This week’s BSD Now, which I remembered to link to on time, is about Unix tools as a concept.
Last news item is the saddest.
- Does swap still matter? I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there’s more.
- System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.
- Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/04.
- helloSystem 13.1-RC1.
- Multiprocess support for LLDB.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS. Part 1 of 4.
- Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
- TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor. (via)
- Bill Jolitz has passed away. (via)
448: Controlling Resource Limits and 449: Reproducible clean $HOME are both available, because I’m a slacker and didn’t link when they were published.
Mini-ZFS theme this week.
- OpenBSD Webzine #8.
- Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
- pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
- Nixxers is back!
- Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
- Does swap still matter? A long thread.
- Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
- ZFS Compatibility.
- Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
- Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
- Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
- FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
- Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
- Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
- HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
- paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.
Note the new-to-me book news in there.
- The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
- FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
- Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
- OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
- Testing parallel forwarding.
- NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
- LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4)gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.- Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
- New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There’s some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
- EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
- an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
- NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)
Episode 447, “Path to BSD” is up now, as is 446, “Debugging ioctl problems“. 446 was up last week but I missed my change to link to it. Check the Tadpole link if you have not; those are a weird chunk of history.
You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.
- Where
cutcomes into Unix (and a bit on the history ofawk) - Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
- FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
- FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
- Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
- ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
- My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
- Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
- Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.- Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
- FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.
ChiBUG’s monthly (rescheduled) meeting is tonight. RSVP if you can attend, to make sure the restaurant has the seating.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tomorrow. If you don’t know what Backus-Naur is, this meeting is via Jitsi and you can find out.
No theme, but decent material.
- OpenBSD 7.1 beta running Xfce4 bare metal on an M1 MacBook Air.
- On overwriting disks (on OpenBSD 7.0-current). (via)
- Native IPv6 with OpenBSD and Aussie Broadband. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal – 2022 – 01/02. (via)
- Valuable News – 2022/03/08.
- FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q4.
- Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server.
- Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix.
- Tuning Laptop Power Consumption on FreeBSD. (via)
- mtw(4), a driver for MediaTek MT7601U Wi-Fi devices.
This week’s BSD Now has a nicely eclectic group of links, including one to a music server that is new to me, Navidrome.
SLUUG (St. Louis Unix Users Group) is meeting tonight and Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation is presenting, among others. It’s available through Zoom.
CHIBUG’s monthly meeting is in-person at the usual place tonight at 6.
UPDATE: It’s been rescheduled for the 15th.
Mini-theme: releases.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/28.
- ChiBUG, meeting March 8th at 6 PM in-person. Go if you are near.
- OpenBSD Webzine issue 7.
- Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu.
- multimc failed to allocate memory.
- Milky Way v0.4 release.
- Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction. (via)
- OPNsense 21.7.8, 21.10.3 Business Edition, and 22.1.1 released.
- OpenSSH updated to 8.9.
- LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released.
- FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life.
- FreeBSD Foundation is looking for proposals.
This week’s BSD Now is all history-linked material, which is totally fine by me.
Software releses is the mini-theme, I guess.
- The important things about Unix init systems aren’t booting the system.
- The history (sort of) of service management in Unix, related to previous.
- OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems. (via)
- What’s Ahead for FreeBSD and the Foundation in 2022.
- The FreeBSD Boot Process. I like that Klara Systems just keeps publishing articles.
- NFS Shares With ZFS.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/21.
- Packaging CopperSpice.
- [OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.1-beta.
- Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary.
BSD Now this week leads with a link to the Quora article about Mac OS X’s journey to UNIX certification, which you should read if you have not already. There’s more links of course, including one on getting streaming commercial media playing on FreeBSD.
No theme this week other than of course BSD.
- Sensors Information on FreeBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q4 is out.
- Valuable News – 2022/02/14.
- New ‘Reckless guide to OpenBSD’ published. Weekly installments.
- Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code. Note the daemon on the cover.
- My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD. (via)
- Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD. (via)
- pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available. (via)
- Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc. (via)
- The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)
This will happen before the normal In Other BSDs post, so I am posting it now: there’s a GhostBSD virtual meetup happening tonight.
This week’s BSD Now talks about a reoccurring topic for me: how UNIX happened. It links to that Kernighan talk that you should watch, too.