BSD – Page 67 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2014/06/282014/06/27

In Other BSDs 2014/06/28

This week seems relatively quiet; possibly because school is out and the weather in the northern hemisphere is nice?

PC-BSD 10.0.0.2, the release, is out.
The PC-BSD text installer now supports full-disk encryption.
Where KDE is Going, part 1. (via)
Another OpenBSD GSoC project summary.
procfs in OpenBSD is probably going to be removed.
Hooray for more cross–pollination.
Thanks to Emulex for supporting BSD.
csup is gone from FreeBSD; mentioned for nostalgia purposes.
FreeBSD now has fine-grained CTL locking.
The EuroBSDCon 2014 schedule is up. (hey, there’s DragonFly in there!)

2014/06/26

BSDNow 043: Packaging Design

BSDNow 043 talks with Marc Espie of OpenBSD about packaging, goes through updating your BSD system (all of them? I haven’t watched yet), and discusses a number of other links.

2014/06/23

BSDDay 2014 call for talks

BSDDay 2014 is happening August 9th in Argentina, and the call for talks is out – there’s been DragonFly speakers and visitors there before.

2014/06/212014/06/21

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/21

I have a backlog from stuff I missed last week while traveling, so we all benefit!

PC-BSD 10.0.2-RC2 is out.
PC-BSD will be at SouthEast LinuxFest.
Here’s the roadmap for Lumina, PC-BSD’s new desktop environment.
DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/06/16.
FreeNAS vs. NAS4Free. Didn’t need to be 8 pages. (via)
Peter’s pf tutorial is very popular.
The freeze for pkgsrc-2014Q2 has started. (I’m a bit late on this one.)
pkgsrc has a new Pkgsrc Management Committee.
This thread, “Best pdf viewer in pkgsrc?” may be useful even if you aren’t on pkgsrc.
NetBSD gained vmx(4) from OpenBSD.
NetBSD now has pigz 2.3.1, which apparently stands for ‘parallel gzip‘.
Here’s one OpenBSD/GSoC project status update; I haven’t seen others.
Another OpenBSD desktop project started.
BoringSSL. (via) Already, benefits.
Ways to test pf.
FreeBSD/gnats has gone away, and none too soon.
Again, I love to see cross–pollination.
The July and August NYCBUG meetings: timekeeping and OpenBSD ports. Here’s some notes on what to expect for the August meeting.

2014/06/19

BSDNow 042: Devious Methods

BSDNow’s 42nd video is up, with an interview of Bryce Chidester and a tutorial on chaining SSH connections.

2014/06/142014/06/12

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/14

Enjoy.

PC-BSD 10.0.2 prerelease is out for testing.
Build a FreeBSD 10.0-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit.
DiscoverBSD roundup for 2014/06/09. Also, there’s now a @_DiscoverBSD.
Dan Langille is using pkg, and his recent posts on seeing download sources, or custom packages in poudriere may be useful. (Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.)
Speaking of that, pkg could probably work with pkgsrc packages – that would be interesting. No link for that; I’m just thinking out loud.
Li-Wen Hsu’s BSDCan 2014 con report.
Michael W. Lucas talks about FreeBSD disk partitioning.

2014/06/12

BSDNow 041: Commit This Bit

BSDNow 041 is out with an interview of Benedict Reuschling, along with a lot of news discussion and some interesting NAS notes. Hey, I’m mentioned!

2014/06/072014/06/06

In Other BSDs for 2014/06/07

Concise links this week.

DiscoverBSD’s roundup for 2014/06/02.
Code review culture meets FreeBSD.
Michael Dexter’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.
A RetroBSD license audit. (from #nycbug)
Ass ember.
FreeBSD GNATS is gone; now it’s Bugzilla. Nobody sheds a tear.
NetBSD runs on BeBoxes? I didn’t realize.
FreeBSD now has ‘stock’ network drivers.
It’s always nice when people relicense.
I like crosspollination, too.
The default font path in pkgsrc has changed.

2014/06/052014/06/05

BSDNow 040: AirPorts & Packages

BSDNow 040 has an interview with Karl Lehenbauer at FlightAware, a tutorial on OpenBSD’s packaging system, and more from BSDCan 2014.

2014/06/05

BSDTalk 242: Chris Buechler

BSDTalk 242 has 17 minutes of conversation with Chris Buechler (of pfSense fame), recorded at BSDCan 2014.

2014/06/03

NYCBUG: Cloud and Colocation

NYCBUG is having a meeting tomorrow night with the theme “Cloud and Colocation“. However! Suspenders, the usual restaurant location, has closed. (Aw, I liked it) This meeting is happening at the About.com offices, which means you can’t just show up – send email if you plan to attend.

2014/05/312014/05/30

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/31

Some meaty links this week.

How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system? I ask that question because I saw this.
Undeadly has a nice set of links to all the recent BSDCan 2014 presentation videos. I don’t see Francois Tigeot’s DragonFly talk in there, though – don’t know if it got recorded.
Packaging on FreeBSD, for those who haven’t moved to pkg yet. (via)
DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/05/26.
56 different BSD-oriented Twitter accounts.
A recording of Michael W. Lucas’s recent OpenBSD webcast is available now. I think that link will work – might require giving your email.
Getting files off your Android phone – this was on openbsd-misc@ but probably applies to any BSD. Follow the thread for answers.
kornbrew, a run ‘n’ play missing package manager for BSD.
NetBSD has moved to gcc 4.8.3.
If you are using OpenBSD and encrypted vnd, you will need to migrate off of it before the next OpenBSD release.
Google’s Compute Engine SDK runs just fine on OpenBSD, as Michael W. Lucas found out.
PC-BSD Digest 30.
Plugins in FreeNAS.
Warren Block’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.

2014/05/292014/05/30

BSDNow 039: The Friendly Sandbox

BSDNow episode 039 is up, with an interview of Jon Anderson about capsicum and casperd, a tutorial about encrypting DNS traffic, and a slew of other links including ones to the recent BSDCan event presentations.

2014/05/27

Webcast to catch

Michael W. Lucas is doing a webcast for O’Reilly today, at 1 PM Eastern. The title is “Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD’s Real Purpose. You can also get his “Absolute OpenBSD” book, 2nd edition, for 50% off with the coupon code DEAL. I think that’s a today-only offer, so jump on it now.

2014/05/262014/05/24

BSDTalk 241: Bob Beck

BSDTalk 241 has Will Backman getting 26 minutes of conversation with Bob Beck at BSDCan 2014, the same fellow who presented the much-linked First 30 Days of LibreSSL talk.

2014/05/262014/05/24

Groff the BSD Goat

Here’s a mascot I like: Groff the BSD Goat, who apparently made a debut at BSDCan 2014.

2014/05/242014/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2014/05/24

A relatively calm week – probably because there were many people at BSDCan.

DiscoverBSD’s summary for 2014/05/19.
Undeadly has a summary post linking to all the OpenBSD presentations at BSDCan.
OpenBSD and the little Mauritian contributor. Hey, Loganaden was in the DragonFly GSoC… 3 years ago? It blurs together.
Julio Merino’s trip to BSDCan 2014 and his thoughts on Jenkins and Kyua after. I completely agree with what he says about BSD conventions: being around so many other people all excited about the same topic really energizes you.
CoovaChilli on FreeBSD.
NetBSD has support for the HYT-221/271/939 humidity/temperature I2C sensor.
Hey, that was nice of Mediatek to provide a free license for rum(4) in OpenBSD.
The EuroBSDCon papers deadline is extended a bit.
You can now see what your battery is supposed to have for capacity on OpenBSD.
Apache 1.3 and 2.0 are already depreciated and probably coming out of pkgsrc.
FreeBSD gains a driver for the Intel 40G Ethernet Controller XL710. There’s a long discussion on the list about the nonstandard i40evf name breaking things.
FreeBSD has sendmail 8.14.9.
FreeBSD has gained CUSE support. I can read what it does but don’t know where it’s used.

2014/05/232014/05/24

Hammer in BSD Magazine

The May BSD Magazine is out, and Siju George has written an article about using Hammer on DragonFly. It’s a free download to read.

(link fixed)

2014/05/22

BSDNow 038: A BUG’s Life

This week’s full-length BSDNow episode has an interview of Brian Callahan (NYCBUG) and Aaron Bieber (COBUG) about BSD user groups, along with a number of other topics.

2014/05/192014/05/17

Open source opportunity right now

If ever there was a golden moment, this would be it: with the news that networking hardware from the US is suspect, as is China’s, the best networking setup seems to be one you can look at yourself. Someone get those OpenCompute Networking machines going! More port density! Running BSD!

(Suggestions on how I can get a system with 24+ 1G ports are welcome; I need that at work immediately.)