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2015/10/032015/10/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/03

There’s lots to read through this week – just for BSD! I’ll have even more tomorrow.

FreeBSD cloud use cases?
Nvidia and X.
The September issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Reporting bugs and the BSD community.
(Net)BSD newbie, some questions
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/28.
Faces of FreeBSD: Allan Jude. You may have already seen that face on BSDNow.
OPNsense 15.7.15 Released.
FreeNAS: A Worst Practices Guide.
A status report on Michael W. Lucas’s two upcoming FreeBSD Mastery books, plus his other work.
tame testing.
More l2k15 Hackathon reports.
NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer and pkgsrc. They even document it.
Rebase when pushing to pkgsrc-wip’s new Git home.
pkgsrc-2015Q3 is released.
DTrace in NetBSD, though only simple scripts work right now.
NetBSD gains PCI Extended Configuration Space support.
Home server advice often boils down to “how are your backups?“
OpenBSD parts in Toyota Highlander.
Teaching to contribute to BSD. (from a just-run class)

2015/09/262015/09/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/26

This took some catching up.

MidnightBSD 0.7 is out. (via)
OPNsense 15.7.14 Released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/21.
New email gateway release 3.4 “rocky”, based on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
FreeBSD on recent Lenovo Thinkpad W541. (via)
*BSD and thinkpads. (via)
Broadwell support in OpenBSD .
LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released.
Two OpenBSD hackathon summaries.
“sid is a Static Intrusion Detection and integrity checking system” for NetBSD.
sesutil additions on FreeBSD.
rmt over ssh on OpenBSD.
BSD 2.11, I assume emulated?
Network drivers are a cross-pollination success story for BSD.
New source/port change summaries for OpenBSD, on GMane.
“Cheap hardware for router, perhaps fileserver?“

2015/09/192015/09/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/19

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.

2015/09/122015/09/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/12

This was a quieter-than-normal week, probably because of the North American holiday at the start of it, but I found enough articles by the end.

Andrew Tanenbaum (creator of Minix) encourages you to go to BSDCon Brasil 2015. (though it has already happened by the time I saw this.)
ctwm, an extension to twm in NetBSD.
Lumina, and by extension at least PC-BSD, gains a Start menu.
gpart can’t yet replace fdisk in FreeBSD.
The rge(4) driver is removed in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained the sesutil(8) utility, for managing SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) devices. It turns the light on and off!
A history of modern init systems.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/07.
Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
(OPNSense) System Health – whats next?!
FreeNAS News, issue 23.
Defeating Cryptolocker attacks with ZFS.

2015/08/292015/08/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/29

Put together at the last minute.

NeXTBSD, a video presentation. (via multiple places)
Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd. Sort of commentary on the previous item. (also via multiple places)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/24.
OPNSense 15.7.10, 15.7.11 released.
Beyond the Fork, an OPNSense status report.
OpenBSD 5.8, Another Song.
Kernel W^X extended to i386 on OpenBSD.
SSLv3 removed from LibreSSL.
Call for Testing: Using tame() in userland.
OpenBSD’s tame gets a path list parameter. (via)
DistroWatch introduces PC-BSD’s new Enterprise package repository. (via)
Why 32-bit MIPS isn’t interesting. (via)
FreeBSD gains an ioat(4) driver.
Summer of Code 2015 just finished, and the code is starting to appear.
Lumina-fm gets a major update.
pkgsrc as non-root, a discussion. (follow the thread)