OPNSense – DragonFly BSD Digest

2019/02/092019/02/08

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/09

Whee!

ZFS and GPL terror: How much freedom is there in Linux?
Setting the boot logo on a Thinkpad. Done on an OpenBSD install but should nominally work for anything on a Thinkpad. Also, how to make a boot logo. (via)
FreeBSD Journal Column. Start reading issues now if you like, and you have some large number of hours to spare – there’s a lot of material there.
Security Vulnerability Mitigations from an OpenBSD hackathon, with video.
Support for 2TB of memory added for OpenBSD amd64.
Upgrading to FreeBSD 12.0 from FreeBSD 11.2 using beadm and freebsd-update.
The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase.
Final report on Clang / LLD state.
Integration of the LLVM sanitizers with the base system.
Revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer. (via)
Customized resolution for OpenBSD in VirtualBox. (via)
NetBSD desktop pt.6: “vi(1) editor, tmux and unicode $TERM”. (via)
The hardware-assisted virtualization challenge.
Upgrade process using GPT.
EuroBSDcon 2019 – Lillehammer September 19-22, 2019. (via)
Netflix and FreeBSD – Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video – FOSDEM 2019. Interesting – they track HEAD. (via)
FreeBSD in Audio Studio – FOSDEM 2019; with video. (via)

2019/02/022019/02/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/02

Inadvertent theme: release news.

Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using a packaging system.
I mentioned it before, but FOSDEM 2019, happening right now in Brussels, has a BSD Devroom with a lot of things happening in it; you could spend your entire Saturday in there.
And something that has me quite excited: The Pinebook Pro, among other hardware announcements for FOSDEM. BSD is being mentioned right there as something to install on it, rather than as an aftermarket hack like with Chromebooks – heartwarming, I tell you. (via)
Unix flowers. Look for birthtoken while you are at it. (via)
FreeNAS has Plugins? A casual look at it seems to push some features into pfSense territory.
Next NYC*BUG: 2/6.
OPNsense 19.1-RC1 released. Wait, 19.1 is out.
join-ing any open wifi network is now possible.
FreeBSD Training @ SCaLE 17x (March 8, 2019) (via)
NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor. (via)
ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE (first public release). (via)
Valuable News – 2019/01/18 and Valuable News – 2019/01/25 and Valuable News – 2019/02/01.
HardenedBSD 2018Q4 Status Report. (via)
Florian Obser on unwind(8).
MightnightBSD Roadmap.
SoloBSD 19.01-STABLE.
fnaify 1.2 released.
At The Gates, 4x strategy game running on BSD. (via)

2019/01/192019/01/18

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/19

Overflow from the past two weeks. I’ll have my email and tab backlog cleared next week.

Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output.
New console font Spleen made default. There’s examples.
OPNSense 18.7.10 released.
Best BSD filesystem for ssd. All of them.
LibGDX proof of concept on OpenBSD: Slay the Spire. Has video.
2018 recap.
Ring in the new. KDE/FreeBSD.
Man pages, as pages.
Newcomer to FreeBSD.
How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
FreeBSD Journal is now free, starting with the latest issue. (via)
SuperTuxKart, the open source Mario Kart clone, achieves beta status with network support. I didn’t know you could have a Beastie pilot. (via)
wtf(1). (via aly on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
Project Trident’s first -RELEASE. (via)
Building Spotifyd on NetBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2019 call for papers closes today.

2018/09/082018/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/08

I am having trouble keeping up with BSD news items. This is a good problem to have.

The History of a Security Hole. Cross-BSD. (via)
hard state soft state confusion. A followup on the previous link.
NetBSD 7.2 is out. More than one branch is supported, if you find yourself saying “didn’t 8 just release?”
2FA with ssh on OpenBSD. Useful; probably can extrapolate out. (via)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource (2018.08 update). I didn’t realize this was getting regular updates; that’s a good thing. (via)
HumbleBundle sale. Runs for another 5 days.
OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go. I appreciate the in-depth hardware listing.
A look beyond the BSD teacup: OmniOS installation. Try to ignore the meme image linked in that article; it’s an example of BSD culture trying to destroy itself. The article is good for examining OmniOS.
OPNSense 18.7.1 released.
OpenBSD-current changes as an RSS feed.
Valuable News – 2018/08/25 and 2018/09/02.
New ZFS Boot Environments Tool.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts & Frameworks.
arm64 gains RETGUARD. OpenBSD architecture.
Theo on the latest Intel issues. “currently public artifacts”, should give you pause.
OpenBSD Foundation gets first 2018 Iridium donation! I had not heard of Handshake before.
Native Encryption for ZFS on FreeBSD CFT. (via)
OpenSSH 7.8 is out. (via)

2018/08/112018/08/08

Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.