OPNSense – Page 4 – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2016/07/232016/07/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/23

Adding a new “BUG” category, cause there’s enough ongoing BSD user group activity these days that it’s a reoccurring theme. That makes me happy.

2016/07/092016/07/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/09

I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.

garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
Core.9 is now in session.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
A request for BSD variants information.
BSD podcast?
The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
TrueNAS 9.10 out.
BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.

2016/07/022016/06/30

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/02

Lots of user group items this week.

KnoxBUG has both July and August presentations planned – July 26th is the next, on cryptography and identity assurance.
SemiBUG is looking for September+ presentations.
NYCBUG’s RetroBSD and LiteBSD presentation is in 4 days, and there will be an instalfest on August 3rd.
HOPE is July 22-24, and will have a BSD presence. (FreeBSD Foundation)
“what are the disadvantages of using software like pfSense, vyos etc. over enterprise quality routers?“
BSDs and Trim the SSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/27.
USENIX ATC 2016 Conference Recap.
OPNSense 16.1.18 released, which I think is the last 16.1.* release.
FreeBSD just in time.
Samsung acquires Joyent. Joyent are big pkgsrc users. (via)

2016/06/182016/06/18

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/18

If you didn’t already look at it, BSDNow’s summary of BSDCan events is worth going to; it’s complete enough I deliberately left BSDCan links out of here. Undeadly has an OpenBSD-specific summary too.

ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t. Sorta-BSD. (via)
The Ultimate NetBSD Router. (Thanks, Tobias)
Shawn Webb Tells You All About HardenedBSD Project.
Using FreeBSD as a File Server With ZFS. Online course.
Latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal now available.
2016 FreeBSD Community Survey.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/13.
OPNsense 16.1.17 released.
BSDCan 2016 Recap. From iXSystems.
Lightly Experienced OS X and GNU/Linux User Looking to Learn [Free]BSD.
Unik – The Unikernel Compilation and Deployment Platform (uses NetBSD’s Rump) (via)
First image of someone trying to sell a commercial version of BSD 4.1 in 1982 (Fortune Systems 32:16)
ART single thread performances. (via)

2016/06/112016/06/10

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/11

I’m hitting every type of BSD this week.

Show HN: TensorFlow on FreeBSD. (via)
Configuring PF and Fail2ban on FreeBSD. (via)
20 years of NetBSD code bloat. (via)
OPNsense 16.1.16 released.
ktrace adventures: browser ktrace browsing and accidentally nonblocking.
Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD. Also here, via. That first link is a bit clickbaity, and I’ve seen it repeated that way.
BSDNews for 2016/05/31 and for 2016/06/06.
pkgsrc 50th release interviews: Joerg Sonnenberger, Sevan Janiyan, Jonathan Perkin, and Ryo ONODERA. (via multiple)
NetBSD: A new beginning? (via)
14.000+ regularly updated pkgsrc binary packages for OS X. (via)
BSD and the Thinkpad X220.
My life with FreeBSD on a Thinkpad X220. I love my work x220, but I’ve said it before.
pc bsd can’t detect my wifi card.
Why I run OpenBSD. (via)
Dru Lavigne, interviewed for BSD Magazine.
select works poorly.
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Version canadienne)