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2016/10/292016/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/29

I get all the BSDs this week.

Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era. .ike presenting at NYCBUG on November 2nd. Go if you are near, vote if you can.
FreeNAS/ESXi – Link aggregation without a switch.
Dropping Linux and KVM in Favor of FreeBSD and Jails (2015). (via)
chromebook printing troubles
I used Virtualbox to install both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD… it said login incorrect upon reboot.
Internet Connection Problems
Continuous OpenBSD regress tests. (via)
*BSD on laptops
In this how-to we’ll set up an email server from scratch using NetBSD.
Allow reading of files but no copying on FreeNAS.
NetBSD 7.0.2 released.
OPNsense 16.7.7 released.
pkgsrcCon 2016 videos.

2016/10/222016/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/22

Oddball links for BSD this week – but pay attention to the first one.

Get a BSD person into ARIN. Useful.
“Any experience with OPNsense?“
Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game. Linked cause it exists as a FreeBSD port and in theory could as a dport.
We Surprised The Register.
Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin.
“Adam Jimerson: Introduction to PacBSD” happening at KnoxBUG on the 25th.
PCEngines APU question.
Installing Windows 10 Under the bhyve Hypervisor. (via)
Lumina Desktop 1.1.0 released.

2016/10/212016/10/21

BSDNow 164: Virtual COW/PI?

BSDNow 164 has a whole lot of conversation about things that start with V, plus an interview with Josh Paetzel of iXsystems about the upcoming MeetBSD, FreeNAS and other things.

2016/10/152016/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/15

A somewhat short week this week, for BSD.

FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is out. Related: Older version EoLs.
EC2’s most dangerous feature.
Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up.
How to install LibertyBSD or OpenBSD on a libreboot system. (via)
vmm enabled. Runs OpenBSD on OpenBSD – sorta vkernelish?
OPNsense 16.7.6 released.
A remote BSD development job.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q3 release.
web-bsd-hunt
Vincent Delft’s site. Lots of OpenBSD notes.

2016/10/082016/10/07

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/08

This was an easy week to put together; there’s a lot of links this week. Last week was slow – maybe it was because of EuroBSDCon?

pfSense 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
386bsd/386bsd – Upgrade to 386BSD 2.0. (via)
A new addition to FreeBSD.org.
SNIA SDC 2016 Recap: Michael Dexter. Swordfish sounds interesting.
Review of OpenBSD 6.0. (via)
Steam on FreeBSD?
Is anyone here using netflix on FreeBSD?
New to BSD. Please help me choose a BSD.
FreeBSD/EC2 11.0-RELEASE.
Videos from OSHUG #46.
“PAM Mastery” print sponsor books.
process listing consistency.
EuroBSDcon 2016 Recap.
OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever. Devsummit report.
NYCBUG moved their cabinet without issue. It sounds like NYI is good people.

2016/10/012016/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/01

A relatively uneventful week, at least for BSD.

Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. (via)
Michael W. Lucas’s next BSD book.
Speaking of which, please pay for what you use.
What is happening with FreeBSD-11.
Does FreeBSD 11 support Broadwell integrated video or not?
Theo de Raadt on LLVM license change proposal. (via)
LibreSSL 2.5.0 released. (via)
OPNsense 16.7.5 released.
What desktop environment and window manager do you use?
Data Compression and Deduplication Demystified. TrueNAS-oriented.
OpenBSD 6.0 CD Set – Limited Edition signed by 40 developers. (via)
NetBSD/vax – worth continuing? (via)

2016/09/172016/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2016/09/17

I’ve never had as many hackathon links as I did for g2k16 over this week and last.

“LiteBSD is variant of 4.4BSD operating system for microcontrollers“. (via)
More g2k16: Florian Obser, Vincent Gross, Antoine Jacoutot, Matthieu Herrb, Martin Pieuchot, and Patrick Wildt.
OpenBSD on HP Stream 7.
“PAM Mastery” print layout done.
Coincidentally, Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk about PAM at next week’s SemiBUG meeting. The 20th, I think.
The Raspberry PI Platform and The Challenges of Developing FreeBSD.
One Floppy NetBSD Distribution. (via)
Beastie tequila.
“I made a fanzine for fun in scribus, first issue is about DragonFly ! :)“
OpenBSD Planet.

2016/09/162016/09/15

BSDNow 159: Net Scaling Privacy (Flix Style)

This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but some good links, including a meaty one about HTTPS implementation at NetFlix with FreeBSD.

2016/09/102016/09/12

In Other BSDs for 2016/09/10

Last minute again.

2016/09/062016/09/06

NYCBUG Wed Sept 7: Teaching OSs with FreeBSD and DTrace

NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow night, with George Neville-Neil presenting DTrace work used as college-level teaching material, and talking about more places it could be used. Go if you are near New York City, interested in teaching, or you know – BSD. It’s in a different location than the normal monthly meetings.

2016/09/032016/09/02

In Other BSDs for 2016/09/03

A week of travel didn’t get in the way of links! RSS feeds are still fantastic tools for those who know how to use them.

See Michael W. Lucas talk about BSD, several places.
OpenZFS Cheat Sheet.
Ubuntu’s fall from grace. About Ubuntu/FreeBSD. Articles that use the phrase “rock-solid” for an operating system are usually junk. (via)
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To. This is a repeat, so if you saw this link here before, just read comments from the source.
PC-BSD becomes TrueOS. Also explained here.Guess I have to change the tag. (via)
Installing PC-BSD as a Primary Operating System. And this page needs to be updated.
backlight battery indicator. Sort of like a terminal beep.
EuroBSDCon 2016, happening later this month in Serbia. Registration is open.
OpenBSD 6.0: why and how. (via)
Setting up a Web Server: OpenBSD or FreeBSD?
DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/29.
OPNSense 16.7.3 released.
Let’s Encrypt client imported into -current. OpenBSD-current.
OpenBSD 6.0 released. Last CD-ROM release.
The Voicemail Scammers Never Got Past Our OpenBSD Greylisting. My favorite thing about his writeups is that they can be duplicated.

2016/08/272016/08/25

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/27

I don’t know how I ended up with 3 pfSense items to lead with – it just happened.

2016/08/202016/08/19

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/20

For once, I’m not working on Saturday, so even though this is last minute, at least I’m not in a race with the clock.

ZFS High-Availability NAS. (via)
Steam on FreeBSD. (via)
Reminder: Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 23rd.
Want to help move a cabinet of BSD User Group equipment, in NYC?
“results-oriented and non-ideological“.
BSD, guava. (via)
OpenSSH is/has been deprecating DSA keys. This affects FreeBSD, and probably DragonFly too.
The third “Hosting files using ZFS” class is available.
connect doesn’t restart. OpenBSD pkg_add.
OPNSense is at version 16.7.2 and gained a team member.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/08/15.
Linux kernel, the port. (via)
MidnightBSD 0.8 out. (via)
UEFI multibooting: FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD.

2016/08/132016/08/12

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/13

The Lumina release is the highlight of the week.

Lumina 1.0.0 released. It’s a BSD-first desktop environment, hooray!
OpenBSD Gaming Resource. I’ve wanted this for all BSDs – just hopping through ports/pkgsrc/dports. (via)
OpenBSD binpatches and package updates.
xautobacklight.
FreeBSD Core statement on recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities.
OpenBSD removes armish support. (via)
n2k16 hackathon report: guenther@ on RELRO support in binutils and arch specific cleanup.
tmpfs on its last legs. For OpenBSD.
200 packages with the greatest number of patches. In pkgsrc.
Anyone used a TrueNAS system?
Enlightenment on OpenBSD! Dunno about those last steps…
When BSD and Ubuntu meet on the dance floor, magic should happen.
new shadow passwd functions.
FreeBSD on a tiny system; what’s missing. (via)
Ha!

2016/08/062016/08/05

In Other BSDs for 2016/08/06

Slightly calmer this week.

2016/07/302016/07/29

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/30

I did all of this in a hour, because I had so many tabs saved from during the week. Don’t get overwhelmed!

EuroBSDCon 2016 schedule has been released.
OPNsense 16.7 released.
2016Q2 FreeBSD Status Report.
SemiBUG has a Twitter. Here’s their last meeting, and the next is 8/23.
August 3rd: NYCBUG Installfest. Go just to see what weird hardware shows up.
Attacks against FreeBSD Update components. (via)
How do I dual boot FreeBSD 10.3 with Windows 10?
Steam on FreeBSD 11-CURRENT. (via)
ZFS and RAID.
OpenBSD 6.0 pre-orders up.
OpenBSD 6.0 to be released September 1, 2016. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2016 talks and tutorials. (via and via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/07/25.
Why FreeBSD? by Hamza Sheikh.
pfSense 2.3.2 is out.
AWS VPN config supports pfSense 2.2.5+.
FreeBSD 11 Beta2 is available.
n2k16 hackathon report: Stefan Sperling on dhclient bugs, iwm(4) issues.
Will switching to FreeBSD give me an advantage over Linux when it comes to gaming?
Translation Status for 1.0.0. (Lumina)
one reason to hate openbsd.
Status of wireless support for MacBook Pro (late 2011)
Am I doing it wrong?
VirtualBox 5.x finally on FreeBSD.
Some notes on our new generation of ZFS-based file servers.
A Grand Experiment by Leo Laporte. Shifting to BSD. (via)
Announcing PacBSD (Formerly named ArchBSD). (via)
OpenBSD: Release Songs: 6.0: “Another Smash of the Stack”. (via)

Bonus DragonFly items, sent by Rolinh on IRC:

2016/07/232016/07/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/23

Adding a new “BUG” category, cause there’s enough ongoing BSD user group activity these days that it’s a reoccurring theme. That makes me happy.

2016/07/14

150th BSDNow, with a sprinkler

BSDNow has reached their I think semicentennial episode, “Sprinkle A Little BSD Into Your Life“. For this episode, they interview Jim Brown about BSD Certification and his FreeBSD-running sprinkler system, plus more news.

2016/07/092016/07/08

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/09

I was on the road all this week, so this doesn’t range as far as usual. I’ll be charging through my RSS feed backlog over the next few days.

garbage[33]: Z-Wave of ze future. Missed linking to it on Friday because of driving. Lots of Vim conversation!
The state of libreSSL in FreeBSD. (via)
New 2016Q3 branch. (of FreeBSD ports)
Core.9 is now in session.
Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS by Michael Dexter.
Looking for awesome BSD DTrace materials.
A request for BSD variants information.
BSD podcast?
The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (second edition). (via)
Lumina 1.0.0 sources frozen.
OPNsense 16.7RC1 available.
TrueNAS 9.10 out.
BSD Graphics Stack for AMD.

2016/07/022016/06/30

In Other BSDs for 2016/07/02

Lots of user group items this week.

KnoxBUG has both July and August presentations planned – July 26th is the next, on cryptography and identity assurance.
SemiBUG is looking for September+ presentations.
NYCBUG’s RetroBSD and LiteBSD presentation is in 4 days, and there will be an instalfest on August 3rd.
HOPE is July 22-24, and will have a BSD presence. (FreeBSD Foundation)
“what are the disadvantages of using software like pfSense, vyos etc. over enterprise quality routers?“
BSDs and Trim the SSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/06/27.
USENIX ATC 2016 Conference Recap.
OPNSense 16.1.18 released, which I think is the last 16.1.* release.
FreeBSD just in time.
Samsung acquires Joyent. Joyent are big pkgsrc users. (via)