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2015/11/282015/11/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/28

I informally grouped by topic, cause it has proved an exceptionally rich week for BSD links.

A FreeBSD AMI Builder AMI. (via)
Status of pledge(2).
Multiple Perl modules for OpenBSD’s pledge(2).
Going full pledge.
iXSystems at LISA 15.
Current Status of OpenBSD / OpenBGPd at RIPE 71 by Peter Hessler.
Zedboard and BSD. (via)
FreeBSD on the QCA953x (“Honeybee”) from Qualcomm Atheros.
Onion Omega and FreeBSD.
Yay cross–pollination!
Tools for cleaning up KNF-formatted code.
You should try FreeBSD. (via)
Switching from OS X to FreeBSD – Both desktop and laptop. Very thorough, and a useful guide if you are contemplating the same thing. (via)
Interview: Renato Westphal
Hackfest OpenBSD Presentations.
“The Devil & BSD: Leaving Linux Behind” (via)
freebsd vs arch linux
NetBSD has the Blum Blum Shub RNG, which I thought was a name selected for comedy effect, but no, it’s the names of the creators.
Wireless, finally – with NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi
You can no longer not encrypt ssh traffic, on FreeBSD. I am linking that mostly so I can use that convoluted English statement.
rsnapshot on FreeBSD. (via)
OPNsense 15.7.20 Released.
Inline Intrusion Prevention. An upcoming OPNSense feature.
Multi-tenant/VLANs behind a virtualized pfSense firewall in ESXi. (via)
OpenBSD support in psutil 3.3.0. (via)
Comments on the previously-linked “Why did I choose the DragonFlyBSD Operating System?“. Hey, someone mentioned the Digest!

2015/11/262015/11/26

BSDNow 117: The Cantrill Strikes Back

Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. isn’t slowing down BSDNow, cause there’s a new episode up with Bryan Cantrill talking about the awfulness that is Linux interfaces, along with a bunch of summary news items written out on the page.

2015/11/222015/11/20

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/22

This is one of those weeks where everything gets covered. Settle in, there’s lots to click.

For Better or For Worse. About Go, but also about language design in general. (via)
The Birth of ZFS. See comments in the source link about Oracle’s version vs. the BSD version.
The Docker Monitoring Problem. Good for an explanation of containers. (via)
Cmder. Slowly, the UNIX workflow style is taking over everything – even Windows. (via)
The Early History of the more Command. “I named the program more. This was a daring move at the time, since it was such a long name for a UNIX command, and was also a real English word.” (via)
Early Phishing. Click the PDF link on the upper right for the content. (also via)
Where SCCS came from. (also also via)
Alta Vista, 5 servers, 1996. (via)
Dragonfly Key Exchange, RFC 7664. Nothing to do with DragonFly. (via swildner on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
ex reference manual, from Bill Joy. (PDF, via)
xv6, “a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix” (via)
Something to think about for “supported” older versions of software, especially in those long-term support versions of various Linux distributions.
ADOM is now available on Steam. Runs on BSD, sorta.
The AS7007 Incident. I knew of things like the Morris Worm, but not this event. (via)
Does the Internet route around damage? I also did not realize the size of the RIPE ATLAS network.
System Shock, a font reappears! (via)
JF Ptak Science Books. A historical bookseller blogs – a lot! (via, via)

Your eighties video link for the week: The 80s.mp4. (via)

Your unrelated browser toy of the week: A browser-based optics sandbox. (via)

2015/11/212015/11/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/21

Another week where there’s so much to link to, it overflows into next week.

Inaugural SemiBUG meeting notes. Next meeting is December 15th, with Josh Grosse presenting on bulk package builds in OpenBSD.
Yahoo and FreeBSD (1997). For those who enjoy correlation without clear causation, there’s a relationship between Yahoo’s fortunes as a company, and reducing their usage of BSD. (via)
“…I use BSD for my websites for a reason.” Similar material sprinkled through the comments. (via)
What are some active BSD-focused blogs or news sites you follow? My answer’s in there.
Setting color temperature.
Try to make Graylog2 working on FreeBSD (and failed)
Various options for presentation software on the BSDs. (Follow thread)
rough code and working consensus, working in a group at the recent u2k15 hackathon.
Speaking of which, one more u2k15 report.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2015 Tokushima.
Samba QoS? (FreeBSD)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/16.
OPNsense 15.7.19 Released.

2015/11/19

BSDNow 116: Arcing ZFS

This week’s BSDNow has the usual news, plus an interview of George Wilson talking about ZFS. There’s a new Beastie Bits section that contains a bunch of short links to BSD material… Hey! That’s my niche!

2015/11/172015/11/12

Stephen Bourne at NYCBUG

Reminder: Stephen Bourne, known for the Bourne Shell, among many other things, will be talking at NYCBUG this Thursday. Plan to get there early, cause it’ll be busy.

2015/11/162015/11/13

SEMIBUG starts tomorrow

If you are anywhere near Detroit, the inaugural SEMIBUG meeting is the night of the 17th – that’s tomorrow, as of this posting. Go, visit, and I’ll be jealous since there’s no BSD user groups near me.

2015/11/142015/11/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/14

This is the sort of BSD link week I like, with lots of range and depth.

Many many more u2k15 reports.
Slides about pledge(). There’s a very good point (and followup) in there.
Why I Chose FreeNAS When I Started My Own Landscape Architecture Firm.
Initial 802.11n wireless support for iwm(4).
noice, a file browser that works on all the BSDs.
New [OPNSense] images based on 15.7.18.
first semibug.org meeting next Tuesday. I’ll post a reminder.
Videos: BSD History.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/09.
The ZFS ZIL and SLOG Demystified.
SeaGL 2015 Recap. (via)
DesktopBSD 2.0 M1 released. (via)
xorg for NetBSD/amiga. This will make someone happy.
ConnectX-4 Mellanox network card support in FreeBSD. Does well under load.
Re-rooting on FreeBSD.

2015/11/12

Locales everywhere

John Marino sent a helpful link to show the cross-platform work he’s been involved in: He brought the locale work from Illumos into DragonFly over the summer (look for his name on commits), and now it has been brought from DragonFly into FreeBSD, with Baptiste Daroussin reporting on the process. If there’s any OpenBSD/NetBSD developers reading, with an interest in locales, this may be useful..

(someone correct me if that’s not the right Illumos link)

2015/11/12

BSDNow 115: Controlling the Transmissions

It’s Thursday and there’s a new BSDNow: Controlling the Transmissions. The interview this week is with Hiren Panchasara, about “improving TCP”, though I haven’t yet listened to it for details. There’s also the normal news roundup.

2015/11/092015/10/23

SSH talk very soon

Reminder: Michael W. Lucas’s talk on SSH (based on his recent book) is happening on the 10th, at the Farmington Hills Public Library.

2015/11/072015/11/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/07

Not even checking source commits this week; there’s already plenty of news.

Ken Westerback at u2k15.
OpenBSD also is getting a hypervisor.
Running BSDi BSD/OS on VirtualBox.
Faces of FreeBSD 2015 – Michael Dexter
OpenBSD vs. nVidia
nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat. (via)
MINIXCon, February 1st, 2016, in Amsterdam. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/02.
LibreSSL 2.3.1 is out. (via)
Cyrix 486 Booting OpenBSD 4.7 (via)
starting from scratch bugs.
OPNsense 15.7.18 Released
Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2. SEMIBUG is a good name.
OpenBSD has a fork of less.
pfSense 2.2.5 is out, and the pfSense project is 11 years old.
A new issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBGPd and route filters.

2015/11/052015/11/06

BSDNow 114: BSD Schooling

“BSD Schooling” is the name of this week’s episode of BSDNow, and as you might guess from the title, Brian Callahan is the interview subject, talking about BSDs and education. It also points out interviews elsewhere, like Brian Acton of WhatsApp talking about how useful BSD is to work with, and another one where the CTO of HP appears to have the wrong idea of licensing. (also, an interesting but not surprising Stallman quote)

2015/11/022015/10/31

BSDTalk 258: Chris Henschen

Start the week with this brief interview of Chris Henschen, of fP Technologies, taken at the most recent vBSDCon. Their database product, filePro Plus, was recently ported to FreeBSD.

2015/10/312015/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/31

Another week that quickly went from “Gee, I hope I have enough links” to “I have to set time aside just to process the backlog of possibilities.”

Buy an x220.
A week of pkgsrc #12.
20Gb of Internet traffic on OpenBSD won’t work.
Nouveau runs on NetBSD with hardware GL support.
English-only in OpenBSD.
Help! Can’t install NetBSD 7 – problem with .iso file
Steam on the BSDs (not wine)
mge/etherswitch support in FreeBSD, especially for some Marvell chips.
Bluetooth LE Security Management channel support in FreeBSD.
mpsutil in FreeBSD has been updated. (for LSI Fusion-MPT 2/3 controllers )
add BSD to OS options in the forum user profile.
NetBSD 5.x is reaching end-of-life.
The Tor Browser for OpenBSD has been updated.
The 3rd quarter FreeBSD status report is out.
OpenBSD interviews: Ted Unangst, Brandon Mercer, Antoine Jacoutot, joshua stein, Landry Breuil, Henning Brauer, and Stefan Sperling.
Or just look at Undeadly’s complete list.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/16.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 is released.
FreeNAS ‘what’s new’ issue 26. FreeNAS is 10 years old.
A new FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS review.

2015/10/29

BSDNow 113: What’s Next for BSD?

BSDNow 113 has the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Jordan Hubbard, talking about BSD, and specifically NextBSD.

2015/10/242015/10/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/24

There’s a lot of developer interviews lately.

DragonFly BSD + FreeBSD (via)
truenas
Hubert Feyrer has a roundup of the recent NetBSD interviews.
OpenBSD 5.8 is released.
OpenBSD turns 20.
OpenBSD developers: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (via)
OpenBSD developers: Vadim Zhukov (via)
OpenBSD developers: Marc Espie (via)
OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele (via)
OpenBSD developers: Ingo Schwarze (via)
OpenBSD developers: Gilles Chehade (via)
OPNSense 15.7.17 released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/19.
EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online. The date is not a typo.
GhostBSD’s graphical ZFS installer. (via)
Grace Hopper Convention 2015. (FreeBSD Foundation)
W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port. (via)
Announcing NetBSD 7.0 for USB Flash Drives. (via)
pkgsrc-wip has finished the move to git. It should be easier to contribute.
FreeBSD on 96-core (dual socket) ThunderX system. (via)
Compilers in the BSD base system. (via)
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on SSH on November 10th, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Robert Bourne is returning to NYCBUG to talk on November 19th. Catch this if you can; it’s worth it.
I already scheduled reminder posts for both those events.

Your cross-platform software of the week: Syncthing. Runs on all the BSDs. (Via discussion on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2015/10/22

BSDNow 112: Tracing the source

It’s been an oddly quiet week for news, plus I have been busier than usual at work due to snow hitting the northeast. But! It’s Thursday and there’s a new episode of BSDNow. There’s an interview of Adam Leventhal and the usual news roundup.

2015/10/172015/10/16

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/17

Another good week for BSD releases and events.

Why do you love FreeBSD?
Announcing FreeNAS-10 ALPHA
tame(2) is now pledge(2), and Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current
The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief
OPNsense 15.7.16 Released
EuroBSDcon-2015 Recap
NetBSD-7.0 developer interviews: Pierre Pronchery, Antti Kantee, Christos Zoulas, Mateusz Kocielski
Tom’s Hardware Reviews the FreeNAS Mini
Call for testing: FreeBSD i915 driver (via)
bhyve gains a sysctl-like interface.
By chance, DMA in FreeBSD is newer than what’s in DragonFly.
A summary from the recent BSDCon Brasil.

2015/10/15

BSDNow 111: Xenocratic Oath

BSDNow episode 111 is up, with an interview of Brandon Mercer, talking about OpenBSD and healthcare. There’s the usual news, plus several ‘how-to-build-something’ articles up for discussion.