CCC 36 is over, but the videos are on Relive and will eventually be collected. CCC is one of the few remaining big not-a-corporate-event events; always worth viewing. (posting now so it doesn’t get lost in the new year.)
Quiet week, so catch up on your reading here.
- putting stuff in a proliant dl325. Not that BSD-specific but still.
- WireGuard OpenBSD Router. (via)
- Elasticsearch on MidnightBSD.
- How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer. Valid, though the writing may annoy you, not just because it misses BSD history completely. (via)
- OpenBSD system-call-origin verification. (via)
- usb(4) and uhid(4) changes.
- unwind(8) no longer uses http to detect captive portals.
- OPNsense 19.7.8 released.
- “New” laptop. Thinkpad X250 + NetBSD 9.0 RC1 + velox (tiling wayland compositor). Linked cause velox is new to me.
- Hyperbola – News: Announcing HyperbolaBSD Roadmap. (via)
- Visual Studio Code port for FreeBSD. (via)
- Noting it late because of the holiday: BSD Now 330: Happy Holidays, All(an).
- Happy Holidays From HardenedBSD.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/23.
- OpenBSD has to be a BSD Unix and you couldn’t duplicate it with Linux. “… the OpenBSD developers are clearly willing to remove support for something if they feel strongly enough about it”.
- The followup, The BSD and Linux approaches to development put coherence in different places. Finally a non-license argument.
- Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610. Odd, and I think had some BSD parts. Lots of other neat hardware on that site. (via)
I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his unnatural love of gelato BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker.
- NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions. (via)
- Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. (via)
- This is another reason to go to BUG meetings.
- January 8th: next NYCBUG meeting, “What is notqmail?“. Note different location than usual.
- FreeNAS 11.2-U7 is out, and a FreeNAS Hardware Guide. Speaking of which, FreeNAS 2020 plans, which mention bringing the interface to non-FreeBSD systems. What’s driving that? OpenSSH Key Shielding. (via)
- Block bad hosts with PF. (via)
- Packaging, Vendoring, and How It’s Changing. Related to BSD packaging. (via)
- New PlayOnBSD Steam Grpup [sic] with Curator List of Games for OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/16.
- e2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on GoT and wireless.
- Arduino Development on OpenBSD.
The BSD.nrw Dusseldorf-Wersten BSD user’s group next meeting is on the 20th. Go, if you are near.
Lots of variety this week.
- NetBSD Advent Calendar 2019. (via)
- ARM64 and BSD discussion.
- Notqmail, the presentation topic for the January NYCBUG meeting and maybe for SEMIBUG at some point too.
- HAMBSD, presented at NorthernRST. (via)
- BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility. This is neat.
- “The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE on Azure.”
- BSDCan 2020’s Call for Papers is out.
- December 2019 Infrastructure Status. (HardenedBSD)
- KDE plasma flavor now available. (FuryBSD)
- Developers shouldn’t distribute their own software. Touches on BSD ports. “Note: This article presumes that proprietary/nonfree software is irrelevant, and so should you.”
- Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news.
- Manage Contacts the UNIX Way.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 19 – Configuration – Plank – Skippy-XD.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/09.
- Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible. (via)
- Artworks for the Euro BSD Con 2020 in Austria.
- Infinity Engine on OpenBSD.
- Meet Radiant Award Recipient Claudio Jeker.
- Playing CrossCode within a web browser.
BSD Now 328 is out, and it’s covering various news items; the common thread seems to be “please test this new tech”, which is always exciting.
The next ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow night, December 10th. Go, if you are near, but also RSVP on the list.
The BSD user’s group in Dusseldorf is also meeting on the 10th. Go there instead, if you are on that side of the ocean.
Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra.
- NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out.
- Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending.
- Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th.
- Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th.
- ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. (via)
- ryzen build (for openbsd).
- HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals. (via)
- Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD. (via)
- Related: syscall call-from verification.
- e2k19 Hackathon Report: At e2k19 nobody can hear you scream (Claudio Jeker).
- sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager. (via)
- Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python pt.3.
- Valuable News – 2019/12/02.
- PlayOnBSD Shopping Guide now scraping for sales on GOG and Steam.
This week’s BSD Now talks about, among other things, renaming of ZFS On Linux to OpenZFS, and a bonkers story about Sun.
The Holiday Hardware Swap is happening at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting today, at a new location. Go, if you are near.
End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you.
- Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday.
- MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3.
- Valuable News – 2019/11/25.
- OPNsense 19.7.7 released.
- p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more.
- Writing a daemon using FreeBSD and Python, part 1 and part 2.
- A Look at PureDarwin. (via)
- How to use pkgsrc on Linux. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal for September/October.
- OpenBSD: General web deployment security best practice (httpd, doas, git).
- [How-To] PostgreSQL ascii logo for FreeBSD boot loader.
- unwind(8) gains “Happy Eyeballs”-like flexibility.
- Some notes on userspace routing.
- Debugging FFS Mount Failures.
- samsung ativ book 9. Hardware review, OpenBSD install.
This Turkey Day (for U.S. readers) episode of BSD Now talks about the perennial idea of BSD admin certification, along with the usual roundup of recent news.
Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future.
- Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via)
- The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments.
- Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly).
- Valuable News – 2019/11/18.
- OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5).
- And the followup Running OpenBSD on SPARC64 (HTTPd, packages, patching, X11, …)
- GEOM NOP.
- p2k19 reports: Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan,
Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing, Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby, krw@ adventures. - Creating new users dedicated to processes. Could work on any BSD except for doas.
- Board of Directors and Officers elected. For NetBSD.
- Support for Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet controller. For OpenBSD. 2.5Gb seems so arbitrary. (via)
- Why is BSD>Linux?
- Lessons Learned from Sendmail. Video. There’s lots of EuroBSDCon videos out there, but this is a good one cause this is one of the prototypical packages. (via)
- BSD Link Roundup 11.18.
- The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”.
- Proof I Am a Monster.
It hasn’t been updated or used for some time, but libc_r was 20+ years old. Now it’s gone. You know someone younger than this code, or maybe even younger than the last time I talked about it.
BSD New 325 has a bunch of release news this week, including FreeBSD 12.1, and as you can guess from the title, rainbow tables.
Michael W. Lucas is presenting on sudo, to match his recent book, at SeMiBUG, tomorrow night. I think it may be getting held at a different location than usual. Go, if you are near.
Some commercial stuff this week, even.
- A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via)
- This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu)
- FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product.
- rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD.
- Any games that can be recommended that requires virtually no configuration/setup on OpenBSD? Again, possibly valid for every BSD.
- OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base. I mentioned this before, sorta, but it’s important.
- p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest.
- HEADS UP: ntpd changing. On OpenBSD.
- DNSSEC enabled in default
unbound(8)configuration. - OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019.
- HardenedBSD Status Report. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/11/12.
- LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline.
- Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX! NetBSD on VAX hardware at BSDCan 2019, in video. I feel like I was destined to type a sentence like that sooner or later.
BSD Now 324 is up, with the normal mix of content. It includes a heck of a awk statement for renaming files, and mention of a deployment management system for BSD I hadn’t heard about – Bastille.