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2018/05/052018/05/04

In Other BSDs for 2018/05/05

BUGs BUGs BUGs!

The May 15th SemiBUG meeting will be a hands-on web server workshop. Bring equipment.
The June 19th SemiBUG meeting will be on BCHS.
The May 2 NYCBUG meeting has no official presentation, but it’s happening.
BSD licensed bc in NetBSD. The GNU version was removed in other BSDs. (Thanks, Bill Sorenson)
SMTP client added to -current.
OPNSense 18.1.6 image refresh.
New talks, and the F-bomb. Michael W. Lucas convention talk mostly on ZFS.
Writing FreeBSD Malware. (via)
Introduction to email (pt. 2): Mail dialog / the “mail” command.
Spectre Variant 2 mitigation for kernel committed to -current.
p2k18 Hackathon report: Solene Rapenne (solene@) on joining the project, packages progress. I like hearing background on how people get brought into a community project.
Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD.
A crapload of p2k18 hackathon reports.
Getting my new laptop to work. (via)
sndio party.
NetBSD GSoC projects for 2018. (via)

2018/05/022018/05/02

NYCBUG, tonight

NYCBUG is having a social (i.e. no presenter) meeting this month – tonight, in fact. Go, talk BSD, drink.

2018/04/302018/05/02

KnoxBUG, tonight

There’s a social meeting for KnoxBUG tonight – go, if you are near.

Testing on non-Linux: Perlmongers NYC

Jim Keenan is speaking tomorrow at the NYC Perlmongers meeting about testing on non-Linux platforms. i.e. BSD. Go, if you are near.

2018/03/202018/03/16

SemiBUG: QubeOS vs. OpenBSD, plus books

Tonight, there’s a QubeOS vs OpenBSD presentation at SemiBUG, plus Michael W. Lucas will be bringing copies of his new SSH Mastery book edition.

2018/03/172018/03/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, ~~PDF~~ document from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
8 months with TrueOS. (via)
This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
OPNsense 18.1.4 released.

NYCBUG social meeting, this Wednesday

There’s no speaker scheduled, but NYCBUG is having a meeting this Wednesday at 6:30 PM. Go, if you are near.

2018/02/242018/02/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/24

Another across-the-BSDs week.

- What’s Next for Feature Development in FreeNAS/TrueNAS?
- Description of the 1969 proto-Unix system based on a 2812 line PDP-7 assembly kernel. (via)
- The Known Costs of Security Embargoes.
- Military Grade Data Wiping In FreeBSD With BCWipe.
- “Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt Debian developer to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years. (via)
- Christos Zoulas’s recent NYCBUG talk on reproducible builds in NetBSD is now available as video.
- How do I make quiet build/compile server for home ?
- Libreoffice failing to start after upgrade to 5.4.4.2 40m0(Build:2) (on NetBSD).
- Question about a distro.
- Every Journey Starts with a FAIL. (via)
- Meltdown fix committed by guenther@. Note the DragonFly cross-pollination.

2018/02/222018/02/16

BSD Pizza night in Oregon, tonight

Here’s everything I know about it.

2018/02/202018/02/19

SemiBUG tonight: Nick Holland

Nick Holland is giving a talk tonight on “Scripting Tips & Hacks” at SemiBUG. “Nick has been scripting roughly since scripts were hard-coded into
plugboards.” Go, see, if you are near Michigan.

2018/02/172018/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/17

Reached overflow again! That secretly makes me happy.

Discord channels for BSD’s?
SemiBUG’s speaker schedule for the next few months is published. Note next meeting is on the 20th.
SVS to mitigate meltdown. (NetBSD)
Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD. Another FOSDEM video, which I note because it shows code history imported back for multiple decades.
Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative. (via)
FreeBSD/EC2 history.
Under which circumstances is NetBSD a better option than the other BSDs?
Citrix ICA Receiver Support in BSDs.
SSH Mastery 2/e out. Technically not a BSD-specific book, but you know the author was using BSD as the base, and includes it in the material.
Which BSD distro is suitable as a Linux QEMU host if someone is curious about BSD?
Trying iocage to get an old version of FreeBSD.
Google Summer of Code and FreeBSD, NetBSD.

HELBUG launch tomorrow

Another BSD User Group event tomorrow, the 7th: HELBUG, a brand new BUG starting in Helsinki, Finland. The announcement has details on where to find it and what they’ll be doing. Go, if you are near.

NYCBUG: Reproducible Builds, February 7th

This Wednesday, NYCBUG has Christos Zoulas speaking on “Reproducible Builds on NetBSD“. See the announcement for details. Go, if you are near New York City.

2018/01/022018/01/01

Hello, HelBUG

More user group news: Helsinki, Finland, has a new BSD User Group: HelBUG. First meeting is February 7th. There’s no mailing list/site that I know of, yet.

2018/01/022017/12/30

NYCBUG meeting tomorrow

I’m posting this waaaay ahead of time: next NYCBUG meeting is tomorrow. It’s a porting session, and here’s some of what to expect.

2017/12/182017/11/22

Semibug Christmas dinner, tomorrow

The Semibug Christmas dinner is tomorrow. They need reservations, so if you want to go and haven’t told anyone yet – hurry!

NYCBUG get-together tonight

There’s a NYCBUG get-together tonight at Suspenders in Manhattan, New York City, 7 PM. There’s no technical presentation, but who cares? Start the end-of-year-drinking!

2017/11/282017/11/28

KnoxBUG tonight: Samba in a mixed network

KnoxBUG has a meeting tonight, and John Hixson will be presenting “Setting up Samba for a Mixed Network of Windows and Mac“. Go, if you are near Knoxville.

2017/11/252017/11/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/25

One month to Christmas!

2017/11/112017/11/10

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/11

A good variety this week.

Building software with Ravenports.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover.
LISA 2017 Conference Recap.
LibreSSL 2.6.3 released. (via)
First Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition preorders available.
GhostBSD 11.1 RC1 is ready! (via)
p2k17 Hackathon reports: 1 2 3 4 5.
Why did we build our solution on top of FreeBSD?
Nearly Online Zpool Switching Between Two FreeBSD Machines.
Upcoming SemiBUG workshop suggestion.
Open source Visio-ish network diagramming. (From a BSD list, so I’m linking it here.)
pfSense – Cisco Aironet AP’s (only 1 works, all identical).
NAT through pfSense question.
Ilja van Sprundel – Are all BSDs are created equally? Video, unfortunately picking “winners”. (via)
4.2BSD on SIMH vax with networking. (via)
NetBSD on Allwinner SoCs Update. (via)