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2019/11/302019/11/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/30

End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.

Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
[How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
Some notes on userspace routing.
Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.

2019/10/052019/10/04

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/05

There’s been a lot of BUG meetings lately; I think it’s time to form some more.

Fixing up KA9Q-unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..” Packet radio!
ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits.
How To Set Up Buildbot on FreeBSD. (via)
Next ChiBUG meeting: October 8th. I’ll post a reminder.
pkgsrc-2019Q3 is out.
Fuzzing Filesystems on NetBSD via AFL+KCOV. (PDF, via)
NUMA Siloing in the FreeBSD Network Stack. (via)
OPNsense 19.7.4 released.
Project Trident 12-U8 available.
FreeBSD 12.1-beta2 available.
sysupgrade(8) Added to OpenBSD 6.5.
OpenBSD moving towards 6.6.
Valuable News – 2019/10/01.
Cannot destroy ‘pool/data’: dataset already exists.
Support for the sgi platform discontinued. (OpenBSD)

2019/08/102019/08/07

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/10

A reminder: if you have a BSD user group and I’m not posting about your meetings, please make sure I know about it.

2019/08/032019/08/02

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/03

A bumper crop this week!

Video on OpenBSD, a presentation at NYCBUG by Andre Buskvekster, happening on the 7th. I’ll post a reminder on the 6th.
OpenBSD ttyplot examples.
Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2019).
NetBSD 9.0 release process has started. Aarch64 support sounds good.
TrueNAS 11.2 out.
PHP and OpenBSD talk by Mario Campos on August 12th at ChiPHPUG lightning talks.
OpenBGPD: The OpenBSD BGP internet routing daemon. The link source comments are the useful part.
FreeBSD-SA-19:12.telnet: Were these claims even properly investigated, or did Juniper bully an advisory through? This is a spectator sport item, really, if you can’t tell from the title.
Exploiting a No-Name FreeBSD Kernel Vulnerability. (via)
Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, second evaluation report.
Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Part 2.
Enchancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 2. Enhancing, I think it should be.
Work-in-progress threading support in LLDB.
Touchpad, Interrupted.

2019/07/272019/07/26

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/27

All over the map this week.

Broken ports? (OpenBSD games)
Realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization.
What’s the point of the Single UNIX Specification?
Resuming ZFS send.
A Chapter from the FBI’s History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln. (via).
OpenBSD and NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Nagoya. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/22.
NetBSD audio – an application perspective. (via)
Project Trident STABLE-12 Now Available. (via)
A week of pkgsrc #13.
OPNsense 19.7.1 released.
New FreeNAS Mini Entry-Level & High-End Models Unveiled by iXsystems.
Bill Joy interview, 1984. I once heard him described as a flat-food person. (PDF, via)

2019/07/202019/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/20

And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.

Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
DTracing PostGres. (via).
What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p) added to -current. I like this sort of external support.
NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
Want to learn more about BSD.
FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.

2019/07/132019/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/13

Done early, for once! I managed to complete this by Thursday night.

LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps.
OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
Streaming to Twitch using OpenBSD.
High quality / low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 19.1.10 released, and then OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released.
vBSDCon’s Call for Papers is out. (via)
What to try first, of Michael W. Lucas’s BSD and non-BSD books?
Project Trident 19.06 Available. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3 released.
July 10 Plugins Update.
fixing telnet fixes.
aggr(4) driver added to -current. I read it as aggro, can’t help it.
Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool. (via)
FreeBSD security issues in DragonflyBSD perspective.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/08.
Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel.
Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd. (via)

2019/06/222019/06/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/22

Done at the last minute!

Porting NetBSD to the RISC-V. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3Beta3 available.
What’s in there in BSD for a Ubuntu user?
pkgsrcCon 2019 in Cambridge, UK. (via)
Sponsor Sudo Mastery, second edition, in print or ebook form.
Celebrate UNIX50 and SDF32. (via)
First Taste of DragonFly BSD. (via)
Firewall appliance comparable to Netgate pfSense.
ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
Open ZFS vs. Btrfs | and other file systems.
Lenovo and non-Windows operating systems.

2019/06/012019/05/31

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/01

I have an inexplicably short BSD section this week. Post-BSDCan fatigue? I don’t know, but I have lots on the docket for tomorrow, I promise.

ZFS on APU2; follow the thread for details.
What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? (via)
Something that Linux distributions should not do when packaging things. Linked because I’ve seen people pick Linux over a BSD because they assume (wrongly!) that a large commercial Linux distribution would have up to date packages.
For the umpteenth time, help a “*BSD newbie” pick the right operating system.
vmctl(8): command line syntax changed.
fnaify 1.3 released – more games are “fnaify & run” now.
Related: GOG.com Summer Sale – OpenBSD Highlights.

2019/05/112019/05/10

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/11

The last weather station link is a real gem.

BSDCan 2019 details.
The Open Source Financial Developers Association could use some BSD testing.
iXsystems Takes the Plunge with Liquid Immersion Servers.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2019 projects. (NetBSD)
Improvements in forking, threading, and signal code. (NetBSD)
Valuable News – 2019/05/06.
Simple way to generate strong passwords. (via)
My Bash Script to Brighten up your BSD box by wallpapers from Reddit. (via)
OpenBSD, httpd & WordPress: Making it work. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.7 released.
OmniOS – r151030 – Stable and LTS Release is out.
ZFS Implementation in Python. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc (Part 2). (via)
A weather station fit for a PDP-11. This is gloriously useless.

2019/02/232019/03/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23

Built entirely from open tabs.

Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.

2019/01/052019/01/04

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/05

I like when I can get Net, Free, and Open items all in the same week.

Is any C code from 1970s Unix still used today in macOS or BSD?
razer blade stealth. The BSD part is at the end.
Let’s try on OpenBSD: NeuroVoider.
Is the BSD community dedicated to free software? Sealioning, maybe.
Using the Open Suse build service to build for FreeBSD?
Installing OpenBSD over FreeBSD.
SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD.
KDE4 on FreeBSD, post-mortem.
toying with wireguard on openbsd
How I did start using FreeBSD. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc, a Proposal. (via)
pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement.
NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
Hyper-V and GhostBSD – lockup.
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. The source link also links to the slides, from EuroBSDCon 2018, and I don’t think I linked them before.
Modern KDE on FreeBSD. (via)
Welcome to New Subscribers and Goals for 2019. r/openbsd_gaming.

2018/10/132018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13

Still playing catchup with links.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
Process title and missing memory space.
Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)

2018/10/062018/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06

Still catching up on links.

garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server. (via)
NetBSD8.0 on UEFI Bootloader and Windows Tablet. (via)
NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU. (via)
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem. (via)
Old xcb libraries removed in OpenBSD.
EuroBSDCon 2018 report.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release. (via)
Debian on OpenBSD vmd (without qemu or another debian system) (via)
Installing Gophernicus in OpenBSD. I just like the name. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/09/29.
Polish BSD User Group, a summary. There’s a meeting soon, too.
Manage ”nice” priority of daemons on OpenBSD.

2018/08/182018/08/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/18

Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.

Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.

2018/08/112018/08/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/11

Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.

Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
OPNSense 18.7 released.
FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)

2018/07/282018/07/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/28

A lot of this was early overflow posted ahead; I’ve been on the road.

NetBSD 8.0 released.
How to port your OS to EC2.
Booting Without /usr is Broken. Another step away from history and its lessons. (via)
“Is there a LibertyBSD community? how big is it?“
Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2018)
Valuable News – 2018/07/20.
OPNSense 18.1.12, 18.7-rc2 released.
A whole bunch of g2k18 hackathon reports.
“How many desktop BSD users are there?“
“Will NetBSD play well to being dual booted with Windows (XP)?“
New Patreon rewards for $1 tier. Michael W. Lucas snark as fortune file, which seems like a good deal to me.

2018/07/142018/07/13

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/14

Some overflow, and thank goodness cause I don’t have a day without work this week.

Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer. (via)
Designing the software specification [for 386BSD] (via)
A question about BSD kernel syscalls/abi.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q2 release. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2018 in Berlin – Videos. (via)
A FreeBSD sysadmin job posting.
NetBSD 8.0RC2 is out.
[NetBSD] Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 2. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/07/08.
Introduce ‘auto-join’ to the [OpenBSD] wifi 802.11 stack. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
pkgsrc-2018Q2 packages for illumos now available. (via)
Michael W. Lucas got interviewed. Have you seen his Patreon video yet? (linked last week) It’s fun.
Jupiter Broadcasting: Tech Talk Today 281. An interview of Allan Jude from BSDNow.
Allan also shows up on podcast TechSNAP Episode 373: FreeBSD Already Does That.
Need ZFS Config Advice.

2018/07/072018/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/07

Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.

Update: how did I miss this? PkgSrcCon 2018 is happening now in Berlin, and there’s a livestream. (via)

BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable status bar.
Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
Cinnamon 3.8.2 now available on pkgsrc/wip. A new (to me) desktop. (via)
New FreeBSD Core Team Elected.
OPNSense 18.1.11 released.
MKSANITIZER – bug detector software integration with the NetBSD userland. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2. (via)
[Question/Poll] – Does your work use BSD? What for?
databasing and FreeNAS?
How to deploy an OpenBSD VM in Amsterdam. (via)
Bringup is Hard. The ‘What not to do’ section is quite correct. (PDF, via)

2018/02/102018/02/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/10

Very much last-minute; compiled 20 minutes before bed Friday night.

a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF. (via)
An Empirical Study on the Reliability of UNIX Utilities (1989). Some of it is early BSD. How much still applies? (via)
The Origin of the word Daemon. (via)
“SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back. BSD-based.
Sponsoring a Scam. New BSD book on the way, I think, and you can sponsor it.
OPNsense 18.1.1 released. No, wait, 18.1.2.
Overriding pkgrsc’s default Framework path (on macOS).
BSD from scratch – from source to OS with ease on NetBSD. Also as video. (via)
AT&T copyrighting 3 blank lines. Sorta relevant to the BSD split. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2018/02/05.
Remi Locherer’s EuroBSDcon 2017 Talk.
NetBSD – A modern operating system for your retro battlestation. Video. In fact, all the FOSDEM 2018 videos are up, I think.