TrueNAS – DragonFly BSD Digest

2022/05/212022/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2022/05/21

Releases week.

2022/01/082022/01/05

In Other BSDs for 2022/01/08

End-of-year articles I am just catching up to now.

The Tao of tmux (2017). Linked cause it nicely mentions configuration on BSD but also because it’s super-comprehensive. (via)
Active Directory Needs Friends! A continuation from a previous AD-on-BSD article.
SEMIBUG’s January 18 talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, who has cowritten several books about it.
FreeBSD Foundation 2022 Call for Proposals.
Toolchains adventures – Q4 2021.
TrueCommand 2.1 is out.
OpenBSD Webzine #6.
Adventures in BSD parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. (via)
Valuable News – 2022/01/03.

2021/12/112021/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2021/12/11

A little short this week but the holidays are catching up to me.

The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems. (via)
BSDCan 2022 is going to happen and maybe even in person. The call for papers is out.
ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 14th.
FreeBSD 12.3 is out.
Valuable News – 2021/12/06.
Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support.
FreeBSD on Slimbook — 14 months of updates.
TrueNAS 12.0U7 is out.
Cross-platform package building: Pkgsrc vs. Ravenports, parts one and two.
Active Directory not-on-Windows, might be useful.
A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like.

2021/09/182021/09/16

In Other BSDs for 2021/09/18

Still plenty of links I haven’t even got to yet.

Understanding ZFS Channel Programs.
Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys.
Valuable News – 2021/09/13.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 6 – Learn Shell Scripting.
Minecraft on lunarclient (on OpenBSD).
FreeBSD 11.4 EOL.
TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!)
Quick fix GhostBSD 21.09.08 ISO now available. (via)
Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP Stack.
Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD.
libdmx removed in OpenBSD.
By default, scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol.
Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost.
traceroute(8) gets speed boost. My first thought was “but there’s a ceiling to that”.

2021/05/082021/05/08

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/08

Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs!

Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think?
ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder.
HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report.
My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD)
KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD and Wayland on FreeBSD with AMDGPU.
OpenBSD: getting started.
NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS).
On Updating QEMU’s bsd-user fork.
Valuable News – 2021/04/26 and 2021/05/03.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 2): Excursion – FreeBSD and security.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 5. The series returns!

2021/04/172021/04/16

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/17

I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.

Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
Michael Wl Lucas’s Penguicon 2021 schedule.

2021/02/132021/02/12

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13

I have a link backlog, yay!

Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
Valuable News – 2021/02/08.

2020/12/122020/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/12

Straight from tabs.

How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF.
Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020).
Show diff output in color.
FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via)
macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via)
Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My only experience with DocBook. (via)
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved. (via)
OPNSense 20.7.6 released.
TrueNAS 12.0u1 is out with OpenZFS 2.0.
Valuable News – 2020/12/07.

2020/10/242020/10/22

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/24

It’s apparently release week?

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
NetBSD 9.1 released.
OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
TrueNAS 12.0 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

2020/08/292020/08/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/29

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.

2020/07/112020/07/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11

Dragged right out of my RSS feeds.

Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06.
Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too.
FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today.
Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support. (HardenedBSD)
OPNsense 20.1.8 released.
TrueCommand 1.3 out.
OpenBSD upgraders need to delete libperl.a.
Diablo (Hell/Hell co-op) – PlayOnBSD. (via)
Emulex – Cheapest 10GE for Your Homelab on FreeBSD. (via)
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro.
Via previous link: Everyone should buy the USEBSD sticker.

2020/04/252020/04/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/25

Tab cleanout time!

OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several)
FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE.
Valuable News – 2020/04/20.
Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS.
How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD.
How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel.
(lost the source links on those last few; sorry.)
‘“things to do” after you have FreeBSD installed‘.
There’s a whole bunch of new jobs posted on the NYCBUG jobs@ list.
Replacing existing Cisco ASA 5520 with pfSense HA Cluster.
HardenedBSD April 2020 Status Report.
EKCD – Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD.
TrueNAS 11.3-U2 is Generally Available.
Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops. Might have good news for general hardware support for other systems? (via)
Debugging freebsd.org Resolution Failure. (via)

2019/11/162019/11/15

In Other BSDs for 2019/11/16

Some commercial stuff this week, even.

A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via)
HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via)
This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu)
FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product.
rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD.
Any games that can be recommended that requires virtually no configuration/setup on OpenBSD? Again, possibly valid for every BSD.
OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base. I mentioned this before, sorta, but it’s important.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest.
HEADS UP: ntpd changing. On OpenBSD.
DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019.
HardenedBSD Status Report. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/11/12.
LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline.
Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX! NetBSD on VAX hardware at BSDCan 2019, in video. I feel like I was destined to type a sentence like that sooner or later.

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.

2019/04/132019/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13

Straight open tab dump, again!

FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and password-protected .od* files. Not strictly BSD but could surprise someone.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the hack(6) in hackathon, and other stories.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on 802.11? progress, suspend/resume and more.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient, disklabel, and more.
Our plan for handling TRIM’ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs.
Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD.
From Zero to NVMM.
Introducing funlinkat.
Valuable News – 2019/04/08.
~~OPNsense 19.1.5 released~~ no wait OPNsense 19.1.6 released.
April Plugins Update.
Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple. The book is available to order now.
NOWBSD.

A late update: BSDCan 2019 registration, plus an update.

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.

2018/04/072018/04/06

In Other BSDs for 2018/04/07

Losing power at home this week put a dent in my reading throughput, so to speak, but this will do.

DragonFFI: FFI/JIT for the C language using Clang/LLVM. Not actually related to DragonFly or really BSD, but I like the synchronicity. (via)
Simplifying Linux with … fish? Or BSD.
New BSDMag issue – with a feature on OpenBSD Gaming. (via)
Tarsnap pricing change.
BSDCan 2018 schedule is up. Some people from my employer are going; I may too.
DIY Hardware firewall on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 6.3 Released.
Untangle vs pfSense.
Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD. (via)
32+ great indie games now playable on -current; 7 currently on sale! Rogue Legacy is fun, though I’ve only played the Windows version, not on any BSD.
TrueNAS 11.1 – What’s New.

2018/02/242018/02/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/24

Another across-the-BSDs week.

- What’s Next for Feature Development in FreeNAS/TrueNAS?
- Description of the 1969 proto-Unix system based on a 2812 line PDP-7 assembly kernel. (via)
- The Known Costs of Security Embargoes.
- Military Grade Data Wiping In FreeBSD With BCWipe.
- “Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt Debian developer to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years. (via)
- Christos Zoulas’s recent NYCBUG talk on reproducible builds in NetBSD is now available as video.
- How do I make quiet build/compile server for home ?
- Libreoffice failing to start after upgrade to 5.4.4.2 40m0(Build:2) (on NetBSD).
- Question about a distro.
- Every Journey Starts with a FAIL. (via)
- Meltdown fix committed by guenther@. Note the DragonFly cross-pollination.

2018/02/032018/02/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/03

Whee!

The history of NetBSD/atari and support for ATARI compatible Milan. Not in English, but it’s a slide deck so lots of pictures. (via)
The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign. “If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be at our goal.” (via)
Any good Unix options available for X86?
The LLVM Sanitizers stage accomplished. (via)
ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
TrueNAS makes the cut for Avid editing.
DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/29.
Install OpenBSD on dedibox with full-disk encryption. (via)
OPNSense 18.1 released.

2017/12/302017/12/29

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/30

Last of the year!

iXSystems’ Best of 2017. Some useful links, like the Community Hardware Recommendations guide.
If you want to create a BSD-based Vagrant BSD system, Rickard von Essen has Packer templates for all the BSDs – including DragonFly. (via)
More TS-440S hijinx, or “ok, what if you wanna homebrew a digital hookup?”
“Cyan Beastie on my laptop :)”
Looking for a BSD snapshot tool for live boot
How to choose your *BSD OS to begin with? (via)
What BSD do you all use for your desktop computer?
NetBSD 7.1.1 released.
FreeBSD Q32017 Status report.
StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait? BSD vendor, linked to for the Shodan report on all the places people are running Samba, Internet-exposed.
Eleven syscalls that suck. Linux syscalls, of course. Eleven syscalls that rock the world seems to mention the BSDs. Hmm. (via)
You may be able to catch the last 34c3 livestreams today, or watch recordings – there are some BSD-specific talks there. (via)

Don’t forget any end–of–year donations you want to make, either.