Category: OPNSense

I think I manage to link at least one story for every BSD type this week, or close to it.

• FreeBSD GPIO Benchmark.  (via)
• ASLR now on by default in amd64.  (via)
• anti-ROP mechanism in libc.
• The p2k16 hackathon has begun.
• DiscoverBSD for 2016/04/25.
• Rethinking Unix: A New Apropos Implementation from NetBSD.  (via)
• BSD at LinuxFest Northwest 2016.
• UPnP on Pfsense: security risks and alternatives.  (via)
• OpenSMTPD, spamd, SpamAssassin and Dovecot on OpenBSD – part 1  (via)
• a prog by any other name.  Some BSD history.
• OPNsense 16.1.12 released

Keep an eye out for BSD user group meetings in your area – just because I didn’t note it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

• “FreeBSD Filesystem Fun” at March 15th SEMIBUG.  The next few months of SEMIBUG speakers are posted there, too.
• Deploying NetBSD on the Cloud Using AWS EC2: Part 1.
• NetBSD on Google’s Compute Engine.
• The OpenBSD Foundation 2016 Fundraising Campaign.  (via)
• The Complexity of Doing Things Right in Distributed Board Elections.  About the NetBSD elections.
• Using GPIO on the Raspberry Pi.  (on NetBSD)
• flashrd 2.0 is out, and there’s a new mailing list location.  Here’s the flashrd site to save you looking it up, if it’s new to you.  (via)
• When Sony uses FreeBSD for Playstation 4, how much money do they save?
• htop now runs on several BSDs.  (via)
• FreeBSD and the recent glibc CVE-2015-7547 vulnerability.
• OPNsense 16.1.3 released.
• PVS-Studio delved into the FreeBSD kernel.  (via)
• Registration for AsiaBSDCon 2016 is open. (via)
• pfSense training now available in Europe.

I informally grouped by topic, cause it has proved an exceptionally rich week for BSD links.

• A FreeBSD AMI Builder AMI.  (via)
• Status of pledge(2).
• Multiple Perl modules for OpenBSD’s pledge(2).
• Going full pledge.
• iXSystems at LISA 15.
• Current Status of OpenBSD / OpenBGPd at RIPE 71 by Peter Hessler.
• Zedboard and BSD.  (via)
• FreeBSD on the QCA953x (“Honeybee”) from Qualcomm Atheros.
• Onion Omega and FreeBSD.
• Yay cross–pollination!
• Tools for cleaning up KNF-formatted code.
• You should try FreeBSD.  (via)
• Switching from OS X to FreeBSD – Both desktop and laptop.  Very thorough, and a useful guide if you are contemplating the same thing.  (via)
• Interview: Renato Westphal
• Hackfest OpenBSD Presentations.
• “The Devil & BSD: Leaving Linux Behind”  (via)
• freebsd vs arch linux
• NetBSD has the Blum Blum Shub RNG, which I thought was a name selected for comedy effect, but no, it’s the names of the creators.
• Wireless, finally – with NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi
• You can no longer not encrypt ssh traffic, on FreeBSD.  I am linking that mostly so I can use that convoluted English statement.
• rsnapshot on FreeBSD.  (via)
• OPNsense 15.7.20 Released.
• Inline Intrusion Prevention.  An upcoming OPNSense feature.
• Multi-tenant/VLANs behind a virtualized pfSense firewall in ESXi.  (via)
• OpenBSD support in psutil 3.3.0.  (via)
• Comments on the previously-linked “Why did I choose the DragonFlyBSD Operating System?“.  Hey, someone mentioned the Digest!