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2014/11/222014/11/22

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/22

I actually got this started early, for once, instead of completing in a panic on Friday night.

The Move from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
BSDTalk247 – FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years with Jordan Hubbard. I meant to post this before; lost track.
/var/tmp now links to /tmp on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD now has perl 5.20.1 in base.
Making FireFox less insecure on OpenBSD.
You can peek at what ‘roles’ are being put together for PC-BSD installs. Or just watch this video.
PC-BSD and TrueOS version 10.1 released, Lumina 0.7.2 tagged.
Linux Top 3: PC-BSD 10.1 Linux Mint 17.1 and Mageia 5.
FreeBSD now supports the Trendnet TEW-646UBH wireless adapter.
BSD Router Project (bsdrp) version 1.53 is out.
NetBSD has updated tcpdump/libpcap.
retiring crypt
shtk 1.6 now available.
NYCBSDCon made about $1k for each of the BSDs.
WhatsApp donate $1MM to the FreeBSD Foundation.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/11/17.
Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop?
Book Review: Book of PF, 3rd Edition.

2014/11/20

BSDNow 064: Rump Kernels Revisited

BSDNow 064 (somehow, 64 seems a nicer milestone than 50) links to a huge pile of EuroBSDCon 2014 videos, including 2 DragonFly presentations. There’s also an interview with Justin Cormack, who must be cool; I can tell from his name. There’s a lot more material just written on the page after the video, so I’ll point you at the actual content instead of repeating.

2014/11/19

BSDTalk 248: Matthew Dillon and DragonFly

I hadn’t caught this yet cause I am working extra hours, but Matthias did: Matthew Dillon talks about DragonFly and the 4.0 release for a good 43 minutes on BSDTalk.

2014/11/152014/11/14

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/15

Totally last minute.

People still add things to telnet?
FreeBSD has removed faith(4) and faithd(8).
FreeBSD ports now has stack smashing protection on by default.
FreeBSD 10.1 is out. (And PC-BSD follows)
PC-BSd is looking at ‘roles‘.
Printing device trees in OpenBSD.
Munin and pf queues.
Contributing. (Applies to any BSD, really.)
pkgsrc-2014Q3 packages for illumos available.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/11/10.
from the annals of uvm, OpenBSD virtual memory.
BSD Magazine: Hardened BSD.
BSDFan, for Thinkpad fans on any? BSD.
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials” is less than a month away. The author’s giving a sudo talk soon, too.

2014/11/13

BSDNow 063: A man’s man(1)

BSDNow 063 has the normal news articles and links, and an interview of Kristaps Džonsons, one of the people working on mandoc. There’s also a tutorial on bandwidth throttling with pf.

2014/11/082014/11/07

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/08

Snow finally hit my area yesterday, which makes me happy.

PC-BSD 10.1-RC2 Released.
FreeBSD 10.1-RC4 now available.
Building an OpenBSD firewall and router
Michael W. Lucas’s next book: “Networking for Sysadmins“. BSD-friendly, of course.
See also: his sci-fi work, not BSD related.
PC-BSD’s Lumina gains plugins. (one link of several)
pkgsrc-2014Q3 packages for OSX now available
OpenBSD adds SipHash.
OpenBSD has enabled USB3.
The signed Book of PF made $3000 at auction.
FreeBSD now uses vt(4) instead of syscons by default.
Improving bcd(6)

2014/11/062014/11/06

BSDNow 062: Gift from the Sun

BSDNow 062 has an interview of Pawel Jakub Dawidek, and he talks about the Sun Microsystems-originated technologies found in FreeBSD. You figured that out already from the title, didn’t you?

2014/11/012014/11/01

In Other BSDs for 2014/11/01

Hardly any source commits to point at this week, but there’s still lots of stuff happening in BSD-land.

MeetBSD is happening right now.
OpenBSD 5.6 is being released right now too.
Michael W. Lucas has released the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials book.
Peter N. M. Hansteen’s 3rd edition of the Book of PF is out, and he’s running an auction for the first author-signed copy – with profits to OpenBSD. This is a good strategy. I have a copy of the book and will write a review here as soon as I can finish it – only up to chapter 3 right now. The presentation that spawned the book is updated and available.
FreeBSD 10.0 got an extension.
Don’t run wsmoused and X at the same time in OpenBSD.
NetBSD now has openresolv 3.6.1. It’s a resolv.conf management program I had not yet heard of.
FreeBSD has significant changes to /dev/random,
FreeBSD has gained TTM support in its AGP driver, and radeonkms in FreeBSD now supports AGP.
NYCBUG, upcoming.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/27.
The Apple Mac Takes Its Place In The Post-PC World. Unix-based computers are the best game in town, it appears. (via)
Lumina Desktop Build in FreeBSD / TrueOS. (video)

2014/10/31

BSDTalk 246: tor

BSDTalk 246 is available, and has 19 minutes of conversation about TOR, though I haven’t heard it yet to be sure.

2014/10/30

BSDNow 061: IPSECondwind

As you may be able to guess, BSDNow episode 061 has an interview with John-Mark Gurney about updating FreeBSD’s IPSEC setup, along with the normal collection of news items. There’s also a link to a new BSD-switching blog, and “mailing list gold”.

2014/10/252014/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/25

This week I was on top of the whole linking thing.

A Minecraft plugin for FreeNAS.
PC-BSD has a YouTube channel.
LibreSSL 2.1.0 is out.
OpenBSD 5.6 sneak peek.
Question about the current state of FreeBSD
Tanenbaum realizes BSD was a better idea. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/13.
DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/20.
FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon 2014.
KDEConnect in PC-BSD.
Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for meeting space in 2015.
The FreeBSD Forums are running new software.
A 14 year old IP reference.
NetBSD has imported openresolv 3.6.0.
Getting snmpwalk to talk to snmpd on FreeBSD.
PC-BSD (starts to) gain EFI support.
Security Engineering for Linux Users. (via)
vxlan, virtio console driver, added to FreeBSD.
Setting a dedicated serial link on your OpenBSD system.
Chromium has some issues in OpenBSD-current in some situations.

2014/10/24

BSDNow 060: Don’t Buy a Router

BSDNow episode 060 bypasses the pun and just commands you to obey. At least, I don’t know the reference if there is one. Anyway, there’s an interview of Olivier Cochard-Labbé of the BSD Router Project, along with the usual array of news.

2014/10/182014/10/17

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/18

Done at the last minute, like always, but surprisingly extensive this week:

DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/06.
FreeBSD Cheatsheet.
FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 is out.
Question about the BSD community as a whole.
mandoc now contains man.
PC-BSD now has a new Linuxulator and AppCafe.
GhostBSD 4.0 is out.
Frequent BSD author Michael W. Lucas is now a fulltime tech author.
Speaking of that, the first draft of his FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is up.
Introducing sysupgrade for NetBSD.
37 year old bug, 22 year old fix, patched this month. (via)
PC-BSD has branched 10.1.
FreeBSD has netmap support in libpcap.
FreeBSD’s ipfw has received some updates.
A PC-BSD 10.0.3 review.
Building packages at scale.
MeetBSD 2014 is coming up in California.
NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 are out.
The third quarter 2014 FreeBSD Status Report is out.
Send in your OpenBSD dmesg.
Importing pkg to NetBSD – an idea I support.

2014/10/162014/10/16

BSDNow: Behind the Masq and something else

Because I missed last week, there’s two BSDNow episodes to catch (assuming you are using me as notification for new ones.) Episode 58, Behind the Masq, has an interview with Matt Ranney and George Kolaand, and a tutorial that includes DNSMasq, for the title source. Episode 59, the title of which I can’t reprint accurately, has an interview with Hiroki Sato and the usual number of articles.

2014/10/16

EuroBSDCon, XDC 2014, and DragonFly

Francois Tigeot gave talks at EuroBSDCon and XDC 2014, and he’s posted slide and video links. He covers DragonFly and Postgres and video drivers, or at least I assume so cause I haven’t watched them yet. There’s other BSD-specific material available too, according to his post.

2014/10/042014/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/10/04

Whee!

FreeBSD 10.1 beta 3 is out – though it may be superseded by the time this article is published.
pkg is apparently supported in Salt and cdist. (via)
DiscoverBSD’s September BSD release list.
DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/09/29.
The September BSD Magazine is out. (via)
Undeadly has links to (all?) the EuroBSDCon 2014 OpenBSD papers.
OpenBSD 5.6 is available for pre-order, and at a new store.
Can’t tell if this is a joke or just dumb. No, it’s not a real problem.
Here’s an OpenBSD conversation about routing table changes and flaky ISPs, though much of it could apply to any BSD.
I daresay this counts as Shellshock fallout.
pkgsrc-2014Q3 is out and announced.
No more cvsup for FreeBSD.

2014/10/02

BSDNow 057: The Daemon’s Apprentice

This week’s BSDNow has an interview about mentoring with Steve Wills of FreeBSD, the usual array of news. This week has more small device news than normal – NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and pfSense on a mini-ITX system. And a mention of my desktop article! I’m relevant!

2014/10/012014/10/01

BSDTalk 245: Moving and home

BSDTalk 245 is up, with 7 minutes from Will Backman, the host. He’s setting up new storage for the (long!) history of BSDTalk podcasts, and he asks what people are using for ~ on the Internet.

2014/10/01

NYCBUG meeting tonight

At least, I assume NYCBUG’s meeting is tonight. It’s at BXL Cafe, and you can see the details in the announcement email. No RSVP required this time, because it’s a bar, so perhaps all you need is a liver.

2014/09/272014/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2014/09/27

Not even trying source links this week; there’s plenty else to link.

FreeBSD 10.2 Beta 2 is out. (has been out, but this is the announcement.)
The Open Source Software Engagement Award. An excellent, excellent move by Colin Percival.
Shuffling Partitions on FreeBSD.
Outlining Thin Linux. The article linked to described a stripped down Linux that doesn’t have package dependencies just to run. That’s what BSD has been for several decades now…
DiscoverBSD for 2014/09/22.
pfSense has reached 2.2-beta.
“Can you recommend a good laptop that runs BSD well?“
NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi. (via)
Bash and PC-BSD.
The OpenBSD 5.6 theme song.
EuroBSDCon 2014 is going on right now. (via)

Update: EuroBSDCon is livestreaming! (via)