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2019/02/092019/02/08

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/09

Whee!

ZFS and GPL terror: How much freedom is there in Linux?
Setting the boot logo on a Thinkpad. Done on an OpenBSD install but should nominally work for anything on a Thinkpad. Also, how to make a boot logo. (via)
FreeBSD Journal Column. Start reading issues now if you like, and you have some large number of hours to spare – there’s a lot of material there.
Security Vulnerability Mitigations from an OpenBSD hackathon, with video.
Support for 2TB of memory added for OpenBSD amd64.
Upgrading to FreeBSD 12.0 from FreeBSD 11.2 using beadm and freebsd-update.
The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase.
Final report on Clang / LLD state.
Integration of the LLVM sanitizers with the base system.
Revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer. (via)
Customized resolution for OpenBSD in VirtualBox. (via)
NetBSD desktop pt.6: “vi(1) editor, tmux and unicode $TERM”. (via)
The hardware-assisted virtualization challenge.
Upgrade process using GPT.
EuroBSDcon 2019 – Lillehammer September 19-22, 2019. (via)
Netflix and FreeBSD – Using Open Source to Deliver Streaming Video – FOSDEM 2019. Interesting – they track HEAD. (via)
FreeBSD in Audio Studio – FOSDEM 2019; with video. (via)

2019/02/022019/02/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/02

Inadvertent theme: release news.

Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using a packaging system.
I mentioned it before, but FOSDEM 2019, happening right now in Brussels, has a BSD Devroom with a lot of things happening in it; you could spend your entire Saturday in there.
And something that has me quite excited: The Pinebook Pro, among other hardware announcements for FOSDEM. BSD is being mentioned right there as something to install on it, rather than as an aftermarket hack like with Chromebooks – heartwarming, I tell you. (via)
Unix flowers. Look for birthtoken while you are at it. (via)
FreeNAS has Plugins? A casual look at it seems to push some features into pfSense territory.
Next NYC*BUG: 2/6.
OPNsense 19.1-RC1 released. Wait, 19.1 is out.
join-ing any open wifi network is now possible.
FreeBSD Training @ SCaLE 17x (March 8, 2019) (via)
NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor. (via)
ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE (first public release). (via)
Valuable News – 2019/01/18 and Valuable News – 2019/01/25 and Valuable News – 2019/02/01.
HardenedBSD 2018Q4 Status Report. (via)
Florian Obser on unwind(8).
MightnightBSD Roadmap.
SoloBSD 19.01-STABLE.
fnaify 1.2 released.
At The Gates, 4x strategy game running on BSD. (via)

2019/01/262019/01/25

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/26

There’s some convention stuff scattered in here; we’re heading towards the active season…

Anyone running pfSense on non-netgate hardware in a prod environment?
vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current.
OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten. (via)
05/25/2019 : V BSDDAY in Brazil.
The first report on LLD porting.
Update Intel Microcode on FreeBSD. (via)
VPS hosting provider recommendations for OpenBSD.
The AsiaBSDCon 2019 RFP has only 5 days left. (via)
pkgstat, an OpenBSD package statistics gatherer. (via)
The risk that comes from ZFS on Linux not being GPL-compatible.
Two views of ZFS’s GPL-incompatibility and the Linux kernel.
HyperRogue on OpenBSD/macppc. (via)
Less Known pkg(8) Features. Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.
avoiding duplicate cronjobs.
openrsync, a “clean-room BSD-licensed implementation of rsync”. (via)
Nixers Newsletter 110. These newsletters are so jam-packed with links I’m just going to link to them directly instead of cherry-picking.
Using a Teletype Model 33 mechanical terminal. Proto-BSD. Excellent in-depth explanation.

2019/01/192019/01/18

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/19

Overflow from the past two weeks. I’ll have my email and tab backlog cleared next week.

Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output.
New console font Spleen made default. There’s examples.
OPNSense 18.7.10 released.
Best BSD filesystem for ssd. All of them.
LibGDX proof of concept on OpenBSD: Slay the Spire. Has video.
2018 recap.
Ring in the new. KDE/FreeBSD.
Man pages, as pages.
Newcomer to FreeBSD.
How OpenBSD is secure compared to other operating systems?
FreeBSD Journal is now free, starting with the latest issue. (via)
SuperTuxKart, the open source Mario Kart clone, achieves beta status with network support. I didn’t know you could have a Beastie pilot. (via)
wtf(1). (via aly on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
Project Trident’s first -RELEASE. (via)
Building Spotifyd on NetBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2019 call for papers closes today.

2019/01/122019/01/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/12

Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week.

pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.
GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via)
Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via)
People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded via)
Linux network-scripts being deprecated is a problem for my home PPPoE link. Linked here cause this sort of CADT approach doesn’t happen so much on BSD…
BSD BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT. (via)
tons of updates, more coming… (hope I didn’t break anything ?) MirBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/01/04.
The process of upstreaming support to LLVM sanitizers has been finalized.
Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published.
How NetBSD came to be shipped by Microsoft. (via)
MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up. More BSD books on the way!
GhostBSD 18.12 Now Available. (via)

Your BSD smug linksfor the week: I saw these two posts in my RSS feed, one right after the other: “Get ready to patch your Linux systems with systemd, 3x new CVEs out there as of yesterday. These enable any user to escalate to root.” and “Windows 10 Bsod on three different machines after updates. On was new out of box. Any ideas? ”

2019/01/052019/01/04

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/05

I like when I can get Net, Free, and Open items all in the same week.

Is any C code from 1970s Unix still used today in macOS or BSD?
razer blade stealth. The BSD part is at the end.
Let’s try on OpenBSD: NeuroVoider.
Is the BSD community dedicated to free software? Sealioning, maybe.
Using the Open Suse build service to build for FreeBSD?
Installing OpenBSD over FreeBSD.
SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD.
KDE4 on FreeBSD, post-mortem.
toying with wireguard on openbsd
How I did start using FreeBSD. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc, a Proposal. (via)
pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement.
NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
Hyper-V and GhostBSD – lockup.
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. The source link also links to the slides, from EuroBSDCon 2018, and I don’t think I linked them before.
Modern KDE on FreeBSD. (via)
Welcome to New Subscribers and Goals for 2019. r/openbsd_gaming.

2018/12/292018/12/28

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/29

A big reading week. Enjoy!

BSD for old phones?
Berkeley smorgasbord. (via)
KLEAK: Practical Kernel Memory Disclosure Detection. (PDF, via)
GhostBSD 18.01 Disk encryption?
Request advice for controller/gamepads (Fnaify games: Axiom Verge, Chasm, Rogue Legacy).
unix50.org. Celebrating UNIX historical systems by running them. (via)
FreeBSD vs Linux: 20 Things To Know About Both The System. The article assumes, not surprisingly given the site, that Linux is the standard and that FreeBSD is a variant, when it’s really the other way around. (via)
NetBSD/amd64-current Amazon Web Service EC2 c5. If you can’t read Japanese, the terminal command may help. I can’t tell. (via)
January to September 2018 FreeBSD Status Report.
The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts. (PDF, via)
Valuable News – 2018/12/28.
The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
A Survey of $RANDOM. (via)
DragonFly 5.4 launch on Hacker News. Linked for the discussion, though the quality of the HN conversation is still declining. (i.e. lobste.rs is best.)
I got a 750 MHz 64-bit HP/PA-RISC c3700 Visualize Workstation for X-mas! Put here because I think it was a BSD-heritage Unix.

2018/12/222018/12/21

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/22

I had a lot of tabs to close, if you can’t tell.

ClonOS 18.12 BETA1. I didn’t know this existed.
Next NYCBUG meeting: January 2, with a presentation on OpenBSD from Brian Callahan.
FOSSJobs. I don’t like the acronym, but I’m not going to complain if it gets someone good work. (via)
Running NetBSD on DEC VAX on SIMH on Raspberry Pi. Video. (via)
The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD. (Via many places) I don’t like the notion that the BSD implementation of ZFS is now going to be at the very best, only equal to what’s on Linux. That makes it no longer a compelling choice.
OpenBSD song 6.2: A 3 line diff. (via)
OpenRC on FreeBSD. (via)
FreeNAS 11.2 out. (via)
Related: December FreeNAS Plugins Updates.
SoloBSD 12-STABLE.
Stable release: HardenedBSD-stable 12-STABLE v1200058. (via)
OpenBSD Errata: December 22nd, 2018 (pcbopts). (via)
Grafana + InfluxDB fun on DragonFly BSD. Okay okay not other BSD.
Problem booting after upgrading to [DragonFly] 5.4. The story has a happy ending.
The Super Capsicumizer 9000. (via)
What are you using for a simple GUI TextEdit/Notepad? The usual suspects of nvi/emacs show up, but there’s a lot more options listed.
Reducing the delta with upstream version of sanitizers. (via)
Python Development on BSD.
Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)
Torchlight 2 on NetBSD *almost* works!
NetBSD desktop pt.5: automounting with Berkeley am-utils. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/12/14, Valuable News – 2018/12/21.
Standards. “There is no standard version of the tar program.” Linked with early BSD history, of course. (via)
telnet, still being a problem. (via)
protectli router.
de facto vs de jure maintenance.
The NetBSD support update before the LLVM-8.0 branching point. (via)

2018/12/082018/12/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/08

Once again playing catchup – but we all benefit from the abundance.

Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)
Firefox’s middle-click behavior on HTML links on Linux. Should apply to BSD too.
BSD vs. Linux. Old, but the source link has links to more discussion if that interests you.
A proposal for a new RPKI validator: OpenBSD rpki-client(1). (via)
NetBSD on AWS EC2 a1.medium (ARM). (via)
The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management. (via)
NetBSD Advent Calendar 2018. (via)
Why BSD/OS is the best candidate for being the only tested legally open UNIX. (via)
NetBSD and support for two finger scroll emulation. (via)
Wherefore FreeBSD?
Securing home. (via)
The History of Unix, Rob Pike. I find this comment entertaining. (via)
Showing a Gigabit OpenBSD firewall some Monitoring Love. (via)
Portability of tar features. Linked because BSD tar is a thing. (via)

2018/12/012018/11/30

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/01

An oddly uplifting batch of BSD stories this week.

Tor on OpenBSD, part 5 and part 6.
Slides and transcript and code from the November NYCBUG meeting. (I wish all BUG meetings had this.)
MeatBSD, the December SEMIBUG meeting, is a meetup at a local meat-heavy restaurant, December 18th. Plan for it now, cause you need to reserve a seat.
Steam Autumn Sale Highlights for OpenBSD.
OPNsense 18.7.8 released.
GhostBSD 18.10 Now Available. (via)
Abandon Linux – Move to FreeBSD or Illumos. A pro-ZFS item, which means plenty of filesystem comments at the source link. (via)
Debugging rcctl in OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD for Thanksgiving. This is a nice story to hear. (via)
Stardew Valley on FreeBSD. (via)
Cheap BSD-friendly notebook? Thinkpads thinkpads stinkpads thinkpads. (via)

2018/11/29

BSD Now 274: Language: Assembly

This week’s BSD Now covers assembly on OpenBSD, games on FreeBSD, and disk space on DragonFly.

2018/11/242018/11/22

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/24

Games are the unofficial accidental theme this week.

FreeBSD 12 Release Engineering Branch Created. Also, RC1 (via)
Distrowatch.com NetBSD 8.0 Review. (via)
Celebrating 50 years of Unix. (via)
FreeBSD Network Management with network.sh. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2.1 – Install FreeBSD 12.
Our pragmatic attachment to OpenBSD PF for our firewall needs.
Linux iptables compared to OpenBSD PF (through a real example).
Bump.
(OpenBSD) /etc/malloc.conf replaced by sysctl.
(OpenBSD) ifconfig(8): vlandev and vlan upcoming option removal along with vlan(4): Replace link0 flag with txprio.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD – Dust: An Elysian Tail and Let’s Try on OpenBSD: Capsized.
GOG Black Friday Sale. A nice connection between sale and port.
Games on FreeBSD. A port of fnaify to other BSDs!
More OpenBSD contributions.
Valuable News – 2018/11/17.

2018/11/172018/11/18

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/17

Still lots of BSD stuff happening.

DWM on FreeBSD, monocle not showing up.
Play Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
Project Trident RC3 available. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 ? dmesg?????? / KOF2018-NetBSD. Yeah, I know it’s all question marks. Something in my publishing chain doesn’t understand all character sets. (via)
FreeBSD 12.0-b4 available.
Capsicum.
FreeNAS.
Polish BSD User Group OpenBSD Gaming talk (slides, PDF, Polish) (via)
Linux and FreeBSD networking. (via)
The Source History of Cat. (via)
FreeBSD 10.4 EOL.
Valuable News – 2018/11/11. You can tell my backlog size from this.
ZFS Boot Environments Reloaded at NLUUG Autumn Conference 2018.
OpenBSD in Stereo with Linux VFIO.
Play “Crazy Train” through your APU2 speaker. This prompted the “Someday you will need this” tag for this post.
pfSense with a hardware identifier.
The Tor Project needs a data architect.
Assembly language on OpenBSD amd64+arm64. (via)

2018/11/102018/11/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/10

Aaaand I have a backlog again.

2018/11/032018/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03

Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.

setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualization FAQ.
The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases. (via)
Configure OpenSMTPD to relay on a network.
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1028.
BSD vs. System V death star poster.
MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track.
File versioning with rcs. Still built into all the BSDs, I think.
Halloween Sale Highlights. OpenBSD gaming.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Tokyo/Fall. (via)
Jailing the bhyve hypervisor. (via)
Everything suffers from bashism. (via)
FOSDEM 2019 will have a BSD devroom, and now’s your chance to submit a talk proposal. Due December 10th, with the conference in February.
NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Area. (via)
LISA 2018 Recap. I really like that iXSystems writes up every convention trip.
FreeBSD 12 has been branched into -STABLE. (via)
GhostBSD 18.10 Release. (via)

2018/10/272018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/27

It’s a mad rush to get these all posted in time for the weekend.

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition. Best place to buy, with ILUVMICHAEL 30% off coupon code.
Related: Auction Winners.
Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration, coming up on November 7th.
FreeBSD amd64 syscalls. (via)
“Does anyone know if parsec works on OpenBSD?“
The BSD Club discussion forum. (via)
“What are some UNIX design decisions that proved to be wrong or short sighted after all these years?“
DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12.
libcrypto ASN.1 header removed in OpenBSD.
Show OpenSMTPD queue and force sending queued mails.
Valuable News – 2018/10/20.
FreeBSD 12 beta 1 out.
“What I learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD“. (via)
Configuring FreeBSD for Infrastructure. (via)
OPNsense 18.7.6 released.
The OpenBSD Foundation receives the first Silver contribution from a single individual.
Ohio LinuxFest 2018 Recap.
NetBSD on the RISC-V is alive. (via)
How to make routers with NetBSD’s NPF and Lua (Tokyo, Japan 2019/02/07) (via)
“TrueNAS support is pretty great“.

2018/10/132018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13

Still playing catchup with links.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
Process title and missing memory space.
Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)

2018/10/062018/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06

Still catching up on links.

garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server. (via)
NetBSD8.0 on UEFI Bootloader and Windows Tablet. (via)
NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU. (via)
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem. (via)
Old xcb libraries removed in OpenBSD.
EuroBSDCon 2018 report.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release. (via)
Debian on OpenBSD vmd (without qemu or another debian system) (via)
Installing Gophernicus in OpenBSD. I just like the name. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/09/29.
Polish BSD User Group, a summary. There’s a meeting soon, too.
Manage ”nice” priority of daemons on OpenBSD.

2018/10/04

BSDNow 266: File Type History

BSDNow 266 is up, and while the title is “File Type History”, there’s a number of “this is how I use BSD” stories on there, which I always find interesting.

2018/09/292018/09/28

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/29

EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.

FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
r/openbsd_gaming’s Game of the Year 2018 Contest: Call for Nominations.
Advances in OpenBSD packages [pdf] (via)
What’s in store for NetBSD 9.0. (via)
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Hiroshima. (via)
Deploying Anycast DNS using OpenBSD and BGP. (via)
“My FreeBSD Story“.
Display the size of installed packages ordered by size. Should work on any BSD with minor modification.
Add an new OpenBSD partition from unused space.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 3.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 16 – Configuration – Pause Any Application.
Valuable News – 2018/09/08, 2018/09/15, and 2018/09/22. There’s probably another one today.
The 2018Q3 pkgsrc freeze has started. (via)
pfSense 2.4.4 is out; 2.3.x is almost EOL. (via and via)
OPNSense ~~18.7.2~~ ~~18.7.3~~ 18.7.4 released.
FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI.
Oh wait, all the EuroBSDCon 2018 OpenBSD slides are in one spot. (via)
Using acme.sh for Let’s Encrypt certificates on pkgsrc.org servers. (via)