The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I’m preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
A bit short cause I ran out of time.
- qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
- NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.
The St. Louis Unix Users Group monthly meeting is tonight at 6:30 Central time, talking about rsnapshot and LDAP. It’s online, so you can attend even if you are not near.
The Nixers link will keep you busy for a while if this isn’t enough here.
- FreeBSD on the Graviton 3.
- The UNIX-HATERS HANDBOOK is now available in the Kindle Store. (via)
- A quick look at console file managers.
- The Nixers Newsletter has been running again. I’ve been lax in linking to recent weekly issues, but they usually have some BSD content and the links are all gold.
- reversing an openbsd kernel syspatch.
- Adventures with Solaris 11.4 CBE, pkgsrc and NVMM. (via)
- Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark. (via)
- Time Machine like Backups on OpenBSD. (via)
- Installing pfSense 2.6 on ZimaBoard. (via)
This week’s BSD Now talks about NetBSD and ZFS, among other things. I’ll point out an interesting link in the Beastie Bits, a way of exploring /usr/games.
I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/23.
- deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
- Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
- Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
- Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
- experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
- NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
- Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
- Blue Systems Farewell.
- LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
- Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
- Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.
This week’s BSD Now talks about the newest FreeBSD release, along with the upcoming NetBSD 10 series, among other things.
The NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.
Releases week.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/16.
- ZFS on SMR Drives.
- Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use.
- OpenBSD on Partaker H2 I5 1135G7.
- TrueNAS 13.
- OPNsense 22.1.7 released.
- FreeBSD 13.1 is out.
- pkg_add(1) speedup.
- Parallel IP forwarding activated.
- Playstation/NetBSD security issue. (via)
- Own Your Calendar & Contacts With OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android. (via)
- Managing OpenBSD installed packages declaratively.
- Daily Buggle.
This week’s BSD Now has a title taken from the last Beastie Bits link – which is worth following.
It rhymes if you say it out loud. Jason Tubnor will present at 7 PM tonight (Detroit local time) on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
“BSD” is in almost every line as a title. Maybe not a surprise, but visually noticeable.
- Paying a visit to planet BSD. (via)
- Branching for NetBSD 10. (via)
- Brainstorming Entropy for NetBSD. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster.
- New FreeBSD How-To: Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth.
- where’s all the code?
- May 17th 7 PM Detroit, MI time, Jason Tubnor will present on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
- May 21: NetBSD Annual General Meeting. That’s 1 week from now.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 available.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/10.
- How to contribute to the OpenBSD project.
- VM (VM ( … This is weird/dangerous.
I can’t help but think of this as the 1# episode of BSD Now; tell me if you get why. Anyway, there’s lots of OpenBSD in this week’s BSD Now.
My BSD RSS feeds are overflowing.
- PiKVM using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. I keep reading that as “pikmin”.
- switchd(8) removed from OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD 7.1: fan noise and high temperature solution.
- vuls – Agent-less vulnerability scanner. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC5 available.
- HardenedBSD April 2022 Status Report.
- Missing Steam Deck Functions. (Terraria, OpenBSD, Steam)
- Minecraft 1.16.5(and more) with microsoft accounts on openbsd 7.1.
- Video guide to install OpenBSD 7.1 with the GNOME desktop.
- Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/02.
- syspatch71-001_wifi reissued. “May require manual intervention”
- Let’s Talk About [FreeBSD] Foundation Funding.
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD.
This week’s BSD Now, which I almost missed, covered one of the rarely-mentioned BSD Variants, TwinCat.
How-to week rather than updates week.
- Let’s install OpenBSD/riscv64 on QEMU. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- iblock: block scanner TCP connections under OpenBSD. (via)
- I was able to build Overgrowth on NetBSD.
- KDE-FreeBSD CI.
- LibreSSL 3.5.2 released.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/25.
- OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse. (via)
- Playing the game Bottomless on OpenBSD. (via)
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD. (via)
- New Board Member Interview: Cat Allman. The last name should seem familiar.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS: Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS.
This week’s BSD Now starts off talking about recently-deceased and somewhat legendary Bill Jolitz. He is to me the source of the term “flat food person“.
RSVP if you are near Chicago and can go.
A bunch of releases this week.
- OpenBGPD 7.3 released.
- tcsh vi mode cursor shapes.
- sometimes the knote comes early.
- The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14, and Sundry Observations and Insights…
- two and a half bad bits.
- OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.
- Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/19.
- MidnightBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 is out.
- OpenBSD 7.1 released.
- OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out.
- Interacting with FreeBSD: Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell. FreeBSD 14 is switching default root shell, apparently.