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2016/01/162016/01/15

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/16

There’s a lot of convention links this week, which is mostly an accident. If any of them are near you, go! BSD conventions are always fun, in my experience.

FreeBSD on EdgeRouter Lite – no serial port required.
Nearly 19 years of FreeBSD 2.2.1. (via)
CharmBUG, a BSD user group in Baltimore, Maryland, has a new mailing list. See also the Meetup page. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2016 is coming up in Tokyo, March 11-13. (also via)
You have only a few days left to meet the BSDCan Call for Papers deadline. (also via)
The HOPE convention is July 22-24. (also plundered via)
And if you haven’t clicked on it yet, here’s NYCBUG’s upcoming schedule.
outrageous roaming fees, about the recent CVE-2016-777|8.
OpenBSD laptops.
Xen Support Enabled in [openbsd]-current.
The Penguicon Lucas Tech Track.
OPNSense 15.7.24 Released.
BSD Is Ready for SCALE 14X.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/01/11. (says 2015 but it’s a typo.)
Best of 2015 in BSD Magazine.

2016/01/15

BSDNow 124: Get your engine(x) started!

I almost missed it again! BSDNow 124 is up, with an interview of Igor Sysoev about nginx, plus the normal roundup.

2016/01/092016/01/09

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/09

I had so many tabs open of things to post that I lost some until the last minute.

The FreeBSD Foundation is going to external sources to resolve community issues, as followup on recent conflict. (I agree with this plan)
Upcoming meetings for NYCBUG (and other convention dates). Feb. 3rd is the next.
NixOS on FreeBSD. (via)
The TorBSD project has a long list of potential BSD porting projects. (thanks, George!)
AWS tools on OpenBSD.
~~OpenBSD has imported click.~~ I misread.
2016 Resolution – DiscoverBSD Talks. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/01/05.
New review on “Tarsnap Mastery”
Who wants to sponsor some BSD books?
“FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” disclaimer
FreeBSD Jails the hard way. (via)
New NVIDIA drivers for FreeBSD.
I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected. Late 90s flashback! Mostly applies to a BSD desktop too. (via)
The ‘hidden’ cost of using ZFS for your home NAS. (via)
FreeBSD on the raspberry pi. (via)
Netflix’s async sendfile now in FreeBSD-current. (via)

2016/01/07

BSDNow 123: ZFS in the trenches

This week’s BSDNow episode has an interview with Josh Paetzel about ZFS, and lots of end-of-year/start-of-new-year prognostication.

2016/01/052016/01/01

NYCBUG: installfest on January 6th

A reminder: NYCBUG is having an installfest tomorrow night, at 6:45 PM, at Stone Creek. Even if you’ve already installed a BSD on every bit of hardware you have, it’s still a good time.

2016/01/022016/01/02

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/02

That first link is important. DragonFly, as a project, hasn’t had issues like that yet, but that’s more a side effect of it being a smaller project rather than anything else.

The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl. (via)
- updated: An initial followup from freebsd-core.
Plotting Out the BSD Year. (via or via)
BSD: A Brief Look Back at 2015.
OpenBSD Jumpstart. (via)
Can it run BSD? The story of a MIPS-based PIC32 microcontroller. (via)
Want to build a local router on my raspberry pi – considering BSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/28.
Ubuntu vs FreeBSD Hosting: Is There A Difference? (via)
“So errors of a measly 292g years go unreported.“
pkgsrc-2015Q3 Branch Statistics.
pkgsrc-2015Q4 released.
ZFS boot environments are now available in the FreeBSD boot loader.
plasma_saver for FreeBSD. (this should be portable, hint hint)
Installfest on January 6th for NYCBUG.

2016/01/01

BSDNow 122: The BSD Black Box

I missed posting this before: A new episode of BSDNow, with new items plus an interview with Alex Rosenberg, “Former Manager of Platform Architecture at Sony”. I assume that means Sony has or had a significant BSD installation, which I totally did not know about.

2015/12/31

End of year donations

Even though DragonFly is not incorporated as a non-profit, there’s been a rash of unsolicited donations in the last few weeks, all of which are appreciated. For end-of-year – or start-of-new-year donations – there’s also the 501(c)3 organizations behind FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, too.

2015/12/262015/12/25

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/26

There’s some DragonFly links I snuck in here because why not?

OpenBSD Innovation List. (via)
How to block traffic based off country – pFSense (via)
pfSense 2.2.6 is released .
Orchestrating multiple FreeBSDs?
Hacking the PS4, part 3: FreeBSD Kernel exploitation. (via)
PIC32-RetroBSD Open Source Hardware Board running Unix like RetroBSD OS. (via)
Is there a way to cite the FreeBSD handbook and other documentation in APA format?
Newbie testing out new OS’s
OPNsense 15.7.23 Released
[PSA] 1920×1080 on DragonFlyBSD 4.4 under QEMU/KVM.
The DragonFly 4.4 release article on linuxfr.org – always in-depth.
Faces of FreeBSD 2015: Erin Clark.
n2k15: bluhm@ on MP networking (out from under biglock)
n2k15: vgross@ on deep surgery in TCP/IP stack code
n2k15: krw@ on fdisk, installboot, dhclient, GPT fixes
n2k15: reyk@ on hosting a hackathon, vmd, and the switch
n2k15: mpi@ on MP networking progress
n2k15: stsp@ on 11n mode wifi, testing
OpenBSD’s sndiod: now with privsep
Problems with Systemd and Why I Like BSD Init. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/21.
AsiaBSDCon 2016 is happening March 10-13, 2016, in Tokyo. The call for papers is out and due by January 8th. Tutorial proposals are due at the end of the month.

2015/12/242015/12/25

BSDNow 121: All your hyves are belong to us

Christmas doesn’t stop BSDNow from happening, and this week – along with the normal news summary – has an interview with Trent Thompson about virtualization on FreeBSD. Specifically, iohyve, the new management system.

(Linking directly to the broadcast site instead of the page with the full summary on the BSDNow site, because that summary page isn’t up as of me posting this.)

2015/12/212015/12/20

BSDTalk 260: TeachBSD.org and an anniversary

The latest episode interviews Robert N. M. Watson and George V. Neville-Neil for 36 minutes, about teachbsd.org. Also, BSDTalk has been running for 10 years! It’s been long enough I couldn’t remember if it started before the Digest.

2015/12/192015/12/18

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/19

Yet another week that I started 2 weeks ago; this end-of-calendar-year is full of BSD goings-on.

FreeBSD on the desktop? Am I crazy? (via)
lists.freebsd.org holy jeebus….
I am a newbie trying to switch from pfSense to OpenBSD.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Windows Operating System Family. (via)
You Make FreeBSD Possible.
Adventures in Open Source Software: Dealing with Security. A pkgsrc talk.
TrueNAS templates are now included with a number of monitoring tools.
Michael Lucas’s SSH talk on YouTube. Not necessarily BSD-specific, but still good.
BSD for the desktop user: A review of PC-BSD.
What makes the BSD family more secure than GNU/Linux?
SO_REUSEADDR and SO_REUSEPORT, a BSD-origin explanation. (via)
The pkgsrc-2015Q4 freeze has started.

2015/12/17

BSDNow 120: man in the middle

The official title for BSDNow 120 is “I’m talking about the man in the middle” which is too long for an article title here. It’s a Michael Jackson reference and a type of attack against encryption, if you are unclear. Anyway, the episode has the usual news roundup and an interview of Pawel Jakub Dawidek.

2015/12/142015/12/13

NYC Tech Meta-party tonight

It’s tonight at 7 PM, with the details found on the NYCBUG mailing list. RSVP as soon as you can if you are near enough to go – and you should go.

2015/12/132015/12/14

Lazy Reading for 2015/12/13

A good chunk of this is brought over from last week, cause there was so much.

Ramsey Theory in the Dining Room. Not the shouty chef. (via)
Superpersistent bootkit. (PDF, via, via)
Raspberry Pis stuffed into classic computer shells. (via)
I Dreamed of a Perfect Database. “This is a risk of working alone, without anyone to tell you you’re insane.” A Paul Ford article. (via)
Project: Keyboard Conversion. More ambitious than I expected. (via)
It’s called fdisk because…
Computer Man [Extended Version]. Very 1980s. (via)
The story of one latency spike. (via)
Peering into inodes.
After a ten-year hiatus, NetHack 3.6. (via)
Big Data? No Thanks! Even if you don’t agree with the position, the images are neat. (via)
Roll your own toy Unix-clone OS. (via)
King’s Hand, which turns Go programs into utility scripts. (via)
Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library? Another grep variant.

Your unrelated game link of the week: Freecol. Runs on all the BSDs (thanks Thomas Klausner), as far as I can tell. (via)

2015/12/122015/12/12

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/12

I had this built up well ahead of time.

Today’s world is amd64, armv7, and soon aarch64. Everything else is dead, Jim. The author is/was a OpenBSD developer. (via, via)
Show Your Support for FreeBSD. (Foundation) Donation time of year.
As an everyday user of Linux, should I switch to BSD, why or why not?
vCenter Web Client Plug-in for TrueNAS Now Available.
OpenBSD Xen support. (via)
“look I come from debian so having a stable reliable system that _also_ has software that isn’t years out of date in the repos is a shocker” (about the ports system)
pkgsrc is moving to dash as a bootstrap shell, to replace pdksh.
The 2015Q4 quarterly pkgsrc freeze is coming.
BSD Magazine issue 75, with a focus on FreeBSD development tools, is available.
DistroWatch Weekly reviews OpenBSD 5.8. (via)
n2k15: sashan@ on PF mpsafe progess.
n2k15: tedu@ on rebound, malloc hardening, removing legacy code.
OPNsense 15.7.22 Released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/12/07.

2015/12/10

BSDNow 119: There be Dragons, BSD Dragons anyway

BSDNow 119 is up, with even lengthier news summaries than usual, and an interview of Paul Goyette about his testing work with NetBSD.

2015/12/052015/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2015/12/05

I was going to make comments about this being a light week, and then suddenly I had overflow.

The 2015 NYC Tech Meta-Party is December 14th. Lots of BSD people there; I wish I was.
The Call for Papers for BSDCan 2016 is out. (also via)
Early days of Unix and design of sh. Stephen Bourne’s recent NYCBUG talk; make time to see this if you missed the BSDCan 2015 show.
FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems, the early access draft, is available.
Hosted NetBSD (and others) from Serveraptor. We need a list of hosting orgs where you can run BSD.
One of the three OpenBSD users. (via)
PXE boot OpenBSD from OpenWRT. (via)
NetBSD gains sqlite3db and also DTC.
PHP5.4 is being retired from pkgsrc.
IBCS2 support in FreeBSD is removed, for now at least.
OpenBSD now has an etherip(4) device. (No man page to link to as of this typing)
iXSystems at Fossetcon 2015.
Preparing multitouch support – request for tests
Is That Linux? No, It’s PC-BSD. (via)
How to Install Ajenti with Nginx and SSL on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/30.
Distrowatch reviews NetBSD 7. (via)
FreeBSD and FreeNAS in Business by Randy Westlund.

2015/12/042015/12/03

BSDNow 118: BSD is go for Launch

BSDNow 118 is up, and it has an interview with Mark Heily about relaunchd, along with a number of other BSD news things that I haven’t even read yet because I didn’t expect the episode before today.

2015/12/022015/12/02

BSDTalk 259: Supporting a BSD Project

BSDTalk has a 65-minute recording of Ed Maste and George Neville-Neil at vBSDCon 2015 presenting “Supporting a BSD Project“. Note that it’s a recording of the presentation itself and not an interview after the fact. I don’t think vBSDCon has had any released video, or I don’t immediately remember seeing any, so this may be the only way to experience this talk.