PC-BSD – Page 3 – DragonFly BSD Digest

There’s some packages moving from pkgsrc-wip to pkgsrc proper.
pkgsrc-2014Q4 branching is planned for Monday the 15th.
PC-BSD now has an automatic package/security patch upgrade mechanism.
Steam on PC-BSD. Holy grail, there.
PC-BSD needs testers for the new Update Manager, for moving from 10 to 10.1
NetBSD has imported BIND 9.10.1-P1.
OpenBSD has added skgpio(4), a driver for the Soekris net6501 GPIO port and LEDs.
OpenBSD has updated Unbound to 1.5.1.
Some Japanese input methods for OpenBSD that may work on other BSDs, too.
pfqstat, a replacements for pfstat designed to work with Charted.
I don’t know what the ‘BERI Virtio Networking Frontend’ is, but FreeBSD’s got it.
fstyp(8), the filesystem detector.
FreeBSD has added AES-ICM and AES-GCM modes to OpenCrypto.
If you’re stopping in NYC, NYCBUG would like to hear you talk on a topic of interest.
The case for distributed operating systems in the data center. Sounds like DragonFly’s original charter. (via)
BSDNow wants to hear your getting-into-BSD story.
OpenBSD libc version 78.
There’s a lot of FreeBSD systems at NYI.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” is now in physical print.
“Networking for System Administrators” is next to come out.
And “Tarsnap Mastery” is next to be written.
…We’re all benefiting from Michael Lucas going full-time on writing.

2014/12/062014/12/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/12/06

I have been building up quite the variety this week.

Bitrig 1.0 has been released.
Writing NetBSD Sound Drivers in Haskell. (PDF, via)
ruBSD 2014, happening December 13th in Moscow. (via)
How to configure full disk encryption in PC-BSD 10.1. (via)
BSD Magazine for November 2014. (via) Why don’t they put new issue announcements in their RSS?
A week of pkgsrc #5.
FreeBSD Foundation’s 2014 year-end fundraising.
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is hitting the printers. There’s a quiet mention of the next two books in that series, too.
Two new kernel errata for OpenBSD.
BSDCan 2015 (June 2015) has opened up its call for papers, now through Jan 19th, 2015. (via)
A conversation about UTF-8, Unicode, and file systems.
A conversation about random vs. phrase passwords.
New Directions in Operating Systems conference notes. Lots of BSD stuff in there. (via)
nih-0.13.0 is out for pkgsrc.
BSD presentations (including DragonFly) at the X Developers Conference. I mentioned the event itself before, but that link wasn’t open to non-subscribers until later, as pointed out to me.
Coreboot on the BSDs.
More talk about embedded OpenBSD on cheap machines, including thin client machines repurposed into routers.
Noticed in that previous link: <$100 Ubuquiti EdgeRouter-Lites can run OpenBSD? FreeBSD too, apparently.
Is it time to give BSDs a try?
Fixing PC-BSD upgrade issues.

2014/11/222014/11/22

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/22

I actually got this started early, for once, instead of completing in a panic on Friday night.

The Move from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
BSDTalk247 – FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years with Jordan Hubbard. I meant to post this before; lost track.
/var/tmp now links to /tmp on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD now has perl 5.20.1 in base.
Making FireFox less insecure on OpenBSD.
You can peek at what ‘roles’ are being put together for PC-BSD installs. Or just watch this video.
PC-BSD and TrueOS version 10.1 released, Lumina 0.7.2 tagged.
Linux Top 3: PC-BSD 10.1 Linux Mint 17.1 and Mageia 5.
FreeBSD now supports the Trendnet TEW-646UBH wireless adapter.
BSD Router Project (bsdrp) version 1.53 is out.
NetBSD has updated tcpdump/libpcap.
retiring crypt
shtk 1.6 now available.
NYCBSDCon made about $1k for each of the BSDs.
WhatsApp donate $1MM to the FreeBSD Foundation.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/11/17.
Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop?
Book Review: Book of PF, 3rd Edition.

2014/11/152014/11/14

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/15

Totally last minute.

People still add things to telnet?
FreeBSD has removed faith(4) and faithd(8).
FreeBSD ports now has stack smashing protection on by default.
FreeBSD 10.1 is out. (And PC-BSD follows)
PC-BSd is looking at ‘roles‘.
Printing device trees in OpenBSD.
Munin and pf queues.
Contributing. (Applies to any BSD, really.)
pkgsrc-2014Q3 packages for illumos available.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/11/10.
from the annals of uvm, OpenBSD virtual memory.
BSD Magazine: Hardened BSD.
BSDFan, for Thinkpad fans on any? BSD.
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” is less than a month away. The author’s giving a sudo talk soon, too.

2014/11/082014/11/07

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/08

Snow finally hit my area yesterday, which makes me happy.

PC-BSD 10.1-RC2 Released.
FreeBSD 10.1-RC4 now available.
Building an OpenBSD firewall and router
Michael W. Lucas’s next book: “Networking for Sysadmins“. BSD-friendly, of course.
See also: his sci-fi work, not BSD related.
PC-BSD’s Lumina gains plugins. (one link of several)
pkgsrc-2014Q3 packages for OSX now available
OpenBSD adds SipHash.
OpenBSD has enabled USB3.
The signed Book of PF made $3000 at auction.
FreeBSD now uses vt(4) instead of syscons by default.
Improving bcd(6)

2014/10/252014/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/25

This week I was on top of the whole linking thing.

A Minecraft plugin for FreeNAS.
PC-BSD has a YouTube channel.
LibreSSL 2.1.0 is out.
OpenBSD 5.6 sneak peek.
Question about the current state of FreeBSD
Tanenbaum realizes BSD was a better idea. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/13.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/20.
FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon 2014.
KDEConnect in PC-BSD.
Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for meeting space in 2015.
The FreeBSD Forums are running new software.
A 14 year old IP reference.
NetBSD has imported openresolv 3.6.0.
Getting snmpwalk to talk to snmpd on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD (starts to) gain EFI support.
Security Engineering for Linux Users. (via)
vxlan, virtio console driver, added to FreeBSD.
Setting a dedicated serial link on your OpenBSD system.
Chromium has some issues in OpenBSD-current in some situations.

2014/10/182014/10/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/18

Done at the last minute, like always, but surprisingly extensive this week:

DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/06.
FreeBSD Cheatsheet.
FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 is out.
Question about the BSD community as a whole.
mandoc now contains man.
PC-BSD now has a new Linuxulator and AppCafe.
GhostBSD 4.0 is out.
Frequent BSD author Michael W. Lucas is now a fulltime tech author.
Speaking of that, the first draft of his FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is up.
Introducing sysupgrade for NetBSD.
37 year old bug, 22 year old fix, patched this month. (via)
PC-BSD has branched 10.1.
FreeBSD has netmap support in libpcap.
FreeBSD’s ipfw has received some updates.
A PC-BSD 10.0.3 review.
Building packages at scale.
MeetBSD 2014 is coming up in California.
NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 are out.
The third quarter 2014 FreeBSD Status Report is out.
Send in your OpenBSD dmesg.
Importing pkg to NetBSD – an idea I support.

2014/09/272014/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/27

Not even trying source links this week; there’s plenty else to link.

FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 2 is out. (has been out, but this is the announcement.)
The Open Source Software Engagement Award. An excellent, excellent move by Colin Percival.
Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD.
Outlining Thin Linux. The article linked to described a stripped down Linux that doesn’t have package dependencies just to run. That’s what BSD has been for several decades now…
DiscoverBSD for 2014/09/22.
pfSense has reached 2.2-beta.
“Can you recommend a good laptop that runs BSD well?“
NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi. (via)
Bash and PC-BSD.
The OpenBSD 5.6 theme song.
EuroBSDCon 2014 is going on right now. (via)

Update: EuroBSDCon is livestreaming! (via)

2014/09/132014/09/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/13

This has been a very hectic week for me, but I still have links for you.

The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System book is getting a significant update.
Install Snort on FreeBSD. That place isn’t too far from me. (via)
uGet, Open Source Lightweight Download Manager, is Now Available for BSD.
loksh, a Linux port of OpenBSD’s ksh.
2Q buffer cache in OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/09/08.
PC-BSD’s 10.0.3 quarterly package update is out.
People are noticing the OpenBSD GSoC systemd replacement project.
“GCC is by far the weirdest compiler I’ve ever used.“
FreeBSD now supports the Dream Cheeky Webmail Notifier.
FreeBSD has a ARM-based FPGA core programming tool. Not sure if that’s the right phrase.
FreeBSD’s bootloader can now talk to the pcibios.
Also, the UEFI bootloader can now talk serial/null console.
Thanks for the BSD help, Microsoft!?
procfs is gone from OpenBSD.
Low power server discussion, in a home context.
Building pkgsrc using cwrappers and pbulk.
How to get Bitrig on ARM.

2014/09/112014/09/11

Lumina for DragonFly

In a bit of perfect timing, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, Lumina, has been ported to DragonFly, thanks to mneumann! It’s not in dports yet, but it should be buildable from source…

2014/09/11

BSDNow 054: Luminary Environment

BSDNow 054 has an interview with Ken Moore of PC-BSD about the just-released-as-a-port Lumina desktop environment, along with a slew of news items and a Lumina walkthrough.

2014/09/062014/09/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/06

Why is it so warm out? I want autumn to start.

BSD compared to Linux, an explanation.
A description of what rcctl does. (via several places)
NetBSD runs on the OpenRISK 1000.
tmux-resurrect, making tmux survive machine restarts.
OpenBSD version numbering explained.
PC-BSD has its own subreddit.
Lumina is now available as a port – will it work on DragonFly? Someone try!
DiscoverBSD news for 2014/09/01.
NetBSD 5 systems now use modular xorg.
The 2014Q3 pkgsrc freeze is coming up.
PXE installs of OpenBSD with Serva.
Are you a “connoisseur of old time stamps“?
FreeBSD has some support for the Altera SOCFPGA.
Your cross-pollination moment of the week.
Yes, it runs (Retro)BSD.

2014/08/302014/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/30

I went from 1 link to lots all in one night.

DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/08/25.
The Bitrig website has been redesigned, probably to prep for a 1.0 version “soon”.
Do any of the BSDs have an equivalent to initramfs?
FreeBSD now has /etc/rc.conf.d/<service> subdirectories.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC2 has been tagged.
The roadmap for PC-BSD’s Lumina has been updated.
And here’s a preview of what Lumina looks like and can do.
NetBSD now supports the (rare) arcofi(4) sound device.
NetBSD now has direct I/O for FUSE.
OpenBSD no longer needs rtsol(8) or rtsold(8).
OpenBSD is very close to replacing man with mandoc.
A script for OpenBSD and WPA&WPA2 Enterprise / LEAP connections.
Via openbsd-misc, how to set up IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 and IPSec.
So I wanted to try out BSD…
A week of pkgsrc #4.
The FreeBSD Foundation has an IPSec improvement project started.
VMWare Tools for FreeBSD 10. I could really use VMWare Tools for DragonFly.
DesktopBSD is attempting a comeback, and here’s discussion.
A thread about drive reliability. To paraphrase something else: “In the long run, they’re all dead.”

2014/08/282014/08/30

BSDTalk 244: Ken Moore and Lumina

BSDTalk 244 is 28 minutes of conversation with Ken Moore about Lumina, the new BSD-specific desktop environment for PC-BSD. I’ve been watching the PC-BSD source updates, and there’s a lot of activity.

2014/08/232014/08/22

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/23

Another long list. These are making my Friday nights take some extra effort.

Oolite, an open source game based on Elite. Yes, it runs on BSD. I’m surprised I haven’t posted about it before. (via)
My Experience Switching from Slackware Linux to FreeBSD.
A week of pkgsrc, #3.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/08/18.
OpenBSD is gaining a rcctl(8) tool for automation.
Phabricator on FreeBSD installation notes.
20 years of FreeBSD ports.
“Does BSD perform disk caching less aggressively?” I bet the person asking was using two different machines at different times with different loads, which means he doesn’t know what he’s looking for.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s August Update is out.
Some people don’t like pkg.
The EuroBSDCon 2014 travel grant has been extended, and Google has grants to bring more female computer scientists there.
Spatializer support in NetBSD.
NetBSD is keeping up with the gpl2 version of GNU Make.
PC-BSD 10.0.3-RC1 has been tagged.
FreeBSD has a new automounter.
FreeBSD has a set of keymap conversion tools. Might be useful to someone?
FreeBSD now goes up to 256 CPUs. (I thought this already happened?)
Yay cross-pollination!
Apparently people don’t pay attention to file contents.
IPv6 tunneling on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD has replaced BIND with unbound in the base system.

2014/08/162014/08/15

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/16

A calm week, for once.

mandoc 1.13.1 is out.
The July/August issue of the FreeBSD Journal is out.
A week of pkgsrc #2.
Thinking about coming to FreeBSD from Arch.
Steam client on FreeBSD?
NetBSD sysinst now supports extended partitions, from an older GSoC project.
NetBSD has a nouveau importing script.
NetBSD has Embedded Kermit.
NetBSD 7 has been branched.
FreeBSD xen can now manage physical hardware.
OpenBSD distribution is moving, so last chance on some of the merch.
If you just want to donate to OpenBSD, here’s a conversation about it. (hint: CDs)
tcpdump on OpenBSD is ancient; if you need circular logfiles, there’s manual ways to do that.
Now’s a good time to check on the roadmap for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment.
A video conversation about FreeNAS and TrueNAS.

2014/08/022014/08/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/08/02

I was thinking this was going to be a short week, but nope.

Using pkgsrc for HPC. Follow the thread for discussion of pkgsrc as a self-contained tool system, including the compiler.
Debugging Firefox on pkgsrc.
CDE is in pkgsrc-wip.
tmux in NetBSD got updated.
pcc in NetBSD got an update, too.
NetBSD can work on a Kobo Touch?
FreeBSD’s 40G XL710 driver reached version 1.0.
FreeBSD has “pkgfs, a file system implementation for reading files out of a compressed tarball, aka package.” From Juniper.
FreeBSD has Chromebook2 support.
The FreeBSD Foundation semiannual newsletter is out.
The FreeBSD quarterly report is out.
a survey of FreeBSD ZFS snapshot automation tools
Keeping pf.conf in sync. Many different suggestions.
OpenBSD’s homegrown httpd is gaining fastcgi.
Ted Unangst has summarized links to all the g2k14 hackathon reports.
PC-BSD has something called syscache, which I’m seeing commits for but I haven’t found what it is exactly – a caching system for package info, I think?
DIscoverBSD for 2014/07/28.
BSDSec, a BSD-specific security site. (via)
List of VPSs that support BSD. (via)