RetroBSD – DragonFly BSD Digest

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/02

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 14:07:04 +0000

That first link is important. DragonFly, as a project, hasn’t had issues like that yet, but that’s more a side effect of it being a smaller project rather than anything else.

The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl. (via)
- updated: An initial followup from freebsd-core.
Plotting Out the BSD Year. (via or via)
BSD: A Brief Look Back at 2015.
OpenBSD Jumpstart. (via)
Can it run BSD? The story of a MIPS-based PIC32 microcontroller. (via)
Want to build a local router on my raspberry pi – considering BSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/28.
Ubuntu vs FreeBSD Hosting: Is There A Difference? (via)
“So errors of a measly 292g years go unreported.“
pkgsrc-2015Q3 Branch Statistics.
pkgsrc-2015Q4 released.
ZFS boot environments are now available in the FreeBSD boot loader.
plasma_saver for FreeBSD. (this should be portable, hint hint)
Installfest on January 6th for NYCBUG.

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/07

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:59:53 +0000

Concise links this week.

DiscoverBSD’s roundup for 2014/06/02.
Code review culture meets FreeBSD.
Michael Dexter’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.
A RetroBSD license audit. (from #nycbug)
Ass ember.
FreeBSD GNATS is gone; now it’s Bugzilla. Nobody sheds a tear.
NetBSD runs on BeBoxes? I didn’t realize.
FreeBSD now has ‘stock’ network drivers.
It’s always nice when people relicense.
I like crosspollination, too.
The default font path in pkgsrc has changed.

In Other BSDs for 2014/04/26

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:15:10 +0000

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?

In Other BSDs for 2014/03/29

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:29:09 +0000

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.

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/18

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:22:33 +0000

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.