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2016/07/092016/07/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/09

I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.

garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
Core.9 is now in session.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
A request for BSD variants information.
BSD podcast?
The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
TrueNAS 9.10 out.
BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.

2016/06/252016/06/24

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/25

A good amount of user group material this week.

Installfest, Spread the word at HOPE! BSD Installfest, July 22-24, New York City.
Vote up if… Dragonfly should be on the Desktop!
My BSDCan “OpenPAM & BSD” talk
SNIA DSI Recap. Big numbers!
NetBSD Introduction by Siju Oommen George.
HardenedBSD vs OpenBSD. (via)
Distrowatch reviews four more live upgrade methods, including PC-BSD and OpenBSD. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/20.
BSD Magazine for May. (A little late, but this is the newest issue.)
June meeting minutes from SemiBUG.
If you want to install RetroBSD or LiteBSD at the July NYCBUG meeting, Brian Callahan has a list of hardware sources for you. (I did not know of Olimex before…)

2016/06/182016/06/18

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/18

If you didn’t already look at it, BSDNow’s summary of BSDCan events is worth going to; it’s complete enough I deliberately left BSDCan links out of here. Undeadly has an OpenBSD-specific summary too.

ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t. Sorta-BSD. (via)
The Ultimate NetBSD Router. (Thanks, Tobias)
Shawn Webb Tells You All About HardenedBSD Project.
Using FreeBSD as a File Server With ZFS. Online course.
Latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal now available.
2016 FreeBSD Community Survey.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/13.
OPNsense 16.1.17 released.
BSDCan 2016 Recap. From iXSystems.
Lightly Experienced OS X and GNU/Linux User Looking to Learn [Free]BSD.
Unik – The Unikernel Compilation and Deployment Platform (uses NetBSD’s Rump) (via)
First image of someone trying to sell a commercial version of BSD 4.1 in 1982 (Fortune Systems 32:16)
ART single thread performances. (via)

2016/06/17

garbage[30]: Adventures at BSDCan

garbage[30] has BSDCan trip reports, OpenBSD news, and complaints about CVS, among other things. CVS is an easy target but I want to hear it.

2016/06/112016/06/10

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/11

I’m hitting every type of BSD this week.

Show HN: TensorFlow on FreeBSD. (via)
Configuring PF and Fail2ban on FreeBSD. (via)
20 years of NetBSD code bloat. (via)
OPNsense 16.1.16 released.
ktrace adventures: browser ktrace browsing and accidentally nonblocking.
Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD. Also here, via. That first link is a bit clickbaity, and I’ve seen it repeated that way.
BSDNews for 2016/05/31 and for 2016/06/06.
pkgsrc 50th release interviews: Joerg Sonnenberger, Sevan Janiyan, Jonathan Perkin, and Ryo ONODERA. (via multiple)
NetBSD: A new beginning? (via)
14.000+ regularly updated pkgsrc binary packages for OS X. (via)
BSD and the Thinkpad X220.
My life with FreeBSD on a Thinkpad X220. I love my work x220, but I’ve said it before.
pc bsd can’t detect my wifi card.
Why I run OpenBSD. (via)
Dru Lavigne, interviewed for BSD Magazine.
select works poorly.
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Version canadienne)

2016/06/10

garbage[29]: A nice, shiny comment

Friday’s garbage podcast is up, this one being number 29. It’s a one-man show this week, but you get to hear about joshua’s experience booting OpenBSD on an HP Chromebook 13.

2016/06/042016/06/06

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/04

Really, last minute – assembled from random tabs I’ve been saving, late Friday.

FreeBSD gets zfsd.
Announcing NetBSD 7.0.1. (via)
pfSense now boots on a new ARM board, the “uFW“. I assume it will be for sale soon. (via)
~~OpenBSD/armv7 now has a bootloader.~~ Repeat link. (via)
Bhyve now with graphics support. (via)
Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not?
BSDCan Intro Session Volunteers Wanted
W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD. Also here, here, and here, if you want to contrast commenting styles on the same story.
Bruce Schneier’s Skein hashing function is now in FreeBSD. (via)
Comparing FreeBSD’s upgrade method against Linux distros. (via)
ARMv7 now has a bootloader.
Deploying On Office / Workgroup Server on FreeBSD – Workshop eBook.

2016/05/282016/05/27

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/28

Fun links, this week.

BCHS Stack – BSD, C, Httpd, SQLite. Fun! (via)
How to chroot www/firefox on NetBSD. (via)
misc@openbsd: ‘NSA addition to ifconfig’. (via)
OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B. (via)
Comfort On The Command Line – A primer. Actually talks about the command line on multiple platforms including BSD, not just “here’s bash”. (via)
Privilege Separation and Pledge. Slides and video.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/23.
OPNSense 16.1.15 released.
OSCON 2016 Recap. From a BSD-vendor-centric point of view.
BSDGame Sail. Comments have link right to BSD UNIX 4.3 pre-emulated for running on Windows.
My FreeBSD Story. (Michael W. Lucas’s story, I mean.)

2016/05/212016/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/21

Summer convention season is coming; start scheduling!

Implementing pledge on linux using seccomp. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2016 is in about a month and a half (July 2-3). They’re accepting talk proposals now, for lightning talks or extended presentations. (via kamil on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
A review of FreeBSD 10.3’s new features. (via)
BSD OS’ include GNU tools re-written for BSDL?
Practicing ZFS storage failure quickly and easily with QEMU. On Linux, but could probably work the same on FreeBSD. (via)
pfSense 2.3.1 is out.
pkgsrc-security@ has a new GPG key.
KnoxBUG’s next meeting is May 26th and Dru Lavigne is the guest speaker.
OPNsense 16.1.14 released.
p2k16 hackathon: pirofti@ on octeon and TPM and jasper@ on gnome, puppet and more.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/16.
FreeNAS vs TrueNAS.
Hubert Feyrer’s recent NetBSD news roundup.
*BSD on laptop, anyone?

2016/05/142016/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/14

Some DragonFly links are sneaking in here just to get them cleared out.

May 17th: Ike Levy speaks at SemiBUG. Go if you are anywhere near; Ike’s a good speaker and passionate about BSD.
Speaking of scheduling: BSDCan 2016 is less than a month away.
Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me. (via)
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. (via)
FreeBSD PowerPC 32bit pkg repository (unofficial). ~19,500 packages, more to come. (via)
As a Linux user, where should I start with experimenting with BSD?
DragonFly i915 driver updated to Linux 4.3. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/09.
Cons of staying on an old -RELEASE version ?
More p2k16: ajacoutot@ on Gnome, rc and rcctl improvements, krw@ on pdisk, softraid and more.
SROP mitigation committed. (OpenBSD)
The 50th Quarterly pkgsrc Release, pkgsrc-2016Q1. Also, stats.
Thomas Levine’s notes from the recent NYCBUG presentation on Urchin.
NetBSD on the Sega Dreamcast, presented on a Dreamcast.
How BSD was built, and how it lost the lead to Linux.
Running Tor in a NetBSD rump unikernel. (via)
Running FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD as a virtualised guest on Online.net.
Meet Joe Maloney – Lead System Architect for PC-BSD. I like the transition from volunteer to employee.
LinuxFest Northwest 2016: The Devil in the Details: Switching to BSD from Linux. Apparently one of the most popular videos.

2016/05/072016/05/05

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/07

Another trifecta week.

GNOME 3.20.1 on OpenBSD, the usual screencast; not too bad for a server OS. (via)
A comprehensive guide for OpenBSD desktop?
Tredly – Containers for Unix. Powered by FreeBSD. (via)
Bootstrap pkgsrc under ‘bash on Windows’. This should be on pkgsrc.org.
OpenHUB’s NetBSD Project Statistics.
Dru Lavigne Will be Speaking @ KnoxBUG.
New Release Schedule and Lumina Desktop 0.9.0 Released. (via)
OpenBSD Foundation Announces Gold Sponsor.
libcrypto errata – May 2016. Related: regarding embargoes.
.NET framework ported to NetBSD. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/02.
GhostBSD 10.3 Alpha release! (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status report for 2016Q1.
p2k16 OpenBSD hackathon:

2016/04/302016/04/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/30

I think I manage to link at least one story for every BSD type this week, or close to it.

FreeBSD GPIO Benchmark. (via)
ASLR now on by default in amd64. (via)
anti-ROP mechanism in libc.
The p2k16 hackathon has begun.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/25.
Rethinking Unix: A New Apropos Implementation from NetBSD. (via)
BSD at LinuxFest Northwest 2016.
UPnP on Pfsense: security risks and alternatives. (via)
OpenSMTPD, spamd, SpamAssassin and Dovecot on OpenBSD – part 1 (via)
a prog by any other name. Some BSD history.
OPNsense 16.1.12 released

2016/04/232016/04/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/23

I apologize for ending with a question.

Why Linux can’t be distributed with ZFS included. “Because it’s not BSD” is the facile answer. (via)
pkgsrcCon2016 call for presentations. (via)
HardenedBSD delivers security PIE. (via)
NetBSD machines at AsiaBSDCon 2016. (via)
OPNsense 1.16.11 released.
Build a FreeBSD 10.3-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
libressl – more vague promises.
The BSD family of operating systems.
Does BSD distributions contain any GNU software?
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/18.
Question about NetBSD — How to update Compiled Binaries
BSD at LinuxFest Northwest
Year of the OpenBSD desktop
Installing ElectroBSD by exploiting “HardenedBSD”. (via)
FreeBSD and NetBSD Google Summer of Code projects. (via multiple places)
This may be a facetious question, but: are the new hyperconverged servers just… servers for people that don’t know what their operating system can do?

2016/04/22

garbage[23]: High-availability real-time clustering dealy

Garbage 23 is up cause it’s Friday and the content is initially summarized like this: “Brandon tries not to use Google for a week”. It’s apparently not that bad?

2016/04/162016/04/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/16

This is one of those weeks where a bunch of release all tumble together by chance.

UbuntuBSD Is Looking To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavor. (still confusing)
PC-BSD 10.3 out; PC-BSD 11 out next. 10.3 was out last week; I missed this link before.
pfSense 2.3-RELEASE Now Available! (also seen here and here)
PostgreSQL – Add BSD authentication method. (via)
BSD and Toshiba Chromebook 2.
FreeBSD 10.3-Release on AWS. As Colin Percival points out, the last half-dozen releases have been on AWS too.
Undeadly and HTTPS. (via)
Penguicon 2016 Lucas Track Schedule. For being called “Penguicon”, there’s a lot of BSD events there.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/11.
OPNsense 16.1.9 released.
OPNsense 16.1.10 released.
Unix’s file durability problem, which leads in comment to disks from the perspective of a file system (McKusick), which I thought I had linked before but maybe not. (via)
FreeNAS, TrueNAS, and BadLock.
UbuntuBSD Should Heed Kubuntu’s Cautionary Tale.

2016/04/15

garbage 22: potential

Garbage number 22 is out, and talks about a number of things, including NVMe support in OpenBSD, programming in Go, and ‘reader-submitted issues’.

2016/04/092016/04/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/09

Back to the normal rotation; not done early, not done late.

2016/04/08

garbage[21]: Much ado about nothing

This week’s garbage podcast is out, with some OpenBSD topics and also some interesting direct experience of licensing violations.

2016/04/022016/04/01

In Other BSDs for 2016/04/02

I’m a bit short this week, but I’ve been on the road and unable to click around as much as I’d like.

FreeBSD running on xhyve tutorial. (via)
Ubuntu on Windows. It’s the year of ~~Linux on the Desktop~~ Bash on Windows and unfortunately that’s probably good enough for most. Could be worse, and was.
OpenBSD 5.9 released (early!) (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/03/28.
TrueNAS Three-Peats!!!

2016/04/01

garbage[20]: OpenBSD 5.9

The 20th garbage episode, justing by the summary, talks a lot about the new OpenBSD 5.9 release and other BSD-related matters.