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2014/12/062014/12/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/12/06

I have been building up quite the variety this week.

Bitrig 1.0 has been released.
Writing NetBSD Sound Drivers in Haskell. (PDF, via)
ruBSD 2014, happening December 13th in Moscow. (via)
How to configure full disk encryption in PC-BSD 10.1. (via)
BSD Magazine for November 2014. (via) Why don’t they put new issue announcements in their RSS?
A week of pkgsrc #5.
FreeBSD Foundation’s 2014 year-end fundraising.
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is hitting the printers. There’s a quiet mention of the next two books in that series, too.
Two new kernel errata for OpenBSD.
BSDCan 2015 (June 2015) has opened up its call for papers, now through Jan 19th, 2015. (via)
A conversation about UTF-8, Unicode, and file systems.
A conversation about random vs. phrase passwords.
New Directions in Operating Systems conference notes. Lots of BSD stuff in there. (via)
nih-0.13.0 is out for pkgsrc.
BSD presentations (including DragonFly) at the X Developers Conference. I mentioned the event itself before, but that link wasn’t open to non-subscribers until later, as pointed out to me.
Coreboot on the BSDs.
More talk about embedded OpenBSD on cheap machines, including thin client machines repurposed into routers.
Noticed in that previous link: <$100 Ubuquiti EdgeRouter-Lites can run OpenBSD? FreeBSD too, apparently.
Is it time to give BSDs a try?
Fixing PC-BSD upgrade issues.

2014/11/222014/11/22

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/22

I actually got this started early, for once, instead of completing in a panic on Friday night.

The Move from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
BSDTalk247 – FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years with Jordan Hubbard. I meant to post this before; lost track.
/var/tmp now links to /tmp on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD now has perl 5.20.1 in base.
Making FireFox less insecure on OpenBSD.
You can peek at what ‘roles’ are being put together for PC-BSD installs. Or just watch this video.
PC-BSD and TrueOS version 10.1 released, Lumina 0.7.2 tagged.
Linux Top 3: PC-BSD 10.1 Linux Mint 17.1 and Mageia 5.
FreeBSD now supports the Trendnet TEW-646UBH wireless adapter.
BSD Router Project (bsdrp) version 1.53 is out.
NetBSD has updated tcpdump/libpcap.
retiring crypt
shtk 1.6 now available.
NYCBSDCon made about $1k for each of the BSDs.
WhatsApp donate $1MM to the FreeBSD Foundation.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/11/17.
Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop?
Book Review: Book of PF, 3rd Edition.

2014/11/012014/11/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/01

Hardly any source commits to point at this week, but there’s still lots of stuff happening in BSD-land.

MeetBSD is happening right now.
OpenBSD 5.6 is being released right now too.
Michael W. Lucas has released the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials book.
Peter N. M. Hansteen’s 3rd edition of the Book of PF is out, and he’s running an auction for the first author-signed copy – with profits to OpenBSD. This is a good strategy. I have a copy of the book and will write a review here as soon as I can finish it – only up to chapter 3 right now. The presentation that spawned the book is updated and available.
FreeBSD 10.0 got an extension.
Don’t run wsmoused and X at the same time in OpenBSD.
NetBSD now has openresolv 3.6.1. It’s a resolv.conf management program I had not yet heard of.
FreeBSD has significant changes to /dev/random,
FreeBSD has gained TTM support in its AGP driver, and radeonkms in FreeBSD now supports AGP.
NYCBUG, upcoming.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/27.
The Apple Mac Takes Its Place In The Post-PC World. Unix-based computers are the best game in town, it appears. (via)
Lumina Desktop Build in FreeBSD / TrueOS. (video)

2014/10/252014/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/25

This week I was on top of the whole linking thing.

A Minecraft plugin for FreeNAS.
PC-BSD has a YouTube channel.
LibreSSL 2.1.0 is out.
OpenBSD 5.6 sneak peek.
Question about the current state of FreeBSD
Tanenbaum realizes BSD was a better idea. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/13.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/20.
FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon 2014.
KDEConnect in PC-BSD.
Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for meeting space in 2015.
The FreeBSD Forums are running new software.
A 14 year old IP reference.
NetBSD has imported openresolv 3.6.0.
Getting snmpwalk to talk to snmpd on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD (starts to) gain EFI support.
Security Engineering for Linux Users. (via)
vxlan, virtio console driver, added to FreeBSD.
Setting a dedicated serial link on your OpenBSD system.
Chromium has some issues in OpenBSD-current in some situations.

2014/10/182014/10/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/18

Done at the last minute, like always, but surprisingly extensive this week:

DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/06.
FreeBSD Cheatsheet.
FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 is out.
Question about the BSD community as a whole.
mandoc now contains man.
PC-BSD now has a new Linuxulator and AppCafe.
GhostBSD 4.0 is out.
Frequent BSD author Michael W. Lucas is now a fulltime tech author.
Speaking of that, the first draft of his FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is up.
Introducing sysupgrade for NetBSD.
37 year old bug, 22 year old fix, patched this month. (via)
PC-BSD has branched 10.1.
FreeBSD has netmap support in libpcap.
FreeBSD’s ipfw has received some updates.
A PC-BSD 10.0.3 review.
Building packages at scale.
MeetBSD 2014 is coming up in California.
NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 are out.
The third quarter 2014 FreeBSD Status Report is out.
Send in your OpenBSD dmesg.
Importing pkg to NetBSD – an idea I support.

2014/10/042014/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/04

Whee!

FreeBSD 10.1 beta 3 is out – though it may be superseded by the time this article is published.
pkg is apparently supported in Salt and cdist. (via)
DiscoverBSD’s September BSD release list.
DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/09/29.
The September BSD Magazine is out. (via)
Undeadly has links to (all?) the EuroBSDCon 2014 OpenBSD papers.
OpenBSD 5.6 is available for pre-order, and at a new store.
Can’t tell if this is a joke or just dumb. No, it’s not a real problem.
Here’s an OpenBSD conversation about routing table changes and flaky ISPs, though much of it could apply to any BSD.
I daresay this counts as Shellshock fallout.
pkgsrc-2014Q3 is out and announced.
No more cvsup for FreeBSD.

2014/10/02

BSDNow 057: The Daemon’s Apprentice

This week’s BSDNow has an interview about mentoring with Steve Wills of FreeBSD, the usual array of news. This week has more small device news than normal – NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and pfSense on a mini-ITX system. And a mention of my desktop article! I’m relevant!

2014/09/272014/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/27

Not even trying source links this week; there’s plenty else to link.

FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 2 is out. (has been out, but this is the announcement.)
The Open Source Software Engagement Award. An excellent, excellent move by Colin Percival.
Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD.
Outlining Thin Linux. The article linked to described a stripped down Linux that doesn’t have package dependencies just to run. That’s what BSD has been for several decades now…
DiscoverBSD for 2014/09/22.
pfSense has reached 2.2-beta.
“Can you recommend a good laptop that runs BSD well?“
NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi. (via)
Bash and PC-BSD.
The OpenBSD 5.6 theme song.
EuroBSDCon 2014 is going on right now. (via)

Update: EuroBSDCon is livestreaming! (via)

2014/09/202014/09/20

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/20

Low on the source links this week, but there’s plenty else.

TrueOS, CD-sized. Warning: lots of ads on that page. (via)
FreeBSD with a swap file instead of a swap partition. (via)
FreeNAS in VMWare Workstation, part 1. Lots of screenshots, little explanation. (via)
FreeBSD 10.1 Beta 1 is available.
A summary of the OpenBSD GSoC systemd compatibility program.
DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/09/15.
Minix 3.3, with NetBSD userland and pkgsrc.
pkgsrc is now frozen in preparation for pkgsrc-2014Q3.
A pkgsrc pbulk cwrappers test.
PC-BSD gains pc-sysconfig, a system configuration utility.
Lumina supports OpenBSD now too.
FreeBSD has upgraded to OpenPAM “Ourouparia”.
OpenBSD has dropped sendmail.
openbsd-misc@ had discussion about low-power servers, with the APU mentioned often. (see below for update)
From this thread, this javascript program will get you web video instead of Flash on many sites.
From talk@nycbug, some cheap BSD laptop ideas. (look for “Cheap Laptops…” thread)

Update: from talk@nycbug, George Rosamond gives a nice APU setup summary.

2014/08/302014/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/30

I went from 1 link to lots all in one night.

DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/08/25.
The Bitrig website has been redesigned, probably to prep for a 1.0 version “soon”.
Do any of the BSDs have an equivalent to initramfs?
FreeBSD now has /etc/rc.conf.d/<service> subdirectories.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC2 has been tagged.
The roadmap for PC-BSD’s Lumina has been updated.
And here’s a preview of what Lumina looks like and can do.
NetBSD now supports the (rare) arcofi(4) sound device.
NetBSD now has direct I/O for FUSE.
OpenBSD no longer needs rtsol(8) or rtsold(8).
OpenBSD is very close to replacing man with mandoc.
A script for OpenBSD and WPA&WPA2 Enterprise / LEAP connections.
Via openbsd-misc, how to set up IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 and IPSec.
So I wanted to try out BSD…
A week of pkgsrc #4.
The FreeBSD Foundation has an IPSec improvement project started.
VMWare Tools for FreeBSD 10. I could really use VMWare Tools for DragonFly.
DesktopBSD is attempting a comeback, and here’s discussion.
A thread about drive reliability. To paraphrase something else: “In the long run, they’re all dead.”

2014/08/232014/08/22

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/23

Another long list. These are making my Friday nights take some extra effort.

Oolite, an open source game based on Elite. Yes, it runs on BSD. I’m surprised I haven’t posted about it before. (via)
My Experience Switching from Slackware Linux to FreeBSD.
A week of pkgsrc, #3.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/08/18.
OpenBSD is gaining a rcctl(8) tool for automation.
Phabricator on FreeBSD installation notes.
20 years of FreeBSD ports.
“Does BSD perform disk caching less aggressively?” I bet the person asking was using two different machines at different times with different loads, which means he doesn’t know what he’s looking for.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s August Update is out.
Some people don’t like pkg.
The EuroBSDCon 2014 travel grant has been extended, and Google has grants to bring more female computer scientists there.
Spatializer support in NetBSD.
NetBSD is keeping up with the gpl2 version of GNU Make.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC1 has been tagged.
FreeBSD has a new automounter.
FreeBSD has a set of keymap conversion tools. Might be useful to someone?
FreeBSD now goes up to 256 CPUs. (I thought this already happened?)
Yay cross-pollination!
Apparently people don’t pay attention to file contents.
IPv6 tunneling on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD has replaced BIND with unbound in the base system.

2014/08/162014/08/15

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/16

A calm week, for once.

mandoc 1.13.1 is out.
The July/August issue of the FreeBSD Journal is out.
A week of pkgsrc #2.
Thinking about coming to FreeBSD from Arch.
Steam client on FreeBSD?
NetBSD sysinst now supports extended partitions, from an older GSoC project.
NetBSD has a nouveau importing script.
NetBSD has Embedded Kermit.
NetBSD 7 has been branched.
FreeBSD xen can now manage physical hardware.
OpenBSD distribution is moving, so last chance on some of the merch.
If you just want to donate to OpenBSD, here’s a conversation about it. (hint: CDs)
tcpdump on OpenBSD is ancient; if you need circular logfiles, there’s manual ways to do that.
Now’s a good time to check on the roadmap for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment.
A video conversation about FreeNAS and TrueNAS.

2014/08/092014/08/08

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/09

A relatively short week; I’m on the move today.

DiscoverBSD’s roundup for 2014/08/04.
FreeBSD installed. Your next 5 moves should be… (via)
switched from arch linux to openbsd, reference advice?
“make the Linux network stack as good as FreeBSD’s“. I’m leery of that statement. This comment may lead to more useful data.
FreeBSD ZFS snapshots with zfstools.
An old Macintosh IIci 25Mhz running Apache under NetBSD. Link was down when I checked it… probably from everyone else hitting it. (via)
MeetBSD 2014 is happening November 1-2 in San Jose, California. (via)
*NIX programming survey. (via)

2014/08/022014/08/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/02

I was thinking this was going to be a short week, but nope.

Using pkgsrc for HPC. Follow the thread for discussion of pkgsrc as a self-contained tool system, including the compiler.
Debugging Firefox on pkgsrc.
CDE is in pkgsrc-wip.
tmux in NetBSD got updated.
pcc in NetBSD got an update, too.
NetBSD can work on a Kobo Touch?
FreeBSD’s 40G XL710 driver reached version 1.0.
FreeBSD has “pkgfs, a file system implementation for reading files out of a compressed tarball, aka package.” From Juniper.
FreeBSD has Chromebook2 support.
The FreeBSD Foundation semiannual newsletter is out.
The FreeBSD quarterly report is out.
a survey of FreeBSD ZFS snapshot automation tools
Keeping pf.conf in sync. Many different suggestions.
OpenBSD’s homegrown httpd is gaining fastcgi.
Ted Unangst has summarized links to all the g2k14 hackathon reports.
PC-BSD has something called syscache, which I’m seeing commits for but I haven’t found what it is exactly – a caching system for package info, I think?
DIscoverBSD for 2014/07/28.
BSDSec, a BSD-specific security site. (via)
List of VPSs that support BSD. (via)

2014/07/262014/07/23

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/26

Part of this was done while traveling, but still a decent week for links.

A BSD-licensed timeout(1).
DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/07/21.
NetBSD has a start of a radeon driver.
FreeBSD has a Phabricator site, which is getting linked in some commits.
The OpenBSD cvsweb was down but appears to be back now.
Lua in NetBSD went from version 5.1 to 5.3.
Yay cross-pollination, sorta?
“*BSD on the desktop for an intermediate Linux user?“
NetBSD got a slight binary loading speedup.
OpenBSD + OSX/iOS and IPsec/l2tp setup, the thread and the followup.
Trying to establish the longest trust chain possible for an OpenBSD install.
OpenBSD’s new httpd is now installed by default. Lynx is no longer. (partially via)
ldapd/OpenBSD users may need this thread when upgrading.
DIAGNOSTIC does not slow down NetBSD.
Bitrig is nearing 1.0, according to an email on their tech@bitrig.org list. But I can’t find a way to link to the summary of what they have done. There’s the Bitrig roadmap, I guess?
An early draft (“prerelease”) of Michael Lucas’s next book, “FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials“, is available.
Undeadly has a lot of articles written by recent OpenBSD Hackathon participants. Instead of linking to specific ones, I’ll just point you at the site. (undeadly.org can’t tag or search to a summary page.)
BSD, the movie. (via).

2014/07/192014/07/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/19

More than the usual source commit messages this week.

LibreSSL got another point release. And complaints. (via)
NetBSD 7’s branch date is planned.
FreeBSD 9.3 is released. EoL for 9.2 has been extended, too.
Cloning a FreeBSD/ZFS Machine with ‘zfs send’.
An OpenBSD hackathon means a lot of articles.
Troubleshooting Large, Stalling git/ssh Transfers.
pkg == systemd == government conspiracy. Surely, the writer can’t be real.
Installing and Using TarSnap. A BSD-friendly service.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/07/14 roundup.
OpenBSD has OpenSSH and put together LibreSSL. OpenSSL bought… libressh.org? Use whois libressh.org to see. (no link; use your own whois lookup.) (via)
NetBSD has updated to dhcp 4.3.0.
OpenBSD has imported ucpp. (hope that’s the right ucpp; there’s lots out there)
One of those times it’s OK to store passwords in cleartext.
PC-BSD is now using Samba 4.1 by default.
OpenBSD has a new httpd(8). Bonus long-in-the-tooth joke, too.
Yay, SSL library cross-pollination.
Cross-cross-cross pollination, here. (someone do it in DragonFly, too)
ssh (on OpenBSD) now supports Unix domain socket forwarding.
EruoBSDCon 2014 is happening in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September. The FreeBSD Foundation is funding travelers.
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to.

2014/07/122014/07/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/12

Finally, a much more eventful week. I already noted LibreSSL’s release.

DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/07/07.
PC-BSD Digest 31 – there’s now a PC-BSD IRC channel.
Your server can probably tell you the temperature.
Future of pf in FreeBSD? Follow the thread. (via)
DragonFly’s pf alterations discussed for OpenBSD. It wouldn’t be easy without some of the underlying DragonFly architecture, but something for everyone to remember: Henning Brauer is generous with his time and will help people updating pf.
mfiutil on FreeBSD.
ia64 processor support is gone from FreeBSD.
NetBSD now has BIND 9.10.0-P2.
FreeBSD now has bmake-20140620.
OpenBSD now has lynx 2.8.8rel2.
OpenBSD’s relayd now has a new filter language.
pkgsrc 2014Q2 binaries are out now for several platforms.
FreeBSD has a new core team.
More cross-pollination – also from Android?
OpenBSD-current users will need to update their kernel.

2014/06/212014/06/21

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/21

I have a backlog from stuff I missed last week while traveling, so we all benefit!

PC-BSD 10.0.2-RC2 is out.
PC-BSD will be at SouthEast LinuxFest.
Here’s the roadmap for Lumina, PC-BSD’s new desktop environment.
DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/06/16.
FreeNAS vs. NAS4Free. Didn’t need to be 8 pages. (via)
Peter’s pf tutorial is very popular.
The freeze for pkgsrc-2014Q2 has started. (I’m a bit late on this one.)
pkgsrc has a new Pkgsrc Management Committee.
This thread, “Best pdf viewer in pkgsrc?” may be useful even if you aren’t on pkgsrc.
NetBSD gained vmx(4) from OpenBSD.
NetBSD now has pigz 2.3.1, which apparently stands for ‘parallel gzip‘.
Here’s one OpenBSD/GSoC project status update; I haven’t seen others.
Another OpenBSD desktop project started.
BoringSSL. (via) Already, benefits.
Ways to test pf.
FreeBSD/gnats has gone away, and none too soon.
Again, I love to see cross–pollination.
The July and August NYCBUG meetings: timekeeping and OpenBSD ports. Here’s some notes on what to expect for the August meeting.

2014/05/312014/05/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/31

Some meaty links this week.

How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system? I ask that question because I saw this.
Undeadly has a nice set of links to all the recent BSDCan 2014 presentation videos. I don’t see Francois Tigeot’s DragonFly talk in there, though – don’t know if it got recorded.
Packaging on FreeBSD, for those who haven’t moved to pkg yet. (via)
DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/05/26.
56 different BSD-oriented Twitter accounts.
A recording of Michael W. Lucas’s recent OpenBSD webcast is available now. I think that link will work – might require giving your email.
Getting files off your Android phone – this was on openbsd-misc@ but probably applies to any BSD. Follow the thread for answers.
kornbrew, a run ‘n’ play missing package manager for BSD.
NetBSD has moved to gcc 4.8.3.
If you are using OpenBSD and encrypted vnd, you will need to migrate off of it before the next OpenBSD release.
Google’s Compute Engine SDK runs just fine on OpenBSD, as Michael W. Lucas found out.
PC-BSD Digest 30.
Plugins in FreeNAS.
Warren Block’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.

2014/05/242014/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/24

A relatively calm week – probably because there were many people at BSDCan.

DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/05/19.
Undeadly has a summary post linking to all the OpenBSD presentations at BSDCan.
OpenBSD and the little Mauritian contributor. Hey, Loganaden was in the DragonFly GSoC… 3 years ago? It blurs together.
Julio Merino’s trip to BSDCan 2014 and his thoughts on Jenkins and Kyua after. I completely agree with what he says about BSD conventions: being around so many other people all excited about the same topic really energizes you.
CoovaChilli on FreeBSD.
NetBSD has support for the HYT-221/271/939 humidity/temperature I2C sensor.
Hey, that was nice of Mediatek to provide a free license for rum(4) in OpenBSD.
The EuroBSDCon papers deadline is extended a bit.
You can now see what your battery is supposed to have for capacity on OpenBSD.
Apache 1.3 and 2.0 are already depreciated and probably coming out of pkgsrc.
FreeBSD gains a driver for the Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710. There’s a long discussion on the list about the nonstandard i40evf name breaking things.
FreeBSD has sendmail 8.14.9.
FreeBSD has gained CUSE support. I can read what it does but don’t know where it’s used.