SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.
Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases.
- Automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates in Apache with mod_md.
- FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user. (via)
- FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup.
- NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen.
- MATE 1.26.0 upgrade ready. (GhostBSD)
- Valuable News – 2021/10/11.
- OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released.
- OpenBSD 7.0 released.
This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.
SLUUG, which has the best acronym, meets tonight at 6ish PM Central time on Zoom.
I managed to miss it last week, but last week’s BSD Now talks about NetFlix’s usage of FreeBSD to serve a ridiculous amount of data, among other things.
It is status report season!
- ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
- OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
- Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
- pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via)
- What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD. Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
- HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports. (via)
- The OpenBSD Webzine. (via)
- Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
- Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
- HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
- GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
- Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
- Valuable News – 2021/10/04.
Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.
- pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
- SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
- Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
- Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
- Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
- Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
- Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
- RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.
This week’s BSD Now is entirely an interview of Brian Callahan.
SEMIBUG’s lightning talks event is tonight. No, wait, it’s tomorrow. It’s online with Jitsi so you can see it no matter what – possibly even on BSD?
Still plenty of links I haven’t even got to yet.
- Understanding ZFS Channel Programs.
- Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys.
- Valuable News – 2021/09/13.
- Ghost in the Shell – Part 6 – Learn Shell Scripting.
- Minecraft on lunarclient (on OpenBSD).
- FreeBSD 11.4 EOL.
- TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!)
- Quick fix GhostBSD 21.09.08 ISO now available. (via)
- Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP Stack.
- Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD.
- libdmx removed in OpenBSD.
- By default,
scp(1)now uses SFTP protocol. - Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost.
- traceroute(8) gets speed boost. My first thought was “but there’s a ceiling to that”.
This week’s BSD Now thankfully skips the pun that might go with the episode number, and talks about various OpenBSD and NetBSD articles.
ChiBUG’s meeting via Google Meeting tomorrow, 6:30PM CDT.
I am severely backlogged on links.
- Valuable News – 2021/09/06.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 27 – Configuration – Netflix Signal Telegram.
- Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes.
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- Development Tools Next Steps. FreeBSD moving ever so slowly to git. I think; the announcement assumes you are already knee-deep.
- xterm gets unveiled.
- A Co-op Term at the FreeBSD Foundation.
- R.E.L.I.V.E (Oddworld engine).
- GPU recommendations for OpenBSD dual-monitor workstation + gaming machine.
- Port of the Week: pngquant.
- pkgupdate, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast.
- iked(8) gains client-side support for DNS configuration.
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news, with the headline taken from an article about FreeBSD’s new/experimental web-based installer. (What, no mention of the installer for DragonFly? It’s been web-compatible for years…) Digs aside, the BSD install experience could be different.
NYCBUG’s hosting “Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK” with G Clifford Williams, tomorrow. It’s online, so everyone can get the lesson.
Note the last link; BSD and M1.
- RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH. Disruptive but good.
- (open)rsync gains include/exclude support.
- Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout. Appropriate illustration.
- HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings. I’ll post a reminder.
- NYCBUG Sept 8 meeting: Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK. Also reminding.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/30.
- FreeBSD/EC2 AMI Systems Manager Public Parameters.
- A new path: vm86-based venix emulator.
- After Summer. (KDE and BSD planned work)
- Former things – OSSG. BSD in London history.
- Hibernate time reduced. (OpenBSD)
- Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD.
- NetBSD on the Apple M1. (via)
No allusions or puns in this week’s BSD Now title, for sure. It’s all Michael W. Lucas interviewing, so sure to be a good time.
Longer reading this week.
- Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC). (via)
- One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. (via)
- Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture. (via)
- FreeBSD development on Docker support. (via)
- VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init. (via)
- Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail.
- wifi project status update. (NetBSD)
- Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students.
- History of ZFS Part 3: Heading Into the Future.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/23.
- [OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.0-beta.
- Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too).
- OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020). I have never encountered this hardware.
- Useless use of GNU.