pkgsrc – DragonFly BSD Digest

Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.

Solene is publishing faster than I can link!

EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
Wayland on FreeBSD.
Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
Valuable News – 2021/03/15.

This bulked up fast this week.

No theme, but plenty of variety.

A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel.
Valuable News – 2020/08/24.
“TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters.
TrueNAS 12.0 beta out.
MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out.
pkgdb belongs in libdata, not var. Them's fightin' words!
rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc. Them too!
GhostBSD financial reports. I like seeing this out in the open. (via)
What is the oldest BSD? Not as short an answer as you may think. (via)
Tarsnap podcast episode with FreeBSD ex security officer Colin Percival. (via)
From 8' to 4": massive pkgsrc performance gain by replacing a shell script with awk.

Lots of old BSD this week.

Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
I'm back into the grind of FreeBSD's wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.

Happy leap day!

RSVP to the ChiBUG mailing list if you are attending the March 10th meeting, in its new location.
The Vixie talk at NYCBUG is this week; this is worth making an extra trip for.
Critical OpenSMTPd update.
FreeBSD 12.0 EOL.
A Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation.
Valuable News – 2020/02/10, 2020/02/17, and 2020/02/24. Clearly I am behind.
FreeBSD Enterprise Storage at PBUG.
dig(1), host(1) and nslookup(1) moved to /usr/bin.
a2k20 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on xhci(4),dhclient(8), and scsi.
OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup.
FOSDEM 2020 videos available.
OPNsense 20.1.1 released.
Warning! Active Directory Security Changes Require TrueNAS and FreeNAS Updates.
Full name of root account in BSD. A chunk of history I had never heard.
Managing a database of vulnerabilities for a package system: the pkgsrc study case. (PDF, via)
Low power BSD-based AP/router?
HashLink port for running Dead Cells. (via)

UNIX history as an accidental theme this week. Update: NetBSD 9.0 is released.

Are there analogues to libxo out there?
Unix Heritage Wiki. (via)
Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming)
PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question.
Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via)
UNIX Review Early 80's Ad.
Cycling / bike trips and opensource.
Rob Landley about the /usr split. (via)
awesome cli apps: A curated list of command line apps. Look for them in ports. (via)
Using PKGSRC on Manjaro Linux aarch64 Pinebook-pro. (via)
FreeNAS versus Unraid - Grudge Match. (via)
Dependencies and maintainers. Tehcnically BSD related.

No theme evolved, but lots more links this week.

Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1.
BSD user groups in Italy. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via)
HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via)
Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments may also be interesting.
Valuable News – 2020/01/06.
The BSDCan 2020 call for papers closes on the 19th; get yours in soon!
ChiBUG meets on the 14th. I'll post a reminder.
Using rsnapshot for easy backups.
Archives are important to retain and pass on knowledge. Someday, you will thank you.
Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. (OpenBSD)
FreeBSD end-of-year recap by adridg. FreeBSD, Calamares.
Hunspell on FreeBSD. (via)
Bastille Containers on FreeBSD.
Related: A practical guide to containers on FreeNAS for a depraved psychopath.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean. The comments in the source link note you can get any BSD installed that way.

It's probably going to be quiet for at least a few days because of the Christmas holiday, though I'll of course have the normal weekend features up. In the meantime, here's something to ponder: this post about tmux and plugins for it led me to thinking about plugins in general. The pkg system is sort of a plugin scheme for BSDs, much like apt for Debian, yum, etc. Each language has its own libraries to load and plugins to manage past that, like Perl's CPAN. Nowadays, applications have their own plugins. For instance, a system with Wordpress installed with PHP installed with PHP plugins required with Wordpress plugins that also require given PHP libraries. Wordpress manages keeping itself and its plugins up to date, but not the underlying PHP installation. You can get something similar with Perl along with the Perl-specific package updates, through cpanm. Or, npm, which seems to be its own world of constant flux. How many levels could this go? Like running multiple emulators within each other, how many levels of plugin could you achieve? There's probably a series of levels proceeding from tedious to barely maintainable to ridiculous.