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.
It’s a very quiet week here but there’s still a BSD Now episode. It’s covering a bunch of topics, but the title makes me think: all the BSDs have VM hosting solutions now.
I have some barely-BSD links this week but I don’t think you’ll mind.
- Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG, tomorrow. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone, so I am mentioning it early.
- Bringing NetBSD to Zig’s Continuous Integration. (via)
- FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks The OS Install. (via)
- PackagingCon 2021 – a conference for package manager developers and packagers. Hope it includes BSD packaging. (via)
- iXSystems is hiring. (a BSD-specific company)
- NetBSD Explained. (via)
- Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11. More acronyms than not in that sentence. (via)
- SerenityOS. Slightly BSD-related. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/08/09 and 2021/08/16.
- EC2 boot time benchmarking.
- OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop.
It’s been a very quiet week, so here’s a link to BSD Now’s netcat printing episode. There’s some variety in the Beastie Bits, too.
Whee!
- InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time. (via)
- Using UTF?8 [in OpenBSD] (2010) Still applies I think, and knowing the compose mechanism is useful. (via)
- The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002). (PDF, via)
- Unix Shell: History and Trivia. Very in-depth; pre-BSD. (via)
- dancrossnyc/multics: Source for the Multics operating system. Also pre-BSD. (via)
- Yubikey/(pfSense& OpenVPN)/ADDS – HOW DO I MAKE THIS WORK? I am also interested in the answer.
The lead article in this week’s BSD Now talks about how to not change your OS – though it’s both Linux flavors, so it’s not necessarily BSD-related except for schadenfreude. There’s a bunch of other articles linked, so don’t be distracted by my splitting of hairs.
ChiBUG is meeting tonight at 6:30 CDT via Zoom. “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks” is the presentation; RSVP to the address in that linked message for the meeting link.
Today’s mini-theme: follow threads!
- What are your experiences with VPS providers using *BSD?
- ChiBUG is meeting August 10th at 6:30 CDT via Zoom. “Protecting OpenBSD from DMA Attacks” is the presentation. RSVP for details. I’ll post a reminder day-of.
- Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG August 22. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone. I’ll post again for that too.
- Generating random passwords on BSD – follow the long thread for ideas.
- The slides from the July 7 privacy vs anonymity presentation at NYCBUG. (related non-BSD mention)
- RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for all the suggestions.
- Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS – Part 1.
- Expanding our FreeBSD home file server.
- suppressing motd on FreeBSD 13.0+.
- Valuable News – 2021/08/03.
This week’s BSD Now talks about online conferences – something I hope we can resume soon. There’s other links of course but that’s the one I want.
Well, not what are you doing there, but you’ll be describing “what you are doing” at a roundtable for NYCBUG’s August meeting tonight.
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No mini-theme, but I was also ‘done’ early.
- Live Action Lazy Reading, so to speak, at NYCBUG on August 4th.
- Thinkpad T14 (AMD) Gen 2 – A Brave New World!
- OpenBSD 6.9 – Help with the “Failed to install bootblocks” issue.
- FreeBSD implements unprivileged chroot. (via)
- MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud. (via)
- Set up FTP server on NetBSD using ftpd. (via)
- OPNsense 21.7 released, with 21.1.x EOL.
- Introducing dhcpleased(8).
- Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshot.
- FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2021 Status Update.
- A FreeBSD Puppet refresher by Romain Tartière. (2018)
- Using freebsd-update to upgrade jails.
- Valuable News – 2021/07/26.
- OpenBSD full Tor setup.
- [OpenBSD :: Virtualization] Host and guests on the same network. (via)
- FreeBSD KDE Frameworks dependencies.
This week’s BSD Now talks about some pro-BSD ideas, which may or may not include the idea of Linux with a BSD userland. I find it slightly upsetting.
No theme this week; just catching up with all the links I didn’t get to last week.
- Valuable News – 2021/07/19.
- VirtualBox with FreeBSD + KDE. VM-to-desktop.
- Also VirtualBox guest additions in FreeBSD for that previous link.
- Managing Boot Environments. (ZFS)
- FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls.
- FreeBSD KGDB support in LLDB. A description of the work to do, not the end result.
- A Look at Profiling: FreeBSD Sort.
- dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8). I am going to read that as “dhc pleased” no matter what I do.
- Minecraft on BSD notes.
- “$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written? The answer is via SNMP, believe it or not. (And includes some BSD volumes so I link it here.)
- My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop. Notable for the case, and for linking to a USB Thinkpad keyboard, something I’ve always wanted.
- Making two Unix permissions mistakes in one.
This week’s BSD Now covers different topics – you may think from the headline it’s a “tips and tricks” link, but no, it’s about confidential info.