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2019/10/052019/10/04

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/05

There’s been a lot of BUG meetings lately; I think it’s time to form some more.

Fixing up KA9Q-unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..” Packet radio!
ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits.
How To Set Up Buildbot on FreeBSD. (via)
Next ChiBUG meeting: October 8th. I’ll post a reminder.
pkgsrc-2019Q3 is out.
Fuzzing Filesystems on NetBSD via AFL+KCOV. (PDF, via)
NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack. (via)
OPNsense 19.7.4 released.
Project Trident 12-U8 available.
FreeBSD 12.1-beta2 available.
sysupgrade(8) Added to OpenBSD 6.5.
OpenBSD moving towards 6.6.
Valuable News – 2019/10/01.
Cannot destroy ‘pool/data’: dataset already exists.
Support for the sgi platform discontinued. (OpenBSD)

2019/09/282019/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28

Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up.

KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs.
Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via)
ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases.
Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers (quick A.D. 2019 overview). (via)
Next NYCBUG meeting: Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, with Ori Bernstein. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
EuroBSDCon 2019.
1 day / 1 game : Red Alert with games/openra. It’s a FLV file.
Playing Ion Fury on OpenBSD. Another FLV link.
1 day / 1 game on OpenBSD: Sword of the Stars: The Pit by thfr@.
fnaify 2.0 out. (via)
Project Trident 12U7 now available.
List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style.
Valuable News – 2019/09/23.
OpenBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019.

Your book plug of the week: “Of course, if you don’t want to sponsor a book on SNMP I can’t blame you for that either. It’s a horrible topic that most of us would rather pretend didn’t exist.“

2019/09/212019/09/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/21

Whee!

Ori Bernstein will be giving the October talk at NYCBUG.
EuroBSDCon 2019 is happening right now. It might be streamed, though I haven’t yet found a link for that. (via)
BSD Pizza Night: 2019/09/26, 7–9PM, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Pinebook Pro, coming soon. Good for ARM development, but not a normal workstation. (via)
The return of startx(1) for non-root users [with some caveats].
Setting up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd.
OpenBSD Moonlight game streaming client from a Windows + Nvidia PC.
2 more games added to the #PlayOnBSD shopping guide: Sumico and Unexplored.
Project Trident 12-U6 now available.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Hiroshima. (via)
Setting up buildbot in FreeBSD jails. (via)
Sourcehut makes BSD software better. (via)
bhyvearm64: CPU and Memory Virtualization on Armv8.0-A. (via)
UNIX artifacts on the way. Might be BSD? (via)
Valuable News – 2019/09/16.
This book is everywhere.

2019/08/312019/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/31

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.

2019/08/242019/08/23

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/24

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.

2019/08/212019/08/22

A CVE fixed but still hidden

Here’s something I haven’t see before: at the time of me typing this, there are commits in DragonFly, FreeBSD, and I assume NetBSD (haven’t found the commit), but the 2019-5612 CVE entry is still shown as reserved and not public. This may change by the time you read this article, of course.

Update: the original source, found by an intrepid reader.

2019/08/172019/08/10

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/17

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)

2019/08/102019/08/07

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/10

A reminder: if you have a BSD user group and I’m not posting about your meetings, please make sure I know about it.

2019/08/032019/08/02

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/03

A bumper crop this week!

Video on OpenBSD, a presentation at NYCBUG by Andre Buskvekster, happening on the 7th. I’ll post a reminder on the 6th.
OpenBSD ttyplot examples.
Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2019).
NetBSD 9.0 release process has started. Aarch64 support sounds good.
TrueNAS 11.2 out.
PHP and OpenBSD talk by Mario Campos on August 12th at ChiPHPUG lightning talks.
OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon. The link source comments are the useful part.
FreeBSD-SA-19:12.telnet: Were these claims even properly investigated, or did Juniper bully an advisory through? This is a spectator sport item, really, if you can’t tell from the title.
Exploiting a No-Name FreeBSD Kernel Vulnerability. (via)
Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, second evaluation report.
Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Part 2.
Enchancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 2. Enhancing, I think it should be.
Work-in-progress threading support in LLDB.
Touchpad, Interrupted.

2019/07/272019/07/26

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/27

All over the map this week.

Broken ports? (OpenBSD games)
Realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization.
What’s the point of the Single UNIX Specification?
Resuming ZFS send.
A Chapter from the FBI’s History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln. (via).
OpenBSD and NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Nagoya. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/22.
NetBSD audio – an application perspective. (via)
Project Trident STABLE-12 Now Available. (via)
A week of pkgsrc #13.
OPNsense 19.7.1 released.
New FreeNAS Mini Entry-Level & High-End Models Unveiled by iXsystems.
Bill Joy interview, 1984. I once heard him described as a flat-food person. (PDF, via)

2019/07/202019/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/20

And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.

Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
DTracing PostGres. (via).
What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p) added to -current. I like this sort of external support.
NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
Want to learn more about BSD.
FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.

2019/07/18

BSDNow 307: Twitching with OpenBSD

BSD Now 307 accomplishes another trifecta week, mentioning Free, Net, and Open, and also mentioning that vBSDCon’s call for papers closes tomorrow – I’m mentioning it now cause it’ll be too late to mention for In Other BSDs this weekend.