NetBSD – Page 7 – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2018/08/252018/08/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/25

Still haven’t cleared my backlog of links…

“DISABLE HYPERTHREADING ON ALL YOUR INTEL MACHINES IN THE BIOS.” You should not be surprised by this. (via)
X11 on really small devices. There’s video, though it’s a .mov file and so could also be on YouTube.
mandoc-1.14.4 released.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Kyoto. (via)
Modern-day package requirements. I could have sworn I linked to this before.
Michael MacInnis: Oh a new Unix shell – BSDCan 2018. Video, also probably mentioned indirectly before, but now there’s comments.
unbound-adblock. “The ultimate network adblocker!” (via)
OpenBSD on an iBook G4. (via)
Netgate SG-1000. Runs pfSense; haven’t tried it but I like it just cause it’s tiny.
PICO-8 works on OpenBSD using iridium browser. (via)
People who run BSD: A series of BSD user interviews. I wish this kept going. (via)
Valuable News for 2018/08/11 and 2018/08/18.
Michael W. Lucas on IT the to D.
End of life for NetBSD 6.x.

2018/08/182018/08/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/18

Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.

Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.

2018/08/112018/08/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/11

Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.

Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
OPNSense 18.7 released.
FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)

2018/08/042018/08/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04

I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!

OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
Visualizing ZFS performance.
OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
Valuable News – 2018/07/27.

2018/08/022018/08/02

BSDNow 257: Great NetBSD 8

BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.

2018/07/31

mtree(8) update

Sascha Wildner has brought in the NetBSD version of mtree(8), as groundwork for some other changes. There’s little user effect at this point, but it’s worth being familiar with mtree as a tool. Take a look at the man page, especially the section on trojan horse detection under EXAMPLES.

2018/07/282018/07/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/28

A lot of this was early overflow posted ahead; I’ve been on the road.

NetBSD 8.0 released.
How to port your OS to EC2.
Booting Without /usr is Broken. Another step away from history and its lessons. (via)
“Is there a LibertyBSD community? how big is it?“
Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2018)
Valuable News – 2018/07/20.
OPNSense 18.1.12, 18.7-rc2 released.
A whole bunch of g2k18 hackathon reports.
“How many desktop BSD users are there?“
“Will NetBSD play well to being dual booted with Windows (XP)?“
New Patreon rewards for $1 tier. Michael W. Lucas snark as fortune file, which seems like a good deal to me.

2018/07/212018/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/21

A few of the links are not directly BSD-ish, but related.

Adventures in Open Source. Interesting for the fixes, and for just hearing how tools are being used – I will look up syncthing as an easier-to-fiddle-with replacement for sftp.
Version Control Before Git with CVS. Not that long ago for BSD projects, depending where you look. (via)
Ghost in the Shell – Part 2.
“Slightly older Thinkpads“, same answer always.
“SDF is a great UNIX shell provider running on NetBSD“. Not new, but worth repeating. (via)
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS [pdf]. (via)
OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi “auto-join” Plenty of comments in the source link.
Valuable News – 2018/07/15.
pkgsrcCon 2018 report & videos. Slides linked too. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers.

2018/07/142018/07/13

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/14

Some overflow, and thank goodness cause I don’t have a day without work this week.

Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer. (via)
Designing the software specification [for 386BSD] (via)
A question about BSD kernel syscalls/abi.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q2 release. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2018 in Berlin – Videos. (via)
A FreeBSD sysadmin job posting.
NetBSD 8.0RC2 is out.
[NetBSD] Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 2. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/07/08.
Introduce ‘auto-join’ to the [OpenBSD] wifi 802.11 stack. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
pkgsrc-2018Q2 packages for illumos now available. (via)
Michael W. Lucas got interviewed. Have you seen his Patreon video yet? (linked last week) It’s fun.
Jupiter Broadcasting: Tech Talk Today 281. An interview of Allan Jude from BSDNow.
Allan also shows up on podcast TechSNAP Episode 373: FreeBSD Already Does That.
Need ZFS Config Advice.

2018/07/072018/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/07

Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.

Update: how did I miss this? PkgSrcCon 2018 is happening now in Berlin, and there’s a livestream. (via)

BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable status bar.
Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
Cinnamon 3.8.2 now available on pkgsrc/wip. A new (to me) desktop. (via)
New FreeBSD Core Team Elected.
OPNSense 18.1.11 released.
MKSANITIZER – bug detector software integration with the NetBSD userland. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2. (via)
[Question/Poll] – Does your work use BSD? What for?
databasing and FreeNAS?
How to deploy an OpenBSD VM in Amsterdam. (via)
Bringup is Hard. The ‘What not to do’ section is quite correct. (PDF, via)

2018/07/06

BSDNow 253: Silence of the Fans

BSDNow 253: no interview, but it covers a range of topics I’d be proud to fit in an Other BSDs post. Of special interest (to me) this week: talking about fanless systems, cause it’s hot in North America, and Pinebooks, cause I still have a small computer fetish.

2018/06/302018/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/30

Some of this is overflow from last week.

m:tier subscription service for long-term OpenBSD updates. This is a good idea, connecting a service to the people that want to pay for it – without interfering with the “normal” free usage.
FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds. The comments at the link source may be better.
A Beginner’s Guide to Firewalling with pf. (via)
pfSense in VMware Workstation. (via)
“Would anyone be interested of this tool supported BSD?“
Using UNIX as IDE. (via)
FreeBSD 11.2 released.
HardenedBSD: Feature comparison vs other BSD distros. (via)
Booting OpenBSD kernels in EFI mode with QEMU. (via)
Call for testers – Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
WiFi Refresh. (via)
Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 11 – Key Components – Blue Light Spectrum Suppress. I didn’t know about Redshift; I like it.
Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon account, and a video to go with it. I’ve wondered if I should do something like that for the Digest.