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This week’s BSD Now has links to a number of about-BSD articles, as usual. Take note – there’s links to two European BUG meetings I didn’t have noted, under Beastie Bits.

2020/02/042020/01/29

NYCBUG meeting tomorrow

NYCBUG meets tomorrow, at Chartbeat. You can bring in food, too! Go, if you are near.

2020/01/252020/01/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/25

BUGs BUGs BUGs this week. I’ll make sure to note the events again when they get closer, too.

Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. Turn-based apocalyptic survival, open source and probably runs on BSD. (via)
NYCBUG is looking for speakers for I assume February and April; March was I think filled after this was written.
SemiBUG’s next meeting is February 18th.
ChiBUG’s next meeting is February 11th at the normal place; the March 10th meeting will be at the Oak Park Library.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean.
An Excess of Operating Systems. Not directly BSD related, but the logo is there.
rebound(8) removed. (OpenBSD)
Valuable News – 2020/01/20.
The prekern architecture. (via)
BSD Weekly Issue 4. I missed the first 3. (via)
Migrating FreshPorts from one db server to another.
FreeBSD translations via Weblate.
The History of BSD and IP Stacks with Rodney Grimes, a podcast.
u2k20 Hackathon Report: Tracey Emery on GotWeb.
u2k20 Hackathon Report: Alexandr Nedvedicky on PF anchors work.

2020/01/232020/01/23

BSD Now 334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD

BSD Now 334 is posted, with juuuust the right mix of items; some advocacy, some license confusion (for Linux), etc. I notice linked in the bottom section the ~~February~~, er March NYCBUG meeting will have Paul Vixie talking at their meeting, which hasn’t even been mentioned on the NYCBUG site yet.

2020/01/212020/01/17

SEMIBUG, SNMP, tonight

SEMIBUG’s next meeting is tonight, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. Go, if you are near.

2020/01/182020/01/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/18

Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one.

- Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1.
- VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595).
- ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for Papers ends tomorrow.
- Other BSD-related conferences. (via)
- SEMIBUG’s next meeting is next Tuesday, with Michael Lucas talking about SNMP. He knows.
- The slides from the January 8th NYCBUG meeting are available, showing off notqmail. For further edification, here’s a podcast on the same topic.
- iked(8) automatic IPv6 blocking removed. (OpenBSD)
- Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0.
- Working towards LLDB on i386.
- GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD. Completed just in time for GSoC 2020.
- OPNsense 19.7.9 released.
- Pinebook-Pro with Manjaro Linux running accelerated qemu-system-aarch64 FreeBSD -current. Emulated, so the comment there led me to this tweet about NetBSD on Pinebook.
- LPI and BSD working together.
- Switching DistroWatch over to FreeBSD – AMA.
- Valuable News – 2020/01/13.
- Using the OpenBSD ports tree with dedicated users.
- Run broot on FreeBSD. Can’t use without saying “I am broot!” over and over.

2020/01/132020/01/10

ChiBUG monthly meeting tomorrow

ChiBUG meets tomorrow at the usual place. Go, if you are near.

2020/01/112020/05/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/11

No theme evolved, but lots more links this week.

Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1.
BSD user groups in Italy. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via)
HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via)
Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments may also be interesting.
Valuable News – 2020/01/06.
The BSDCan 2020 call for papers closes on the 19th; get yours in soon!
ChiBUG meets on the 14th. I’ll post a reminder.
Using rsnapshot for easy backups.
Archives are important to retain and pass on knowledge. Someday, you will thank you.
Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. (OpenBSD)
FreeBSD end-of-year recap by adridg. FreeBSD, Calamares.
Hunspell on FreeBSD. (via)
Bastille Containers on FreeBSD.
Related: A practical guide to containers on FreeNAS for a depraved psychopath.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean. The comments in the source link note you can get any BSD installed that way.

2020/01/072019/12/19

NYCBUG meeting tomorrow

The next NYCBUG meeting is tomorrow, January 8th. It’s not the normal location. Go if you are near.

2019/12/212019/12/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/21

I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his ~~unnatural love of gelato~~ BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker.