TrueNAS – DragonFly BSD Digest

TrueNAS – DragonFly BSD Digest https://www.dragonflydigest.com A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Sat, 21 May 2022 00:57:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FullLogoSquare-150x150.gif TrueNAS – DragonFly BSD Digest https://www.dragonflydigest.com 32 32 In Other BSDs for 2022/05/21 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/05/21/in-other-bsds-for-2022-05-21/ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/05/21/in-other-bsds-for-2022-05-21/#comments Sat, 21 May 2022 12:58:41 +0000 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/?p=26953 Continue reading

]]> Releases week.

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

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]]> 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.

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

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]]> Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs!

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

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]]> I have a link backlog, yay!

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]]> Straight from tabs.

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]]> It’s apparently release week?

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]]> 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Tab cleanout time!

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]]> 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> 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.

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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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> 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.

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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.

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]]> 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.

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