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2017/04/012017/03/31

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01

Odd batch of links this week.

Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBSD phone link from BSDNow, earlier this week, led me to these two other projects: FreeBSD Robot + Teensy 3.1 and MiniBSD laptop computer.
*BSD for Dell XPS 13 (9350)
OPNsense 17.1.4 released.
vmm(4)/vmd(8) support for seabios and linux guests.
“Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit.
NetBSD and Summer of Code, FreeBSD and Summer of Code. Deadline is in a few days!
Upcoming NYCBUG events – next meeting is this Wednesday.

Your BSD-related fiction book of the week (year? decade?) :’git commit murder‘ is out, set at a (fictional) BSD convention.

2017/03/28

KnoxBUG meeting tonight

KnoxBUG is meeting tonight – there’s no speaker scheduled, so it will be open discussion.

2017/03/202017/03/02

SemiBUG: OpenBSD web stack with Michael W. Lucas

Michael W. Lucas will be presenting at SemiBUG tomorrow, talking about the OpenBSD web stack.

2017/03/042017/03/03

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/04

Slightly short this week, maybe because people are prepping for AsiaBSDCon? I have plenty of links for tomorrow’s Lazy Reading.

iXsystems Attends Container World 2017. I know what it’s really about, but it sounds like a convention where everyone talks about cardboard boxes.
NetBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017.
FreeBSD will be in Google’s Summer of Code 2017.
Can you run BSD packages on OSX
Java development on BSD?
Upcoming SemiBUG presentations. (March 21st, April 18th)
TrueOS Stable update released 2/22/17. (via)
Switch and FreeBSD. Only a rumor at this point, cause the license could be most any component. (via)

2017/02/28

NYCBUG March meeting canceled

The normal monthly meeting for NYCBUG for March 1st (tomorrow) is canceled; next month’s meeting is still on.

2017/02/272017/02/23

Michael W. Lucas at Troy Public Library

BSD author Michael W. Lucas is talking at the Troy Public Library (Michigan, not New York) tonight, about his nonfiction writing. Go, if you like his books and/or if you are thinking about technical writing for yourself. He has another appearance coming up on March 11th.

2017/02/252017/02/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/25

I measure the success of In Other BSDs by how many different BSD flavors I can reference. This is a good week.

Was thinking of switching to a BSD on my Thinkpad 11e, do you think this is a good idea?
Adblock on Pfsense
pfSense 2.3.3 RELEASE Now Available!
Review of RaspBSD (FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi computers)
NetBSD fully reproducible builds (via)
mandoc-1.14.1 released.
OpenBSD kernel lock removal for IPv4 forwarding. (via #dragonflybsd)
OPNsense 17.1.2 released.
OpenBSD Foundation 2016 Fundraising.
What happened to my vlan? (OpenBSD network performance, via)
GhostBSD version 11 Alpha 1.
NetBSD at the upcoming AsiaBSDCon 2017.
Now available: video recording of the recent “OS : The underlying overhead of computation” presentation at NYCBUG. (via)
Options to rid ourselves of MS Windows “servers”.
Easy pkgsrc on macOS with pkg_comp 2.0.
NetBSD 7.1_RC2 available.
The Heirloom Project. Chunks of that code are probably still present in all the BSDs. (via)
features are faults redux. Pseudo-transcript of a tedu speech not exactly about OpenBSD, but has plenty of funny one-liners.
“Hi, I’m jkh and I’m a d**k” I don’t 100% agree with the idea, but it’s still a good plan.

2017/02/202017/02/19

Joe Maloney: Using OpenRC with TrueOS @ KnoxBUG

If you are anywhere near KnoxBUG’s meeting place (mid-Tennessee, US), Joe Maloney will be presenting on OpenRC and TrueOS, tomorrow night. See the link for address and times.

2017/02/112017/02/10

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/11

A lot of the real content this week is buried in the comments, strangely.

My BSD sucks less than yours. (via)
I’m sort of a noob, so should I learn BSD or just go with Linux?
Networkmgr: a FreeBSD/GhostBSD network connection manager. (via)
a2k17 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot.
openbsd changes of note 6
Conclusions from the recent NYCBUG talk.
Also, rump kernels, the free book, linked from previous.
Need some help with simple PFSense OpenVPN routing
pfSense discussion. Comments to note there.
OPNsense 17.1.1 released.
BSDploy, linked in comments on the Digest earlier this week, but the source link here has some interesting history, including that rsync.net came from the first VPS provider, which was… jails!

2017/01/312017/01/27

NYCBSD talk tomorrow night

Reminder: “OS : The underlying overhead of computation“is happening tomorrow night with NYCBSD. Go if you can.

2017/01/292017/01/27

KnoxBUG Pizza Pi installfest

There will be pizza pie, and Raspberry Pi, for installing BSD, at the next KnoxBUG meeting, tomorrow, for those near Tennessee.

Note that it was originally scheduled for Tuesday and had to be moved up a night because of a conflict – so your schedule has changed even if you were already planning to go.

2017/01/282017/01/27

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/28

Done all at the last minute.

Courses 6 to 9 of DevOps with Chef and FreeBSD are out.
Ansible and pfSense. (via)
“OS : The underlying overhead of computation“, an upcoming talk at NYCBSD. Note that it’s on Feb 1, not March 1 as originally posted. I’ll post a reminder.
a2k17 hackathon reports: Martin Pieuchot, Kenneth Westerback, Bob Beck.
“Noob user – want to install a UNIX OS. Help a bit?“
Michael W. Lucas will be talking at Kansas LinuxFest 2017 – in May.
NetBSD Making Progress On LLDB Debugger Support (via)
“I want to jump in, but would love some hardware advice.“
OPNsense 16.7.14 released – last in the 16.* series, I think.
TrueNAS now has a (BSD) Cinder driver for OpenStack.
IPv6 on FreeBSD/EC2.
Improving TrueOS: OpenRC. (via)
“Where is your tech passion?” If you never complete the exercise, that tells you something too.

2017/01/162017/01/13

SemiBUG: Craig Maloney on Ansible

SemiBUG has a meeting tomorrow, and Craig Maloney will be talking about Ansible. Patrick McEvoy may be streaming the proceeds, too. Are you near Detroit? Then go!

2017/01/142017/01/13

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/14

This turned into a BSD User Group event list, which makes me happy. There was nothing like that 3 or 5 or whatever years ago.

OPNsense 16.7.13 released
Documenting NetBSD’s scheduler tweaks
NetBSD 7.1_RC1 available
12? PowerBook G4 PT5 – Electronic Battle Weapon
WiFi: 11n hostap mode added to athn(4) driver, testers wanted
Would you bother learning PFSense when you are comfortable with Mikrotik for budget firewall requirements?
2017 presentation proposals
BPF and formal verification (via)
KnoxBUG is having a Raspberry Pi installfest on 01/31. I’ll post a reminder.
KnoxBUG is also planning an OpenRC talk in February, though no date yet.
And here’s the writeup from the most recent KnoxBUG meetup.
People in NYCBUG are looking to have a classical code reading group set up – no date yet, but it sounds fun. (This has happened before as a one-shot event.)
Craig Maloney is speaking about Ansible at the next SemiBUG meeting, this Tuesday. This meeting may be streamed. I’ll put a reminder up on Monday, too, and link to the stream if I know it.

2016/12/192016/11/18

SemiBUG meeting tomorrow

Here’s your reminder: SemiBUG meets tomorrow, for any BSD users in the Detroit / Michigan area.

2016/11/282016/11/22

KnoxBUG tomorrow: Warren Block and “Doc Fail”

Tennessee area BSD user group KnoxBUG is meeting tomorrow, and Warren Block will be the guest speaker. He’ll be talking about documentation. Going by the linked announcement, there will be both prizes and blame, so something for everyone!

2016/11/192016/11/18

In Other BSDs for 2016/11/19

A much more well-rounded crop of BSD links this week.

FreeBSD status report for 2016Q3.
“Import (finally!) Tor Browser 6.0.5.” An obvious matchup. (via)
“FreeBSD Flavors. Do We Need Them?“
Next SemiBUG meeting: December 20th.
“How to remote connect to BSD server behind double NAT?”
Review of NAS4Free 10.3.0.3. I forgot about this… fork? (via)
pycapsicum – sandbox your Python code on FreeBSD. (via)
Iocage – A FreeBSD jail manager. (via)
“What’s your favorite BSD jail administration software?“
Build a FreeBSD 11.0-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit. (via)
OPNsense 16.7.8 released.
b2k16 hackathon report: Landry Breuil, Jeremy Evans, Daniel Jakots.
l2k16 hackathon report: LibreSSL manuals now in mdoc(7).
openbsd changes of note
Learning more about the NetBSD scheduler (… than I wanted to know)
MeetBSD 2016 Report: Michael Dexter.

2016/11/142016/11/11

SemiBUG meeting tomorrow night

SemiBUG is meeting tomorrow; Joe Gidi will present on managing Android devices with BSD. My assumption is that it will be at Altair Engineering, in Troy, MI, again.

The January meeting will be Michael W. Lucas talking about Ansible. (Dunno if there’s a December meeting planned.)

2016/11/122016/11/11

In Other BSDs for 2016/11/12

Started out with a short list, but I managed to find some extra links by Friday.

b2k16 hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot.
NetBSD 7.0/xen scheduling mystery, and how to fix it with processor sets.
Looking at the scheduler issue again. Part 2 from previous link.
TrueOS Launch message. Might be time to retire the PC-BSD tag.
Lynis – Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. (via)
Exit from Hell? Reducing the Impact of Amplification DDoS Attacks. Also as a paper. I’d like to compare the number of systems found as amplifiers vs. systems in general. e.g. are BSD less likely to create reflectors? (via)
“PAM is Un-American” talk now online. Buy the PAM Mastery book!
Devops with Chef on FreeBSD, an online course from BSD Magazine.
SemiBUG is meeting Tuesday. Joe Gidi will talk about ‘managing Android devices with BSD‘.

2016/11/022016/10/28

Infrastructure presentation tonight at NYCBUG

Reminder: Isaac (.ike) Levy’s “Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era” presentation is tonight, at NYCBUG’s November meeting. Go, see.