NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow night, and the presentation is “Shell as a deployment tool“. Go, if you are near.
Inadvertent theme: release news.
- Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using a packaging system.
- I mentioned it before, but FOSDEM 2019, happening right now in Brussels, has a BSD Devroom with a lot of things happening in it; you could spend your entire Saturday in there.
- And something that has me quite excited: The Pinebook Pro, among other hardware announcements for FOSDEM. BSD is being mentioned right there as something to install on it, rather than as an aftermarket hack like with Chromebooks – heartwarming, I tell you. (via)
- Unix flowers. Look for birthtoken while you are at it. (via)
- FreeNAS has Plugins? A casual look at it seems to push some features into pfSense territory.
- Next NYC*BUG: 2/6.
- OPNsense 19.1-RC1 released. Wait, 19.1 is out.
- join-ing any open wifi network is now possible.
- FreeBSD Training @ SCaLE 17x (March 8, 2019) (via)
- NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor. (via)
- ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE (first public release). (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/01/18 and Valuable News – 2019/01/25 and Valuable News – 2019/02/01.
- HardenedBSD 2018Q4 Status Report. (via)
- Florian Obser on unwind(8).
- MightnightBSD Roadmap.
- SoloBSD 19.01-STABLE.
- fnaify 1.2 released.
- At The Gates, 4x strategy game running on BSD. (via)
The hosts of BSD Now are off to FOSDEM 2019, but they stayed on schedule by recording an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team, available now. He’s speaking at FOSDEM, too, along with a bunch of other BSD Devroom stuff.
There’s some convention stuff scattered in here; we’re heading towards the active season…
- Anyone running pfSense on non-netgate hardware in a prod environment?
- vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current.
- OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten. (via)
- 05/25/2019 : V BSDDAY in Brazil.
- The first report on LLD porting.
- Update Intel Microcode on FreeBSD. (via)
- VPS hosting provider recommendations for OpenBSD.
- The AsiaBSDCon 2019 RFP has only 5 days left. (via)
- pkgstat, an OpenBSD package statistics gatherer. (via)
- The risk that comes from ZFS on Linux not being GPL-compatible.
- Two views of ZFS’s GPL-incompatibility and the Linux kernel.
- HyperRogue on OpenBSD/macppc. (via)
- Less Known pkg(8) Features. Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.
- avoiding duplicate cronjobs.
- openrsync, a “clean-room BSD-licensed implementation of rsync”. (via)
- Nixers Newsletter 110. These newsletters are so jam-packed with links I’m just going to link to them directly instead of cherry-picking.
- Using a Teletype Model 33 mechanical terminal. Proto-BSD. Excellent in-depth explanation.
This week’s BSD Now talks about OpenRSync (OpenRsync? Dunno the capitalization on that), convention news, and someone building a “Sun Workstation”.
Overflow from the past two weeks. I’ll have my email and tab backlog cleared next week.
- Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output.
- New console font Spleen made default. There’s examples.
- OPNSense 18.7.10 released.
- Best BSD filesystem for ssd. All of them.
- LibGDX proof of concept on OpenBSD: Slay the Spire. Has video.
- 2018 recap.
- Ring in the new. KDE/FreeBSD.
- Man pages, as pages.
- Newcomer to FreeBSD.
- How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
- FreeBSD Journal is now free, starting with the latest issue. (via)
- SuperTuxKart, the open source Mario Kart clone, achieves beta status with network support. I didn’t know you could have a Beastie pilot. (via)
- wtf(1). (via aly on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Project Trident’s first -RELEASE. (via)
- Building Spotifyd on NetBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2019 call for papers closes today.
This week’s BSD Now discusses scp vulnerabilities, GhostBSD, and the recent EPYC hardware benchmarks that I have not linked because I don’t think they are useful information.
The normal meeting space isn’t available this month or next, so tonight’s meeting is an informal get-together at 7 PM at Leo’s Coney Island. I assume if you are near, you know Leo’s. Go if that’s you.
Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week.
- pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.
- GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via)
- Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via)
- People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded via)
- Linux network-scripts being deprecated is a problem for my home PPPoE link. Linked here cause this sort of CADT approach doesn’t happen so much on BSD…
- BSD BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT. (via)
- tons of updates, more coming… (hope I didn’t break anything ?) MirBSD.
- Valuable News – 2019/01/04.
- The process of upstreaming support to LLVM sanitizers has been finalized.
- Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published.
- How NetBSD came to be shipped by Microsoft. (via)
- MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up. More BSD books on the way!
- GhostBSD 18.12 Now Available. (via)
Your BSD smug linksfor the week: I saw these two posts in my RSS feed, one right after the other: “Get ready to patch your Linux systems with systemd, 3x new CVEs out there as of yesterday. These enable any user to escalate to root.” and “Windows 10 Bsod on three different machines after updates. On was new out of box. Any ideas? ”
This week’s BSD Now talks about merchandise! No, it’s really starting with a license discussion. A merchandise-finding episode would be a good idea, though.
I like when I can get Net, Free, and Open items all in the same week.
- Is any C code from 1970s Unix still used today in macOS or BSD?
- razer blade stealth. The BSD part is at the end.
- Let’s try on OpenBSD: NeuroVoider.
- Is the BSD community dedicated to free software? Sealioning, maybe.
- Using the Open Suse build service to build for FreeBSD?
- Installing OpenBSD over FreeBSD.
- SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD.
- KDE4 on FreeBSD, post-mortem.
- toying with wireguard on openbsd
- How I did start using FreeBSD. (via)
- Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc, a Proposal. (via)
- pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement.
- NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
- Hyper-V and GhostBSD – lockup.
- Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. The source link also links to the slides, from EuroBSDCon 2018, and I don’t think I linked them before.
- Modern KDE on FreeBSD. (via)
- Welcome to New Subscribers and Goals for 2019. r/openbsd_gaming.
As you may have guessed, this week’s BSD Now talks about the change of ZFS code origin in FreeBSD. There’s of course other things linked, including this tattoo.
Eerielinux has a new Ravenports article: Ravenports explained: Why not just join XYZ? I am linking it now because it’s DragonFly related, but it does touch on all the BSDs. It reviews the reasons for Ravenports – and its competitive advantages, if you look at it a certain way. It’s a followup to the Ravenports update and review linked here previously.
NYCBUG’s January meeting kicks off the new year, with an OpenBSD presentation by Brian Callahan on January 2nd. That’s this Wednesday, right after New Year’s Day. At the time I’m writing this, I don’t have the meeting agenda, but don’t let that stop you from attending, if you are near. Update: Brian told me directly what he is presenting.
A big reading week. Enjoy!
- BSD for old phones?
- Berkeley smorgasbord. (via)
- KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection. (PDF, via)
- GhostBSD 18.01 Disk encryption?
- Request advice for controller/gamepads (Fnaify games: Axiom Verge, Chasm, Rogue Legacy).
- unix50.org. Celebrating UNIX historical systems by running them. (via)
- FreeBSD vs Linux: 20 Things To Know About Both The System. The article assumes, not surprisingly given the site, that Linux is the standard and that FreeBSD is a variant, when it’s really the other way around. (via)
- NetBSD/amd64-current Amazon Web Service EC2 c5. If you can’t read Japanese, the terminal command may help. I can’t tell. (via)
- January to September 2018 FreeBSD Status Report.
- The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts. (PDF, via)
- Valuable News – 2018/12/28.
- The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
- A Survey of $RANDOM. (via)
- DragonFly 5.4 launch on Hacker News. Linked for the discussion, though the quality of the HN conversation is still declining. (i.e. lobste.rs is best.)
- I got a 750 MHz 64-bit HP/PA-RISC c3700 Visualize Workstation for X-mas! Put here because I think it was a BSD-heritage Unix.
BSD Now 278 has an interview of Marshall Kirk McKusick, from BSDCan 2018. If you aren’t familiar with him, he’s been involved with BSD possibly longer than you’ve been alive, and you’re probably using code he wrote, one way or another.
Ravenports has been updated to have DragonFly 5.4 packages, if you are using it. (note typo if copying from that email) The eerielinux site also has what I am calling a review but is more of a followup report, after extended usage of Ravenports on multiple platforms. See the initial review, too.
I had a lot of tabs to close, if you can’t tell.
- ClonOS 18.12 BETA1. I didn’t know this existed.
- Next NYCBUG meeting: January 2, with a presentation on OpenBSD from Brian Callahan.
- FOSSJobs. I don’t like the acronym, but I’m not going to complain if it gets someone good work. (via)
- Running NetBSD on DEC VAX on SIMH on Raspberry Pi. Video. (via)
- The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD. (Via many places) I don’t like the notion that the BSD implementation of ZFS is now going to be at the very best, only equal to what’s on Linux. That makes it no longer a compelling choice.
- OpenBSD song 6.2: A 3 line diff. (via)
- OpenRC on FreeBSD. (via)
- FreeNAS 11.2 out. (via)
- Related: December FreeNAS Plugins Updates.
- SoloBSD 12-STABLE.
- Stable release: HardenedBSD-stable 12-STABLE v1200058. (via)
- OpenBSD Errata: December 22nd, 2018 (pcbopts). (via)
- Grafana + InfluxDB fun on DragonFly BSD. Okay okay not other BSD.
- Problem booting after upgrading to [DragonFly] 5.4. The story has a happy ending.
- The Super Capsicumizer 9000. (via)
- What are you using for a simple GUI TextEdit/Notepad? The usual suspects of nvi/emacs show up, but there’s a lot more options listed.
- Reducing the delta with upstream version of sanitizers. (via)
- Python Development on BSD.
- Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)
- Torchlight 2 on NetBSD *almost* works!
- NetBSD desktop pt.5: automounting with Berkeley am-utils. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/12/14, Valuable News – 2018/12/21.
- Standards. “There is no standard version of the tar program.” Linked with early BSD history, of course. (via)
- telnet, still being a problem. (via)
- protectli router.
- de facto vs de jure maintenance.
- The NetBSD support update before the LLVM-8.0 branching point. (via)
Podcast for the weekend: garbage[46].