Conventions – Page 11 – DragonFly BSD Digest

If you didn’t already look at it, BSDNow’s summary of BSDCan events is worth going to; it’s complete enough I deliberately left BSDCan links out of here. Undeadly has an OpenBSD-specific summary too.

ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t. Sorta-BSD. (via)
The Ultimate NetBSD Router. (Thanks, Tobias)
Shawn Webb Tells You All About HardenedBSD Project.
Using FreeBSD as a File Server With ZFS. Online course.
Latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal now available.
2016 FreeBSD Community Survey.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/13.
OPNsense 16.1.17 released.
BSDCan 2016 Recap. From iXSystems.
Lightly Experienced OS X and GNU/Linux User Looking to Learn [Free]BSD.
Unik – The Unikernel Compilation and Deployment Platform (uses NetBSD’s Rump) (via)
First image of someone trying to sell a commercial version of BSD 4.1 in 1982 (Fortune Systems 32:16)
ART single thread performances. (via)

2016/06/17

garbage[30]: Adventures at BSDCan

garbage[30] has BSDCan trip reports, OpenBSD news, and complaints about CVS, among other things. CVS is an easy target but I want to hear it.

2016/06/16

BSDNow 146: Music to Beastie’s ears

BSDNow episode 146 is available, with an interview of Hans Petter Selasky about USB and FreeBSD. There’s also a nice collection of links to BSDCan material, including video from the event.

2016/06/142016/06/13

NYC*BUG Wednesday: HardenedBSD

(Posting earlier than the usual ‘In Other BSDs’ content, because it’s happening tomorrow.)

NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow, June 15 at 18:45 Eastern time. It’ll be at Stone Creek Bar & Lounge, 140 E 27th St. in New York City. The speaker is Shawn Webb, and he’ll be talking about his HardenedBSD work in “Adventures in HardenedBSD”.

2016/06/042016/06/06

In Other BSDs for 2016/06/04

Really, last minute – assembled from random tabs I’ve been saving, late Friday.

FreeBSD gets zfsd.
Announcing NetBSD 7.0.1. (via)
pfSense now boots on a new ARM board, the “uFW“. I assume it will be for sale soon. (via)
~~OpenBSD/armv7 now has a bootloader.~~ Repeat link. (via)
Bhyve now with graphics support. (via)
Ask HN: Do you use FreeBSD as web server? Why or why not?
BSDCan Intro Session Volunteers Wanted
W^X now mandatory in OpenBSD. Also here, here, and here, if you want to contrast commenting styles on the same story.
Bruce Schneier’s Skein hashing function is now in FreeBSD. (via)
Comparing FreeBSD’s upgrade method against Linux distros. (via)
ARMv7 now has a bootloader.
Deploying On Office / Workgroup Server on FreeBSD – Workshop eBook.

2016/05/282016/05/27

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/28

Fun links, this week.

BCHS Stack – BSD, C, Httpd, SQLite. Fun! (via)
How to chroot www/firefox on NetBSD. (via)
misc@openbsd: ‘NSA addition to ifconfig’. (via)
OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B. (via)
Comfort On The Command Line – A primer. Actually talks about the command line on multiple platforms including BSD, not just “here’s bash”. (via)
Privilege Separation and Pledge. Slides and video.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/23.
OPNSense 16.1.15 released.
OSCON 2016 Recap. From a BSD-vendor-centric point of view.
BSDGame Sail. Comments have link right to BSD UNIX 4.3 pre-emulated for running on Windows.
My FreeBSD Story. (Michael W. Lucas’s story, I mean.)

2016/05/252016/05/20

Dru Lavigne at KnoxBUG

A reminder: Dru Lavigne is talking at KnoxBUG tomorrow (the 26th) at 6 PM. I’ve met Dru and she’s a good speaker with a wide range of experience – catch it if you are anywhere near.

2016/05/222016/05/20

Lazy Reading for 2015/05/22

A nice wide range of topics, again!

Bletchley Park computers. (via)
LITCAVE – one-man recreations of cc, vi, troff, x, and so on. (via)
50 Shades of Open. My pet peeve is when it’s used for a API to a closed source service. (via)
Browsix – A Unix-Like Operating System for the Browser. (via)
Clicky keyboard links.
Unix on a…. ti-83+? (via)
file considered harmful
Pointer Overflow Checking.
Keynotes from OSCON in Austin 2016.
More details on hardware time protocols than you may ever have thought of.
Dear Mommy Blogger. Some of that applies to this blog, too. I get some stupid offers for essentially paid articles here, and I avoid them. If I’m selling something, it’s cause it’s good BSD-related material or because I know the person. (via)
Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard. (via)
Ask HN: What is an open-source alternative to Google Home?

2016/05/212016/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/21

Summer convention season is coming; start scheduling!

Implementing pledge on linux using seccomp. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2016 is in about a month and a half (July 2-3). They’re accepting talk proposals now, for lightning talks or extended presentations. (via kamil on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
A review of FreeBSD 10.3’s new features. (via)
BSD OS’ include GNU tools re-written for BSDL?
Practicing ZFS storage failure quickly and easily with QEMU. On Linux, but could probably work the same on FreeBSD. (via)
pfSense 2.3.1 is out.
pkgsrc-security@ has a new GPG key.
KnoxBUG’s next meeting is May 26th and Dru Lavigne is the guest speaker.
OPNsense 16.1.14 released.
p2k16 hackathon: pirofti@ on octeon and TPM and jasper@ on gnome, puppet and more.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/16.
FreeNAS vs TrueNAS.
Hubert Feyrer’s recent NetBSD news roundup.
*BSD on laptop, anyone?

2016/05/19

BSDNow 142: Diving for BSD Perls

BSDNow 142 is out. You might think the title is about Perl, the language, on BSD, but it’s because there’s an interview with FreeBSD developer Alfred Perlstein. I’m sure he gets that a lot. Among the other news on the episode is a note about ordering BSDNow shirts: do it today because it’s the last day they will be available! Also, you can order now and pick it up at BSDCan if you’re going to be there.

(I’m linking to the jupiterbroadcasting site because the bsdnow.tv site isn’t updated as of this writing.)

2016/05/172016/05/13

SemiBUG tonight

The SemiBUG presentation with Ike Levy speaking is tonight – go if you can!

2016/05/142016/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2016/05/14

Some DragonFly links are sneaking in here just to get them cleared out.

May 17th: Ike Levy speaks at SemiBUG. Go if you are anywhere near; Ike’s a good speaker and passionate about BSD.
Speaking of scheduling: BSDCan 2016 is less than a month away.
Why OpenBSD Is Important to Me. (via)
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. (via)
FreeBSD PowerPC 32bit pkg repository (unofficial). ~19,500 packages, more to come. (via)
As a Linux user, where should I start with experimenting with BSD?
DragonFly i915 driver updated to Linux 4.3. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/05/09.
Cons of staying on an old -RELEASE version ?
More p2k16: ajacoutot@ on Gnome, rc and rcctl improvements, krw@ on pdisk, softraid and more.
SROP mitigation committed. (OpenBSD)
The 50th Quarterly pkgsrc Release, pkgsrc-2016Q1. Also, stats.
Thomas Levine’s notes from the recent NYCBUG presentation on Urchin.
NetBSD on the Sega Dreamcast, presented on a Dreamcast.
How BSD was built, and how it lost the lead to Linux.
Running Tor in a NetBSD rump unikernel. (via)
Running FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD as a virtualised guest on Online.net.
Meet Joe Maloney – Lead System Architect for PC-BSD. I like the transition from volunteer to employee.
LinuxFest Northwest 2016: The Devil in the Details: Switching to BSD from Linux. Apparently one of the most popular videos.

2016/05/12

BSDNow 141: BSD likes .ike

I took some liberty with the spelling of the title, but it’s more accurate that way: The newest episode of BSDNow has a roundup of BSD news (some of which is pretty major) and an interview of Ike Levy, AKA ‘the guy at NYCBSDCon who showed me how useful pfSense could be’. Ike is speaking at a SemiBUG meeting on the 17th, too, which I’ll post about.