This week’s BSD Now is an excellent HTTP joke but is also effectively a guest episode, with some new talkers.
Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.
- NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.
- NetBSD 9.2 is out.
- The state of toolchains in OpenBSD.
- Building LLVM on OpenBSD/loongson and OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B.
- FreeBSD Release 13.0 Highlights.
- NomadBSD 130R-20210508 released.
- Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs.
- FreeBSD on the Pine H6.
- Half-Life (including distributable game data).
- Help prospective KGB operative. Bug report as cosplay?
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 25 – Configuration – Random Terminal Theme.
- Valuable News – 2021/05/10 and Valuable News – 2021/05/17.
- More Go modules in pkgsrc.
- gmock and gtest on OpenBSD 6.9 hate each other. (via)
This week’s BSD Now, a light run, talks about licensing and industrial automation, but not at the same time.
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.
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.
The ChiBUG May 11th Meeting is today, and it’s virtual – so you can go and should.
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!
This week’s BSD Now has a great title, and you can guess what the first linked article will be. The other items in this week are analytic and also entertaining in their own way.
Brian Callahan presents for NYCBUG on compiler support in the BSDs, tonight. Send an email for a Zoom invite.
There’s some opinions mixed in this week!
- NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
- FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
- OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
- Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
- Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
- FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
- It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
- Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
- FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
- OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
- From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
- Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
- FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.
BSD Now has made it to the 400-episode milestone, and this one is a normal mix – the FreeBSD 13 release, multifactor on OpenBSD, etc.
“OpenIKED: On The Road Again” is the topic tonight, at 6 PM eastern, at CharmBUG. (via)
BUG meetings seem to be happening again, which is nice.
- FreeBSD iostat: Understanding the Storage Subsystem and Disk I/O. (via)
- Port of the week: musickube. Looks … usable?!
- Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments.
- No Complexity Allowed, on hello. (via)
- FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13.
- Polyglot *BSD, next NYCBSD meeting, 2021/05/05. I’ll post a reminder day-of.
- ChiBUG May 11th Meeting – Virtual. This too.
- Initial Support for the riscv64 Architecture.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 23 – Herbe Notifications and Part 24 – Universal File Opener.
- OPNsense 21.1.5 released.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/19.
- Port of the week: pup.
- FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 1): OPNsense ZFS-based installation.
This week’s BSD Now is more technical than usual, talking about a bunch of setup options. The title lead is an article about sandbox environments in different BSDs, though unfortunately vkernels are not covered.
I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.
- Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
- Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
- UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
- OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
- Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
- A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
- LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
- My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
- pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
- TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
- Michael Wl Lucas’s Penguicon 2021 schedule.
Along with the normal news summaries, the latest BSD Now offers a bounty to the first person implementing Coordinated Mars Time; a worthy idea.
ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.
I’m hitting all the unixes.
- Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
- Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
- Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
- I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
- The pubnix history project. (via–via)
- Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
- FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
- Steam on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
- Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
- The state of toolchains in NetBSD.
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles – I see some Gemini sneaking in! – and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.
HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.