This is a week for unexpected BSD news – OpenBSD and Microsoft, a new 4.4BSD variant, and so on.
- Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD. (via)
- FreeNAS 10: Early M2 Preview.
- More BSDCan trip reports, from Warren Block, Christian Brueffer, Kamil Czekirda, and Shonali Balakrishna.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/06.
- Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor. Probably related to OpenSSH-in-Powershell.
- Also, SunSSH replaced by OpenSSH.
- OPNSense 15.7.1 out. 15.7 is apparently a release branch, so this is what you follow.
- pkgsrcCon 2015: A year of pkgsrc 2014 – 2015. All the presentations are online, in fact. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2015 Preliminary Program Published.
- A new (to me) BSD: “LiteBSD is a variant of 4.4BSD operating system adapted for microcontrollers.” It’s BSD on some super–teeny hardware. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I’d love to get something like that working.
- OpenBSD and Valgrind, instructions.
- If you’ve got Bitcoin and an urge to donate to OpenBSD, pace yourself.
- July 20th, Calgary: OpenBSD hackathon/discussion.
- pkgsrc 2015Q2 released.
- Moving pkgsrc-wip away from Sourceforge. Turns into a long argument about CVS.
- Yay cross-pollination! (and thanks to Sascha Wildner for turning up WARNS levels and fixing things, for years.)
- FreeBSD ports is now also using a quarterly model.
- FreeBSD now has the CloudABI model, sorta like Capsicum.
- FreeBSD Vagrant images can now be automatically uploaded to Google Compute Engine, VMware, and (new to me) Hashicorp Atlas.
- Fractal cells, a new BSD-based quick startup platform. Launching at end of month. (via)
The w of VMware is lowercase (strange but true – http://www.thelowercasew.com/about ).
That is strange. So I fixed it.
So, Microsoft gave as a gold contributer (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html) from $25,000 to $50,000. It is almost nothing for such big corporation. One half time developer salary…
Microsoft is donating more money than other companies that you could easily argue have shipped many more copies of OpenSSH/use SSH much more heavily. (Google, Apple, Facebook, etc etc etc)
I’m not defending Microsoft, but rather pointing out that many, many companies could afford to cough up more dough relative to the utility that OpenSSH has provided for them.
This is open source and there’s no set price tag, on the other hand.
How can you be mad when they gave anything? You can’t hate on your donors because they didn’t donate more money than they did. I would never donate money to a group that thought like that.