SemiBUG is having the monthly meeting tonight. The presenter is Nick Holland, talking about SPECTRE mitigations in OpenBSD, and similar mechanisms. If you are near, go.
Here’s your reminder: MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. That’s the end of this week. Go, if you are near.
Still playing catchup with links.
- FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
- One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
- Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
- Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
- Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
- MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
- pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
- iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
- Process title and missing memory space.
- Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
- Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
- AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
- FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
- EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
- September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
- GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
- What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
- Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
- Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
- pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
- unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
- Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)
BSDNow 267 is posted a bit early this week, with an interview of Michael W. Lucas, about his upcoming Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition and local BUG.
I’m posting a day early cause of time zone difference: there’s a meeting of the Polish BSD User Group tomorrow.
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk at mug.org tonight; he may have physical copies of his new Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition available. Go, if you are near. Pro tip: If you are late but still want to catch up to Michael, look for the nearest gelato shop.
Still catching up on links.
- garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
- NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
- Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server. (via)
- NetBSD8.0 on UEFI Bootloader and Windows Tablet. (via)
- NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU. (via)
- A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem. (via)
- Old xcb libraries removed in OpenBSD.
- EuroBSDCon 2018 report.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release. (via)
- Debian on OpenBSD vmd (without qemu or another debian system) (via)
- Installing Gophernicus in OpenBSD. I just like the name. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/09/29.
- Polish BSD User Group, a summary. There’s a meeting soon, too.
- Manage ”nice” priority of daemons on OpenBSD.
BSDNow 266 is up, and while the title is “File Type History”, there’s a number of “this is how I use BSD” stories on there, which I always find interesting.
6:30 tonight: NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, with the topic of Subdo. I don’t know what that is, but we all can find out: tonight’s meeting will be streamed.
There’s a KnoxBUG BSD user group meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the topic of “Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe: A Case Study with OpenZFS“, presented by Nick Principe. It’s happening at 6 PM, tonight. They have the prettiest logo of any BUG that I’ve seen.
EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.
- FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
- Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
- OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
- OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
- Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
- r/openbsd_gaming’s Game of the Year 2018 Contest: Call for Nominations.
- Advances in OpenBSD packages [pdf] (via)
- What’s in store for NetBSD 9.0. (via)
- NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Hiroshima. (via)
- Deploying Anycast DNS using OpenBSD and BGP. (via)
- “My FreeBSD Story“.
- Display the size of installed packages ordered by size. Should work on any BSD with minor modification.
- Add an new OpenBSD partition from unused space.
- Ghost in the Shell – Part 3.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 16 – Configuration – Pause Any Application.
- Valuable News – 2018/09/08, 2018/09/15, and 2018/09/22. There’s probably another one today.
- The 2018Q3 pkgsrc freeze has started. (via)
- pfSense 2.4.4 is out; 2.3.x is almost EOL. (via and via)
- OPNSense
18.7.218.7.318.7.4 released. - FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI.
- Oh wait, all the EuroBSDCon 2018 OpenBSD slides are in one spot. (via)
- Using acme.sh for Let’s Encrypt certificates on pkgsrc.org servers. (via)
BSDNow 265 has a con report – the just-finished EuroBSDCon 2018 in Romania, plus the usual roundup of news items. One news item that will be useful someday: how to perform a BIOS update on a non-Windows computer.
Still running on extra links from previous weeks. Usually it takes a larger convention to cause this sort of backlog.
- Exploring NomadBSD – Desktop FreeBSD on a thumb drive. (via)
- Mac-like FreeBSD Laptop. Surprisingly similar, visually. (via) Also some comments here.
- A FreeBSD 11 Desktop How-to. (via)
- “How install a package offline?”
- “Are their any BSD Game stores?”
- The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server. (via)
- The history of file type information being available in Unix directories.
- Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – DIY Backup.
- BSD Myths. Not a new list, but still good to know. (via)
- Announcing The HardenedBSD Foundation. (via)
- OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve. (via)
- “My new favorite Telegram Sticker.“
- SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-0916 Viva Mexico! Edition.
- How does the process title works?
- “CBSD is adding bhyve live migration support.“
- Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 and also part 2. (via)
- Uvm: a BSD virtual memory system. (via)
- Diskless MP3 jukebox, running NetBSD/shark.
BSDNow 264 is available now and has the usual roundup of news, including discussion of Threadripper performance that I’ve avoided.
Chromium, the open sourced base of the Chrome browser, builds on BSDs, including DragonFly. But not without some work.
There’s a SemiBUG meeting at 7 PM tonight. Bring your troubleshooting lightning talks.
Built almost entirely with overflow from more than a week ago.
- GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. (via)
- NextCloud on OpenBSD. (via)
- Anon Games, BSD games available freely through ssh. Or telnet, but don’t do that. (via)
- Let’s Try on OpenBSD: Baldur’s Gate 1 with gemrb and widescreen mod. Video. I link cause it’s interesting to see the setup work before the gameplay.
- Automatic switch wifi/ethernet on OpenBSD.
- Highly Available DHCP Server on FreeBSD. This is the first I’ve heard of Kea, though the article itself is about isc-dhcp.
- OpenBSD on an iBook G4. (via)
- NetBSD: kASan support officially added. kASan == Kernel Address Sanitizer. (via)
- FreeBSD 11.1 EOL.
- Color vt on FreeBSD.
- Syncthing on FreeBSD.
- Need help getting eMac G4 graphics to work.
BSDNow manages to hit a majority of the BSDs this week, talking about Free/Open/Net in various ways. No interview, but lots to hear about.
I am having trouble keeping up with BSD news items. This is a good problem to have.
- The History of a Security Hole. Cross-BSD. (via)
- hard state soft state confusion. A followup on the previous link.
- NetBSD 7.2 is out. More than one branch is supported, if you find yourself saying “didn’t 8 just release?”
- 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD. Useful; probably can extrapolate out. (via)
- OpenBSD Gaming Resource (2018.08 update). I didn’t realize this was getting regular updates; that’s a good thing. (via)
- HumbleBundle sale. Runs for another 5 days.
- OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go. I appreciate the in-depth hardware listing.
- A look beyond the BSD teacup: OmniOS installation. Try to ignore the meme image linked in that article; it’s an example of BSD culture trying to destroy itself. The article is good for examining OmniOS.
- OPNSense 18.7.1 released.
- OpenBSD-current changes as an RSS feed.
- Valuable News – 2018/08/25 and 2018/09/02.
- New ZFS Boot Environments Tool.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts & Frameworks.
- arm64 gains RETGUARD. OpenBSD architecture.
- Theo on the latest Intel issues. “currently public artifacts”, should give you pause.
- OpenBSD Foundation gets first 2018 Iridium donation! I had not heard of Handshake before.
- Native Encryption for ZFS on FreeBSD CFT. (via)
- OpenSSH 7.8 is out. (via)
This week’s BSDNow covers a few things I haven’t seen yet – a news update from the FreeBSD Foundation, and a status report on Project Trident.