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2019/10/122019/10/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/10/12

I’m sure there’s some recent stuff I missed; I will catch it in next week’s roundup.

SeMiBUG meets Tuesday the 15th.
FreeNAS datasets and snapshots.
Defense at Scale. There’s a BSD system in there. (via)
History of UNIX Design and Interfaces. BSD history mixed in. (via)
1 day / 1 game: solene@ playing Unexplored on OpenBSD. Links to FLV.
OpenSSH 8.1 released. (via)
Care and Feeding of OpenBSD Porters. (via)
By the numbers: ZFS Performance Results from Six Operating Systems and Their Derivatives. This and following are vBSDCon 2019 videos. (via)
Transitioning from FreeNAS to FreeBSD. (via)
In-Kernel TLS Framing and Encryption for FreeBSD. (via)
20 Years of FreeBSD Jails. Last video. (via)
Ken Thompson’s Unix password. He doesn’t need it. (via)
OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits. (via)
Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64: a case study in OS portability. Old news but why not. (via)
Resurrecting Ancient Operating Systems on Debian, Raspberry Pi, and Docker. Very early BSD. (via)
FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook. (via)
Causing ZFS corruption for fun, profit, and quality assurance. Can’t tell if they are doing this on FreeBSD or not. (via)

2019/10/11

Bay Area FreeBSD Summit now

Posting this now cause tomorrow’s too late: the 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow. Go, if you are near.

2019/09/282019/09/27

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28

Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up.

KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs.
Pure sh bible. POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once. (via)
ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads. Neither is HAMMER. It’s interesting to think of the edge cases.
Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the next level: Kernel Fuzzers (quick A.D. 2019 overview). (via)
Next NYCBUG meeting: Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, with Ori Bernstein. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
EuroBSDCon 2019.
1 day / 1 game : Red Alert with games/openra. It’s a FLV file.
Playing Ion Fury on OpenBSD. Another FLV link.
1 day / 1 game on OpenBSD: Sword of the Stars: The Pit by thfr@.
fnaify 2.0 out. (via)
Project Trident 12U7 now available.
List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style.
Valuable News – 2019/09/23.
OpenBSD at EuroBSDcon 2019.

Your book plug of the week: “Of course, if you don’t want to sponsor a book on SNMP I can’t blame you for that either. It’s a horrible topic that most of us would rather pretend didn’t exist.“

2019/09/26

BSD Now 317: Bots Building Jails

It’s Thursday, so BSD Now 317 is posted, with the usual news summary – and a recap of EuroBSDCon 2019.

2019/09/212019/09/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/21

Whee!

Ori Bernstein will be giving the October talk at NYCBUG.
EuroBSDCon 2019 is happening right now. It might be streamed, though I haven’t yet found a link for that. (via)
BSD Pizza Night: 2019/09/26, 7–9PM, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Pinebook Pro, coming soon. Good for ARM development, but not a normal workstation. (via)
The return of startx(1) for non-root users [with some caveats].
Setting up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd.
OpenBSD Moonlight game streaming client from a Windows + Nvidia PC.
2 more games added to the #PlayOnBSD shopping guide: Sumico and Unexplored.
Project Trident 12-U6 now available.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2019 Hiroshima. (via)
Setting up buildbot in FreeBSD jails. (via)
Sourcehut makes BSD software better. (via)
bhyvearm64: CPU and Memory Virtualization on Armv8.0-A. (via)
UNIX artifacts on the way. Might be BSD? (via)
Valuable News – 2019/09/16.
This book is everywhere.

2019/09/13

BSD Now 315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

A little late linking this, but never mind: BSD Now 315 includes, among its other usual links, a recap of the vBSDCon experience, from the just-completed event.

2019/09/13

Vintage Computer Festival this weekend

Mentioning it here because it’s timely: the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is happening this weekend, and if I wait until the normal day I would post this – Sunday in Lazy Reading – it will be too late. Go if you are anywhere near. (Credit goes to joshua stein on the ChiBUG mailing list – don’t forget their meeting next Tuesday.)

2019/09/052019/08/28

vBSDCon 2019, tonight

vBSDCon 2019 starts tonight and runs for 2 days – go if you are near.

2019/09/012019/08/30

Lazy Reading for 2019/09/01

I am starting to think I need an Apple ][ tag.

COLOR vs COLOUR in the Acorn.
World’s oldest orrery. Source has pictures in the attachments.
Vintage Tech, a series of Believer columns about older technology like ballpoint pens, and fortune cookies; enjoyable reads.
John Cleese, advertising for Compaq. (via)
Purposeful noise in 3D rendering.
Black Box Record Club, Vinyl Me, and Vinyl Moon, all record delivery services. (via)
Secretly Public Domain: Update. Further details on a significant change in knowledge.
Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide. (via)
Juiced.GS, a quarterly Apple II journal.
Chaos Communication Camp 2019 video. (via)
No CLI Ads. (via)
Ola Bini’s Letters from Detention. The reason I link to the commentary is the pull quote; the idea that “[C]ode and architecture are more important than laws.” Laws are public; code often isn’t. Which is an argument for open source, certainly.
Many ways to pop balloons. Not sure if that’s the actual intent.
ASCII-Mapper. (via)
Bookhunter, the comic. (via)
The Sound of D&D.
Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]. (via)
Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers. Like Rocky’s Boots, but physical. (via)
Obscure plugin game consoles. (via)
The Hathi Trust, another source for out-of-copyright books comparable to Gutenberg. (via)
GNOME Terminal Cursor Blinking Saga. (via)

2019/08/312019/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/31

I have a number of BSD user group notifications here – please tell me if you have a group and I’m not regularly posting about it.

NYCBUG meeting on the 4th: Setting up a convenient working environment, with Ivan Ivanov. I’ll post a reminder.
ChiBUG is meeting on the 17th. RSVP on the mailing list if you are going. I’ll post a reminder.
vBSDCon 2019 is happening next weekend, on September 5-7, in Reston, VA. Go if you are near; every report I read about last year’s event said it was a rollicking good time. The schedule is up.
FreeBSD on RISC-V as a voting machine test. BSD is common for embedded, high-security hardware – and people tend to not know because it’s embedded, high-security hardware. (via)
What happened to Bitrig? I haven’t heard anything in some years.
‘Cube 2: Sauerbraten‘ on FreeBSD.
Checking your pf.conf file without leaving the editor.
The Sudo Mastery hardcover.
Gcc 4.2.1 to be removed before FreeBSD 13, a firm timeline. (via)
Add [FreeBSD] kernel-side support for in-kernel TLS. (via)
Project Trident 12-U4 now available.
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Final.
GSoC 2019 Report: Implementation of compat_netbsd32 DRM ioctl/Getting DRM applications running under compat-linux.
Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Part 3.
Enchancing [sic] Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 3.
Making sense of OpenBSD ‘pfctl -ss‘ output for firewall state tables.
Valuable News – 2019/08/26.
OPNsense® partners with Sunny Valley Networks.
OPNsense 19.7.3 released.
[ports] Datadir added to default postgres flags.
link-local address change.
Using FreeBSD with Ports (1/2): Classic way with tools.

2019/08/242019/08/23

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/24

Incidentally, my employer, REDCOM, uses FreeBSD as a base for its main product, is deployed in rough areas and in high-security government locations, and is one of the few electronics manufacturers still working entirely in the U.S.. REDCOM also has jobs to fill in New York, where I work. Please, apply if you see a job that interests you – and tell me.

DistroTest.net, which happens to have runnable online versions of GhostBSD, FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, OPNSense, and DragonFly. (via)
The VBSDCon schedule (Sept 5-7, very soon!) is up.
Update webmin/usermin if you have them installed.
Impact of Tariff Increases. Eventually relevant even if you aren’t a U.S. reader.
Project Trident 12-U3 and 19.08 now available.
Valuable News for 2019/08/14 and 2019/08/19.
Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, third evaluation report.
USBNET: A story of networking and threads that won’t stop pulling.
Getting the GNU gdbserver to work.
Fuzzing NetBSD Filesystems via AFL. [Part 2].
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Part 2.
Brutal Doom 64 on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD -stable gets package updates! Release OpenBSD doesn’t normally get packages?
Blueprint and progress status for mixed environment multilevel backup. Really, the thing to see is a spreadsheet.
When a hacker tries to infiltrate an OpenBSD machine. Pufferfish reference.
CFT: CBSD project switched to its own cloud images.
Instant Workstation.

2019/08/102019/08/07

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/10

A reminder: if you have a BSD user group and I’m not posting about your meetings, please make sure I know about it.

2019/07/18

BSDNow 307: Twitching with OpenBSD

BSD Now 307 accomplishes another trifecta week, mentioning Free, Net, and Open, and also mentioning that vBSDCon’s call for papers closes tomorrow – I’m mentioning it now cause it’ll be too late to mention for In Other BSDs this weekend.

2019/07/132019/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/13

Done early, for once! I managed to complete this by Thursday night.

LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps.
OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
Streaming to Twitch using OpenBSD.
High quality / low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 19.1.10 released, and then OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released.
vBSDCon’s Call for Papers is out. (via)
What to try first, of Michael W. Lucas’s BSD and non-BSD books?
Project Trident 19.06 Available. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3 released.
July 10 Plugins Update.
fixing telnet fixes.
aggr(4) driver added to -current. I read it as aggro, can’t help it.
Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool. (via)
FreeBSD security issues in DragonflyBSD perspective.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/08.
Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel.
Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd. (via)

2019/06/222019/06/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/22

Done at the last minute!

Porting NetBSD to the RISC-V. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3Beta3 available.
What’s in there in BSD for a Ubuntu user?
pkgsrcCon 2019 in Cambridge, UK. (via)
Sponsor Sudo Mastery, second edition, in print or ebook form.
Celebrate UNIX50 and SDF32. (via)
First Taste of DragonFly BSD. (via)
Firewall appliance comparable to Netgate pfSense.
ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
Open ZFS vs. Btrfs | and other file systems.
Lenovo and non-Windows operating systems.

2019/05/302019/05/30

BSD Now 300: The Big Three

The newest BSD Now (300? wow!) has, among other things, a summary of their recent trip to BSDCan 2019.

2019/05/252019/05/24

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/25

Watch for post-BSDCan slides and material and ideas to show up in the next few weeks.

NetBSD 8.1-RC1 is out.
BSDCan 2019 papers are showing up, plus this iXsystems recap.
pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 now available.
WANT TO PLAY A GAME? Ooh, look at the simulated phosphor! (via)
Valuable News – 2019/05/20.
How does BSD benefit you personally?
NetBSD For The ODROID-C2. (via)
g2k19 hackathon report from Claudio Jeker.
RunHyve. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3-b1 is out.
Automount Synology NFS shares from OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop with MATE. Don’t run the script via fetch like it says. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.8 released.
FreeNAS as your server OS. I didn’t know there was a hypervisor option within FreeNAS.

2019/05/182019/05/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/18

I have more links than I expected.

Brief netbsd.org outages tomorrow.
SEMIBUG vmm hypervisor demo on the 21st.
WireGuard on OpenBSD. (via)
No itch to scratch.
Simple shared folder with Samba on OpenBSD 6.5.
Confusion with used/free disk space in ZFS.
Valuable News – 2019/05/09.
BSDCan 2019 Auction Items, and next Beaks novel.
Video of live reading of “FreeBSD Journal” column.
Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS.
Intel MDS. A problem not specific to any one BSD, really. (via)
Bad utmp implementations in Glibc and FreeBSD. (via)
syzkaller found a bug.
Keep Crashing Daemons Running on FreeBSD. First three words are a potential band name. (via)
HumbleBundle Spring Sale – OpenBSD Highlights.

2019/05/142019/05/15

BSDCan registration, session details – updated

If you didn’t see the email: here’s details on how BSDCan 2019 is starting up, this weekend. Go, even if you aren’t near.

Update: corrected registration details.

2019/05/14

BSD Now 297: Dragonfly In The Wild

It’s on the RSS feed but not in the normal place, and it’s early, so I bet this week’s BSD Now is put together early because of travel. I’m linking to it early for similar reasons.