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2015/07/182015/07/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/18

I seem to have In Other BSDs exactly 1 day off from the OPNsense release schedule, so far.

A wild Puffy appeared! (via)
FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2 Now Available
Reducing RAM usage in pkgin
~~OPNsense 15.7.2 Released~~ OPNsense 15.7.3 Released
Lumina Desktop 0.8.5 Released
Sudo Replacement Hits the Tree “doas”
Making my RPI serial console work (on NetBSD)
pkgsrc-2015Q2 packages for OS X now available
mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox (BSDCan 2015 presentation)
Bit the bullet and installed a pfSense router at work
This ThinkPad Batteries thread is full of good information.
The x201/x220/x230 series of ThinkPads seem to be universally recommended for BSD; especially OpenBSD. (My x220 at work, while it does not run a BSD, is fantastic)
A bug that takes 45 intervening years to have an effect.
NUMA in FreeBSD.
CloudABI discussion/explanation, to some extent.
recoverdisk(1), a program I did not know about. (via)

2015/07/112015/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/11

This is a week for unexpected BSD news – OpenBSD and Microsoft, a new 4.4BSD variant, and so on.

Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD. (via)
FreeNAS 10: Early M2 Preview.
More BSDCan trip reports, from Warren Block, Christian Brueffer, Kamil Czekirda, and Shonali Balakrishna.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/06.
Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor. Probably related to OpenSSH-in-Powershell.
Also, SunSSH replaced by OpenSSH.
OPNSense 15.7.1 out. 15.7 is apparently a release branch, so this is what you follow.
pkgsrcCon 2015: A year of pkgsrc 2014 – 2015. All the presentations are online, in fact. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2015 Preliminary Program Published.
A new (to me) BSD: “LiteBSD is a variant of 4.4BSD operating system adapted for microcontrollers.” It’s BSD on some super–teeny hardware. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I’d love to get something like that working.
OpenBSD and Valgrind, instructions.
If you’ve got Bitcoin and an urge to donate to OpenBSD, pace yourself.
July 20th, Calgary: OpenBSD hackathon/discussion.
pkgsrc 2015Q2 released.
Moving pkgsrc-wip away from Sourceforge. Turns into a long argument about CVS.
Yay cross-pollination! (and thanks to Sascha Wildner for turning up WARNS levels and fixing things, for years.)
FreeBSD ports is now also using a quarterly model.
FreeBSD now has the CloudABI model, sorta like Capsicum.
FreeBSD Vagrant images can now be automatically uploaded to Google Compute Engine, VMware, and (new to me) Hashicorp Atlas.
Fractal cells, a new BSD-based quick startup platform. Launching at end of month. (via)

2015/07/042015/07/04

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/04

Insert fireworks graphic here.

OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective. (via)
Call for Testing: Valgrind on OpenBSD.
10.2-PRE-RELEASE and 11.0-CURRENT Images Available for Testing. (PC-BSD)
BSDCan 2015 trip reports: Zbigniew Bodek and Vsevolod Stakhov.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/29.
DistroWatch Weekly talks about running FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi 2 computer. (via)
BSD Magazine: “Web server security”.
FreeNAS 10: A developer’s perspective.
NetBSD on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 (Tegra K1)
New binary releases for NetBSD on Raspberry Pi
BSD dmesg collection service
OPNSense 15.7 is released.
finding bugs in tarsnap
FreeBSD gets a graphical front-end for pkg-ng. (probably works for DragonFly dpkg too) (via)
User account administration for Linux/BSD
moving from Linux to BSD and the Acer C720. I already replied all over that.

2015/06/272015/06/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/27

More and more BSDCan videos keep showing up. (See the bottoms of individual speaker pages on the BSDCan site.) Here’s the PC-BSD summary.

A pfSense SG-2440 review at Maximum PC.
pfSense 2.2.3 is out.
Puppet and OpenBSD.
I love cross-pollination.
There’s a new BSD user group in Vancouver, Canada. “VanBUG”.
TrueOS/PC-BSD/FreeNAS keep showing as building from the same source tree. That makes sense.
Ingo Schwarze’s slides (PDF) from his recent CDBUG/NYCBUG presentations. (via)
NetBSD 7.0_RC1 is out.
Commit jokes are the best jokes.
FreeBSD on Azure.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/22.
BSDCan 2015 trip reports one and two.
PC-BSD Documentation can now be Translated Using Pootle.
out with the old, in with the less. Notable link to “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers“.

2015/06/202015/06/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/20

I compiled this all bit early, so hopefully nothing exciting happens between now and when it gets posted.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/16.
YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”. (BSD-friendly)
Signify shortcomings.
BSDCan 2015, a review.
BSDNow has an already-mentioned BSDCan presentation roundup, and various OpenBSD presentations are showing on the OpenBSD papers page, and there’s a video collection page too. (via)
Best laptop for FreeBSD or variants? (via)
Mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox [pdf] (via)
PkgsrcCon 2015 is definitely happening.
We’re about halfway through the pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze.
OpenBSD 5.8 has been branched. (Is that the right term?)
NetBSD has internal storage on the EdgeRouter. OpenBSD can boot there too. Is there something switch like (12+ ports) that boots a BSD? Other than Juniper? (speaking of which, I worked on an EX4300 a few days ago and liked it.)
Temperature handling in OpenBSD has been much improved.
FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black units now support HDMI.

2015/06/132015/06/18

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/13

News is a bit light this week, probably because BSDCan was eating up people’s attention. I am assuming video will be up soon; I want to see the keynote.

Tarsnap GUI for the desktop. (via)
The pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze is starting tomorrow.
USB thermometer support, OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
Intel is building BSD-specific utilities, if I read this right.
BSDCon Brasil has expanded their convention and have room to present more papers.
Putting FreeBSD 11 onto a Raspberry Pi 2.
Blobs blobs blobbity people care about concept more than reality.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/08.
FreeNAS in production.
Test the new OpenBSD audio(4) driver.
xhyve, a port of FreeBSD bhyve to Mac OS X.
autonet, a simple wifi network chooser for OpenBSD.
Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You. (via)

2015/06/062015/06/05

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/06

A more compact week.

usesthis.com has a BSD category. (via)
Another BSD technology comes to Windows.
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. 15 year old article. (via)
Next CDBUG meeting is June 17th.
BSD Magazine for May.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/01.
FreeBSD 8.4 is reaching end-of-life.
“The launchd on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD train is never coming“. (via)
There seems to be some sort of merging between PC-BSD and FreeNAS build scripts – or something more complex is happening?
FreeNAS 10 Hackathon.
My FreeNAS Lab.
Putting OpenBSD in the cloud.
Replacements for OpenBSD 5.7 disc 2 have been shipped.
There’s two new LibreSSL mailing lists.
Yay, cross-pollination!
OpenBSD now supports RTL8188CE wifi cards via rtwn(4).
Duovero Gumstix boards are (or will be?) supported on FreeBSD.
SRIOV support for Intel 10G cards on FreeBSD.

2015/05/302015/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/30

A short but more interesting list this week, I think.

ZFS Mastery is out in print and electronic versions.
BSD management with Puppet.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/25.
Dell Networking OS 9 powered by NetBSD.
Lumina Desktop Status Update/FAQ.
PC-BSD 10.1.2: an Interview with Kris Moore.
A FreeBSD Foundation visit to the (a?) NYI datacenter.
“Patrol Read” support in OpenBSD.
syslog-ng and ELK on OpenBSD.
Yay for compatibility!
The Linuxulator on FreeBSD now does 1:1 threads and x86_64.
See this “Low Cost 10G Router” post on NANOG? Follow the very long thread, and you’ll notice a reoccurring theme: set up a BSD machine.
Bitrig at NYCBUG on 2015/05/06, video.

Your Not BSD link of the week: Never fix anything.

2015/05/232015/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/23

A calmer week, probably because of the U.S. holiday.

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is out (eBook format).
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/18.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 is out. (Update: hotfix)
freebsd-wifi-build (via)
bhyve on Pluribus, a platform I’m unfamiliar with. (via)
pkgSrcCon is happening July 4-5 in Berlin.
I like cross-pollination.
Diagnosing softraid failures on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD now has ntpd on by default.
OpenSMTPD vs. Logjam.
spamd/pf rule changes.
Various OpenBSD remote update methods.
FreeNAS status report.
iXSystems is gaining a dev blog.

2015/05/162015/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/16

This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week. I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here.

Royal activity affecting your open source files.
Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve.
Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD. I’d be worried about keeping partially bad RAM in place, but this is probably being used on a larger scale.
25 year old col bug, fixed.
The start of NUMA support in FreeBSD.
Alpine POC and Routerboard support in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD now supports more than 8 audio channels.
NetBSD is starting to gain EdgeRouter support.
NetBSD gains in-kernel splash screen support.
Openresolv 3.7 is in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
EU study recommends OpenBSD. (Thanks, PCTF)
Now, sshd in OpenBSD defaults to ‘PermitRootLogin=no‘ (like in DragonFly!)
Device Developer’s Conference, happening in the UK over the next month or so. (via openbsd-misc)
OpenBSD has released, shipped, and there’s some discs with errors being replaced, though there’s a workaround.
From 0 to an OpenBSD install, with no hands and a custom disk layout. (via)
Livingston County, Michigan has a BSD user group starting up.
PC-BSD 10.2.1-RC1 comments.
BSDCon Brazil 2015 has a call for papers out.
New to BSD, Questions about Firewall configuration.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/11.
A week of pkgsrc #10.
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENTMAY2015 images now available
Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS
pfSense is now available as a “VMware Ready Virtual Firewall Appliance“.
Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap talk is online.
As is the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.
BSDTalk 253 has 30 minutes of conversation with George Neville-Neil about “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System”, 2nd edition.

2015/05/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/02

I’ve already mentioned the Hammer2/OpenBSD Summer of Code project (one of several), but here’s more:

The April issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBSD on an iBook G4
Midnight BSD 0.6 is out.
OpenBSD 5.7 is out.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.4 is out.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 RC1 is out.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/27.
FreeBSD project report for 2015Q1.
Hacking “/ on ZFS” and GELI Encrypted Drives, the Old-School Way
Michael W. Lucas is giving a “Tarsnap talk” at mug.org on May 12 to match his book.
vBSDCon is happening September 11-13 in Reston, VA.

(No mailing list links this week; I’m way behind in my reading because of work. Sorry!)

2015/04/30

Hammer spreads via GSoC

DragonFly committer Joris Giovannangeli has a Google Summer of Code project. He’s bringing Hammer2 to OpenBSD, in single-node form. It’s a very difficult project, but Joris is a very talented worker.

2015/04/252015/04/24

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/25

It’s been a relatively calm week, for once.

New Delhi has a BSD user group. (via)
PC-BSD and 4K — Oh my!
Is nvidia the best option for gaming on FreeBSD?
EuroBSDCon 2015 has extended the time for paper submission, cause they have so much to work through.
Hipster keyboard layout on NetBSD
The pkgsrc-security GPG key has changed.
Binary packages of pkgsrc-2015Q1 for illumos and OS X are available.
I like cross–pollination.
PC-BSD can now restore encrypted volumes over iSCSI.
Two more mentions of OpenBSD (though any should work) on Vultr.
Better OpenBSD performance on KVM via x2apic mode.
OpenBSD rolls their own file(1).
OpenBSD has W^X support for i386 userland now.
2-factor authorization on FreeBSD. (via)
My switch to OpenBSD, first impressions (via)
Microsoft .NET Running on FreeBSD 10.1/amd64 (via)

2015/04/182015/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/18

I couldn’t help the commentary on some of these links.

The Arrival of TrueNAS 9.3 and more.
Has anyone tried making a BSD phone? They did; starts with an i.
softraid(4) – RAID 5 Call for Testing for OpenBSD.
OpenBSD’s rcctl. (via)
Solaris moves to pf. I still wish for compatibility tests so people can tell what’s supported in the flavor of pf they are running.
Same news seen here.
Time Machine for every Unix out there. Or use Hammer. (via)
Optimizing TLS for High–Bandwidth Applications in FreeBSD [pdf]. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/13.
Spinning up a quick cloud instance with Digital Ocean. Includes BSD hosts.
A week of pkgsrc #8
FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is available for pre-order.
Cross-platform software packaging with pkgsrc.
pfSense 2.2.2 is out.
pkgsrc-2015Q1 is out.
pkgsrc shirts are available.
BSDStats is out as version 6.0, though it needs to be tested. Please run, especially if you are on DragonFly.
Setting up your own mail server, BSD edition. (via)
The talk on blacklistd from the April NYCBUG meeting. The slides are available too. (via)
NYCBUG is also hosting a new Polish BSD users group list (“subcarpathian” is a fun word) and has a list of upcoming events – straight through into fall!

2015/04/042015/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/04

If you’re part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule. I’m able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I’m on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more.