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2021/07/032021/06/30

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/03

I’ll post a reminder for the NYCBUG event.

July 7th: George Rosamond, “Why Privacy/Security (usually) Needs Anonymity”, for NYCBUG. George has strong opinions; you should hear them.
The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture. A summary from an author of the IEEE article I linked before.
Introduction to ZFS Replication.
Rolling Back OpenBSD PF Changes. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/06/29.
Any Marathon fans up in here?
KDE on FreeBSD 2021o4.
PDF/ePub/Comics readers on BSD, a discussion.
History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom.

2021/07/01

BSD Now 409: The Filesystem Dungeon

This week’s BSD Now is tech-heavy, with rpg-cli to lighten the mood.

2021/06/262021/06/24

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/26

Yes, I am clearing out all my open tabs from Solène this week.

Introduction to IPFS, and OpenBSD 6.9 packages using IPFS.
Semi-related: Synchronization files software.
How to run a NixOS VM as an OpenBSD guest.
How to install Gnome on OpenBSD.
Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/06/21.
TrueNAS Core 12 review. (via)
Using the I2P network with OpenBSD and NixOS.
Default community strings removed from snmp in OpenBSD.
Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD – part 1 and part 2.
Progress in support for the riscv64 platform. (OpenBSD)
OPNsense 21.1.7 released.
ProtoAppStore. Posted cause it should mention BSD ports.
FreeBSD Performance Observability. (via)

2021/06/24

BSD Now 408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021

No pun this time; the episode covers the title exactly – plus more recent headlines.

2021/06/222021/06/22

ChiBUG meeting tonight

ChiBUG’s in-person meeting is tonight. Go, if you are near. (and vaccinated, which you should be.) There will be stickers and of course pizza.

2021/06/192021/06/17

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/19

Follow the helloSystem links this week.

Sponsorships for DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, are available.
SourceHut on NetBSD, I think, mentioned here.
SANY adopts TwinCAT/BSD for the automation of wind turbines. (via)
helloSystem 0.5 is out. (via several places)
Related: This comment from I assume a helloSystem developer is the best polite “how do you like them apples?” comment I’ve seen in a long time.
FreeBSD package building pt. 4: (Slightly) Advanced Synth and FreeBSD package building pt. 5: Sophisticated Synth.
My EC2 wishlist.
Valuable News – 2021/06/14.
HardenedBSD 2021 Donation Run.
Help me decide: which BSD for a first tryout?
Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD. Happened to me too.
Are all installed packages available for reinstall?
Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3).
Using dpb on OpenBSD for package compilation cluster.

2021/06/17

BSD Now 407: The jail Detail

This week’s BSD Now gets into jails heavily (do not pass Go) this week, plus a few other topics.

2021/06/122021/06/09

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/12

Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week.

FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via)
Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8).
actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree.
NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via)
OpenBGPD 7.0 is out.
LEAP is removed from FreeRADIUS and therefore from OpenBSD.
FreeBSD package building pt. 1: Introduction and test system, pt. 2: Basic Synth, and pt. 3: Intermediate Synth.
Valuable News – 2021/06/07.
Diving into toolchains. Deep dive!
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0, a test of this ZFS boot environment upgrade post I’ve linked before.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail. You may need this.
pfSense Plus 21.05-RELEASE Now Available.
GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD and GearBSD: managing your packages on OpenBSD.

2021/06/10

BSD Now 406: Jailed Gemini Capsule

Sounds like a space drama: this week’s BSD Now covers some different flavors of virtualization plus notes a Michael W. Lucas interview.

2021/06/052024/04/12

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05

Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.

Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via)
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via)
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6. It is adorable.
What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current). For Minecraft on BSD users.
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years. Look at the first comment on the source.
You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD. (via)

2021/06/03

BSD Now 405: OOM Killer Feature

This week’s BSD Now talks about starts (NetBSD, DragonFly releases) and ends (preventing memory-based process kills, deleting boot environments).

2021/06/012021/05/13

NYCBUG: Minimal Scripted Configuration

Tomorrow, for NYCBUG, Minimal Scripted Configuration from Eric Radman. Go, if you’re online.

2021/05/292021/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29

Some useful setup instructions in here.

2021/05/27

BSD Now 404: BSD Now Hosts Not Found

This week’s BSD Now is an excellent HTTP joke but is also effectively a guest episode, with some new talkers.

2021/05/222021/05/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

2021/05/20

BSD Now 403: The Linuxulator Investment

This week’s BSD Now, a light run, talks about licensing and industrial automation, but not at the same time.

2021/05/152021/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/15

Some opinion, some documentation.

Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via)
Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via)
As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true.
FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via)
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd. (via)
pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package. (via)
March/April 2021 FreeBSD Journal. Why doesn’t this show in the RSS feed for that site? (via)
NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting, online, May 22.
FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1.
Registration Open for the June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Talk and ytalk nostalgia.
LLDB core dump support improvements.

2021/05/13

BSD Now 402: Goodbye GPL

This week’s BSD Now leads with that article about how the GPL isn’t fit for purpose; read it if you have not yet.

2021/05/112021/05/09

ChiBUG meeting, virtual, today

The ChiBUG May 11th Meeting is today, and it’s virtual – so you can go and should.

2021/05/082021/05/08

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/08

Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs!

Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think?
ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder.
HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report.
My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD)
KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD and Wayland on FreeBSD with AMDGPU.
OpenBSD: getting started.
NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS).
On Updating QEMU’s bsd-user fork.
Valuable News – 2021/04/26 and 2021/05/03.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 2): Excursion – FreeBSD and security.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 5. The series returns!