This week’s BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you’re looking for presents, he’s selling extra books originally intended for convention sales…
Right outta RSS.
- Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64. (via)
- hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”. (via)
- Recommend me a small laptop/netbook for NetBSD?
- Why I use OpenBSD.
- FuguITA: OpenBSD live-cd.
- BSD statistics for October 2020. Not a good place to post this; it’ll get lost.(via)
- How to Set Up and Install TrueNAS CORE.
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with the Creative BT-W3.
- Unbound DNS Blacklist. On BSD of course.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/16.
I am posting it a bit late, but this week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-tos and history; a good mix.
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week.
- Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System.
- Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it).
- Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/11/09.
- OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update.
- Mktemp started on OpenBSD.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential. WSL 2 may be a dead end.
- OpenBSD Router Guide. (via)
The newest BSD Now is up with the usual suspects for topics: a FreeBSD release, a ZFS item, and something OpenBSD.
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time…
- CDBUG meetings going virtual.
- FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure.
- November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th.
- What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games?
- HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report.
- A list of games to try that probably all run on BSD.
- Performance tip(s) for those playing Minecraft on OpenBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD.
- Join the peer to peer social network Scuttlebutt using OpenBSD and Oasis.
- Argument processing in Unix and Windows.
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Adding a GUI to diff(1). Sorta BSD?
- FreeBSD July-September status report.
- My first FreeBSD port: Castor.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/02.
I’m a bit late noting it, but BSD Now 375 is almost all virtualization topics.
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really.
- Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via)
- The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via)
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via)
- Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via)
- History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via)
- Lenovo T420 FreeBSD Tweaks. Still valid; hardware still exists. (via)
- Automating OpenBSD Vultr VM deployment with Ansible. (via)
- Default OpenBSD Web Server. Out on GitHub, not within the main repo? (via)
- How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built.
- Port of the week: rclone.
- OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD 12.2 is out.
- Realtek RTL8188CUS – USB 802.11n WiFi Review.
- OPNSense 20.7.4 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/26.
- BSD hardware trends. (via)
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Porting OpenBSD’s diff(1).
This week’s BSD Now is all about releases – OpenBSD, NetBSD, BastilleBSD…
It’s apparently release week?
- Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
- NetBSD 9.1 released.
- OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
- REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
- TrueNAS 12.0 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
- FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
- FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
- how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
- People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
- OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
- Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
This is the most straightforwardly-named BSD Now in a while: it’s an interview of Kyle Evans talking about his projects in FreeBSD.
This list of links runs in the same order of the BSD RSS feeds in my reader. What a coincidence!
- pkgsrc-2020Q3 released.
- The FreeBSD Town Hall was Wednesday and I didn’t post about it in time, but previous Town Halls are available.
- Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/12.
- OpenBSD Laptop. (via)
- Cryptographic Signing using
ssh-keygen(1)with a FIDO Authenticator. - RETGUARD for powerpc and powerpc64 added to -current.
- How to open source: going from NetBSD to Linux.
- Michael W. Lucas is having a book sale.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual roundup, with I think the highlight being a discussion of how SSDs can sometimes still not be fast enough for a ZFS scrub, depending on how it’s scheduled.
The ChiBUG monthly meeting has gone virtual, so go now if you are interested. The thread about it also includes some notes on how to connect under BSD that may be useful beyond this immediate event.
I always thought of cross-pollination – sharing of code between BSDs – as a good thing. This seems like the most basic way to do that: same base sh.
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT.
- OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via)
- duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via)
- Old School Disk Partitioning. (via)
- Why the Unix
newgrpcommand exists (sort of),
How the Unixnewgrpcommand behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still usenewgrp(to my surprise), touching BSD history. - FreeBSD laptop advice.
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 5).
- Valuable News – 2020/10/05.
- FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 Available.
- How to Recover From a BIOS Upgrade. Putting your boot sector back.
- FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 2 Primer for Users.
- fnaify 3.0 released.
This week’s BSD Now talks about ZFS, TrueNAS, IPC, wildcards, and the UNIX family tree, for a mix of the old and new.
No theme, but lots to read.
- Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
- OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
- FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
- FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
- “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
- Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
- About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
- Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
- k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
- Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
- ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.
This week’s BSD Now has FuryBSD, FreeBSD, and LDAP as topics, and I’m describing it that way because I feel like writing as many capital letters as possible.
Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed.
- On the use of a life. A BSD business.
- FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via)
- FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?
- Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via)
- k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van Duren on snmp, agentx, and other progress. An actual in-person meeting!
- Valuable News – 2020/09/21.
- A simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm(1).
- Unified pfSense documentation.
- New minecraft launcher in ports. OpenBSD.
- OPNSense 20.7.3 released.