There’s some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It’s inextricable from the rest of the links.
- Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
- FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
- Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
- A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop. (also)
- “Has Linux lost its way?” (via) (also)
- DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/16.
- Curious if FreeBSD or any other BSD district would work better on a MacBook pro?
- Which
- Am I taking a realistic route to learning more about internals? (hey, it’s DragonFly!)
- Speaking of which: cross–pollination.
- More cross-pollination, and surprise from me; I didn’t know USB video link worked on any BSD.
- The m0n0wall project has ended.
- The end of ‘games’ as a separate object on FreeBSD.
- Tetris: still changing.
- autonet – simple automatic wifi chooser on OpenBSD.
- pkgsrc binaries as an exit strategy from systemd.
- IPFW now the default firewall (and on) in PC-BSD.
- The updated roadmap to 1.0.0 for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, to go with the 0.8.2 release.
- PC-BSD at SCALE.
- s2k15 hackathon report.
Does PC-BSD give a reason for switching to IPFW for their firewall?
Does this mean that pf’s future on (other than OpenBSD) is in doubt?
I don’t think it means anything for pf one way or another.
As for why PC-BSD switched – ask them directly. I’m not trying to be standoffish; any answers I come up with would be pure speculation.
PF is the default firewall of OS X after Apple dropped IPFW in favour of PF few years ago. So PF definitely has the future outside of OpenBSD IMHO. The future of PF on FreeBSD has been in doubt for many years but in the past year it become pretty clear that it is only matter of time before FreeBSD drops PF or whatever historic version of PF it currently runs (PF has not been updated for over 5 years in FreeBSD and has been practically rewritten in the meantime from the ground up on OpenBSD. OS X runs far more recent version of PF than FreeBSD. The real question is why PFSense and OPNsense guys are putting so much work into something that has no future.