OPNSense – DragonFly BSD Digest

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

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/11

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.

Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
OPNSense 18.7 released.
FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)

2018/08/042018/08/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04

I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!

OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
Visualizing ZFS performance.
OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
Valuable News – 2018/07/27.

2018/07/282018/07/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/28

A lot of this was early overflow posted ahead; I’ve been on the road.

NetBSD 8.0 released.
How to port your OS to EC2.
Booting Without /usr is Broken. Another step away from history and its lessons. (via)
“Is there a LibertyBSD community? how big is it?“
Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2018)
Valuable News – 2018/07/20.
OPNSense 18.1.12, 18.7-rc2 released.
A whole bunch of g2k18 hackathon reports.
“How many desktop BSD users are there?“
“Will NetBSD play well to being dual booted with Windows (XP)?“
New Patreon rewards for $1 tier. Michael W. Lucas snark as fortune file, which seems like a good deal to me.

2018/07/072018/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/07

Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.

Update: how did I miss this? PkgSrcCon 2018 is happening now in Berlin, and there’s a livestream. (via)

BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable status bar.
Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
Cinnamon 3.8.2 now available on pkgsrc/wip. A new (to me) desktop. (via)
New FreeBSD Core Team Elected.
OPNSense 18.1.11 released.
MKSANITIZER – bug detector software integration with the NetBSD userland. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2. (via)
[Question/Poll] – Does your work use BSD? What for?
databasing and FreeNAS?
How to deploy an OpenBSD VM in Amsterdam. (via)
Bringup is Hard. The ‘What not to do’ section is quite correct. (PDF, via)

2018/06/232018/06/22

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/23

Lots of announcements, lots of reading. Note the first item listed is happening today.

Book Fair, 23 June 2018. Michael W. Lucas is at the Scriptorium Book Fest today, in Michigan. Go if you are near and get a signed BSD book.
Escape from System D, Episode V. Interesting cause it mentions BSD and interesting for spot-on characterization of Twitter/Hacker News feedback. (via)
25 years of FreeBSD. (via)
NetBSD Summer of Code reports: libfuzzer, kernel address sanitizer, and kernel undefined behavior sanitizer.
Valuable News 2018/06/17.
FreeBSD Desktop, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I linked to a few of the early ones before, but I want to present a complete (so far) list.
FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 Available.
OPNsense 18.1.10 released.
httpd(8) Gains Simple Request Rewrites.
SMT Disabled by Default in -current.
More Mitigations for (potential) CPU Vulnerabilities.
LDAP client added to -current. This, or a similar LDAP client, should be present in all BSDs.
KDE on FreeBSD – June 2018. 5 is almost working in DragonFly, too, by the way. (via)
itch.io Summer Sale + General itch.io Feature.
“what’s good in openbsd superior than freebsd?“
HardenedBSD 11-STABLE v1100055.4 Released. (via)
“Today I stumbled upon a BSD Wikipedia page. Why should I choose BSD over a Linux based distro?“

2018/05/192018/05/18

In Other BSDs for 2018/05/19

Note the eleventy-jillion hackathon reports.

OpenBSD 6.3 : why and how. (via)
Helpful OpenBSD Tutorials. A request for input, not a link to existing.
A pile of p2k18 hackathon reports. And more.
“We didn’t chase the fad of using every Intel cpu feature.” (via)
Getting CUPS working under NetBSD?
What I Learned During My FreeBSD Internship.
Valuable News – 2018/05/14. Catching links that I didn’t.
OPNSense 18.1.7 released. No, I mean 18.1.8.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Sponsorships, and writing schedule changes.
FreeBSD 11.2 beta is out.
Calamares “some day, a FreeBSD system installer”. (via)

Your thinkpiece for the week: The cultural shift from not selling out to blowing up. There’s a BSD analogy possible there.

2018/05/052018/05/04

In Other BSDs for 2018/05/05

BUGs BUGs BUGs!

The May 15th SemiBUG meeting will be a hands-on web server workshop. Bring equipment.
The June 19th SemiBUG meeting will be on BCHS.
The May 2 NYCBUG meeting has no official presentation, but it’s happening.
BSD licensed bc in NetBSD. The GNU version was removed in other BSDs. (Thanks, Bill Sorenson)
SMTP client added to -current.
OPNSense 18.1.6 image refresh.
New talks, and the F-bomb. Michael W. Lucas convention talk mostly on ZFS.
Writing FreeBSD Malware. (via)
Introduction to email (pt. 2): Mail dialog / the “mail” command.
Spectre Variant 2 mitigation for kernel committed to -current.
p2k18 Hackathon report: Solene Rapenne (solene@) on joining the project, packages progress. I like hearing background on how people get brought into a community project.
Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD.
A crapload of p2k18 hackathon reports.
Getting my new laptop to work. (via)
sndio party.
NetBSD GSoC projects for 2018. (via)

2018/04/142018/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2018/04/14

Totally last-minute summary, but I’m hitting every BSD category.

Godot running on OpenBSD, though I didn’t know what Godot was.
Finding what you’re looking for on Linux. BSD too. I link it because I always forget arguments to find(1).
OPNsense 18.1.6 released.
New M-Series storage devices from iXSystems.
How to write ATF tests for NetBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2 – Install. (via)
Using FreeBSD Text Dumps. (via)
Transparent network audio with mpd & sndiod. (via)
Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2018 Schedule. Several BSD presentations.
pkg vs. underlying OS upgrades.
The BSDCan 2018 schedule is posted.

2018/03/242018/03/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/24

One of these links is a warning, but you won’t know until it’s too late.

OPNSense 18.1.5 released.
Happy 25th birthday NetBSD!
NetBSD 7.1.2 out.
Gaming on DFly.
ed(1) is Turing-Complete. (via)
Email Configuration for plan9 Acme on OpenBSD. (via)
Dolch PAC 64.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd ed” in hardcover.
An Introduction to Jails and Jail Networking. (via)
SCaLE 16x: Open is Still the Answer.
BSDCan 2018 – selected talks. needs more DragonFly

2018/03/172018/03/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, ~~PDF~~ document from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
8 months with TrueOS. (via)
This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
OPNsense 18.1.4 released.

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?

2017/12/232017/12/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/23

Last minute, of course.

2017/12/162017/12/15

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/16

Last minute, because for some reason I didn’t see much BSD stuff until Friday night.

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.

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.

2017/09/162017/09/16

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/16

Not sure why, but there’s been a lot of BSD news the past few weeks. I am OK with that.

Late addition: NetBSD’s New York build cluster will be offline beginning Monday for about two weeks, which means no daily NetBSD or pkgsrc builds.

FreeBSD package management with Pkg (2/2).
[Semibug] next meeting: BSD accessibility.
I3 instances and NVMe: booya! Or how you can build FreeBSD from the source in under 11 minutes vs. 12+ hours on a desktop. Is there something like ‘quickworld’ on FreeBSD? (via)
iXsystems, Inc. is offering jobs to Sun/Oracle Refugees. (via)
BSD building/testing machines? (via)
Solaris to Linux Migration 2017. Some BSD mentions in there. (via)
openbsd changes of note 628.
Forward syslogs to a central server using TLS (OpenBSD). (via)
A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD. (via)
OPNsense 17.7.2 released.
vBSDCon 2017 Conference Reflection.
Screencasting with OpenBSD. (via)
t2k17 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback on dhclient progress, developer herding.