Conventions – Page 8 – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSDNow 213 talks about the just-finished EuroBSDCon, and vBSDCon and other things. The episode 213 web page links to Youtube videos of all the talks, so there’s your evening schedule, filled.

2017/09/232017/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/23

Thank goodness for overflow from last week, because I haven’t had time to read.

OpenBSD Daily Recap.
pfsense vs opnsense vs monowall vs smoothwall vs ?
*nix distros with default shells? Not actually sure what the author’s goal is.
X11 forwarding vs. Virtual Machine.
Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD. (via)
AMD RX 480 Support?
[NetBSD] buildbot in the binutils-gdb project. (via)
vBSDcon 2017: BSD at Work.
pkgsrc is in freeze for 2017Q3.
NYCBUG is having a Tor installfest on October 4th.
Simulation resources, from the August SemiBUG.
Another BSD, but not for computing: the “Federal Association of Sex Services (BSD)” – read article through.

2017/09/212017/09/22

BSDNow 212: The Solaris Eclipse

BSDNow episode 212 is out and I’m going to link it especially because I’ve been at work instead of posting like normal. Not surprisingly, it talks about the demise of Solaris and about vBSDCon and (links to videos from) BSDCan.

2017/09/162017/09/16

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/16

Not sure why, but there’s been a lot of BSD news the past few weeks. I am OK with that.

Late addition: NetBSD’s New York build cluster will be offline beginning Monday for about two weeks, which means no daily NetBSD or pkgsrc builds.

FreeBSD package management with Pkg (2/2).
[Semibug] next meeting: BSD accessibility.
I3 instances and NVMe: booya! Or how you can build FreeBSD from the source in under 11 minutes vs. 12+ hours on a desktop. Is there something like ‘quickworld’ on FreeBSD? (via)
iXsystems, Inc. is offering jobs to Sun/Oracle Refugees. (via)
BSD building/testing machines? (via)
Solaris to Linux Migration 2017. Some BSD mentions in there. (via)
openbsd changes of note 628.
Forward syslogs to a central server using TLS (OpenBSD). (via)
A return-oriented programming defense from OpenBSD. (via)
OPNsense 17.7.2 released.
vBSDCon 2017 Conference Reflection.
Screencasting with OpenBSD. (via)
t2k17 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback on dhclient progress, developer herding.

2017/09/04

DragonFly at EuroBSDCon 2017

Francois Tigeot is going to be giving a talk about the DragonFly graphics stack at EuroBSDCon 2017. (14:00 September 21st in Paris) Registration is already closed because I didn’t realize how soon it was happening – sorry!

2017/08/262017/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/26

The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.

RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
Which Unix had the first package manager?
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available.
subversion via ssh passphrase-less key. Really about capturing DNS changes.
deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
t2k17 Hackathon Reports: Daniel Jakots on updating ports, Nagios OpenBGPD plugin and…, Ian Sutton on ARM progress, My first time (Aaron Bieber), Philip Guenther: locking and libc, Andrew Hewus Fresh on Perl and Coffee, and No lock no cry… with CTF! (Martin Pieuchot).
Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL.
PFsense <-> EdgeOS IPSec tunnels.
Faster forwarding.
AF3e status, 22 August 2017. That’s ‘Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition’.
The Manifest – A podcast all about package management. I’m sure this will include BSD packaging systems at some point. (via)
BSDCan 2017 videos have started being uploaded. (via)

2017/08/21

garbage 41: Patrick Wildt

A new episode of garbage has heaved forth, with an interview of Patrick Wildt from the recent Toronto hackathon.

2017/08/192017/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/19

I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.

2017/08/17

BSDNow 207: Bridge over the river Cam

This week’s BSDNow talks about the recent BSD convention in Cambridge (which I somehow did not know about until afterwards), plus lots of other talk, and a link to this entertaining terminal emulator.

2017/08/122017/08/11

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/12

Questions are this week’s accidental theme.

Beta Update – Request for (more) Testing. (undeadly)
UMPC compatible with BSD’s?
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (v2). (via)
Any BSD with Skylake and Gnome?
openbsd changes of note 626.
htop. Mentioned because there is at least a passing BSD reference.
BSDCam 2017 Trip Report: Michael Lucas. (via)
August SemiBUG meeting rescheduled to the 22nd.
From a comment here: discussion of the FreeBSD release process, from a heavy user.
upcoming hackathon proposal: NYC BSD Tor bridges. Those monoculture stats for Tor are not good for Tor.

2017/07/222017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/22

It’s accidental how-to week!

OpenSMTPD under OpenBSD with SSL/VirtualUsers/Dovecot (via) and
OpenSMTPD and Dovecot under OpenBSD with MySQL support and SPAMD. (via)
Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates, plus examples of usage on FreeBSD.
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive.
openbsd changes of note 625
BSDTW is in Taiwan, in November – and the call for papers is out. (via)
Watch out for wxallowed.
pfSense 2.3.4-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
Blog about my blog. Self-hosting and dogfooding, both good ideas. ~~Needs~~ Has RSS! (via)
BSD Pizza, a meetup in Portland, Oregon, on the 27th.

2017/07/152017/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/15

Backlog: cleared.

Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, macOS and BSDs. Linked just because they bothered to mention BSD. (via)
acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) (via)
Building an IPsec Gateway With OpenBSD. (via)
AF3e Status, 17 July 2017. That’s Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition.
Looking for a benchmark comparation between PF (OpenBSD) vs NPF (NetBSD)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (2017-07-10). (via)
pkgsrcCon 2017 report and also slides/video. (via)
Recommend BSD to Thinkpad users? Can’t find an actual thread, though.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs. (via)
OPNsense 17.7 RC1.
OpenBSD and the Modern Laptop.

2017/07/14

BSDNow 202: Brokering BIND

I’m late noting this week’s BSDNow – I’m also changing the capitalization, since BIND in this case is an acronym. No interview this week but discussion of various BSDCan 2017 reports.

2017/06/252017/06/23

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/25

Back to overflow, which sort of makes my life easier.

BCHS: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite. Linked before, so comments on source links are where to look if you are already familiar with BHCS.
Possible stack vulnerabilities in BSD-land.
How to disable cores in OpenBSD?
Nextcloud via httpd on OpenBSD. (via)
MP-safe Networking in NetBSD. PDF, from BSDCan. (via)
BSDCan 2017 Recap from iXSystems.
Unix in Europe: between innovation, diffusion and heritage. October 19th, Paris, France. (via)
The Stack Clash, via many places.
pkgsrcCon 2017, in one week.
PCIe adapters supporting long distance 10GB fiber? Note that this is for BSD-based, server-based routers. Follow the thread for lots of hardware talk.
OpenBSD now has Trapsleds to make life harder for ROPers.