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2016/07/302016/07/29

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/30

I did all of this in a hour, because I had so many tabs saved from during the week. Don’t get overwhelmed!

EuroBSDCon 2016 schedule has been released.
OPNsense 16.7 released.
2016Q2 FreeBSD Status Report.
SemiBUG has a Twitter. Here’s their last meeting, and the next is 8/23.
August 3rd: NYCBUG Installfest. Go just to see what weird hardware shows up.
Attacks against FreeBSD Update components. (via)
How do I dual boot FreeBSD 10.3 with Windows 10?
Steam on FreeBSD 11-CURRENT. (via)
ZFS and RAID.
OpenBSD 6.0 pre-orders up.
OpenBSD 6.0 to be released September 1, 2016. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2016 talks and tutorials. (via and via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/07/25.
Why FreeBSD? by Hamza Sheikh.
pfSense 2.3.2 is out.
AWS VPN config supports pfSense 2.2.5+.
FreeBSD 11 Beta2 is available.
n2k16 hackathon report: Stefan Sperling on dhclient bugs, iwm(4) issues.
Will switching to FreeBSD give me an advantage over Linux when it comes to gaming?
Translation Status for 1.0.0. (Lumina)
one reason to hate openbsd.
Status of wireless support for MacBook Pro (late 2011)
Am I doing it wrong?
VirtualBox 5.x finally on FreeBSD.
Some notes on our new generation of ZFS-based file servers.
A Grand Experiment by Leo Laporte. Shifting to BSD. (via)
Announcing PacBSD (Formerly named ArchBSD). (via)
OpenBSD: Release Songs: 6.0: “Another Smash of the Stack”. (via)

Bonus DragonFly items, sent by Rolinh on IRC:

2016/07/292016/07/29

Media: Laporte Has Landed and ACPI Pals

Recently published: BSDNow 152, “The Laporte has landed!“, with an interview of Leo Laporte and his move to BSD, and also garbage[36], with some OpenBSD release conversation scattered in there.

2016/07/232016/07/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/23

Adding a new “BUG” category, cause there’s enough ongoing BSD user group activity these days that it’s a reoccurring theme. That makes me happy.

2016/07/22

garbage[35]: Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution

Garbage 35 is up, with news about ChiBUG, an OpenBSD hackathon, and the ritual shaming of computer equipment.

2016/07/222016/07/21

HOPE starts today

HOPE starts today in New York City, and if you are going, there’s at least one BSD presence at the show that could use volunteers.

2016/07/21

BSD Now 151: Fuzzy Auditing

Fuzzing sounds cute, but it’s about finding security problems, not checking for adorable guinea pigs or llamas or something like that. It’s also episode 151 of BSDNow. It looks like there’s no specific interview this week, but plenty of interesting topics and links listed.

2016/07/162016/07/16

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/16

I’m meeeeellllllltttinng!

About Devio.us
Let’s Encrypt client from BSD in C. (via)
ZFS Deadlock: ‘Directory of Death’. (via)
BSD vs. Linux (2005) Old, but new comments at the source link.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/07/11.
“PAM Mastery” tech reviewers wanted.
pkgsrc-2016Q2 is out.
Errata and patches released! OpenBSD.
my int is too big Related to previous link, I think.
TXLF 2016 Recap.
mandoc-1.13.4 released.
usermount being removed from OpenBSD.
Are you in Scottsdale, AZ, and want to talk about I assume fiction or BSD?
(late update) LibertyBSD 5.9 is out.

2016/07/152016/07/15

garbage[34]: Bursting with excitement

Among other things, garbage[34] brings up joshua stein’s desire to form a BSD user group near Chicago – contact him if you’re near.

2016/07/14

150th BSDNow, with a sprinkler

BSDNow has reached their I think semicentennial episode, “Sprinkle A Little BSD Into Your Life“. For this episode, they interview Jim Brown about BSD Certification and his FreeBSD-running sprinkler system, plus more news.

2016/07/092016/07/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/09

I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.

garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
Core.9 is now in session.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
A request for BSD variants information.
BSD podcast?
The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
TrueNAS 9.10 out.
BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.

2016/07/022016/06/30

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/02

Lots of user group items this week.

KnoxBUG has both July and August presentations planned – July 26th is the next, on cryptography and identity assurance.
SemiBUG is looking for September+ presentations.
NYCBUG’s RetroBSD and LiteBSD presentation is in 4 days, and there will be an instalfest on August 3rd.
HOPE is July 22-24, and will have a BSD presence. (FreeBSD Foundation)
“what are the disadvantages of using software like pfSense, vyos etc. over enterprise quality routers?“
BSDs and Trim the SSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/27.
USENIX ATC 2016 Conference Recap.
OPNSense 16.1.18 released, which I think is the last 16.1.* release.
FreeBSD just in time.
Samsung acquires Joyent. Joyent are big pkgsrc users. (via)

2016/07/01

garbage[32]: Monkey in the middle

I’m actually linking to this week’s Garbage podcast on time. They have shirts coming in now!

2016/06/30

BSDNow 148: The place to B… A Robot!

This weeks’ BSDNow has an interview with Edicarla Andrade & Vinícius Zavam about FreeBSD-powered robots. Yep, robots. There’s other news there too, but it’s not as interesting unless it is about lasers.

2016/06/27

garbage[31]: Pirates of the Corebootean

I was traveling and completely missed this, even though it’s on a regular schedule: garbage[31]: Pirates of the Corebootean.

2016/06/252016/06/24

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/25

A good amount of user group material this week.

Installfest, Spread the word at HOPE! BSD Installfest, July 22-24, New York City.
Vote up if… Dragonfly should be on the Desktop!
My BSDCan “OpenPAM & BSD” talk
SNIA DSI Recap. Big numbers!
NetBSD Introduction by Siju Oommen George.
HardenedBSD vs OpenBSD. (via)
Distrowatch reviews four more live upgrade methods, including PC-BSD and OpenBSD. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/20.
BSD Magazine for May. (A little late, but this is the newest issue.)
June meeting minutes from SemiBUG.
If you want to install RetroBSD or LiteBSD at the July NYCBUG meeting, Brian Callahan has a list of hardware sources for you. (I did not know of Olimex before…)

2016/06/23

BSDNow 147: Release all the things!

BSDNow 147 is available, with an interview of Glen Barber and Peter Wemm. They’re talking about release engineering, as you may have guessed from the title.

2016/06/182016/06/18

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/18

If you didn’t already look at it, BSDNow’s summary of BSDCan events is worth going to; it’s complete enough I deliberately left BSDCan links out of here. Undeadly has an OpenBSD-specific summary too.

ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t. Sorta-BSD. (via)
The Ultimate NetBSD Router. (Thanks, Tobias)
Shawn Webb Tells You All About HardenedBSD Project.
Using FreeBSD as a File Server With ZFS. Online course.
Latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal now available.
2016 FreeBSD Community Survey.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/13.
OPNsense 16.1.17 released.
BSDCan 2016 Recap. From iXSystems.
Lightly Experienced OS X and GNU/Linux User Looking to Learn [Free]BSD.
Unik – The Unikernel Compilation and Deployment Platform (uses NetBSD’s Rump) (via)
First image of someone trying to sell a commercial version of BSD 4.1 in 1982 (Fortune Systems 32:16)
ART single thread performances. (via)

2016/06/16

BSDNow 146: Music to Beastie’s ears

BSDNow episode 146 is available, with an interview of Hans Petter Selasky about USB and FreeBSD. There’s also a nice collection of links to BSDCan material, including video from the event.

2016/06/142016/06/13

NYC*BUG Wednesday: HardenedBSD

(Posting earlier than the usual ‘In Other BSDs’ content, because it’s happening tomorrow.)

NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow, June 15 at 18:45 Eastern time. It’ll be at Stone Creek Bar & Lounge, 140 E 27th St. in New York City. The speaker is Shawn Webb, and he’ll be talking about his HardenedBSD work in “Adventures in HardenedBSD”.

2016/06/112016/06/10

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/11

I’m hitting every type of BSD this week.

Show HN: TensorFlow on FreeBSD. (via)
Configuring PF and Fail2ban on FreeBSD. (via)
20 years of NetBSD code bloat. (via)
OPNsense 16.1.16 released.
ktrace adventures: browser ktrace browsing and accidentally nonblocking.
Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD. Also here, via. That first link is a bit clickbaity, and I’ve seen it repeated that way.
BSDNews for 2016/05/31 and for 2016/06/06.
pkgsrc 50th release interviews: Joerg Sonnenberger, Sevan Janiyan, Jonathan Perkin, and Ryo ONODERA. (via multiple)
NetBSD: A new beginning? (via)
14.000+ regularly updated pkgsrc binary packages for OS X. (via)
BSD and the Thinkpad X220.
My life with FreeBSD on a Thinkpad X220. I love my work x220, but I’ve said it before.
pc bsd can’t detect my wifi card.
Why I run OpenBSD. (via)
Dru Lavigne, interviewed for BSD Magazine.
select works poorly.
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (Version canadienne)