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2021/01/232021/01/21

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/23

It’s the week of Very Long and Excited Page Titles that Give Me Long Link Lines.

FreeBSD Xfce4 on VMware Installation Guide. (via)
HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report. (via)
Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools. (via)
Just realized this… Dennis Ritchie is the true innovator! Posted for the single comment.
Unix time is in its fourth quarter.
BSD license violations. (read down)
Exploring Swap on FreeBSD. (via)
Tiny PDP11 – Intro. BSD 2.11, VT102, cutest ever. (via)
Heidi Stettner had a dog named Biff, and that’s why mail notification exists.
Star Wars PDP-11/45. Not sure if it’s BSD or not. (via)
Accented characters using a US keyboard layout on OpenBSD.
OpenRadiant (3D modeller) – Binary distribution advice.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 22 – Configuration – Aero Snap Extended.
Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD.
At a look at helloSystem 0.3.0 – Full on Mac-a-licious!
Minecraft ? 1.13 working on OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/01/18.

2021/01/092021/01/07

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/09

This bulked up fast this week.

2021/01/022020/12/31

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/02

I am happy to be in the new year.

Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see.
On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database.
BSD Games for Linux. (via)
Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
Starting with FreeBSD jails.
A potted history of UNIX, just up to BSD. (via)
The FreeBSD 92. Nakatomi Socrates BSD Easter Egg. Followup from last week’s link. (Thanks, D. Ebdrup.)
The world’s chunkiest card reader.
Valuable News – 2020/12/28.
Use Android USB Tethering to Get Internet on FreeBSD. (via)
It feels like the broad Unix API is being used less these days.
A Big Sur look for WindowMaker on OpenBSD.

2020/12/262020/12/25

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/26

Lots of history this week.

2020/12/192020/12/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/19

Working on less traditional BSD links here.

Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions.
Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week.
BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via)
BSD Discord server. More linked in comments.
Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific.
There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly.
CentOS killed by IBM – a chance to go new ways?
Set your favorite pager.
OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus.
OPNsense 20.7.7 released.
Valuable News – 2020/12/14.

2020/12/122020/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/12

Straight from tabs.

How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF.
Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020).
Show diff output in color.
FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via)
macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via)
Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My only experience with DocBook. (via)
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.6 released.
TrueNAS 12.0u1 is out with OpenZFS 2.0.
Valuable News – 2020/12/07.

2020/12/052020/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/05

Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week.

2020/11/282020/11/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/11/28

The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of.

For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via)
The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via)
Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to files and no one expects it to. Network buffers have the same problem.
FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet. See source link comments for more.
OCR on FreeBSD – Tesseract It. (via)
ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD? Strictly speaking, another FreeBSD desktop. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.5 released.
Tailscale on OpenBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report.
Setting up a WireGuard® client with routing domains on OpenBSD. (via)
MidnightBSD 2.0 release status.
BSD Link Roundup 11.24.
Valuable News – 2020/11/23.

2020/11/142020/11/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/11/14

My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week.

2020/11/072020/11/05

In Other BSDs for 2020/11/07

Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time…

2020/10/312020/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/31

Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really.

Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via)
The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via)
Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via)
Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via)
History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via)
Lenovo T420 FreeBSD Tweaks. Still valid; hardware still exists. (via)
Use a raspberry-pi 2 as a firewall with FreeBSD. (via)
Automating OpenBSD Vultr VM deployment with Ansible. (via)
Default OpenBSD Web Server. Out on GitHub, not within the main repo? (via)
How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built.
Port of the week: rclone.
OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD 12.2 is out.
Realtek RTL8188CUS – USB 802.11n WiFi Review.
OPNSense 20.7.4 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/26.
BSD hardware trends. (via)
Video: C Programming on System 6 – Porting OpenBSD’s diff(1).

2020/10/242020/10/22

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/24

It’s apparently release week?

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
NetBSD 9.1 released.
OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
TrueNAS 12.0 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

2020/10/102020/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/10

I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT.

OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via)
duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via)
Old School Disk Partitioning. (via)
Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of),
How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching BSD history.
FreeBSD laptop advice.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 5).
Valuable News – 2020/10/05.
FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 Available.
How to Recover From a BIOS Upgrade. Putting your boot sector back.
FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 2 Primer for Users.
fnaify 3.0 released.

2020/10/032020/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/03

No theme, but lots to read.

Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
“Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.

2020/09/262020/09/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/26

Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed.

On the use of a life. A BSD business.
FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via)
FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?
Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via)
k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van Duren on snmp, agentx, and other progress. An actual in-person meeting!
Valuable News – 2020/09/21.
A simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm(1).
Unified pfSense documentation.
New minecraft launcher in ports. OpenBSD.
OPNSense 20.7.3 released.

2020/09/122020/09/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/12

Perhaps a performance tweaks mini-theme this week?

Valuable News – 2020/09/07.
OPNsense 20.7.2 Released.
Quare FreeBSD?
FreeBSD Mini Git Primer. (via)
Install OpenBSD 6.7 with Disk Encryption and FVWM Ricing. Note for non-English speakers: “ricing” is a derogatory term. (via)
NetBSD Tips and Tricks. (via)
OpenBSD/FreeBSD performance.
Beginner’s Guide to FreeBSD. More of an overview. (via)
nut – testing the shutdown mechanism.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 4)
pkgsrc Developer Monotony. Common in any open source project in the long term, I think.
MidnightBSD 1.2.8 and MidnightBSD 2.0-CURRENT.

2020/09/052020/09/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/05

It’s a good mix this week.

ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again.
FreeBSD 11.3 EOL.
Modernizing the OpenBSD console.
Valuable News – 2020/08/31.
FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync.
6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD)
PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in OpenBSD.
GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment.
Find which package provides a given file in OpenBSD.
The roles of OSs have changed. I like the alternate world suggestion.
Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD. (via)
In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? If you’ve been reading this Digest for some time, I bet you already know many of these. (via)
My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]. (via)

2020/08/222020/08/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/22

Started this with overflow from last week.

2020/08/152020/08/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/15

Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there.

BSDCan 2020 videos. (via)
File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via)
My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products of culture. Related to last week’s options links.
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar. 2012 but still accurate. (via)
EvilQuest on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD and Jails at BSD Rennes, an event I did not know about. Here’s more.
Drawing Pictures The Unix Way – with pic and troff.
Valuable News – 2020/08/10.
Recovering 2.11BSD, fighting the patches.
LLVM 10.0.0 imported into -current.
NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2. (via)
GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report.
GSoC 2020 Second Evaluation Report: Curses Library Automated Testing.

2020/08/082020/08/05

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/08

Fun variety this week.