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2021/03/132021/03/11

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/13

Literally tabs from my browser in order, here.

“TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course.
Quick-publishing of poudriere packages.
Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD.
DIY OpenBSD router advice.
OPNsense 21.1.3 released.
Valuable News – 2021/03/08.
Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD.
The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
NomadBSD 1.4 released.
My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. Lots of detail here if you are looking at a BSD laptop.
GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13.
FOSSASIA starts today.

2021/03/11

BSD Now 393: ZFS dRAID

I’d hope that a name like dRAID meant it was a DragonFly system, but no, as this BSD Now episode mentions it as a ZFS technology. Plus the normal news and a tool called ‘just’. Unfortunately ju.st is taken.

2021/03/082021/03/08

ChiBUG meeting, tomorrow night

ChiBUG’s having a virtual meeting tomorrow night. Register now, especially if you want to hear what Paul Vixie has to say. (You should)

2021/03/062021/03/05

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/06

Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week.

HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
Old USENIX pictures.
Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
OPNsense 21.1.2 released.
Use innoextract to get game files from a GOG installer.
FreshBSD relaunched. (via)
OpenBSD – make sure wsconsctl is in sync with the kernel.
MidnightBSD 2.0.5 released.
Bastille on MidnightBSD.
Related: HardenedBSD February 2021 Status Report.
A comparison between mports and FreeBSD ports.
LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed.
Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
dhcpleased(8) – DHCP client daemon. I’m going to read “please” in that every time.
resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration.
Introducing veb(4) – a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1.
Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
bhyve for Calamares Development.
Port of the week: checkrestart.

2021/03/04

BSD Now 392: macOS inspired Desktop

This week’s BSD Now is almost all FreeBSD-related, with mention of something I haven’t investigated enough yet: helloSystem.

2021/03/032021/02/27

NYCBUG: Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia

NYCBUG’s on Zoom, tonight at 18:45 eastern.

2021/02/272021/02/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/27

I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings.

XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers.
The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th.
Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours.
FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site.
ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul Vixie.
Port of the week: shapez.io – a libre factory game.
Any MMOs I can play on openbsd?
Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments.
Valuable News – 2021/02/22.
Next NYC*Bug: March 3rd Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia.
pfSense: Obscure Bugs and Code Wizards.
From Clean & Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) desktop.

2021/02/25

BSD Now 391: i386 tear shedding

This week’s BSD Now is a little sad about FreeBSD 13/i386 going to a less-supported platform, but there’s plenty of links to other stories.

2021/02/202021/02/19

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/20

There’s a lot to catch up on!

- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6.
- fstab in FreeBSD jails.
- Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
- POSIX locale tracking coming soon. (MirBSD)
- /dev/{drm,drmR} replaced by /dev/dri/{card,renderD}
- runescape on openbsd?
- LWJGL 3.x now in ports tree (makes Minecraft >1.13 run).
- XScreenSaver alpha testers sought. Needs non-Linux testers; you know what to do.
- Seeding a file server quickly.
- A Trip into FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/02/15.
- pfSense Plus 21.02-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.0-RELEASE Now Available.
- Full list of services offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
- Catchup 2021-02-13. (OpenBSD) Hey that’s my schtick!
- Project Status, happy 15th anniversary. (MidnightBSD)
- FreeBSD and I2C. (via)
- NetBSD Resources. (via)

2021/02/18

BSD Now 390: Commercial Unix Killer

The menacing BSD Now for this week covers a bunch of stuff, not just post hoc arguments, but there’s a special request: old retail BSD software. If you have older commercial disks or images floating around, they want to know.

2021/02/132021/02/12

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13

I have a link backlog, yay!

Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
Valuable News – 2021/02/08.

2021/02/11

BSD Now 389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails

It’s been a quiet week, but at least we have the regular BSD Now episode to hear. They talk about Plan 9 this week, which I guess isn’t BSD but still entertains me.

2021/02/062021/02/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/06

Hardware-heavy this week, sorta.

leave(1) – remind you when you have to leave.
Valuable News – 2021/02/01.
Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD.
Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD.
BREAKING pf(4) change: change route-to so it sends packets to IPs instead of interfaces.
TwinCAT/BSD, a new (to me at least) commercial use of FreeBSD in industrial settings.
WireGuard for pfSense Software. I like that it’s sponsored work everyone gets access to.
ujoy(4) added to -current. (OpenBSD)
FreeBSD Bhyve Overview – Why Its Better Than Other Hypervisors. (via)
Gamecontroller updates in -current. Related to previous link.
OpenBSD KDE Status Report.
Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages.
AAA Gaming on OpenBSD with Google Stadia.
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin on Non-x86 Architectures.
MirBSD “announce” RSS feed. A good idea for any project.
find mostly doesn’t need xargs today on modern Unixes.

2021/02/04

BSD Now 388: Must-have security tool

With a title like this, it seems you must listen to the newest BSD Now. The title’s talking about pf-badhost. There’s more covered in the episode.

2021/02/01

NYCBUG online Feb 3rd

Michael Dexter will be giving a talk for NYCBUG’s February 3rd meeting (6:45 PM Eastern) titled “Fifteen Years and Fifteen Minutes: Applying Occam’s Razor to FreeBSD with OccamBSD“. If you want to attend – and you should – email for the Zoom link; the address to email is in the linked message.

(I managed to miss putting this in In Other BSDs Saturday, but that’s OK; you should go cause this is a topic that isn’t covered anywhere else.)

2021/01/302021/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/30

A FreeBSD-heavy week.

Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD.
fzf, for BSD and other places. (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020.
FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via)
Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. (via)
GhostBSD Install and Review. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/01/25.
FOSSASIA, March 13-21, call for speakers. It’s virtual.
FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro. (via)
cool-retro-term. This will give you flashbacks if applicable.
OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released.
OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen). Maybe, maybe worth replacing this x220 with.
Mirage Online Classic, should play on any BSD.
Workaround for Bluetooth controllers on OpenBSD.
NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite.

2021/01/28

BSD Now 387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio

This week’s BSD Now is mostly OpenBSD news items – media work, password keepers, and so on.

2021/01/232021/01/21

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/23

It’s the week of Very Long and Excited Page Titles that Give Me Long Link Lines.

FreeBSD Xfce4 on VMware Installation Guide. (via)
HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report. (via)
Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools. (via)
Just realized this… Dennis Ritchie is the true innovator! Posted for the single comment.
Unix time is in its fourth quarter.
BSD license violations. (read down)
Exploring Swap on FreeBSD. (via)
Tiny PDP11 – Intro. BSD 2.11, VT102, cutest ever. (via)
Heidi Stettner had a dog named Biff, and that’s why mail notification exists.
Star Wars PDP-11/45. Not sure if it’s BSD or not. (via)
Accented characters using a US keyboard layout on OpenBSD.
OpenRadiant (3D modeller) – Binary distribution advice.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 22 – Configuration – Aero Snap Extended.
Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD.
At a look at helloSystem 0.3.0 – Full on Mac-a-licious!
Minecraft ? 1.13 working on OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/01/18.

2021/01/21

BSD Now 386: Aye, 386!

The number for this week’s BSD Now episode is a good one… Now we have to get to 8086! Lots of VLAN/VNET content.

2021/01/18

Last minute sponsorships

Michael W. Lucas’s ebook sponsorships and print sponsorships for “TLS Mastery” will close in the next 24-48 hours; get in there if you want to participate.