OPNSense – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2020/08/222020/08/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/22

Started this with overflow from last week.

2020/08/012020/07/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/01

That last link is around the corner from me.

2020/07/112020/07/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11

Dragged right out of my RSS feeds.

Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06.
Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too.
FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today.
Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support. (HardenedBSD)
OPNsense 20.1.8 released.
TrueCommand 1.3 out.
OpenBSD upgraders need to delete libperl.a.
Diablo (Hell/Hell co-op) – PlayOnBSD. (via)
Emulex – Cheapest 10GE for Your Homelab on FreeBSD. (via)
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro.
Via previous link: Everyone should buy the USEBSD sticker.

2020/04/182020/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/18

Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.

Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.

2020/03/212020/03/20

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/21

A bit short this week; I think everyone’s been occupied with other issues.

2020/01/182020/01/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/18

Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one.

- Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1.
- VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595).
- ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for Papers ends tomorrow.
- Other BSD-related conferences. (via)
- SEMIBUG’s next meeting is next Tuesday, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. He knows.
- The slides from the January 8th NYCBUG meeting are available, showing off notqmail. For further edification, here’s a podcast on the same topic.
- iked(8) automatic IPv6 blocking removed. (OpenBSD)
- Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0.
- Working towards LLDB on i386.
- GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD. Completed just in time for GSoC 2020.
- OPNsense 19.7.9 released.
- Pinebook-Pro with Manjaro Linux running accelerated qemu-system-aarch64 FreeBSD -current. Emulated, so the comment there led me to this tweet about NetBSD on Pinebook.
- LPI and BSD working together.
- Switching DistroWatch over to FreeBSD – AMA.
- Valuable News – 2020/01/13.
- Using the OpenBSD ports tree with dedicated users.
- Run broot on FreeBSD. Can’t use without saying “I am broot!” over and over.

2019/11/302019/11/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/30

End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.

Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
[How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
Some notes on userspace routing.
Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.

2019/08/242019/08/23

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/24

Incidentally, my employer, REDCOM, uses FreeBSD as a base for its main product, is deployed in rough areas and in high-security government locations, and is one of the few electronics manufacturers still working entirely in the U.S.. REDCOM also has jobs to fill in New York, where I work. Please, apply if you see a job that interests you – and tell me.

DistroTest.net, which happens to have runnable online versions of GhostBSD, FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OPNSense, and DragonFly. (via)
The VBSDCon schedule (Sept 5-7, very soon!) is up.
Update webmin/usermin if you have them installed.
Impact of Tariff Increases. Eventually relevant even if you aren’t a U.S. reader.
Project Trident 12-U3 and 19.08 now available.
Valuable News for 2019/08/14 and 2019/08/19.
Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, third evaluation report.
USBNET: A story of networking and threads that won’t stop pulling.
Getting the GNU gdbserver to work.
Fuzzing NetBSD Filesystems via AFL. [Part 2].
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Part 2.
Brutal Doom 64 on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD -stable gets package updates! Release OpenBSD doesn’t normally get packages?
Blueprint and progress status for mixed environment multilevel backup. Really, the thing to see is a spreadsheet.
When a hacker tries to infiltrate an OpenBSD machine. Pufferfish reference.
CFT: CBSD project switched to its own cloud images.
Instant Workstation.

2019/06/292019/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/29

Last minute, again.

2019/06/152019/06/14

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/15

I linked to some other BSD link roundups, so the joy of clicking can continue.

SNI support added to relayd(8) in -current.
Call for testing of ntpd(8) automatic mode.
RabbitMQ Cluster on FreeBSD Containers.
FreeBSD+ZFS Without Drives. Crazy, DWIMmy. (via)
blacklistd(8) with NPF on NetBSD. UnitedBSD is a new forum, at least to me. (via)
Routing versus Streaming throughput using FreeBSD at 10Gbps and over.
OpenBSD as an IPv6 router.
BSDCan 2019: The Future of OpenZFS and FreeBSD by Allan Jude. (Video, via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 DevSummit: We don’t see a problem. Suggestion of Project Governance additions. For FreeBSD. Follow the thread where this was mentioned.
AsiaBSDCon2019:
Manage Photography the UNIX Way.
Valuable News – 2019/06/10.
BSD Link Roundup 6.13.
OPNsense 19.1.9 released.
g2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on Access Points and Ghosts.
TrueCommand Brings Single Pane of Glass Management to TrueNAS and FreeNAS Fleets. I know it’s a press release, but it is a useful thing.
why off-the-shelf routers don’t use BSDs (or OpenBSD)? But they do?

2019/05/112019/05/10

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/11

The last weather station link is a real gem.

BSDCan 2019 details.
The Open Source Financial Developers Association could use some BSD testing.
iXsystems Takes the Plunge with Liquid Immersion Servers.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2019 projects. (NetBSD)
Improvements in forking, threading, and signal code. (NetBSD)
Valuable News – 2019/05/06.
Simple way to generate strong passwords. (via)
My Bash Script to Brighten up your BSD box by wallpapers from Reddit. (via)
OpenBSD, httpd & WordPress: Making it work. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.7 released.
OmniOS – r151030 – Stable and LTS Release is out.
ZFS Implementation in Python. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc (Part 2). (via)
A weather station fit for a PDP-11. This is gloriously useless.

2019/04/132019/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13

Straight open tab dump, again!

FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and password-protected .od* files. Not strictly BSD but could surprise someone.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the hack(6) in hackathon, and other stories.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on 802.11? progress, suspend/resume and more.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient, disklabel, and more.
Our plan for handling TRIM’ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs.
Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD.
From Zero to NVMM.
Introducing funlinkat.
Valuable News – 2019/04/08.
~~OPNsense 19.1.5 released~~ no wait OPNsense 19.1.6 released.
April Plugins Update.
Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple. The book is available to order now.
NOWBSD.

A late update: BSDCan 2019 registration, plus an update.

2019/03/162019/03/15

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/16

There’s a number of long-running BSD series out there nowadays, some of which I’m linking to here. That’s a nice change.

FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts & Frameworks. (via)
Nixers Newsletter 117.
“Just picked this up today!” (a SPARC laptop)
package of the moment: tview and tcell. For terminal interface building.
Add a TLS layer to your Gopher server.
Tribblix, a Illumos… derivative? I didn’t know about it until now. It’s retro.
TextSuggest, an accessibility tool, ported to OpenBSD.
Peculiarities about Unix’s statfs() or statvfs() API.
OpenSSH, PAM and user names.
OPNsense 19.1.4 released.
End-of-February Update. BSD book progress.
Well, it’s been a while – falling in love with OpenBSD again.
mandoc-1.14.5 released.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 4.
Valuable News – 2019/03/11.
Slay the Spire with libGDX fork & GOG Midweek Sale.

2019/03/092019/03/09

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/09

If these aren’t enough links, some of them are links to more links.

Using MRTG on OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
LLDB from trunk is running on NetBSD once again!
Metasploit on OpenBSD. (via)
Looking at NetBSD from an OpenBSD user perspective. (via)
2019 AsiaBSDCon registration is open (plus some NetBSD event info).
GhostBSD: A Solid Linux-Like Open Source Alternative. A Linux site reviewing.
Site membership and mailing list subscriptions, managed through shell scripts on OpenBSD.
Sega Dreamcast running NetBSD, is it useful? (via)
Nixers Newsletter 116. I keep meaning to link to these, regularly.
Increasing coverage of signal semantics in regression tests.
Valuable News – 2019/03/04.
OPNSense 19.1.3 released.
a2k19 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacoutot on ports, syspatch(8), and more.
Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication.
The Joy in Csh & Vi. Indirectly BSD.

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)