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2018/09/222018/11/22

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/22

Still running on extra links from previous weeks. Usually it takes a larger convention to cause this sort of backlog.

Exploring NomadBSD – Desktop FreeBSD on a thumb drive. (via)
Mac-like FreeBSD Laptop. Surprisingly similar, visually. (via) Also some comments here.
A FreeBSD 11 Desktop How-to. (via)
“How install a package offline?”
“Are their any BSD Game stores?”
The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server. (via)
The history of file type information being available in Unix directories.
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – DIY Backup.
BSD Myths. Not a new list, but still good to know. (via)
Announcing The HardenedBSD Foundation. (via)
OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve. (via)
“My new favorite Telegram Sticker.“
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-0916 Viva Mexico! Edition.
How does the process title works?
“CBSD is adding bhyve live migration support.“
Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs? Part 1 and also part 2. (via)
Uvm: a BSD virtual memory system. (via)
Diskless MP3 jukebox, running NetBSD/shark.

2018/09/152018/09/04

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/15

Built almost entirely with overflow from more than a week ago.

GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. (via)
NextCloud on OpenBSD. (via)
Anon Games, BSD games available freely through ssh. Or telnet, but don’t do that. (via)
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: Baldur’s Gate 1 with gemrb and widescreen mod. Video. I link cause it’s interesting to see the setup work before the gameplay.
Automatic switch wifi/ethernet on OpenBSD.
Highly Available DHCP Server on FreeBSD. This is the first I’ve heard of Kea, though the article itself is about isc-dhcp.
OpenBSD on an iBook G4. (via)
NetBSD: kASan support officially added. kASan == Kernel Address Sanitizer. (via)
FreeBSD 11.1 EOL.
Color vt on FreeBSD.
Syncthing on FreeBSD.
Need help getting eMac G4 graphics to work.

2018/09/082018/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/08

I am having trouble keeping up with BSD news items. This is a good problem to have.

The History of a Security Hole. Cross-BSD. (via)
hard state soft state confusion. A followup on the previous link.
NetBSD 7.2 is out. More than one branch is supported, if you find yourself saying “didn’t 8 just release?”
2FA with ssh on OpenBSD. Useful; probably can extrapolate out. (via)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource (2018.08 update). I didn’t realize this was getting regular updates; that’s a good thing. (via)
HumbleBundle sale. Runs for another 5 days.
OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go. I appreciate the in-depth hardware listing.
A look beyond the BSD teacup: OmniOS installation. Try to ignore the meme image linked in that article; it’s an example of BSD culture trying to destroy itself. The article is good for examining OmniOS.
OPNSense 18.7.1 released.
OpenBSD-current changes as an RSS feed.
Valuable News – 2018/08/25 and 2018/09/02.
New ZFS Boot Environments Tool.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts & Frameworks.
arm64 gains RETGUARD. OpenBSD architecture.
Theo on the latest Intel issues. “currently public artifacts”, should give you pause.
OpenBSD Foundation gets first 2018 Iridium donation! I had not heard of Handshake before.
Native Encryption for ZFS on FreeBSD CFT. (via)
OpenSSH 7.8 is out. (via)

2018/09/012018/08/31

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/01

Lots of event notices in here… Watch for what’s near you.

The next KnoxBUG meeting is September 5th, with a Trident demo. I’ll post a reminder.
OpenBSD.Amsterdam. Dedicated OpenBSD/vmd servers, which is a neat idea. Could probably do the same thing with vkernels.
MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. (via)
Configuring OpenBSD – System and user config files for a more pleasant laptop. Not all of it is OpenBSD-specific. (via)
Happy Bob’s Libtls tutorial. Also not wholly OpenBSD-specific; more libressl-specific. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 is happening March 21-24, Tokyo, Japan. (via)
Ravenports now on gcc 8.2.
Recent freebsd-jobs posts.
[talk] ARM – any Tier-1 *BSD options? Nice support work from Netgate.
libfuzzer, parts 1, 2, and 3 – a Summer of Code project for NetBSD. I linked the first one before, but hadn’t followed up until now. (via)
OpenBSD, SpamPD and the Startup Bug. (also via)
Public Access Multics. I am happy just typing that sentence.

2018/08/30

BSDNow 261: FreeBSDCon Flashback

No interview this week in BSDNow 261, but links to a recent 1999 convention video, details about TrueOS/Project Trident, and the usual.

2018/08/182018/08/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/18

Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.

Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.

2018/08/112018/08/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/11

Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.

Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
OPNSense 18.7 released.
FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)

2018/08/042018/08/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04

I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!

OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
Visualizing ZFS performance.
OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
Valuable News – 2018/07/27.

2018/08/022018/08/02

BSDNow 257: Great NetBSD 8

BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.

2018/07/212018/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/21

A few of the links are not directly BSD-ish, but related.

Adventures in Open Source. Interesting for the fixes, and for just hearing how tools are being used – I will look up syncthing as an easier-to-fiddle-with replacement for sftp.
Version Control Before Git with CVS. Not that long ago for BSD projects, depending where you look. (via)
Ghost in the Shell – Part 2.
“Slightly older Thinkpads“, same answer always.
“SDF is a great UNIX shell provider running on NetBSD“. Not new, but worth repeating. (via)
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS [pdf]. (via)
OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi “auto-join” Plenty of comments in the source link.
Valuable News – 2018/07/15.
pkgsrcCon 2018 report & videos. Slides linked too. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers.

2018/07/142018/07/13

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/14

Some overflow, and thank goodness cause I don’t have a day without work this week.

Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer. (via)
Designing the software specification [for 386BSD] (via)
A question about BSD kernel syscalls/abi.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q2 release. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2018 in Berlin – Videos. (via)
A FreeBSD sysadmin job posting.
NetBSD 8.0RC2 is out.
[NetBSD] Kernel Address Sanitizer, Part 2. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/07/08.
Introduce ‘auto-join’ to the [OpenBSD] wifi 802.11 stack. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
pkgsrc-2018Q2 packages for illumos now available. (via)
Michael W. Lucas got interviewed. Have you seen his Patreon video yet? (linked last week) It’s fun.
Jupiter Broadcasting: Tech Talk Today 281. An interview of Allan Jude from BSDNow.
Allan also shows up on podcast TechSNAP Episode 373: FreeBSD Already Does That.
Need ZFS Config Advice.

2018/07/072018/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/07/07

Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.

Update: how did I miss this? PkgSrcCon 2018 is happening now in Berlin, and there’s a livestream. (via)

BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable status bar.
Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
Cinnamon 3.8.2 now available on pkgsrc/wip. A new (to me) desktop. (via)
New FreeBSD Core Team Elected.
OPNSense 18.1.11 released.
MKSANITIZER – bug detector software integration with the NetBSD userland. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2. (via)
[Question/Poll] – Does your work use BSD? What for?
databasing and FreeNAS?
How to deploy an OpenBSD VM in Amsterdam. (via)
Bringup is Hard. The ‘What not to do’ section is quite correct. (PDF, via)

2018/07/06

BSDNow 253: Silence of the Fans

BSDNow 253: no interview, but it covers a range of topics I’d be proud to fit in an Other BSDs post. Of special interest (to me) this week: talking about fanless systems, cause it’s hot in North America, and Pinebooks, cause I still have a small computer fetish.

2018/06/302018/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/30

Some of this is overflow from last week.

m:tier subscription service for long-term OpenBSD updates. This is a good idea, connecting a service to the people that want to pay for it – without interfering with the “normal” free usage.
FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds. The comments at the link source may be better.
A Beginner’s Guide to Firewalling with pf. (via)
pfSense in VMware Workstation. (via)
“Would anyone be interested of this tool supported BSD?“
Using UNIX as IDE. (via)
FreeBSD 11.2 released.
HardenedBSD: Feature comparison vs other BSD distros. (via)
Booting OpenBSD kernels in EFI mode with QEMU. (via)
Call for testers – Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
WiFi Refresh. (via)
Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 11 – Key Components – Blue Light Spectrum Suppress. I didn’t know about Redshift; I like it.
Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon account, and a video to go with it. I’ve wondered if I should do something like that for the Digest.

2018/06/232018/06/22

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/23

Lots of announcements, lots of reading. Note the first item listed is happening today.

Book Fair, 23 June 2018. Michael W. Lucas is at the Scriptorium Book Fest today, in Michigan. Go if you are near and get a signed BSD book.
Escape from System D, Episode V. Interesting cause it mentions BSD and interesting for spot-on characterization of Twitter/Hacker News feedback. (via)
25 years of FreeBSD. (via)
NetBSD Summer of Code reports: libfuzzer, kernel address sanitizer, and kernel undefined behavior sanitizer.
Valuable News 2018/06/17.
FreeBSD Desktop, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I linked to a few of the early ones before, but I want to present a complete (so far) list.
FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 Available.
OPNsense 18.1.10 released.
httpd(8) Gains Simple Request Rewrites.
SMT Disabled by Default in -current.
More Mitigations for (potential) CPU Vulnerabilities.
LDAP client added to -current. This, or a similar LDAP client, should be present in all BSDs.
KDE on FreeBSD – June 2018. 5 is almost working in DragonFly, too, by the way. (via)
itch.io Summer Sale + General itch.io Feature.
“what’s good in openbsd superior than freebsd?“
HardenedBSD 11-STABLE v1100055.4 Released. (via)
“Today I stumbled upon a BSD Wikipedia page. Why should I choose BSD over a Linux based distro?“

2018/06/162018/06/15

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/16

Lots of different items, probably because of BSDCan.

EuroBSDCon 2018 is happening September 20-23 at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania – Call for papers ends tomorrow.
June HardenedBSD Foundation Update. (via)
FreeBSD 11.2-RC2 Available.
Valuable News – 2018/06/09.
Pledge and Unveil in OpenBSD [pdf]. Knew about pledge, not about unveil. (via)
OpenBSD at BSDCan 2018. A summary post.
TBW60: #OpenBSD @BSDCAN 2017 Interview. Video. “TBW” == The Brothers WISP; a series I did not know about. Stumbled into this by accident.
Project Trident, the GUI version of TrueOS.
BSDCan 2018 Recap and SELF 2018 Recap from iXSystems.
Apple Airport Extreme == NetBSD, which I did not know.
OpenBSD adds “-n” to crontab(5): “no mail when everything went OK” A good idea. (via)
pNFS server in FreeBSD. (via)
(Open)BSD equivalent of nmtui (curses Wi-Fi network chooser)
syspatch(8) for OpenBSD. Included in other convention coverage, I’m sure, but I found this tool interesting. (PDF, via).

2018/06/092018/06/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/09

BSDCan is running this weekend. There is, depending on what time you are reading this, a livestream.

Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD. (via)
Mailing lists vs Github. Relevant to most every BSD project. (via)
need help determining the best HA solution for 3 pfSense VM guests.
OpenBSD’s ksh(1) does not export PWD, causing unexpected problems. (via)
GOG.com summer sale – OpenBSD highlights.
libcsi – Crypto Simplified Interface.
Author Discoverability.
Your own VPN with OpenIKED & OpenBSD. (via)
zedenv, a ZFS Boot Environment Manager for FreeBSD and Linux. (via)
TrueOS to Focus On Core Operating System. Not a name change; it’s work on becoming a base like Debian. (via)
Isotop: French desktop-oriented OpenBSD distro. (via)
May 2018 Status Report: Cross-DSO CFI in HardenedBSD. (via)
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server.
Valuable News – 2018/06/05.

2018/06/022018/06/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/02

One of these links will be very useful to someone.

Join us, building a full OpenBSD mailserver. (via)
Valuable News 2018/05/25.
May 2018 Status Report: Cross-DSO CFI in HardenedBSD. (via)
BSDJobs.com. (via)
Research Positions – Aberdeen Scotland.
NetBSD: a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code. (via)
OpenBSD Kernel Internals — Creation of process from user-space to kernel space. (via)
iXsystems Newsletter: The April 2018 Edition.
OPNsense 18.1.9 released.
OpenBSD’s httpd gets URL rewrite Not the final patch. (via)
BSD: Networking Included. Some extremely useful tips in here for network troubleshooting. (via)
Boot All the Things! (via)

2018/05/262018/05/26

In Other BSDs for 2018/05/26

I have the normal list of links, but here’s a feature. At first glance, this looks like Netgate, the commercial entity behind pfsense, is not using FreeBSD for their new product. However, Jim Thompson of Netgate steps up and give a full-on explanation, and points out there’s already code out there to do this – it needs contributors.