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2014/07/122014/07/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/07/12

Finally, a much more eventful week. I already noted LibreSSL’s release.

DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/07/07.
PC-BSD Digest 31 – there’s now a PC-BSD IRC channel.
Your server can probably tell you the temperature.
Future of pf in FreeBSD? Follow the thread. (via)
DragonFly’s pf alterations discussed for OpenBSD. It wouldn’t be easy without some of the underlying DragonFly architecture, but something for everyone to remember: Henning Brauer is generous with his time and will help people updating pf.
mfiutil on FreeBSD.
ia64 processor support is gone from FreeBSD.
NetBSD now has BIND 9.10.0-P2.
FreeBSD now has bmake-20140620.
OpenBSD now has lynx 2.8.8rel2.
OpenBSD’s relayd now has a new filter language.
pkgsrc 2014Q2 binaries are out now for several platforms.
FreeBSD has a new core team.
More cross-pollination – also from Android?
OpenBSD-current users will need to update their kernel.

2014/06/282014/06/27

In Other BSDs 2014/06/28

This week seems relatively quiet; possibly because school is out and the weather in the northern hemisphere is nice?

PC-BSD 10.0.0.2, the release, is out.
The PC-BSD text installer now supports full-disk encryption.
Where KDE is Going, part 1. (via)
Another OpenBSD GSoC project summary.
procfs in OpenBSD is probably going to be removed.
Hooray for more cross–pollination.
Thanks to Emulex for supporting BSD.
csup is gone from FreeBSD; mentioned for nostalgia purposes.
FreeBSD now has fine-grained CTL locking.
The EuroBSDCon 2014 schedule is up. (hey, there’s DragonFly in there!)

2014/06/212014/06/21

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/21

I have a backlog from stuff I missed last week while traveling, so we all benefit!

PC-BSD 10.0.2-RC2 is out.
PC-BSD will be at SouthEast LinuxFest.
Here’s the roadmap for Lumina, PC-BSD’s new desktop environment.
DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/06/16.
FreeNAS vs. NAS4Free. Didn’t need to be 8 pages. (via)
Peter’s pf tutorial is very popular.
The freeze for pkgsrc-2014Q2 has started. (I’m a bit late on this one.)
pkgsrc has a new Pkgsrc Management Committee.
This thread, “Best pdf viewer in pkgsrc?” may be useful even if you aren’t on pkgsrc.
NetBSD gained vmx(4) from OpenBSD.
NetBSD now has pigz 2.3.1, which apparently stands for ‘parallel gzip‘.
Here’s one OpenBSD/GSoC project status update; I haven’t seen others.
Another OpenBSD desktop project started.
BoringSSL. (via) Already, benefits.
Ways to test pf.
FreeBSD/gnats has gone away, and none too soon.
Again, I love to see cross–pollination.
The July and August NYCBUG meetings: timekeeping and OpenBSD ports. Here’s some notes on what to expect for the August meeting.

2014/06/142014/06/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/14

Enjoy.

PC-BSD 10.0.2 prerelease is out for testing.
Build a FreeBSD 10.0-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit.
DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/06/09. Also, there’s now a @_DiscoverBSD.
Dan Langille is using pkg, and his recent posts on seeing download sources, or custom packages in poudriere may be useful. (Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.)
Speaking of that, pkg could probably work with pkgsrc packages – that would be interesting. No link for that; I’m just thinking out loud.
Li-Wen Hsu’s BSDCan 2014 con report.
Michael W. Lucas talks about FreeBSD disk partitioning.

2014/05/312014/05/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/31

Some meaty links this week.

How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system? I ask that question because I saw this.
Undeadly has a nice set of links to all the recent BSDCan 2014 presentation videos. I don’t see Francois Tigeot’s DragonFly talk in there, though – don’t know if it got recorded.
Packaging on FreeBSD, for those who haven’t moved to pkg yet. (via)
DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/05/26.
56 different BSD-oriented Twitter accounts.
A recording of Michael W. Lucas’s recent OpenBSD webcast is available now. I think that link will work – might require giving your email.
Getting files off your Android phone – this was on openbsd-misc@ but probably applies to any BSD. Follow the thread for answers.
kornbrew, a run ‘n’ play missing package manager for BSD.
NetBSD has moved to gcc 4.8.3.
If you are using OpenBSD and encrypted vnd, you will need to migrate off of it before the next OpenBSD release.
Google’s Compute Engine SDK runs just fine on OpenBSD, as Michael W. Lucas found out.
PC-BSD Digest 30.
Plugins in FreeNAS.
Warren Block’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.

2014/05/172014/05/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/17

Some leftovers from last week since I’m catching up, so get ready to read.

What’s wrong with systemd. Matches some of my thoughts – Linux is transitioning from being against the monolith of Microsoft, to assuming a dominant place. (via)
DiscoverBSD summary for 2014/05/12.
PC-BSD Digest 28 has images of the new AppCafe.
PC-BSD Digest 29 summarizes how PBIs are changing (for the better).
NanoBSD and Raspberry Pi. (via)
UNIX: Automating your server inventory (Mostly can apply to BSD systems)
BSD Magazine for April: Free Pascal and other topics.
LibreSSL will be portable. I still want a portable pf.
FreeBSD 8.3 is EOL.
Epoch, an init replacement to avoid systemd, may work on OpenBSD.
DMARC is causing some changes for FreeBSD mailing lists. (hey, this will affect DragonFly, too, maybe.)
The pkgsrc-wip@ mailing lists are now switched to tech-pkg@ for NetBSD.
OpenBSD now stack-shuffles.
FreeBSD has added the mrsas(4) driver. (Why doesn’t it show up in a man page search at the site?)
Sometimes, Google DTRT.
FreeBSD has added the LM75 i2c temp sensor driver.
JabirOS 2.0, a fork from FreeBSD 10.
Michael W. Lucas has some notes from the pre-BSDCan FreeBSD Devsummit.
If you dig into the BSDCan schedule, some of the presentation have slides linked. Undeadly has linked to a number of them directly.

2014/05/032014/05/03

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/03

Updated late this week because of circumstances.

Michael W. Lucas is appearing at PenguinCon.
Do you use Kerberos or SRP in libssl? Ted Unangst wants to know. (Thanks, Amit Kulkarni)
Speaking of which, OpenSSH no longer requires OpenSSL.
OpenBSD 5.5 is out.
BSD for embedded devices?
The FreeBSD Foundation has a spring fundraising campaign started.
PC-BSD has a FAQ up for their new Lumina desktop environment.Writing your own desktop environment is a lot of work. Supporting all the Linuxisms in the existing ones is possibly worse…
pkgsrc Perl package status is now automatically generated.
Peek and poke freely on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD’s new AppCafe handles package management – or at least the interface. I haven’t looked hard enough to know if it’s using pkg.
CheriBSD is feeding back.
OpenSSH is getting pulled into parts?
/dev/full is always what it says it is. (related: lindev(4) is gone.)
OpenBSD 5.5 is out. Here’s the signing policy that goes with it.

2014/04/192014/04/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/19

I’ve got “coverage” of most every BSD this week.

OpenBSD has brought in OpenSSL – and is modifying it severely. Instead of linking to the many commits as they tear it into little bits, I’ll just link to this Lobste.rs post. Will it be OpenOpenSSL? It looks like it’s for internal consumption only. Undeadly has a similar summation. Apparently there’s a running blog of the changes, or at least the snarky comments.
Have you never been to BSDCan? Dan Langille asks the question. As he points out, BSD conventions are awesome, where you get to meet some smart people and put names to faces.
“I have been given the option of Linux or BSD at work…” A discussion of BSD as a Java development platform.
FreeBSD has added the if_nf10bmac(4) driver, for the “NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core”, which appears to be a programmable network card? I’m not sure how it all works together.
Goodbye EISA on FreeBSD. (Gone long ago on DragonFly.)
NetBSD src and pkgsrc changes are being twittered. (NetBSD link does not work just now when I tried it.)
PC-BSD Digest 26 mentions the addition of a new desktop environment called Lumina, built just for PC-BSD.

2014/03/292014/03/29

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/29

A quiet week this week.

BSD author Michael W. Lucas has a project announcement mailing list.
OpenBSD after version 5.5 will no longer support FTP for installation of sets.
OpenBSD 5.5. preorders are available.
NetBSD has imported mDNSResponder-258-14.
OpenSSH 6.6 is out. I haven’t kept track of which BSDs have updated.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/03/24 summary.
Another RetroBSD device.
PC-BSD Weekly Digest 23.

2014/03/222014/03/28

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/22

I have a list of commits I’ve saved between the various BSDs of licenses getting corrected to the 2-clause BSD license; that would definitely be a good cross-BSD project to sync.

DiscoverBSD has a free KVM VPS for the taking – if you write about the BSD-specific thing you are doing with it.
Also, DiscoverBSD’s news summary for the 17th.
OpenBSD packages are generally up to date. The place I found this linked has comments noting the need to run multiple versions of Ruby to test – even multiple subversions, like different revisions of 1.9.x. I think that points at a different problem…
There’s mg, which is a ‘micro GNU/Emacs’, found in OpenBSD. There’s also apparently a portable version. (via)
OpenBSD’s upd(4) needs testing.
OpenBSD has switched to Unbound, and it is apparently easy to enable DNSSEC.
I didn’t expect rcp to be removed from OpenBSD, or a Thulsa Doom reference.
Two small package managers for OpenBSD: sqlport and pkg_mgr.
The hp300, mvme68k and mvme88k ports are gone from OpenBSD.
If you’re using pkgsrc, php-fpm may be a better module than mod_php.
FreeBSD has a faster SHA2.
pkgsrcCon 2014’s Call for Papers is up.
PC-BSD Digest 22.
Hubert Feyrer has linked some NetBSD-specific slides from AsiaBSDCon 2014.
Michael W. Lucas’s NYCBSDCon 2014 talk is up on Youtube.

2014/03/082014/03/08

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/08

Links everywhere this week!

ZFS 101. This might be the same material presented at NYCBSDCon; I’m not sure.
Installing FreeBSD 10 to ZFS with a script.
The DiscoverBSD summary for 2014/03/03.
PC-BSD Weekly Digest 20.
Theo De Raadt questions for a Slashdot interview.
OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 is released.
Introduction to FreeNAS development.
GhostBSD activity. (via)
FreeNAS is now 64-bit only. (via)
OpenBSD package building on larger machines.
pkgsrcCon 2014 is happening June 21-22 in London, UK.
The schedule for BSDCan 2014 is out.
Merkletrees. Don’t know what it’s for; just like the name.
NetBSD has a versioning system called ‘bikeshed’. It appears to mostly be plans at this point.
OpenBSD has added qlw(4), a driver for QLogic ISP SCSI HBAs.
Apparently some quirks from decades ago still survive.
Random is more random on BSD than on Linux. (see last paragraph) (via)
If you keep an emergency towel, you may get this joke.

2014/03/012014/02/28

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/01

Another week where I barely need to look up source code commits.

PC-BSD Weekly Digest 18 and Digest 19.
OpenBSD’s signify tool has been backported to OpenBSD versions < 5.5.
Video of an OpenBSD install.
xorg, unprivileged on OpenBSD. (via)
This is a good idea: FreeBSD 10’s release.sh mapped out.
bcrypt() updates in OpenBSD and what it means for you. (also)
iXSystem’s NYCBSDCon 2014 recap. (via nycbug-talk)
A description of those expensive/busy WhatsApp FreeBSD servers. (via)
FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis. (via #nycbug)
NetBSD is bringing in BIND 9.10.0b1. (a beta?)
NetBSD is also in the process of moving from gcc 4.5 to 4.8.
Yes, You Too Can Be An Evil Network Overlord. I still haven’t set up the Netflow system that I want to set up, dangit.
pkg will require libucl. This affects FreeBSD and will affect DragonFly too.
OpenBSD has an experimental USB installer. This may be new to the upcoming release – I don’t know.

2014/02/222014/02/21

In Other BSDs for 2014/02/22

Read the first item, if nothing else.

You may have seen that Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19B; take a look at the graph here to see that WhatsApp has more than double the user count of Facebook, and then look at these two posts on NYCBUG talk noting that WhatsApp uses FreeBSD to serve all those people.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/02/17 summary.
DiscoverBSD has an interview of Kent Riboe, maintainer of BSDEater.org, which appears to be a BSD RSS feed aggregator. I find the last sentence problematic: “…people shouldn’t need to read first half on one site and then click it to read the following part somewhere else.” I’d like people to read my words on my site, at some point, especially given that 75% of the text on bsdeater.org appear to be me.
GNOME 3 on OpenBSD, on Undeadly. There’s more effort than I realized being put into this.
How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images. (via)
Synopsys bought Coverity. Coverity provided free source code analysis for FreeBSD; no idea if that will continue. (via swildner on #dragonflybsd)
PC-BSD needs testers for a new upgrade method.
Goodbye nve(4), hello nfe(4).
FreeBSD has Synchronous Audio Interface (SAI) support. (Freescale-specific)
NetBSD has imported SQLite 3.8.3.1.
Some discussion of OpenBSD rootkits, or the lack thereof.
Power failure resistance.
LIBC_BUILTINS is no longer used in pkgsrc.

2014/02/012014/01/31

In Other BSDs for 2014/02/01

For once, I got this mostly done before late Friday night!

OpenBSD on the Beaglebone Black.
DiscoverBSD’s January 28th roundup.
Automated FreeBSD Panic Reporting. More people need to do this.
A report from the n2k14 OpenBSD hackathon.
New to me: CHERIBSD. Capsicum, implemented in hardware, is a rough summary.
Python is going to 3.x by default in pkgsrc.
OpenSSH 6.5 is out.
PC-BSD 10 is out. (release announcement)
FreeBSD Foundation Fundraising Final.
Sendmail is moved to 8.14.8, and bmake to 20140101 in FreeBSD.
NetBSD has announced several 5.x and 6.x patch level changes.
Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower, 2014 Edition.

2014/01/182014/01/18

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/18

I didn’t even need to find source links this week.

Do you have a VAX laying around? Cool! Now, can you give/lend it to OpenBSD?
Along those lines, anyone have a Cray they don’t need? I don’t care if it works. It has to be full-size, though. (via)
I found out that the RetroBSD site now lists hardware that runs RetroBSD. Here’s a video of something doing just that. There’s more of it on little teeny boards. Someone build this into a watch.
The DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/01/14. DiscoverBSD also has a new writer, Nur Agus.
Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example. Part 1. There’s a nice VFS explanation in there, too. (via)
Some OpenBSD videos from ruBSD.
Here’s a good explanation of OpenBSD’s new signify tool.
FreeBSD 10.0 is tagged.
PC-BSD 10 is also almost ready.
Unscrewed, a story linked in last week’s BSDNow presentation, in case you missed it.
Using Ansible to fix the recently-discovered NTP amplification attack – on BSD.
I assume he’s flying.

2013/12/212013/12/20

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/21

Odds and ends for the quieter holidays.

Hubert Feyrer spotted this video interview of Amitai ‘schmonz’ Schlair about NetBSD.
OpenBSD has tmpfs.
PC-BSD has made it through a pkg upgrade.
pkgsrc is frozen until at least the end of the month, for pkgsrc-2013Q4.
OpenBSD wants to shift electrical costs. (via)
The DiscoverBSD weekly roundup.
Managing custom ports. (can apply to dports too)
Building tcsh on 4.3BSD-Quasijarus. This led me to…
4.5BSD. An ambitious project.
A pfSense video review.
Steryana Shopova is this past week’s Faces of FreeBSD.
OpenBSD had a head start on not trusting RNGs.
OpenBSD has a new vioscsi(4) driver.
Michael W. Lucas’s books are available through OpenBSD.
FreeBSD Kitten. (via NYCBUG)

2013/12/142013/12/13

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/14

Another week where I could get away without any commit links, just cause there’s so much BSD stuff out there.

Randomness changes in FreeBSD. Saw commits before, but this is a good summary. (via)
Cipher changes summary for OpenBSD.
The DiscoverBSD summary.
Faces of FreeBSD for this week: Brooks Davis.
PC-BSD’s weekly summary.
FuguIta, an OpenBSD liveCD.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s Semi-Annual Newsletter. There’s details on the FreeBSD Journal.
Also, that newsletter links this first of 4 BSD whitepapers.
The FreeBSD Challenge on linuxcauldron.com – a 30-day challenge.
BSDCan 2014 has issued a call for papers.
So has NYCBSDCon 2014. Here’s the announcement of NYCBSDCon 2014 itself, and flyer.
Note to self: investigate cheap bus trips to New York City.
The IP-Plug, a NetBSD-powered wall wart. The article goes into terrific detail.
Ruby in pkgsrc will be (apparently?) defaulting to version 2.0.
robotpkg, a specialized fork of pkgsrc that I didn’t know about.
PC-BSD is going through lots of changes to support pkg. (that’s one of many commits.)
FreeBSD has added newcons.

2013/12/072013/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/07

Happy birthday to me!

Is Your Stack Protector Working? On Undeadly, so it’s OpenBSD.
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH. (via)
The next PC-BSD 10.0 image is available.
Reid Linnemann is the latest in the Faces of FreeBSD series.
NetBSD has updated file.
FreeBSD’s iwn(4) driver has some updates (also in DragonFly).
FreeBSD now has casperd, for controlling access to out-of-sandbox capabilities.
FreeBSD’s oce(4) driver now supports 40Gb devices. (yay for manufacturer support)
FreeBSD has Hyper-V drivers.
OpenBSD’s ifconfig now shows the NWID, channel, and BSSID for IBSS networks.
OpenBSD has updated to pixman 0.32.4.
pkgsrc’s 2013Q4 freeze will start on the 16th.
How old is who? (Don’t tell me 900 years.)
There’s a broken builds list for pkgsrc-2013Q4 for anyone who wants to help.
Hacker News had a link to the FreeBSD version of the BSD Family Tree, which is not unique, but the comments led to some interesting links, like this story of an 8-year NetBSD uptime.
FreeBSDNews’s summary.
All the AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos. (Last week’s link was just OpenBSD ones.)
FreeBSD authentication against Samba 4 LDAP. I’m going to need this for the DragonFly machine I’m setting up in the same role at work… in my copious spare time.

2013/11/162013/11/15

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/16

Not as much pulled directly from the source lists this time, which is good.

It’s no surprise that I would say this, but: it makes me happy to see other BSD projects doing regular summaries, like this one or that one for PC-BSD or this general BSD summary.
A random PC-BSD review found via Google Search.
PC-BSD 10 test images are available. I wonder if that’s related to the eleventy-billion commits lately out of the PC-BSD Github account?
OpenBSD/CARP, Cisco, and schadenfreude.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s annual fundraising is on; they have already made it well along, but there’s still lots of dollars to go.
OpenBSD now has automatic disk mounting.
g4u 2.6 has entered beta. It’s “Ghost for Unix”, which gives you an idea of what it does.
EuroBSDCon 2013 DevSummit video recordings are up. I said there would be video all week, didn’t I?
Using OpenBSD with Vagrant and Veewee. Those tool names sound somewhat rude.
pbulk bulk builds for pkgsrc made easy. I was working on a script like this.
Cross–pollination makes me happy.
svn in FreeBSD is updated.
FreeBSD supports the MediaTek/Ralink RT5370/RT5372 chipset.
nvi still gets updates.
FreeBSD supports the (takes deep breath) Freescale Vybrid Family VF600 heterogeneous
ARM Cortex-A5/M4 SoC. (exhales)
FreeBSD has an IEEE Organizationally Unique Identifier. Not sure what it means.
NetBSD has a new game, hals_end. If you saw 2001 the movie, you may guess the contents.
OpenBSD has a new ugl driver for the Genesys Logic GL620USB-A
USB host-to-host link cable.

2013/11/092013/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/09

Not sure why, but there wasn’t a lot of things this week to pick out.

A short discussion of Perfect Forward Secrecy on pkgsrc-users.
PC-BSD apparently (used to) play a movie on first boot.
FreeBSD now has a ‘mini-memstick‘ install option. (a later messages says ~200M in size.)
FreeBSD has updated aacraid.
OpenBSD supports the RTS5229 card reader in rtsx(4).
OpenBSD has updated OpenSSH, and NetBSD has updated. (DragonFly has a fix for the underlying problem.)
OpenBSD has FUSE support.