BSD Now episode 277 touches on a bunch of things like updating FreeBSD from 11 to 12, and Knuth history, but it links to some helpful directions for using nmap, which I think is one of those basic tools that should be in everyone’s arsenal, along with wireshark.
I think/hope I cleared my backlog of BSD links.
- FreeBSD Graphics Blog – Getting Started With drm-kmod. (via)
- Berkeley smorgasbord. (via)
- Amazon Web Service EC2?a1???????NetBSD/aarch64???????. Probably need to be able to render/read Japanese for that link to work out. (via)
- Today I (re-)learned that
top‘s output can be quietly system dependent. - pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p1 now available.
- unbound(8): DNSSEC validation enabled in default configuration.
- NetHack, OpenBSD, curses, tty. Curses as in the terminal interface, not as in Sword of Monster Calling -1.
- Configuration deployment made easy with drist.
- SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1206 is out.
- mports updates, mport package manager configuration feature added, and MidnightBSD security advisory site.
- Valuable News – 2018/11/24, Valuable News – 2018/12/01, and Valuable News – 2018/12/08.
- FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 Available. No, wait, FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE out.
- pkgs.org – packages for as many systems as possible, including FreeBSD and NetBSD. (via)
- GOG Winter Sale – OpenBSD Highlights. (via)
- Cirrus CI support and FreeBSD.
- OPNsense 18.7.9 released.
- OpenSMTPD proc filters & fc-rDNS. (via)
- Otto Moerbeek on the Virtues of OpenBSD malloc(3). I need to keep a better eye on bsd.network; I can’t collate it like RSS. Or can I?
- A proposal for a new RPKI validator: OpenBSD rpki-client(1). (via)
- OpenBGPD – Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape. (via)
- FreeNAS 11.2 new features.
- NetBSD desktop pt.4: The X Display Manager (XDM). (via)
- PINEBOOK on FreeBSD soon. Joining OpenBSD and NetBSD. (via)
Once again playing catchup – but we all benefit from the abundance.
- Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)
- Firefox’s middle-click behavior on HTML links on Linux. Should apply to BSD too.
- BSD vs. Linux. Old, but the source link has links to more discussion if that interests you.
- A proposal for a new RPKI validator: OpenBSD rpki-client(1). (via)
- NetBSD on AWS EC2 a1.medium (ARM). (via)
- The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management. (via)
- NetBSD Advent Calendar 2018. (via)
- Why BSD/OS is the best candidate for being the only tested legally open UNIX. (via)
- NetBSD and support for two finger scroll emulation. (via)
- Wherefore FreeBSD?
- Securing home. (via)
- The History of Unix, Rob Pike. I find this comment entertaining. (via)
- Showing a Gigabit OpenBSD firewall some Monitoring Love. (via)
- Portability of tar features. Linked because BSD tar is a thing. (via)
If you are going to MeatBSD, the reservations have to be in by Saturday. (Which is why I am posting it now instead of on Saturday for In Other BSDs.)
NYCBUG’s holiday party is tomorrow at Suspenders. Go, if you are near New York City, and talk about what you’d like to see in a presentation. Chances are good someone there is familiar with the topic.
An oddly uplifting batch of BSD stories this week.
- Tor on OpenBSD, part 5 and part 6.
- Slides and transcript and code from the November NYCBUG meeting. (I wish all BUG meetings had this.)
- MeatBSD, the December SEMIBUG meeting, is a meetup at a local meat-heavy restaurant, December 18th. Plan for it now, cause you need to reserve a seat.
- Steam Autumn Sale Highlights for OpenBSD.
- OPNsense 18.7.8 released.
- GhostBSD 18.10 Now Available. (via)
- Abandon Linux – Move to FreeBSD or Illumos. A pro-ZFS item, which means plenty of filesystem comments at the source link. (via)
- Debugging rcctl in OpenBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD for Thanksgiving. This is a nice story to hear. (via)
- Stardew Valley on FreeBSD. (via)
- Cheap BSD-friendly notebook? Thinkpads thinkpads stinkpads thinkpads. (via)
This week’s BSD Now covers assembly on OpenBSD, games on FreeBSD, and disk space on DragonFly.
Games are the unofficial accidental theme this week.
- FreeBSD 12 Release Engineering Branch Created. Also, RC1 (via)
- Distrowatch.com NetBSD 8.0 Review. (via)
- Celebrating 50 years of Unix. (via)
- FreeBSD Network Management with network.sh. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2.1 – Install FreeBSD 12.
- Our pragmatic attachment to OpenBSD PF for our firewall needs.
- Linux iptables compared to OpenBSD PF (through a real example).
- Bump.
- (OpenBSD) /etc/malloc.conf replaced by sysctl.
- (OpenBSD) ifconfig(8): vlandev and vlan upcoming option removal along with vlan(4): Replace link0 flag with txprio.
- Let’s Try on OpenBSD – Dust: An Elysian Tail and Let’s Try on OpenBSD: Capsized.
- GOG Black Friday Sale. A nice connection between sale and port.
- Games on FreeBSD. A port of fnaify to other BSDs!
- More OpenBSD contributions.
- Valuable News – 2018/11/17.
Michael W. Lucas is reprising his MeetBSD keynote, “Why BSD?”, at the November SEMIBUG meeting, happening at the usual location, tonight. Go, if you are near.
Update: you can attend remotely!
Still lots of BSD stuff happening.
- DWM on FreeBSD, monocle not showing up.
- Play Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
- Project Trident RC3 available. (via)
- NetBSD 8.0 ? dmesg?????? / KOF2018-NetBSD. Yeah, I know it’s all question marks. Something in my publishing chain doesn’t understand all character sets. (via)
- FreeBSD 12.0-b4 available.
- Capsicum.
- FreeNAS.
- Polish BSD User Group OpenBSD Gaming talk (slides, PDF, Polish) (via)
- Linux and FreeBSD networking. (via)
- The Source History of Cat. (via)
- FreeBSD 10.4 EOL.
- Valuable News – 2018/11/11. You can tell my backlog size from this.
- ZFS Boot Environments Reloaded at NLUUG Autumn Conference 2018.
- OpenBSD in Stereo with Linux VFIO.
- Play “Crazy Train” through your APU2 speaker. This prompted the “Someday you will need this” tag for this post.
- pfSense with a hardware identifier.
- The Tor Project needs a data architect.
- Assembly language on OpenBSD amd64+arm64. (via)
BSD Now 272, “Detain the bhyve” is up now, as is “garbage[45]: New fixes for old laptops“. Hope you have time for listening tonight!
Aaaand I have a backlog again.
- using smartd to automatically run tests on your drives.
- FreeBSD Foundation Update, October 2018. (via)
- OpenBSD on a Laptop. (via)
- OpenVPN Setup Guide. (via)
- FreeBSD 12 beta 3 out.
- First Time on BSD: Installing FreeBSD.
- OpenSMTPD 6.4.0 released and upcoming filters preview. (via)
- Remotely triggerable ICMP buffer underwrite in the FreeBSD kernel. Helpful comment here too.
- Erlang/OTP on OpenBSD. (via)
- Practical rc.d scripting in BSD. (via)
- OPNSense 18.7.7 released.
- malloc.conf replaced with a sysctl.
- Prompt Issues Only in Xorg.
- Installing Charsets for Chinese, Russian, and a few others.
- Building i3lock-color and the TOR Browser Bundle.
- Related: Tor part 4: run a relay
BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.
Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration is the presentation at tomorrow’s NYCBUG meeting. Going by the details, it’s covering multiple BSDs. Go, if you are near – I wish I was.
Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.
- setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
- Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
- Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
- commands without magic
- Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualization FAQ.
- The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases. (via)
- Configure OpenSMTPD to relay on a network.
- SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1028.
- BSD vs. System V death star poster.
- MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track.
- File versioning with rcs. Still built into all the BSDs, I think.
- Halloween Sale Highlights. OpenBSD gaming.
- NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Tokyo/Fall. (via)
- Jailing the bhyve hypervisor. (via)
- Everything suffers from bashism. (via)
- FOSDEM 2019 will have a BSD devroom, and now’s your chance to submit a talk proposal. Due December 10th, with the conference in February.
- NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Area. (via)
- LISA 2018 Recap. I really like that iXSystems writes up every convention trip.
- FreeBSD 12 has been branched into -STABLE. (via)
- GhostBSD 18.10 Release. (via)
This week’s BSDNow has a whole lot of release news – GhostBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSH, plus plenty more. Make sure to check the Beastie Bits at the bottom of the page.
It’s a mad rush to get these all posted in time for the weekend.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition. Best place to buy, with ILUVMICHAEL 30% off coupon code.
- Related: Auction Winners.
- Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration, coming up on November 7th.
- FreeBSD amd64 syscalls. (via)
- “Does anyone know if parsec works on OpenBSD?“
- The BSD Club discussion forum. (via)
- “What are some UNIX design decisions that proved to be wrong or short sighted after all these years?“
- DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12.
- libcrypto ASN.1 header removed in OpenBSD.
- Show OpenSMTPD queue and force sending queued mails.
- Valuable News – 2018/10/20.
- FreeBSD 12 beta 1 out.
- “What I learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD“. (via)
- Configuring FreeBSD for Infrastructure. (via)
- OPNsense 18.7.6 released.
- The OpenBSD Foundation receives the first Silver contribution from a single individual.
- Ohio LinuxFest 2018 Recap.
- NetBSD on the RISC-V is alive. (via)
- How to make routers with NetBSD’s NPF and Lua (Tokyo, Japan 2019/02/07) (via)
- “TrueNAS support is pretty great“.
BSDNow 269, along with convention reports and other items, covers something I never expected: System V daemons on BSD.
Well, I cleared my tab backlog, but not my RSS backlog…
- NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Kagawa. (via)
- OpenBSD’s unveil(). (via)
- OpenBSD on the Desktop: some thoughts. (via)
- Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel.
- vmm(4) gets support for qcow2.
- n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback (krw@) on disklabel(8) work, dhclient(8) progress.
- New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc.
- Locking OpenBSD when it’s sleeping.
- SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1009.
- Tor on OpenBSD part 1 and part 2.
- PIC32-RETROBSD.
- Unveiling OpenBSD pflogd(8). (via)
- OpenBSD on the Lenovo A485. (via)
- Questions on building FreeBSD fileserver for video production.
- A Unix Shell poster from 1983. Might be BSD, might not. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/10/13.
- The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code. (via)
- Slant, an OpenBSD system monitor. (via)
- OpenBSD 6.4 Released.
- “OpenBSD Foundation gets a second Iridium donation from Handshake!“
- BSD and home automation.
- OPNSense 18.7.5 released.
- Upgrading OpenBSD (on Vultr)
- Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible. (via)
This week’s BSDNow has a lot of “You will not regret knowing this” material – ZFS performance measurement, 2FA SSH, and using Netcat in various ways.