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2015/11/212015/11/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/21

Another week where there’s so much to link to, it overflows into next week.

Inaugural SemiBUG meeting notes. Next meeting is December 15th, with Josh Grosse presenting on bulk package builds in OpenBSD.
Yahoo and FreeBSD (1997). For those who enjoy correlation without clear causation, there’s a relationship between Yahoo’s fortunes as a company, and reducing their usage of BSD. (via)
“…I use BSD for my websites for a reason.” Similar material sprinkled through the comments. (via)
What are some active BSD-focused blogs or news sites you follow? My answer’s in there.
Setting color temperature.
Try to make Graylog2 working on FreeBSD (and failed)
Various options for presentation software on the BSDs. (Follow thread)
rough code and working consensus, working in a group at the recent u2k15 hackathon.
Speaking of which, one more u2k15 report.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2015 Tokushima.
Samba QoS? (FreeBSD)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/16.
OPNsense 15.7.19 Released.

2015/11/142015/11/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/14

This is the sort of BSD link week I like, with lots of range and depth.

Many many more u2k15 reports.
Slides about pledge(). There’s a very good point (and followup) in there.
Why I Chose FreeNAS When I Started My Own Landscape Architecture Firm.
Initial 802.11n wireless support for iwm(4).
noice, a file browser that works on all the BSDs.
New [OPNSense] images based on 15.7.18.
first semibug.org meeting next Tuesday. I’ll post a reminder.
Videos: BSD History.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/09.
The ZFS ZIL and SLOG Demystified.
SeaGL 2015 Recap. (via)
DesktopBSD 2.0 M1 released. (via)
xorg for NetBSD/amiga. This will make someone happy.
ConnectX-4 Mellanox network card support in FreeBSD. Does well under load.
Re-rooting on FreeBSD.

2015/11/12

Locales everywhere

John Marino sent a helpful link to show the cross-platform work he’s been involved in: He brought the locale work from Illumos into DragonFly over the summer (look for his name on commits), and now it has been brought from DragonFly into FreeBSD, with Baptiste Daroussin reporting on the process. If there’s any OpenBSD/NetBSD developers reading, with an interest in locales, this may be useful..

(someone correct me if that’s not the right Illumos link)

2015/11/072015/11/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/07

Not even checking source commits this week; there’s already plenty of news.

Ken Westerback at u2k15.
OpenBSD also is getting a hypervisor.
Running BSDi BSD/OS on VirtualBox.
Faces of FreeBSD 2015 – Michael Dexter
OpenBSD vs. nVidia
nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat. (via)
MINIXCon, February 1st, 2016, in Amsterdam. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/02.
LibreSSL 2.3.1 is out. (via)
Cyrix 486 Booting OpenBSD 4.7 (via)
starting from scratch bugs.
OPNsense 15.7.18 Released
Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2. SEMIBUG is a good name.
OpenBSD has a fork of less.
pfSense 2.2.5 is out, and the pfSense project is 11 years old.
A new issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBGPd and route filters.

2015/11/022015/10/31

BSDTalk 258: Chris Henschen

Start the week with this brief interview of Chris Henschen, of fP Technologies, taken at the most recent vBSDCon. Their database product, filePro Plus, was recently ported to FreeBSD.

2015/10/312015/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/31

Another week that quickly went from “Gee, I hope I have enough links” to “I have to set time aside just to process the backlog of possibilities.”

Buy an x220.
A week of pkgsrc #12.
20Gb of Internet traffic on OpenBSD won’t work.
Nouveau runs on NetBSD with hardware GL support.
English-only in OpenBSD.
Help! Can’t install NetBSD 7 – problem with .iso file
Steam on the BSDs (not wine)
mge/etherswitch support in FreeBSD, especially for some Marvell chips.
Bluetooth LE Security Management channel support in FreeBSD.
mpsutil in FreeBSD has been updated. (for LSI Fusion-MPT 2/3 controllers )
add BSD to OS options in the forum user profile.
NetBSD 5.x is reaching end-of-life.
The Tor Browser for OpenBSD has been updated.
The 3rd quarter FreeBSD status report is out.
OpenBSD interviews: Ted Unangst, Brandon Mercer, Antoine Jacoutot, joshua stein, Landry Breuil, Henning Brauer, and Stefan Sperling.
Or just look at Undeadly’s complete list.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/16.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 is released.
FreeNAS ‘what’s new’ issue 26. FreeNAS is 10 years old.
A new FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS review.

2015/10/242015/10/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/24

There’s a lot of developer interviews lately.

DragonFly BSD + FreeBSD (via)
truenas
Hubert Feyrer has a roundup of the recent NetBSD interviews.
OpenBSD 5.8 is released.
OpenBSD turns 20.
OpenBSD developers: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (via)
OpenBSD developers: Vadim Zhukov (via)
OpenBSD developers: Marc Espie (via)
OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele (via)
OpenBSD developers: Ingo Schwarze (via)
OpenBSD developers: Gilles Chehade (via)
OPNSense 15.7.17 released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/19.
EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online. The date is not a typo.
GhostBSD’s graphical ZFS installer. (via)
Grace Hopper Convention 2015. (FreeBSD Foundation)
W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port. (via)
Announcing NetBSD 7.0 for USB Flash Drives. (via)
pkgsrc-wip has finished the move to git. It should be easier to contribute.
FreeBSD on 96-core (dual socket) ThunderX system. (via)
Compilers in the BSD base system. (via)
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on SSH on November 10th, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Robert Bourne is returning to NYCBUG to talk on November 19th. Catch this if you can; it’s worth it.
I already scheduled reminder posts for both those events.

Your cross-platform software of the week: Syncthing. Runs on all the BSDs. (Via discussion on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2015/10/172015/10/16

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/17

Another good week for BSD releases and events.

Why do you love FreeBSD?
Announcing FreeNAS-10 ALPHA
tame(2) is now pledge(2), and Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current
The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief
OPNsense 15.7.16 Released
EuroBSDcon-2015 Recap
NetBSD-7.0 developer interviews: Pierre Pronchery, Antti Kantee, Christos Zoulas, Mateusz Kocielski
Tom’s Hardware Reviews the FreeNAS Mini
Call for testing: FreeBSD i915 driver (via)
bhyve gains a sysctl-like interface.
By chance, DMA in FreeBSD is newer than what’s in DragonFly.
A summary from the recent BSDCon Brasil.

2015/10/102015/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/10

I didn’t get to run through as much of the source commits as normal this week, but there’s still plenty to read.

Why do you use *BSD?
Service to read BSD 4.2 UNIX reel tape to file?
vnStat, a network monitoring tool.
Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? (via)
Assigning programs to specific video ports.
Recent OpenSMTPD errata and you
The Rise and Fall of the Operating System. Talks about rump kernels, developed on NetBSD, I think. (via)
junk filled files.
EuroBSDCon 2015 OpenBSD Presentations Online.
An interview of Jeff Rizzo about NetBSD 7. (via)
What to expect in NetBSD 7.
NetBSD-7.0 developer interview: Leonardo Taccari (via)
FreeBSD using radius for login (via)
What does the OpenBSD crowd think of Intel SGX? (via)
Closing a door, via many places, which had a link to this BSD-related note.
Verisign youtube channel has vBSDcon videos (via)

2015/10/092015/10/08

DragonFly and African digital libraries

The Tanzanian Digital Library Initiative is using DragonFly (and FreeBSD) as part of their library setup, and Michael Wilson, the project coordinator sent a note to users@ describing this. They are looking to spread through the continent, so get in contact if you want to be part of the project.

2015/10/01

BSDNow 109: Impish BSD

BSDNow 109 is up at the Jupiter Broadcasting site, though not yet at the bsdnow.tv domain. This week’s interview is with Warner Losh, which is where the ‘imp’ reference comes from.

2015/09/262015/09/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/26

This took some catching up.

MidnightBSD 0.7 is out. (via)
OPNsense 15.7.14 Released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/21.
New email gateway release 3.4 “rocky”, based on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
FreeBSD on recent Lenovo Thinkpad W541. (via)
*BSD and thinkpads. (via)
Broadwell support in OpenBSD .
LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released.
Two OpenBSD hackathon summaries.
“sid is a Static Intrusion Detection and integrity checking system” for NetBSD.
sesutil additions on FreeBSD.
rmt over ssh on OpenBSD.
BSD 2.11, I assume emulated?
Network drivers are a cross-pollination success story for BSD.
New source/port change summaries for OpenBSD, on GMane.
“Cheap hardware for router, perhaps fileserver?“

2015/09/21

iwm(4) added to DragonFly

Matthew Dillon brought over the FreeBSD iwm(4) driver to DragonFly, with some changes. This is useful to anyone with Intel “Dual Band Wireless AC” 3160, 7260, or 7265 units.

2015/09/192015/09/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/19

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.

2015/09/122015/09/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/12

This was a quieter-than-normal week, probably because of the North American holiday at the start of it, but I found enough articles by the end.

Andrew Tanenbaum (creator of Minix) encourages you to go to BSDCon Brasil 2015. (though it has already happened by the time I saw this.)
ctwm, an extension to twm in NetBSD.
Lumina, and by extension at least PC-BSD, gains a Start menu.
gpart can’t yet replace fdisk in FreeBSD.
The rge(4) driver is removed in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained the sesutil(8) utility, for managing SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) devices. It turns the light on and off!
A history of modern init systems.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/07.
Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
(OPNSense) System Health – whats next?!
FreeNAS News, issue 23.
Defeating Cryptolocker attacks with ZFS.

2015/09/052015/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/05

Will I need to add a NextBSD tag? Time will tell.

Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
Deleting files from /usr/, breaking your system, then recovering.
BSDOwl, “A highly portable build system targeting modern UNIX systems.” (via)
Virtualization support in OpenBSD. (via multiple)
Berkeley DB: Architecture. Remember, the B in BSD is also Berkeley. (via)
the peculiar libretunnel situation
The v0.5 release of MPTCP for FreeBSD. (via)
OpenBSD 5.8’s third song announced.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/31.
Native EFI Bootloader Support for OpenBSD.
LiteBSD for PIC32-HMZ144 released. (via)
New Release Schedule for PC-BSD.
Get your pkgsrc fixes in now, before the freeze.
If you have anything in pkgsrc-wip, please help clarify copyright as it moves to new hosting and also git.
“A bibliography of FreeBSD and BSD related papers and books.” You’ll have to dig through the .bib format, but there’s some good titles to track down in there.

2015/08/292015/08/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/29

Put together at the last minute.

NeXTBSD, a video presentation. (via multiple places)
Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd. Sort of commentary on the previous item. (also via multiple places)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/24.
OPNSense 15.7.10, 15.7.11 released.
Beyond the Fork, an OPNSense status report.
OpenBSD 5.8, Another Song.
Kernel W^X extended to i386 on OpenBSD.
SSLv3 removed from LibreSSL.
Call for Testing: Using tame() in userland.
OpenBSD’s tame gets a path list parameter. (via)
DistroWatch introduces PC-BSD’s new Enterprise package repository. (via)
Why 32-bit MIPS isn’t interesting. (via)
FreeBSD gains an ioat(4) driver.
Summer of Code 2015 just finished, and the code is starting to appear.
Lumina-fm gets a major update.
pkgsrc as non-root, a discussion. (follow the thread)

2015/08/222015/08/21

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/22

Some catchup here from stuff I missed last week:

RaspBSD.org. Raspberry Pi FreeBSD images. (via)
VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
OpenBSD removes support for non-UTF8 locales. (via)
Tarsnap $1000 exploit bounty. It’s since doubled to $2000. (via)
Book review: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System.
An interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick on the most recent Design & Implementation book. (via)
BSDCan 2015 Trip Report: Koop Mast
FreeBSD 10.2 is out.
PC-BSD 10.2 is out.
NetBSd 7.0_RC3 is out.
Broadwell support in openbsd/dragonfly bsd.
What are your thoughts on GhostBSD?
Quick run down of major BSD differences?
OPNsense 15.7.9 Released.
More c2k15 reports.
OpenBSD 5.8 preorders are open.
“Resflash is a tool for building OpenBSD images for embedded and cloud systems in a reproducible way.” (via)
On “unpleasant truths” in tech books.
pkgsrc-wip is migrating away from CVS.
OpenBSD on EdgeRouter Lite.
4-count cross–pollination.

2015/08/152015/08/10

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/15

A short week, cause I’m short on time. Sorry!

The case for checksumming filesystems. (via)
How to use fw_update for Radeon on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD has imported OpenBSD’s iwm(4) driver.
FreeBSD supports more parts of the Cavium ThunderX, which I link to in part because “Cavium ThunderX” sounds like a thoracic problem.
FreeBSD has updated apr, sqlite3, serf, and svnlite in base.
NetBSD gained ARFE.
The c2k15 report keep coming!

2015/08/082015/08/07

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/08

Terse link week!

From distribution to project.
Using OpenBSD as a FreeBSD Router. (via)
More C2K15 reports on Undeadly.
A new OpenBSD Foundation donor.
OpenBSD now defaults to remote root logins permitted – with key.
Quakecon runs on BSD. (via)
BSD Magazine for I assume August.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/27.
LibreSSL 2.2.2 is out.
PC-BSD 10.2-RC1 Now Available.
FreeBSD 10.2-RC2 Now Available. No, wait, RC3.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.6 Released!
BSDCan 2015 trip report from Mark Linimon.