD can now record MIDI files from /dev/music.
How to see hidden pf tables.
The OpenBSD Foundation met their fundraising goal for 2014.
Typing in Japanese in OpenBSD. (via)
Tor relay issues on OpenBSD, in two slightly munged threads.
OpenBSD and syslog, over TCP.
FreeBSD has updated to Unbound 1.5.1 and clang/llvm/lldb to 3.5.0.
bhyve on FreeBSD has an improved Real Time Clock.
GNU texinfo is out of FreeBSD.
FreeBSD’s asr(4) driver is gone too.
pcc 1.1.0 was recently released. (via)

2014/12/132014/12/13

In Other BSDs for 2014/12/13

Get ready for some reading.

There’s some packages moving from pkgsrc-wip to pkgsrc proper.
pkgsrc-2014Q4 branching is planned for Monday the 15th.
PC-BSD now has an automatic package/security patch upgrade mechanism.
Steam on PC-BSD. Holy grail, there.
PC-BSD needs testers for the new Update Manager, for moving from 10 to 10.1
NetBSD has imported BIND 9.10.1-P1.
OpenBSD has added skgpio(4), a driver for the Soekris net6501 GPIO port and LEDs.
OpenBSD has updated Unbound to 1.5.1.
Some Japanese input methods for OpenBSD that may work on other BSDs, too.
pfqstat, a replacements for pfstat designed to work with Charted.
I don’t know what the ‘BERI Virtio Networking Frontend’ is, but FreeBSD’s got it.
fstyp(8), the filesystem detector.
FreeBSD has added AES-ICM and AES-GCM modes to OpenCrypto.
If you’re stopping in NYC, NYCBUG would like to hear you talk on a topic of interest.
The case for distributed operating systems in the data center. Sounds like DragonFly’s original charter. (via)
BSDNow wants to hear your getting-into-BSD story.
OpenBSD libc version 78.
There’s a lot of FreeBSD systems at NYI.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” is now in physical print.
“Networking for System Administrators” is next to come out.
And “Tarsnap Mastery” is next to be written.
…We’re all benefiting from Michael Lucas going full-time on writing.