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2018/01/132018/01/12

In Other BSDs for 2018/01/13

A full slate of BSDs this week.

Church of BSD. From 2005, and it is accurate for that timeframe. (via)
ADOM, newly updated at 3.0.6, but only at 1.1.1_6 in ports/dports, pkgsrc, and two years gone in OpenBSD. But the ADOM download page lists new BSD versions? I may not have investigated far enough.
OPNsense® 18.1 Release Candidate 1.
Does anyone run OpenBSD as a desktop (ie not a server)?
SMB V2+ client on FreeBSD 11.
Intel microcode updates now available for NetBSD. (via)
Bitcoin Full Node on FreeBSD.
July – September 2017 FreeBSD Status Report.
Hijacking Your Free Beasties. (via)
Operating System of the Year 2017 : NetBSD Third place. (via)
A positive look at GhostBSD 11.1. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/08.
OpenBSD-current now has ‘smtpctl spf walk’.

2018/01/062018/01/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/01/06

Note the non-profit link; that may be useful to you.

BSD on New Hardware.
BSDCAN2017 Interview with Peter Hessler, Reyk Floeter, and Henning Brauer. (video)
Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail.
As noted here in a comment, you can name a BSD non-profit as a recipient of the ‘commission’ from Amazon purchases. Doesn’t cost you anything, or at least Amazon keeps that part of their pricing opaque.
OpenBSD Workstation Guide. More hardware detail than I expected… and I really like the key storage idea. (via)
Scripts to run an OpenBSD mirror, rsync and verify. (via)
Best BSD for PowerPC machine?
The LLVM Memory Sanitizer support work in progress. On NetBSD. (via)
Linux Professional Institute and BSD Certification Group Join Efforts. (via)
Thinking of joining Mastodon? Try bsd.network!
Which BSD systems are affected by new Intel cpu bug?
Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”
Every day a bug is embargoed is actually two days. Looking at it that way, the 48 hours it took Matt Dillon to patch DragonFly turned into 367 days – and it was Google/Intel’s decision to have it that way. (via)
MWL’s 2017 Wrap-Up. Ironically, systemd is a moneymaker for him.

2017/12/232017/12/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/23

Last minute, of course.

2017/12/092017/12/08

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/09

Last minute, as always!

The anatomy of tee program on OpenBSD. (via)
Leaving Amazon AWS. (via, I think)
FreeBSD Port-Knocking.
s2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling (stsp@) on wireless (iwm(4), athn(4) and more) progress.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/12/03.
Cross-BSD pollination. (DragonFly->OpenBSD, via)
FreeBSD 11.0 is end-of-lifed.
OPNsense 17.7.9 released.
BSDCan 2018 Call for Papers is out. (via)
DTrace & ZFS Being Updated On NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD desktop for newbies. (via)
What sort of fun projects are you guys working on using Dragonfly?
pledge() work in progress.
arm64 platform now officially supported [and has syspatch(8)].
“SSH Mastery” 2nd ed tech reviewers wanted.

2017/12/022017/12/09

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/02

Totally last-minute.

“Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (1/2)
Reflections on Hackathons.
Cheap temp and humidity sensors. Probably BSD-compatible, given the list.
OpenBSD Router Boilerplate. (via)
Suggestions on High-end Laptop for dual-booting with BSD/Windows.
The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD.
Linux user picking a BSD for Personal Computer.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/11/27.
Two-factor authentication SSH with Duo in FreeBSD 11 (7:23)

2017/11/252017/11/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/25

One month to Christmas!

2017/11/112017/11/10

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/11

A good variety this week.

Building software with Ravenports.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover.
LISA 2017 Conference Recap.
LibreSSL 2.6.3 released. (via)
First Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition preorders available.
GhostBSD 11.1 RC1 is ready! (via)
p2k17 Hackathon reports: 1 2 3 4 5.
Why did we build our solution on top of FreeBSD?
Nearly Online Zpool Switching Between Two FreeBSD Machines.
Upcoming SemiBUG workshop suggestion.
Open source Visio-ish network diagramming. (From a BSD list, so I’m linking it here.)
pfSense – Cisco Aironet AP’s (only 1 works, all identical).
NAT through pfSense question.
Ilja van Sprundel – Are all BSDs are created equally? Video, unfortunately picking “winners”. (via)
4.2BSD on SIMH vax with networking. (via)
NetBSD on Allwinner SoCs Update. (via)

2017/11/042017/11/02

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/04

This was an easy week for finding links.

API provisioning for BCHS web apps. Looks like there’s a new near-monthly article about using BCHS near-monthly, which I did not know. For example: kwebapp. (via)
Next planned NYCBUG meeting: January 3rd.
FOSDEM 2018 will have a BSD Devroom; the call for papers is out now – due the 26th.
os-test. Lots of BSD results. (via)
Windows 10, VirtualBox 5.2.0 w/ FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT Guest.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Report.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Recap.
PFSense for PCI compliant network?
Two-factor authentication for SSH on FreeBSD 11 – Part 1 – SSH Key+Account Password. (via)
How to use bta2dpd(8) with Bluetooth headphone under NetBSD-current. (via)
ZFS Feature Flags.

2017/10/282017/10/26

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/28

For once, I was able to work ahead and get this done early!

2017/10/212017/10/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/21

Cobbled together Friday night because my new job oddly has less hours of work but less time to screw around. That’s for the best.

OpenBSD Jumpstart. (via)
dtrace and ZFS update (for NetBSD, via)
syspatch(8) Binary Updates Now for the Latest Release Only.
Monitoring OpenBSD router.
Sneaking in two threads (wait, more) about the DragonFly 5 release.
FreeBSD 11.0 EOL.
Why did OpenBSD silently release a patch before the embargo? Scroll to the end of the link for this item. Here’s the explanation. (via)
FreeBSD: Building software from ports (2/2).
Syspatch for one release only. (via)

2017/10/142017/10/13

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/14

All at the last minute, this.

rcmds removed from FreeBSD. (Thanks, Jeremie)
Michael W. Lucas will be presenting on Tarsnap at the next SemiBUG meeting – the 17th.
There may be a OpenBSD porting workshop with NYCBUG in early December.
The anatomy of ldd program on OpenBSD.
How to create BSD bootable USB Stick ?
EuroBSDcon 2017: “travel notes” after the conference. (via)
pfSense 2.4.0-RELEASE Now Available! (comments)
OpenBSD 6.2 released.
openbsd changes of note 629.
FreeBSD and APRS, or “hm what happens when none of this is well documented..”
I’m thinking about OpenBSD again. (via)
Transition to Zstandard-compressed packages has begun.

2017/10/072017/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/07

Assembled all on Thursday!

No Plan Survives Contact with the Internet. pfSense 2.4.0 delay, related to recent dnsmasq discoveries.
pfsense rant.
Exploring BSD for my CDN.
Ohio LinuxFest 2017 Recap.
First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished! Related: Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon.
OPNsense 17.7.5 released.
autoconf/clang (No) Fun and Games.
FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE out.
Upgrading from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.1 via freebsd-update and beadm.
ClonOS offers web-based container/VM management on FreeBSD base. (via)
LibertyBSD 6.1 released. (via)
Anybody interested in taking over my Emacs front-end to (Free)BSD pkg?
How to blank laptop screen?
Any way to control the battery charge levels (thinkpad)
Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance. (via multiple places)
pkgsrc-2017Q3 is out.

2017/09/302017/10/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/30

All the BSD activity for the week was absorbed by EuroBSDCon, I think.

Remember, BSDNow has links to the raw video of EuroBSDCon. (Update: finished video now available.)
BSD Pizza Night in Oregon. Unfortunately too late by the time I found it, but maybe there will be another?
FreeBSD 10.4-RC2 Available.
FreeBSD status report for 2017Q2.
lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD.
The new TNF Board of Directors are installed and patched for 2017. (via)
Do any of the BSD’s work to replace GPL’ed software on the grounds that the GPL is restrictive?
FreeBSD 10.4-RC1 with Xfce4 help.
OPNSense ~~17.7.3~~ 17.7.4 released.
EuroBSDcon 2017 Presentations Available. The OpenBSD ones.
FreeBSD: Building software from ports (1/2).
EuroBSDCon 2017 Reflection.

2017/09/232017/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/23

Thank goodness for overflow from last week, because I haven’t had time to read.

OpenBSD Daily Recap.
pfsense vs opnsense vs monowall vs smoothwall vs ?
*nix distros with default shells? Not actually sure what the author’s goal is.
X11 forwarding vs. Virtual Machine.
Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD. (via)
AMD RX 480 Support?
[NetBSD] buildbot in the binutils-gdb project. (via)
vBSDcon 2017: BSD at Work.
pkgsrc is in freeze for 2017Q3.
NYCBUG is having a Tor installfest on October 4th.
Simulation resources, from the August SemiBUG.
Another BSD, but not for computing: the “Federal Association of Sex Services (BSD)” – read article through.

2017/09/022017/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/02

Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.

FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
Introducing sandboxfs.
“TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
Setting up OpenBSD’s LDAP Server (ldapd) with StartTLS and SASL. (via)
Ansible OpenBSD Cookbooks. (via)
This crazy hardware porting example thread led me to some new hardware, some of which may run a BSD? The Pinebook is apparently bootable but I don’t know if that means usable.
Also: using the audio port for serial? First time I heard of that. (referring to previous crazy hardware links above)
Eventually all packaging systems eat an operating system. And then they aren’t packaging systems any more. (via)
DFS with Freenas for data replication between multiple sites?
openbsd changes of note 627
yet another introduction to yacc
OpenBSD 6.1, a an overview.

2017/08/192017/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/19

I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.

2017/08/052017/08/04

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/05

Spot the sarcasm!

FreeBSD 11.1 released.
Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD)
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD)
mandoc-1.14.2 released.
OPNsense 17.7 released.
hurray we won
X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via)
LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via)
Red Hat deprecates btrfs in RHEL 7.4. I found this relevant to recent comments.
Hosts/BSD – for when you need to run your BSD inside a penguin.
Aeris details. It’s nice of them to target BSD machines, too. I feel included. (via)
Contributing to FreeBSD.

2017/07/152017/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15

Backlog: cleared.

Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
AF3e Status, 17 July 2017. That’s Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition.
Looking for a benchmark comparation between PF (OpenBSD) vs NPF (NetBSD)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (2017-07-10). (via)
pkgsrcCon 2017 report and also slides/video. (via)
Recommend BSD to Thinkpad users? Can’t find an actual thread, though.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs. (via)
OPNsense 17.7 RC1.
OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop.

2017/07/082017/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/08

This one wrote itself almost in one night from articles I had stored up.

2017/06/252017/06/23

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/25

Back to overflow, which sort of makes my life easier.

BCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite. Linked before, so comments on source links are where to look if you are already familiar with BHCS.
Possible stack vulnerabilities in BSD-land.
How to disable cores in OpenBSD?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
MP-safe Networking in NetBSD. PDF, from BSDCan. (via)
BSDCan 2017 Recap from iXSystems.
Unix in Europe: between innovation, diffusion and heritage. October 19th, Paris, France. (via)
The Stack Clash, via many places.
pkgsrcCon 2017, in one week.
PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber? Note that this is for BSD-based, server-based routers. Follow the thread for lots of hardware talk.
OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make life harder for ROPers.