OPNSense – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2017/09/022017/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/02

Lots of links this week – so many I’ve already started next week’s post.

FreeBSD 10.4-BETA available. I’m prewriting this part of the post so there may be a new beta by the time this publishes.
Introducing sandboxfs.
“TIL GhostBSD has a patreon” (via)
OpenBSD rtables and rdomains. (via)
Setting up OpenBSD’s LDAP Server (ldapd) with StartTLS and SASL. (via)
Ansible OpenBSD Cookbooks. (via)
This crazy hardware porting example thread led me to some new hardware, some of which may run a BSD? The Pinebook is apparently bootable but I don’t know if that means usable.
Also: using the audio port for serial? First time I heard of that. (referring to previous crazy hardware links above)
Eventually all packaging systems eat an operating system. And then they aren’t packaging systems any more. (via)
DFS with Freenas for data replication between multiple sites?
openbsd changes of note 627
yet another introduction to yacc
OpenBSD 6.1, a an overview.

2017/07/292017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/29

I’ve been on the road, so this is a bit light.

What linux/BSD distros update Quicker? Yay graphs! (via)
Building a BSD home router (pt. 6): pfSense vs. OPNsense. (via)
SEMIBUG has a new website.
Building a BSD home router parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and possibly more since I wrote this link out. (via)

2017/07/152017/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15

Backlog: cleared.

Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
AF3e Status, 17 July 2017. That’s Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition.
Looking for a benchmark comparation between PF (OpenBSD) vs NPF (NetBSD)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (2017-07-10). (via)
pkgsrcCon 2017 report and also slides/video. (via)
Recommend BSD to Thinkpad users? Can’t find an actual thread, though.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs. (via)
OPNsense 17.7 RC1.
OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop.

2017/05/202017/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/20

There’s been enough this week I’ve already started next week’s BSD entry.

Installing OpenBSD 6.1 on your laptop is really hard (not). (via)
Switching to OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012). 2012 is the hardware, not the post date. (via)
Falling in love with NixOS. Not on BSD, but linked because the source has comments contrasting it with BSD packaging systems.
openbsd changes of note 621.
2017Q1 FreeBSD status report.
No sound with NetBSD in VMware.
Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat. (via)
A recap of the April KnoxBUG meeting.
Promoting FreeBSD at Events. (via)
NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.7 released.

2017/05/132017/05/12

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/13

A good topic range this week.

Why I love OpenBSD. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers. (via)
Unix Architecture Evolution Diagrams. 1972 Research Unix and FreeBSD, compared. (via)
Getting Michael W. Lucas to speak at your (possibly BSD) event.
4 Things About TrueNAS Replication Your Boss Wants To Know. Sounds clickbaity, but does actually describe TrueNAS usage.
OPNsense 17.1.6 released.
Health Tips for Unix Systems.
OpenBSD and You, the slides. (via)
gqrx on freebsd.
I did not know there was a Samba conference.
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold.

2017/04/012017/03/31

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01

Odd batch of links this week.

Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBSD phone link from BSDNow, earlier this week, led me to these two other projects: FreeBSD Robot + Teensy 3.1 and MiniBSD laptop computer.
*BSD for Dell XPS 13 (9350)
OPNsense 17.1.4 released.
vmm(4)/vmd(8) support for seabios and linux guests.
“Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit.
NetBSD and Summer of Code, FreeBSD and Summer of Code. Deadline is in a few days!
Upcoming NYCBUG events – next meeting is this Wednesday.

Your BSD-related fiction book of the week (year? decade?) :’git commit murder‘ is out, set at a (fictional) BSD convention.