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2018/02/172018/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/17

Reached overflow again! That secretly makes me happy.

Discord channels for BSD’s?
SemiBUG’s speaker schedule for the next few months is published. Note next meeting is on the 20th.
SVS to mitigate meltdown. (NetBSD)
Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD. Another FOSDEM video, which I note because it shows code history imported back for multiple decades.
Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative. (via)
FreeBSD/EC2 history.
Under which circumstances is NetBSD a better option than the other BSDs?
Citrix ICA Receiver Support in BSDs.
SSH Mastery 2/e out. Technically not a BSD-specific book, but you know the author was using BSD as the base, and includes it in the material.
Which BSD distro is suitable as a Linux QEMU host if someone is curious about BSD?
Trying iocage to get an old version of FreeBSD.
Google Summer of Code and FreeBSD, NetBSD.

2018/02/102018/02/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/10

Very much last-minute; compiled 20 minutes before bed Friday night.

a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF. (via)
An Empirical Study on the Reliability of UNIX Utilities (1989). Some of it is early BSD. How much still applies? (via)
The Origin of the word Daemon. (via)
“SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back. BSD-based.
Sponsoring a Scam. New BSD book on the way, I think, and you can sponsor it.
OPNsense 18.1.1 released. No, wait, 18.1.2.
Overriding pkgrsc’s default Framework path (on macOS).
BSD from scratch – from source to OS with ease on NetBSD. Also as video. (via)
AT&T copyrighting 3 blank lines. Sorta relevant to the BSD split. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2018/02/05.
Remi Locherer’s EuroBSDcon 2017 Talk.
NetBSD – A modern operating system for your retro battlestation. Video. In fact, all the FOSDEM 2018 videos are up, I think.

2018/02/032018/02/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/03

Whee!

The history of NetBSD/atari and support for ATARI compatible Milan. Not in English, but it’s a slide deck so lots of pictures. (via)
The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign. “If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be at our goal.” (via)
Any good Unix options available for X86?
The LLVM Sanitizers stage accomplished. (via)
ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
TrueNAS makes the cut for Avid editing.
DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/29.
Install OpenBSD on dedibox with full-disk encryption. (via)
OPNSense 18.1 released.

2018/01/272018/01/26

In Other BSDs for 2018/01/27

Done last minute on Friday, mostly.

grep your way to freedom. (via)
Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions.
Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames. (via)
pfSense home unit. Follow the thread for some interesting hardware suggestions, including this one.
OpenBSD <-> projectors. In case of future need.
OPNSense 17.7.12 released.
Michael W. Lucas podcast interview.
“Permissive licensing is wrong?” – No it’s not! (2/2).
DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/22.
How To Run Your Own Mail Server. (via)
T_PAGEFLT – Working with the NetBSD kernel. (via)
False rumours or not? False.
A better looking XDM. (via)
What would be your elevator pitch to a Linux user on why they should try a BSD distribution?

2018/01/202018/01/19

In Other BSDs for 2018/01/20

Done well ahead of time.

ELI5: In 2018, what are the pros and cons between Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS in terms of kernel technology and user space tools.
Adding IPv6 to an Nginx website on FreeBSD / FreshPorts.
Should I use BSD?
Certifications…are they worth it? Will they be in the future?
OPNsense 18.1-RC2 released.
CPU microcode update code for amd64. Hints of a new firmware update from Intel.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q4 release.
Interview with Abdorrahman Homaei.
A need for BSD items at freecodecamp. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/15.
Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown.

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.

BSDDNow 226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List

I’m a bit late posting this, since I’ve been on the road, but: BSDNow 226 is up, diving into recent FreeBSD status and Foundation reports, OpenBSD work, and other details.

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.

BSDNow 223: Compile once, debug twice

BSDNow 223 covers a wide range: debuggers, Rust, Docker, EuroBSDCon 2017, pine64, and some network tools for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Boggle, banner, tetris added

Rimvydas Jasinskas has added the OpenBSD versions of banner(1), boggle(6), and tetris(6), along with additional fortune(6) material.

Odd note: tetris(6) originated with a 1989 International Obfustcated C Code Contest winner, according to the man page, but I can’t find it in the 1989 list.

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!

2017/11/182017/11/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18

Whee!

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)

2017/10/212017/10/20

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.