FreeBSD – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2022/04/302022/04/27

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/30

How-to week rather than updates week.

2022/04/232022/04/21

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/23

A bunch of releases this week.

OpenBGPD 7.3 released.
tcsh vi mode cursor shapes.
sometimes the knote comes early.
The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14, and Sundry Observations and Insights…
two and a half bad bits.
OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.
Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS.
Valuable News – 2022/04/19.
MidnightBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE. (via)
FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 is out.
OpenBSD 7.1 released.
OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out.
Interacting with FreeBSD: Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell. FreeBSD 14 is switching default root shell, apparently.

2022/04/092022/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/09

Last news item is the saddest.

Does swap still matter? I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there’s more.
System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.
FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.
Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.
Valuable News – 2022/04/04.
helloSystem 13.1-RC1.
Multiprocess support for LLDB.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS. Part 1 of 4.
Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor. (via)
Bill Jolitz has passed away. (via)

2022/04/022022/04/02

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/02

Mini-ZFS theme this week.

OpenBSD Webzine #8.
Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
Nixxers is back!
Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
Does swap still matter? A long thread.
Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
ZFS Compatibility.
Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.

2022/03/262022/03/23

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/26

Note the new-to-me book news in there.

The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
Testing parallel forwarding.
NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4) gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.
Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There’s some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)

2022/03/192022/03/19

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/19

You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.

Where cut comes into Unix (and a bit on the history of awk)
Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
~~helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.~~ As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.
Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.

2022/03/122022/03/10

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/12

No theme, but decent material.

2022/03/052022/03/03

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/05

Mini-theme: releases.

Valuable News – 2022/02/28.
ChiBUG, meeting March 8th at 6 PM in-person. Go if you are near.
OpenBSD Webzine issue 7.
Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu.
multimc failed to allocate memory.
Milky Way v0.4 release.
Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction. (via)
OPNsense 21.7.8, 21.10.3 Business Edition, and 22.1.1 released.
OpenSSH updated to 8.9.
LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released.
FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life.
FreeBSD Foundation is looking for proposals.

2022/02/262022/02/23

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/26

Software releses is the mini-theme, I guess.

The important things about Unix init systems aren’t booting the system.
The history (sort of) of service management in Unix, related to previous.
OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems. (via)
What’s Ahead for FreeBSD and the Foundation in 2022.
The FreeBSD Boot Process. I like that Klara Systems just keeps publishing articles.
NFS Shares With ZFS.
Valuable News – 2022/02/21.
Packaging CopperSpice.
pfSense Plus 22.01 and pfSense CE 2.6.0 are out.
[OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.1-beta.
Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary.

2022/02/192022/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/19

No theme this week other than of course BSD.

Sensors Information on FreeBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q4 is out.
Valuable News – 2022/02/14.
New ‘Reckless guide to OpenBSD’ published. Weekly installments.
Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code. Note the daemon on the cover.
My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD. (via)
Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD. (via)
pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available. (via)
Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc. (via)
The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)

Option options for getopt

I realize my title is a little bit buffalo buffalo buffalo, but it makes sense: getopt(3) now has a double colon option to indicate an optional argument. I link to it because I like seeing the length of the trip to DragonFly. It started as a GNU option, then showed up in NetBSD, brought to FreeBSD, and now I’m posting about it.

2022/02/122022/02/09

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/12

No mini-theme.

Mail Server Hosting on OpenBSD. (via)
Harmful things. Linked for #2. (via)
ultima online.
quBSD. “jails/bhyve implementation of a Qubes-inspired containerization schema” (via)
RAID-Z Expansion Feature for ZFS In the Home Stretch.
UNIX: On the Path to BSD.
Modern inetd in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD and Alternative Inits.
Books About FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2022/02/07.
XFCE Cupertino Way.

2022/02/052022/02/04

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/05

Note the first three items are events with deadlines happening now.

There’s a NetBSD chat happening online this morning – in a few moments.
Noting again: BSDCan 2022 is going to be online, and the CFP closes Monday.
FOSDEM 2022 is happening today and tomorrow, and there’s several BSD events as usual. It’s online so you can get there.
What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS.
The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API).
Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
OPNSense 22.1 released.
Smallest desktop of the day with BSD: Raspberry Pi 400.
Related: r/Hardware_for_BSD.
Valuable News – 2022/01/31.
d-ptr pitfalls.
HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report.
FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s.
Can’t run Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.

2022/01/292022/01/26

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/29

Watch that Kernighan video; he is what a historian would call a primary source.

The Birth of UNIX.
“The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” – Brian Kernighan (LCA 2022 Online). History from a person who made it. (via)
Agent constraints in OpenSSH, a good idea. As the source link comments, it’ll appear in BSD right away, Linux in… years from now.
Twincat/BSD. BSD gets used in a lot of places that people don’t know about.
BastilleBSD is running a user survey. (via)
2021 Top DiscoverBSD and BSDSec articles.
2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report.
FreeBSD Periodic Scripts.
How not to execve().
Valuable News – 2022/01/24.
OPNsense 21.7.7 released. Apparently there is a business edition now?
Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD.

2022/01/222022/01/21

In Other BSDs for 2022/01/22

The UNIX compliance link is worth reading all the way through; it is a chunk of history I did not know at all.

What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? Answered by the guy that led it at Apple. Note the relatively short time needed to do the same for FreeBSD. (via)
The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 6 and Day 7.
LibBSDDialog.
GhostBSD 22.01.12 ISO is now available.
Valuable News – 2022/01/17.
Wine 7 is released. FreeBSD is the only BSD for it I think. (via)
Suyimazu – Wine-based Game Launcher for FreeBSD. (via)
FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails With ZFS and VNET. (via)
Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD.
LLDB FreeBSD kernel debugging support summary.
Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant.
OpenBSD on the PinePhone. (via)
BSD based solutions virtualisation/clustering of resources for VMs.
LibreSSL update.

2022/01/152022/01/14

In Other BSDs for 2022/01/15

Catching up on some items I missed last week.

Packet Scheduling with Dummnynet and FreeBSD.
The important Unix idea of the “virtual filesystem switch”.
A big PostgreSQL upgrade.
Some ways to implement /dev/fd in Unix kernels.
Video: Q&A. About all the mostly-BSD hacking joshua stein does.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2021Q4 branch. (via)
The BulkTracker Outage.
GhostBSD 0nline Meetup, January 21st.
Valuable News – 2022/01/10.
LLDB FreeBSD live kernel debugging support.
Minecraft 1.18.1 and latest MultiMC.

2022/01/082022/01/05

In Other BSDs for 2022/01/08

End-of-year articles I am just catching up to now.

The Tao of tmux (2017). Linked cause it nicely mentions configuration on BSD but also because it’s super-comprehensive. (via)
Active Directory Needs Friends! A continuation from a previous AD-on-BSD article.
SEMIBUG’s January 18 talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, who has cowritten several books about it.
FreeBSD Foundation 2022 Call for Proposals.
Toolchains adventures – Q4 2021.
TrueCommand 2.1 is out.
OpenBSD Webzine #6.
Adventures in BSD parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. (via)
Valuable News – 2022/01/03.

2021/12/252021/12/24

In Other BSDS for 2021/12/25

Merry Christmas! I am probably opening presents or poking my children to wake up and open presents hurry hurry, as you read this.

helloSystem 0.7 is out.
FreeBSD, Jails and SYSV IPC. (via)
FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Advocacy.
FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Infrastructure Support.
FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2021 Status Update. Foundation, not Project.
OpenVPN on OpenBSD in its own rdomain to prevent data leak.
[talk] Linux Compat on FreeBSD. A tip for better compatibility.
OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2.
Persistency management of memory based filesystem on OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/12/20.
SSH Agent Restriction.
Clang upgraded to version 13. (OpenBSD)

2021/12/112021/12/10

In Other BSDs for 2021/12/11

A little short this week but the holidays are catching up to me.

The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems. (via)
BSDCan 2022 is going to happen and maybe even in person. The call for papers is out.
ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 14th.
FreeBSD 12.3 is out.
Valuable News – 2021/12/06.
Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support.
FreeBSD on Slimbook — 14 months of updates.
TrueNAS 12.0U7 is out.
Cross-platform package building: Pkgsrc vs. Ravenports, parts one and two.
Active Directory not-on-Windows, might be useful.
A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like.

2021/12/042021/12/03

In Other BSDs for 2021/12/04

Not just release announcements this week.

NYCBUG is down today for a significant hardware move.
FOSDEM 2022 is going to have a BSD Devroom. It’s online, so you can submit prerecorded talks – submissions due December 31.
Valuable News – 2021/11/29.
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available.
mfs: sometimes useful?
Exploring NetBSD’s msgs(1). (via)
Review: Netgate 6100.
FreeBSD article writers needed. I’ve linked to Klara Systems before.
Speaking of which, UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
New Test System. OpenBSD storage book is next apparently.
HardenedBSD November 2021 Status Report.
doas insults. This is a gem. (via)
The previous link led me to 9front’s theo.
Simple network dashboard with vnstat.
The state of Steam on OpenBSD.
Logitech MX Keys and MX Master on OpenBSD using Logi Bolt.
OpenBSD Webzine #5.