Conventions – Page 10 – DragonFly BSD Digest

NYCBUG is meeting tonight for an installfest, plus dinner and drinks afterward. Attend if you are close, and especially if you want to get BSD on some odd hardware.

Update: canceled!

2016/12/29

BSDNow 174: 2016 Highlights

BSDNow 174 this week presents a recap of the 2016 year, including chunks of interviews you may have missed.

2016/12/242016/12/26

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/24

Merry almost Christmas!

OpenSSH 7.4 released. (via)
Configuring the FreeBSD automounter. I think this applies to DragonFly too. Thanks, Michael Wilson.
AsiaBSDCon 2017 paper proposals are I assume due by end of year, just like last year, though the 2017 AsiaBSDCon site does not appear to be up as I type this.
BSD Magazine has lessons 4 and 5 of FreeBSD and Chef up now.
Security and BSD tools (via)
Version SAT. Talks about package management in general – and what do you know, pkg seems to be the most advanced tool in this case. (via)
Bringing the scheduler saga to the finishing line
openbsd changes of note 4
OpenBSD laptops
Replacing Cisco ASA with PFSense. I did it, I ain’t sad.
Using ZFS to Fight Data Rot by Kevin McAleer

2016/12/07

FOSDEM 2017 BSD presentations

This is another one of those events that’s coming up too soon to wait on my normal BSD Saturday summary post. FOSDEM 2017 is looking for ‘BSD devroom’ talks, with the suggested length being 45 minutes. The deadline is December 10th, in 3 days. Submit a proposal if you will be there.

2016/12/032016/12/02

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/03

I have a pretty significant backlog of links for this week – to the point I had to open a separate browser window to sort out open tabs.

TMUX Config Help on FreeBSD
FreeBSD Foundation Contributions, Fundraising, and More
Donating to the OpenBSD Foundation
The Insecurity of OpenBSD. The article is from 2010 so reading comments at the source link may be better.
BSD now 169: Scheduling your NetBSD, plus a comment. A followup to the second-most-recent BSDNow.
Apple Releases macOS 10.12 Sierra Open Source Darwin Code. I don’t cover enough of the BSD side of MacOS, but it’s hard to separate from the Mac part.
“Does OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD ship with binary blobs?” A perennial religious issue.
Kristaps Dzonsons on pledge(2)
TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients (via)
openbsd changes of note 2
~~OPNsense 16.7.9 released~~ OPNsense 16.7.10 released See my note about backlog.
LiteBSD Brings 4.4BSD to PIC32 (via)
Start the holidays off with FreeNAS 10 BETA 2!
EuroBSDcon 2016 Presentation Slides (via)
OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 (via)
The Saga of Concurrent DNS in Python, and the Defeat of the Wicked Mutex Troll (via)

2016/12/01

BSDNow 170: Sandboxing Cohabitation

The cohabiting part of this week’s BSDNow is about someone running FreeBSD and Gentoo on the same ZFS drive. No interview but lots of material from the recent EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD conventions.

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.

2016/11/052016/11/04

In Other BSDs for 2016/11/05

Several pfSense links this week, which by complete coincidence is the same week that I’ve been adding network cards to my older pfSense devices at work to create radio links.

24/7 support plans for pfSense.
Vendor in NYC with pfSense xg-2758 in stock
Converting Pix 6.3 to pfsense – stuck on some rules
I’ve found that Windows 10 seems to perform better in VirtualBox than FreeBSD.
The October issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Unable to run Windows programs after reinstalling wine.
mksh on FreeBSD – custom PS1 help?
Can the BSD*’s pick up the Slack now that Debian 9 has failed. (via)
zfs-snap-diff: compare / restore files from zfs snapshots. (via)
A very valuable vulnerability. Discovered by a BSD-based company.
One More Week Until MeetBSD California 2016!
A char device which implements an Enigma machine (FreeBSD & Linux) (via)
garbage episode 39, Provenance. Might not have any BSD content? I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet.

2016/10/212016/10/21

BSDNow 164: Virtual COW/PI?

BSDNow 164 has a whole lot of conversation about things that start with V, plus an interview with Josh Paetzel of iXsystems about the upcoming MeetBSD, FreeNAS and other things.

2016/10/152016/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/15

A somewhat short week this week, for BSD.

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is out. Related: Older version EoLs.
EC2’s most dangerous feature.
Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up.
How to install LibertyBSD or OpenBSD on a libreboot system. (via)
vmm enabled. Runs OpenBSD on OpenBSD – sorta vkernelish?
OPNsense 16.7.6 released.
A remote BSD development job.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q3 release.
web-bsd-hunt
Vincent Delft’s site. Lots of OpenBSD notes.

2016/09/29

BSDNow 161: The BSD Bromance

BSDNow 161 has sort of 2 interviews this week. has Allan Jude talking about his EuroBSDCon trip, plus Michael Shirk talking about Bro on FreeBSD. Also, lots of news items right on the BSDNow page.

2016/09/27

KnoxBUG: Mark Sumter: “Appreciating ZFS”

Mark Sumter’s giving a talk on ZFS at tonight’s KnoxBUG meeting. Hurry! I should have posted this sooner but work tied me up today.

2016/09/242016/09/23

In Other BSDs for 2016/09/24

It’s the convention time of year!

garbage[38]: #camperchat.
OPNsense 16.7.4 released.
Is ARM-like chips the future and which of the BSDs will have a head start?
g2k16 Hackathon Report: Alexander Bluhm. Last g2k16 item, I think.
Michael W. Lucas’s PAM Mastery is available in ebook and physical form.
Related: Michael W. Lucas’s SemiBUG “PAM is Un-American” talk was live-tweeted.
MeetBSD 2016 is at UC Berkeley November 11-12. (via)
pkgsrc-2016Q3 is now frozen.
Libreboot and BSDs. I couldn’t handle the misplaced apostrophe.
Cray J98 Project – FreeBSD and the Cray Disk. (via)
FreeBSD: Bhyve with UEFI VNC support. (via)

2016/09/22

BSDNow 160: EuroBSD Dreamin’

BSDNow 160’s title is linked to Allan Jude being at EuroBSDCon, happening right now. (Groff is there too!) Episode 160 is available in any case, and I bet there will be some sort of interview(s) coming out of this.