Conventions – Page 7 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Sepherosa Ziehau presented on DragonFly’s network stack at the just-concluded AsiaBSDCon 2018. He posted a link to the badges, his paper, and his slides.

2018/02/102018/02/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/10

Very much last-minute; compiled 20 minutes before bed Friday night.

a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF. (via)
An Empirical Study on the Reliability of UNIX Utilities (1989). Some of it is early BSD. How much still applies? (via)
The Origin of the word Daemon. (via)
“SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back. BSD-based.
Sponsoring a Scam. New BSD book on the way, I think, and you can sponsor it.
OPNsense 18.1.1 released. No, wait, 18.1.2.
Overriding pkgrsc’s default Framework path (on macOS).
BSD from scratch – from source to OS with ease on NetBSD. Also as video. (via)
AT&T copyrighting 3 blank lines. Sorta relevant to the BSD split. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2018/02/05.
Remi Locherer’s EuroBSDcon 2017 Talk.
NetBSD – A modern operating system for your retro battlestation. Video. In fact, all the FOSDEM 2018 videos are up, I think.

2018/02/08

BSDNow 232: FOSDEM 2018

BSDNow 232 this week covers FOSDEM 2018, cause both hosts were there. There’s other news items, too.

2018/01/062018/01/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/01/06

Note the non-profit link; that may be useful to you.

BSD on New Hardware.
BSDCAN2017 Interview with Peter Hessler, Reyk Floeter, and Henning Brauer. (video)
Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail.
As noted here in a comment, you can name a BSD non-profit as a recipient of the ‘commission’ from Amazon purchases. Doesn’t cost you anything, or at least Amazon keeps that part of their pricing opaque.
OpenBSD Workstation Guide. More hardware detail than I expected… and I really like the key storage idea. (via)
Scripts to run an OpenBSD mirror, rsync and verify. (via)
Best BSD for PowerPC machine?
The LLVM Memory Sanitizer support work in progress. On NetBSD. (via)
Linux Professional Institute and BSD Certification Group Join Efforts. (via)
Thinking of joining Mastodon? Try bsd.network!
Which BSD systems are affected by new Intel cpu bug?
Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”
Every day a bug is embargoed is actually two days. Looking at it that way, the 48 hours it took Matt Dillon to patch DragonFly turned into 367 days – and it was Google/Intel’s decision to have it that way. (via)
MWL’s 2017 Wrap-Up. Ironically, systemd is a moneymaker for him.

2018/01/05

BSDNow 227: The long core dump

I’m a bit late posting it, but: BSDNow 227 covers Open, Free, and Net this week.

2017/12/302017/12/29

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/30

Last of the year!

iXSystems’ Best of 2017. Some useful links, like the Community Hardware Recommendations guide.
If you want to create a BSD-based Vagrant BSD system, Rickard von Essen has Packer templates for all the BSDs – including DragonFly. (via)
More TS-440S hijinx, or “ok, what if you wanna homebrew a digital hookup?”
“Cyan Beastie on my laptop :)”
Looking for a BSD snapshot tool for live boot
How to choose your *BSD OS to begin with? (via)
What BSD do you all use for your desktop computer?
NetBSD 7.1.1 released.
FreeBSD Q32017 Status report.
StorageCrypter Ransomware: Security Threat or Clickbait? BSD vendor, linked to for the Shodan report on all the places people are running Samba, Internet-exposed.
Eleven syscalls that suck. Linux syscalls, of course. Eleven syscalls that rock the world seems to mention the BSDs. Hmm. (via)
You may be able to catch the last 34c3 livestreams today, or watch recordings – there are some BSD-specific talks there. (via)

Don’t forget any end–of–year donations you want to make, either.

2017/12/182017/11/22

Semibug Christmas dinner, tomorrow

The Semibug Christmas dinner is tomorrow. They need reservations, so if you want to go and haven’t told anyone yet – hurry!

2017/12/092017/12/08

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/09

Last minute, as always!

The anatomy of tee program on OpenBSD. (via)
Leaving Amazon AWS. (via, I think)
FreeBSD Port-Knocking.
s2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling (stsp@) on wireless (iwm(4), athn(4) and more) progress.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/12/03.
Cross-BSD pollination. (DragonFly->OpenBSD, via)
FreeBSD 11.0 is end-of-lifed.
OPNsense 17.7.9 released.
BSDCan 2018 Call for Papers is out. (via)
DTrace & ZFS Being Updated On NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD desktop for newbies. (via)
What sort of fun projects are you guys working on using Dragonfly?
pledge() work in progress.
arm64 platform now officially supported [and has syspatch(8)].
“SSH Mastery” 2nd ed tech reviewers wanted.

2017/12/07

BSDNow 223: Compile once, debug twice

BSDNow 223 covers a wide range: debuggers, Rust, Docker, EuroBSDCon 2017, pine64, and some network tools for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

2017/12/022017/12/09

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/02

Totally last-minute.

“Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (1/2)
Reflections on Hackathons.
Cheap temp and humidity sensors. Probably BSD-compatible, given the list.
OpenBSD Router Boilerplate. (via)
Suggestions on High-end Laptop for dual-booting with BSD/Windows.
The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD.
Linux user picking a BSD for Personal Computer.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/11/27.
Two-factor authentication SSH with Duo in FreeBSD 11 (7:23)

2017/11/252017/11/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/25

One month to Christmas!

2017/11/23

BSDNow 221: BSD in Taiwan

Allan Jude went to Taiwan for BSDTW, so there’s a nice con report as part of this week’s BSDNow, along with the usual news summary.

2017/11/182017/11/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18

Whee!