OPNSense – DragonFly BSD Digest

2022/09/032022/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2022/09/03

This is an overflow week.

2022/05/212022/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2022/05/21

Releases week.

2022/03/052022/03/03

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/05

Mini-theme: releases.

Valuable News – 2022/02/28.
ChiBUG, meeting March 8th at 6 PM in-person. Go if you are near.
OpenBSD Webzine issue 7.
Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu.
multimc failed to allocate memory.
Milky Way v0.4 release.
Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction. (via)
OPNsense 21.7.8, 21.10.3 Business Edition, and 22.1.1 released.
OpenSSH updated to 8.9.
LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released.
FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life.
FreeBSD Foundation is looking for proposals.

2022/02/052022/02/04

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/05

Note the first three items are events with deadlines happening now.

There’s a NetBSD chat happening online this morning – in a few moments.
Noting again: BSDCan 2022 is going to be online, and the CFP closes Monday.
FOSDEM 2022 is happening today and tomorrow, and there’s several BSD events as usual. It’s online so you can get there.
What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS.
The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API).
Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
OPNSense 22.1 released.
Smallest desktop of the day with BSD: Raspberry Pi 400.
Related: r/Hardware_for_BSD.
Valuable News – 2022/01/31.
d-ptr pitfalls.
HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report.
FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s.
Can’t run Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.

2022/01/292022/01/26

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/29

Watch that Kernighan video; he is what a historian would call a primary source.

The Birth of UNIX.
“The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” – Brian Kernighan (LCA 2022 Online). History from a person who made it. (via)
Agent constraints in OpenSSH, a good idea. As the source link comments, it’ll appear in BSD right away, Linux in… years from now.
Twincat/BSD. BSD gets used in a lot of places that people don’t know about.
BastilleBSD is running a user survey. (via)
2021 Top DiscoverBSD and BSDSec articles.
2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report.
FreeBSD Periodic Scripts.
How not to execve().
Valuable News – 2022/01/24.
OPNsense 21.7.7 released. Apparently there is a business edition now?
Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD.

2021/11/132021/11/11

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/13

Note the upcoming SEMIBUG meeting. I’ll post a reminder.

Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2. (via)
Manage Kubernetes Cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl. (via)
What if Internet stops? How to rebuild an offline federated infrastructure using OpenBSD.
OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption. (via)
SEMIBUG is meeting November 16th, with a presentation from Deb Goodkin, head of the FreeBSD Foundation. It’s online.
How I ended liking GNOME. Also, using X with the loss of one hand.
Valuable News – 2021/11/08.
UNIX Mouse Shootout.
0ad several versions behind, cant play online because of this. Linking so I remember to play it.
FreeBSD Documentation: Papers We Love To Read.
go-modules.mk.
depotdownloader issues.
FreeBSD 12.3RC1 is out.
OPNsense 21.7.5 released.
OpenBSD Webzine #4.

2021/09/252021/09/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/09/25

I forgot to link to BSD Now 421: ZFS eats CPU on Thursday!

Valuable News – 2021/09/20.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 7 – ZSH Setup.
GhostBSD build tool development visualization, 2014-2021.
Migrating from Apache/WordPress to relayd/httpd/Hugo.
Technology Roadmap. (FreeBSD) I support this idea of publishing plans.
Improving GDB register model compatibility in LLDB.
Cruelty Squad brings Executive Mindset to OpenBSD.
OPNsense 21.7.3 released.
php_mail() on FreeBSD and WordPress. (via)
Automatically lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock.
OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
“DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Cover Reveal. BSD front and center.

2021/05/292021/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29

Some useful setup instructions in here.

2021/05/012021/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/01

There’s some opinions mixed in this week!

NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.

2021/03/132021/03/11

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/13

Literally tabs from my browser in order, here.

“TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course.
Quick-publishing of poudriere packages.
Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD.
DIY OpenBSD router advice.
OPNsense 21.1.3 released.
Valuable News – 2021/03/08.
Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD.
The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
NomadBSD 1.4 released.
My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. Lots of detail here if you are looking at a BSD laptop.
GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13.
FOSSASIA starts today.

2021/02/132021/02/12

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13

I have a link backlog, yay!

Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
Valuable News – 2021/02/08.

2020/12/122020/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/12

Straight from tabs.

How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF.
Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020).
Show diff output in color.
FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via)
macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via)
Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My only experience with DocBook. (via)
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.6 released.
TrueNAS 12.0u1 is out with OpenZFS 2.0.
Valuable News – 2020/12/07.

2020/11/282020/11/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/11/28

The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of.

For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via)
The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via)
Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to files and no one expects it to. Network buffers have the same problem.
FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet. See source link comments for more.
OCR on FreeBSD – Tesseract It. (via)
ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD? Strictly speaking, another FreeBSD desktop. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.5 released.
Tailscale on OpenBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report.
Setting up a WireGuard® client with routing domains on OpenBSD. (via)
MidnightBSD 2.0 release status.
BSD Link Roundup 11.24.
Valuable News – 2020/11/23.

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.