OPNSense – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2017/03/252017/03/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/25

More thinking topics than version changes this week, which is interesting.

Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It’s the PDF transcript from the FOSDEM 2017 “My BSD sucks less than yours” presentation, linked previously. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.3 released.
Ask HN: Why is BSD becoming more popular in embedded devices? Lots of half-informed theorizing there.
The BSD family tree. Not new, but the discussion at the source link is more to look at, along with other links.
Upgrading notes for pfSense 2.3.x users, where 2.3.x < 2.3.3.
tech@openbsd.org: regarding OpenSSL Licence change. Nothing goes well with OpenSSL. Hey, it rhymes! (via)
golang now has native support for OpenBSD’s pledge(2).
“And then the murders began.” – applied to tech BSD books.
TrueNAS and ZFS terms and explanations.

2017/02/252017/02/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/25

I measure the success of In Other BSDs by how many different BSD flavors I can reference. This is a good week.

Was thinking of switching to a BSD on my Thinkpad 11e, do you think this is a good idea?
Adblock on Pfsense
pfSense 2.3.3 RELEASE Now Available!
Review of RaspBSD (FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi computers)
NetBSD fully reproducible builds (via)
mandoc-1.14.1 released.
OpenBSD kernel lock removal for IPv4 forwarding. (via #dragonflybsd)
OPNsense 17.1.2 released.
OpenBSD Foundation 2016 Fundraising.
What happened to my vlan? (OpenBSD network performance, via)
GhostBSD version 11 Alpha 1.
NetBSD at the upcoming AsiaBSDCon 2017.
Now available: video recording of the recent “OS : The underlying overhead of computation” presentation at NYCBUG. (via)
Options to rid ourselves of MS Windows “servers”.
Easy pkgsrc on macOS with pkg_comp 2.0.
NetBSD 7.1_RC2 available.
The Heirloom Project. Chunks of that code are probably still present in all the BSDs. (via)
features are faults redux. Pseudo-transcript of a tedu speech not exactly about OpenBSD, but has plenty of funny one-liners.
“Hi, I’m jkh and I’m a d**k” I don’t 100% agree with the idea, but it’s still a good plan.

2017/02/112017/02/10

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/11

A lot of the real content this week is buried in the comments, strangely.

My BSD sucks less than yours. (via)
I’m sort of a noob, so should I learn BSD or just go with Linux?
Networkmgr: a FreeBSD/GhostBSD network connection manager. (via)
a2k17 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot.
openbsd changes of note 6
Conclusions from the recent NYCBUG talk.
Also, rump kernels, the free book, linked from previous.
Need some help with simple PFSense OpenVPN routing
pfSense discussion. Comments to note there.
OPNsense 17.1.1 released.
BSDploy, linked in comments on the Digest earlier this week, but the source link here has some interesting history, including that rsync.net came from the first VPS provider, which was… jails!

2017/02/042017/02/02

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/04

Note the end this week of pc98, the most focused of niche platforms.

2017/01/282017/01/27

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/28

Done all at the last minute.

Courses 6 to 9 of DevOps with Chef and FreeBSD are out.
Ansible and pfSense. (via)
“OS : The underlying overhead of computation“, an upcoming talk at NYCBSD. Note that it’s on Feb 1, not March 1 as originally posted. I’ll post a reminder.
a2k17 hackathon reports: Martin Pieuchot, Kenneth Westerback, Bob Beck.
“Noob user – want to install a UNIX OS. Help a bit?“
Michael W. Lucas will be talking at Kansas LinuxFest 2017 – in May.
NetBSD Making Progress On LLDB Debugger Support (via)
“I want to jump in, but would love some hardware advice.“
OPNsense 16.7.14 released – last in the 16.* series, I think.
TrueNAS now has a (BSD) Cinder driver for OpenStack.
IPv6 on FreeBSD/EC2.
Improving TrueOS: OpenRC. (via)
“Where is your tech passion?” If you never complete the exercise, that tells you something too.

2017/01/212017/01/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/21

Accidental theme this week: books.

11n support for athn(4) (via)
Relayd auction results
As a Nefarious Media Agent…
Sponsorships on “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” available
Understanding the modernization of the OpenBSD network stack, part 2: A story of if_get(9)
Thinking about switching from Linux to BSD for my everyday computer, and have a few questions.
Errata SECURITY FIX: January 5, 2017 (for LibreSSL)
FreeBSD UEFI Root on ZFS and Windows Dual Boot
Differences in pf between OpenBSD and FreeBSD?
BSDCan 2017 is in June – the Call for Papers is up, along with submission guidelines. (via)
OPNsense 17.1-RC1 released
pkgsrc-2016Q4 released
OpenBSD on Vultr. I’ve mentioned it being possible before, but this is an official announcement – it’s a supported platform. Spend your dollars there to encourage this. (thanks, Jeremiah Ford)
“Any good recent books?” You all know about these, right? I’ve mentioned them enough?

2017/01/142017/01/13

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/14

This turned into a BSD User Group event list, which makes me happy. There was nothing like that 3 or 5 or whatever years ago.

OPNsense 16.7.13 released
Documenting NetBSD’s scheduler tweaks
NetBSD 7.1_RC1 available
12? PowerBook G4 PT5 – Electronic Battle Weapon
WiFi: 11n hostap mode added to athn(4) driver, testers wanted
Would you bother learning PFSense when you are comfortable with Mikrotik for budget firewall requirements?
2017 presentation proposals
BPF and formal verification (via)
KnoxBUG is having a Raspberry Pi installfest on 01/31. I’ll post a reminder.
KnoxBUG is also planning an OpenRC talk in February, though no date yet.
And here’s the writeup from the most recent KnoxBUG meetup.
People in NYCBUG are looking to have a classical code reading group set up – no date yet, but it sounds fun. (This has happened before as a one-shot event.)
Craig Maloney is speaking about Ansible at the next SemiBUG meeting, this Tuesday. This meeting may be streamed. I’ll put a reminder up on Monday, too, and link to the stream if I know it.

2017/01/072017/01/06

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/07

There’s always a rush of links after a holiday, as people sit at home and catch up on what they’ve wanted to do.

2016 computer review A lot of people like that X1.
For God’s sake, secure your Mongo/Redis/etc! This is why services don’t get automatically started after installation via ports/pkgsrc. (via)
openbsd changes of note 5
OPNsense 16.7.12 released
Lumina version 1.2.0 Released
Netgate Taps InfoSec Global for pfSense Code Review
A pretty splash screen for the Chrome Pixel and OpenBSD. (via)
Hotplugging RAM – uvm_hotplug(9), the Xen balloon(4) driver and portmasters’ FAQ
pkgsrc-2016Q4 released
This is why I try to be specific when talking about BSD book author Michael W. Lucas.
turn your network inside out with one pf.conf trick
Get your name in the relayd book

2016/12/172016/12/16

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/17

Much better this week; I actually have links.

Man, ‘splained: 40-Plus Years of Man Page History. Doesn’t mention it, but BSD is the place for original, and good, man pages. (via)
“What’s stopping someone from writing a Cisco CLI shell for Linux or BSD?“
who even calls link_ntoa? Multiple BSDs had this issue.
Booting Android-x86 under FreeBSD bhyve (Work in progress) (via)
New stable version: HardenedBSD-stable 10-STABLE v46.18 (via)
“TIL the soviets made their own BSD” (via)
“Which BSD is good for me?“
OPNsense 16.7.11 released, OPNsense 17.1-BETA
LibreSSL documentation status report
watt time is left
openbsd changes of note 3
Disk I/O Performance Under Filesystem Journaling on FreeBSD 10.3
LISA 2016 Recap. From a BSD vendor point of view.
OpenBSD 6.0 VPN Endpoint for iOS and OSX (via)
802.11n MIMO support in OpenBSD -current (via)

2016/12/032016/12/02

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/03

I have a pretty significant backlog of links for this week – to the point I had to open a separate browser window to sort out open tabs.

TMUX Config Help on FreeBSD
FreeBSD Foundation Contributions, Fundraising, and More
Donating to the OpenBSD Foundation
The Insecurity of OpenBSD. The article is from 2010 so reading comments at the source link may be better.
BSD now 169: Scheduling your NetBSD, plus a comment. A followup to the second-most-recent BSDNow.
Apple Releases macOS 10.12 Sierra Open Source Darwin Code. I don’t cover enough of the BSD side of MacOS, but it’s hard to separate from the Mac part.
“Does OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD ship with binary blobs?” A perennial religious issue.
Kristaps Dzonsons on pledge(2)
TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients (via)
openbsd changes of note 2
~~OPNsense 16.7.9 released~~ OPNsense 16.7.10 released See my note about backlog.
LiteBSD Brings 4.4BSD to PIC32 (via)
Start the holidays off with FreeNAS 10 BETA 2!
EuroBSDcon 2016 Presentation Slides (via)
OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 (via)
The Saga of Concurrent DNS in Python, and the Defeat of the Wicked Mutex Troll (via)

2016/11/192016/11/18

In Other BSDs for 2016/11/19

A much more well-rounded crop of BSD links this week.

FreeBSD status report for 2016Q3.
“Import (finally!) Tor Browser 6.0.5.” An obvious matchup. (via)
“FreeBSD Flavors. Do We Need Them?“
Next SemiBUG meeting: December 20th.
“How to remote connect to BSD server behind double NAT?”
Review of NAS4Free 10.3.0.3. I forgot about this… fork? (via)
pycapsicum – sandbox your Python code on FreeBSD. (via)
Iocage – A FreeBSD jail manager. (via)
“What’s your favorite BSD jail administration software?“
Build a FreeBSD 11.0-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
OPNsense 16.7.8 released.
b2k16 hackathon report: Landry Breuil, Jeremy Evans, Daniel Jakots.
l2k16 hackathon report: LibreSSL manuals now in mdoc(7).
openbsd changes of note
Learning more about the NetBSD scheduler (… than I wanted to know)
MeetBSD 2016 Report: Michael Dexter.

2016/10/292016/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/29

I get all the BSDs this week.

Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era. .ike presenting at NYCBUG on November 2nd. Go if you are near, vote if you can.
FreeNAS/ESXi – Link aggregation without a switch.
Dropping Linux and KVM in Favor of FreeBSD and Jails (2015). (via)
chromebook printing troubles
I used Virtualbox to install both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD… it said login incorrect upon reboot.
Internet Connection Problems
Continuous OpenBSD regress tests. (via)
*BSD on laptops
In this how-to we’ll set up an email server from scratch using NetBSD.
Allow reading of files but no copying on FreeNAS.
NetBSD 7.0.2 released.
OPNsense 16.7.7 released.
pkgsrcCon 2016 videos.

2016/10/222016/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/22

Oddball links for BSD this week – but pay attention to the first one.

Get a BSD person into ARIN. Useful.
“Any experience with OPNsense?“
Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game. Linked cause it exists as a FreeBSD port and in theory could as a dport.
We Surprised The Register.
Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin.
“Adam Jimerson: Introduction to PacBSD” happening at KnoxBUG on the 25th.
PCEngines APU question.
Installing Windows 10 Under the bhyve Hypervisor. (via)
Lumina Desktop 1.1.0 released.

2016/10/152016/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/15

A somewhat short week this week, for BSD.

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is out. Related: Older version EoLs.
EC2’s most dangerous feature.
Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up.
How to install LibertyBSD or OpenBSD on a libreboot system. (via)
vmm enabled. Runs OpenBSD on OpenBSD – sorta vkernelish?
OPNsense 16.7.6 released.
A remote BSD development job.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q3 release.
web-bsd-hunt
Vincent Delft’s site. Lots of OpenBSD notes.

2016/09/242016/09/23

In Other BSDs for 2016/09/24

It’s the convention time of year!

garbage[38]: #camperchat.
OPNsense 16.7.4 released.
Is ARM-like chips the future and which of the BSDs will have a head start?
g2k16 Hackathon Report: Alexander Bluhm. Last g2k16 item, I think.
Michael W. Lucas’s PAM Mastery is available in ebook and physical form.
Related: Michael W. Lucas’s SemiBUG “PAM is Un-American” talk was live-tweeted.
MeetBSD 2016 is at UC Berkeley November 11-12. (via)
pkgsrc-2016Q3 is now frozen.
Libreboot and BSDs. I couldn’t handle the misplaced apostrophe.
Cray J98 Project – FreeBSD and the Cray Disk. (via)
FreeBSD: Bhyve with UEFI VNC support. (via)

2016/08/202016/08/19

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/20

For once, I’m not working on Saturday, so even though this is last minute, at least I’m not in a race with the clock.

ZFS High-Availability NAS. (via)
Steam on FreeBSD. (via)
Reminder: Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 23rd.
Want to help move a cabinet of BSD User Group equipment, in NYC?
“results-oriented and non-ideological“.
BSD, guava. (via)
OpenSSH is/has been deprecating DSA keys. This affects FreeBSD, and probably DragonFly too.
The third “Hosting files using ZFS” class is available.
connect doesn’t restart. OpenBSD pkg_add.
OPNSense is at version 16.7.2 and gained a team member.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/15.
Linux kernel, the port. (via)
MidnightBSD 0.8 out. (via)
UEFI multibooting: FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.

2016/08/062016/08/05

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/06

Slightly calmer this week.