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2021/04/032021/04/02

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03

Well, I made up for last week’s short list.

What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
How to split a file into small parts.
UFS Boot Environments.
What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!

Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.

2021/04/01

BSD Now 396: License to thrill

This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.

2021/03/272021/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/27

Quiet, this week.

GNU really is a different animal.
Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing.
Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD.
A working D compiler on OpenBSD.
mport package manager.
Valuable News – 2021/03/22.
Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t know about KDE Connect.
ohmyksh, for OpenBSD’s ksh.

2021/03/25

BSD Now 395: Tracing ARM’s history

BSD Now has the usual roundup of news this week, and leads with an article about FreeBSD and ARM – useful for the BSD content, but also interesting cause it has a nice summary of how ARM designs came to be so important.

2021/03/202021/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/20

Solene is publishing faster than I can link!

EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
Wayland on FreeBSD.
Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
Valuable News – 2021/03/15.

2021/03/182021/03/19

BSD Now 394: FreeBSD on Mars

There’s BSD on Mars now, or that’s what the latest BSD Now tells me.

2021/03/172021/03/17

FreeBSD Office Hours tonight

FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.

Update: rescheduled to sometime in the future.

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.