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2014/04/262014/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/26

Another active week.

RetroBSD recently moved to Git and GitHub, and is now buildable on Mac OS X.
ALTQ is gone, at least for the OpenBSD version of pf.
So I’ll bring up this point again: pf is fragmenting, and we should do something about it.
The EdgeBSD presentation from FOSDEM 2014. (via)
OpenBSD could use some VLAN testing.
FreeBSDNews is running an swag contest.
netbsd.fi replaces onetbsd.org.
Here’s a GSoC project that could help everyone. (thanks, Tomáš Bodžár)
I’ve linked to some parts of this work, but Undeadly has a summary of the man page search improvements in OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/04/14 summary.
LibreSSL started because of a leaky water heater.
I always like threads about small hardware.
FreeNAS hardware unboxing.
Man, everybody likes pfSense.
Lua in pkgsrc is getting versioned.
Why would you do this?

2014/04/122014/04/11

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/12

Some out-of-the-ordinary things this week.

BSDTV, a new YouTube channel. It has several videos from the recent NYCBSDCon.
pfSense 2.1.1 is out. No, wait, it’s 2.1.2!
Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository. Applies to DragonFly, too.
DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/04/07.
A partially tongue-in-cheek suggestion for an OpenOpenSSL.
FreeBSDNews.net is now owned by? maintained by? iXSystems, which seems to be singlehandedly building as much FreeBSD ecosystem as possible – that’s good!
Bitrig is dropping i386 support.
FreeBSD Journal #2 is out.
The OpenBSD Foundation reached their goal for the year.
The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off their campaign.
PC-BSD Digest 25 is out.
Mount your NetBSD ISO directly from the file server.
FreeBSD supports UDP-Lite, which appears to be the network protocol equivalent of turning over a bucket of ball bearings and saying “Grab what you can.”
OpenBSD starts to bring back 4.4BSD more.
Peter N. M. Hansteen wants to know what you do with OpenBSD in a conference-presentationish sort of way. Specifically, EuroBSDCon.
Jordan Hubbard talks about compiler choices for FreeBSD, and points out that the processor choices these days are Intel or ARM, and that’s it.

2014/02/192014/02/19

Tokyo meeting and Open Network Hardware

I was remiss in not posting this before it happened, but Issac (.ike) Levy of NYCBUG went to Tokyo to talk about the translation efforts for pfSense, on the 17th. He posted a summary of his talk and slides.

Normally I would be posting this in an “In Other BSDs” Saturday item, but the summary page includes links on Open Network Hardware, which .ike and I talked about at NYCBSDCon. I wanted to create a separate post for it, but he’s got all the links piled in with his talk summary already.

The hardware I want to see as a real product is the Intel ONP Switch Reference Design. (PDF) Having a device that looks like a switch but is actually a normal computer with a lot of network ports – that can run BSD – opens up a huge range of network possibilities.

2014/01/252014/01/26

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/25

Back to relatively normal volume, this week.

FreeBSD 10 is out.
OpenBSD got electrical funding, and is now holding a funding drive.
new openssh key format and bcrypt pbkdf. A new key format for OpenSSH, and how to switch to it – only available in OpenBSD as of this writing.
I did not know this: There’s a pfSense store, with shirts, preloaded USB sticks, and various appliances – I have one of the Netgate FW-7541 models, notable in that I’ve never had to do anything with it after initial setup; it just runs and runs. There’s a pfSense hangout/webcast for paid support customers this Friday the 24th, too.
Open Source FreeBSD 10 Takes on Virtualization. From a saved Google search.
Undeadly has an explanation of the new signed packages setup for OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD’s 2014/01/14 roundup.
FreeBSD now has OpenSSL 1.0.1f.
NetBSD now has a wscons/Intel GMA driver.
PC-BSD 10 is almost out, and here’s their weekly digest talking about it. Also, apparently PC-BSd and GhostBSD share some installer code? I’m not clear on this.
CBSD – FreeBSD jail management. (via)
Slides and audio from Brian Callahan’s recent OpenBSD presentation at NYCBUG are up.
OpenBSD has a qla(4) driver, for Qlogic fiber channel HBAs, and ubcmtp(4), a Macbook touchpad driver.