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2014/01/112014/01/10

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/11

Running late putting this together… Back to bullets!

The weekly PC-BSD digest for January 3rd.
DiscoverBSD’s weekly roundup.
PC-BSD’s weekly digest.
Jailing FreeBSD 4 on FreeBSD 10. FreeBSD 4 has been a very long-lived release, so to speak.
OpenBSD has a new auto-install feature that needs to be tested.
Julio Merino has plans for his test suite on FreeBSD, and will be giving a tutorial on it at AsiaBSDCon 2014.
OpenBSD has a new ‘signify’ program for cryptographically signing and verifying files.
Ingo Schwarze has been implementing various optimizations for mandoc in OpenBSD. gprof helps.
FreeBSD has updated netmap.
python-3.2 is probably going to be removed from pkgsrc; it’s redundant to all the other versions.
FreeBSD’s gcc version is being made more compatible to clang by incorporating some Apple changes.

2014/01/042014/01/04

In Other BSDs for 2014/01/04

Things are picking up again after the break.

Faces of FreeBSD: Isabell Long. Note that she came in via Google Code-In. That’s the value of those programs.
OpenBSD: Randomness, sooner.
OpenBSD’s change to PIE for i386 means special upgrade procedures – if you’re on i386. Also, here’s PIE. atexit(3) changes also changes the upgrade method this one time for… all platforms? I’m not sure.
The DiscoverBSD roundup for 12/31/2013.
The FreeBSD Test Suite. It’s similar to what NetBSD has, but see the source link for comments on what’s different. DragonFly has a test setup too, though I’ve never tried it – is there one for OpenBSD?
Pkgsrc-2013Q4 is branched.
FreeBSD has improved NFS performance.
NetBSD has updated libpcap, tcpdump, wpa, bind, and dhcpcd.
OpenBSD has updated xterm, glproto, and some other xenocara parts.

2013/12/282013/12/27

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/28

Again, quiet from the holiday break.

strlcpy/strlcat users, a rundown. The buffer overflow problem is suprisingly widespread. (via)
The PC-BSD Digest for 12/20 and for 12/27.
The DiscoverBSD weekly summary.
Faces of FreeBSD: Kevin Martin.
FreeNAS 9.2.0 is out. (via)
OpenSMTPD, a project I’ve always meant to look at more, has been updated.
BSD Magazine for December 2013 is out. The RSS feed for them/their newsletter is no longer working, cause I had to find out here.
ruBSD talks about OpenBSD are online.
There’s new support in NetBSD for that old Amiga.
You may need to update your OpenBSD packages.
NetBSD’s smbfs is now an import from FreeBSD.
NetBSD has updated ACPICA and OpenPAM.

2013/12/142013/12/13

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/14

Another week where I could get away without any commit links, just cause there’s so much BSD stuff out there.

Randomness changes in FreeBSD. Saw commits before, but this is a good summary. (via)
Cipher changes summary for OpenBSD.
The DiscoverBSD summary.
Faces of FreeBSD for this week: Brooks Davis.
PC-BSD’s weekly summary.
FuguIta, an OpenBSD liveCD.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s Semi-Annual Newsletter. There’s details on the FreeBSD Journal.
Also, that newsletter links this first of 4 BSD whitepapers.
The FreeBSD Challenge on linuxcauldron.com – a 30-day challenge.
BSDCan 2014 has issued a call for papers.
So has NYCBSDCon 2014. Here’s the announcement of NYCBSDCon 2014 itself, and flyer.
Note to self: investigate cheap bus trips to New York City.
The IP-Plug, a NetBSD-powered wall wart. The article goes into terrific detail.
Ruby in pkgsrc will be (apparently?) defaulting to version 2.0.
robotpkg, a specialized fork of pkgsrc that I didn’t know about.
PC-BSD is going through lots of changes to support pkg. (that’s one of many commits.)
FreeBSD has added newcons.

2013/12/12

Go APE for bge and bnx

The bnx(4) and bge(4) network drivers now have APE support, thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau. What’s that mean? Other than an opportunity for punning jokes, I don’t know.

2013/12/092013/12/09

A BSD plan: license summaries

I had a sometimes-great, sometimes-difficult trip to New York City over the past few days, and while I was there, I met the ball of energy that is George Rosamond of NYCBUG (which is having a huge party right now.) He and I talked for a bit about various aspects of the BSD ecosystem, and one thing he noted was that people aren’t generally aware of all the licenses in use for the different software packages on the system, or even the individual licenses in the system files.

There is an ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES setting in pkgsrc, where software licensed under terms not in that list won’t install. That’s useful, but frustrating, because it keeps people from getting what they asked for – a software install. Something that would be useful – and it could be cross-BSD very easily – would be a license audit summary.

There’s meta-data on every package in FreeBSD’s ports and DragonFly’s dports and pkgsrc and OpenBSD’s port system. Why not say ‘pkg licenses’ in the same way you can say ‘pkg info’, and get a summary of the licenses you have installed in the system? (or pkg_licenses, etc. You get the idea) This wouldn’t prevent people from installing software, but it would give a very quick view of what you were using.

> pkg licenses

Software package License ---------------- ------- foo-2.2.26 Apache license bar-7.999999 Donateware baz_ware-20131209 MIT quux-silly-6.5 BSD

It could be extended to the base system, but I’d like to see this in all the packaging systems as a common idea, in the same way that ‘info’ in a packaging command always shows what’s installed.

2013/12/072013/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2013/12/07

Happy birthday to me!

Is Your Stack Protector Working? On Undeadly, so it’s OpenBSD.
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH. (via)
The next PC-BSD 10.0 image is available.
Reid Linnemann is the latest in the Faces of FreeBSD series.
NetBSD has updated file.
FreeBSD’s iwn(4) driver has some updates (also in DragonFly).
FreeBSD now has casperd, for controlling access to out-of-sandbox capabilities.
FreeBSD’s oce(4) driver now supports 40Gb devices. (yay for manufacturer support)
FreeBSD has Hyper-V drivers.
OpenBSD’s ifconfig now shows the NWID, channel, and BSSID for IBSS networks.
OpenBSD has updated to pixman 0.32.4.
pkgsrc’s 2013Q4 freeze will start on the 16th.
How old is who? (Don’t tell me 900 years.)
There’s a broken builds list for pkgsrc-2013Q4 for anyone who wants to help.
Hacker News had a link to the FreeBSD version of the BSD Family Tree, which is not unique, but the comments led to some interesting links, like this story of an 8-year NetBSD uptime.
FreeBSDNews’s summary.
All the AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos. (Last week’s link was just OpenBSD ones.)
FreeBSD authentication against Samba 4 LDAP. I’m going to need this for the DragonFly machine I’m setting up in the same role at work… in my copious spare time.

2013/11/302013/11/29

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/30

A lighter week for commits probably because of the U.S. holiday, but still plenty of things to link.

Gabor Pali is this week’s ‘Faces of FreeBSD‘.
The DiscoverBSD weekly BSD summary.
There will be a FreeBSD Journal, though I see no mention on the Foundation site yet.
There’s a ruBSD conference on December 14th, in Moscow. Undeadly has a page about it, and there’s the translation, if you feel lucky.
BSDCan needs volunteers.
Because FreeBSD is using the pre-GPL3 version of GCC, Google’s patches for Android (since that environment is apparently avoiding GPL3 too) have been brought in.
FreeBSD has updated to svn 1.8.5.
OpenBSD has updated NSD to 4.0.
NetBSD has updated mpc. mpfr, and gmp.
NetBSD has moved from pppd to ppp.
FreeBSD is dropping 32-bit binary support, for reasons. But maybe not?
Is it time to dump Linux and move to BSD? Yes, of course.

2013/11/272013/11/25

Good news for iwn(4) users

If you have a recent laptop with an iwn(4) wireless chipset, Matthew Dillon’s recent work getting an updated version of the driver together will probably help you. It was done specifically to support a Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230, but many more should also now work.

2013/11/232013/11/24

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/23

I’m working my way up to more than just links to source for the cross-BSD news. There’s a lot to swim through!

NYCBSDCon 2014 (on February 8, 2014 – note the recent change) is, in addition to the normal call for papers, having a ‘call for exposés’, meaning they want people to expose BSD projects. I found this out through the undeadly.org description noting that some MIPS machines will be on display. This is an excellent idea; BSD projects need a showcase.
There’s also a NYC Tech Meta-party, with NYCBUG and many other groups participating.
FOSDEM 2014 will have a BSD Room.
FreeBSD developer and FreeBSD-based-business-owner Colin Percival gets a spotlight from the FreeBSD Foundation.
DiscoverBSD’s BSD summary. We need more of this.
FreeBSD News miscellaneous links. Hey, there’s more!
hostileadmin has a slew of wrap-up reports from vBSDCon. Sounds like a good time was had by all.
Here’s more vBSDCon wrapups, plus slides.
And a developer (John-Mark Gurney) trip to vBSDCon sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation.
Also, AsiaBSDCon OpenBSD presentations in video form.
The pfSense blog is called “The pfSense Digest”. Digest… hey, that sounds like a good, descriptive term! They also are looking to hire. I just used some of my paid pfSense support time on a work problem – well worth the money spent.
OK, back to source commit links.
FreeBSD has enabled some Texas Instruments hardware.
FreeBSD has added some example test framework programs.
FreeBSD has added the axge(4) driver for ASIX AX88178A and AX88179 USB Ethernet
adapters.
OpenBSD has 802.11A support in wpi(4).
(updated to add) There’s a PC-BSD weekly digest, too. That’s good, because I had trouble spotting things in the massive flood of PBI approvals over the past week.

2013/11/162013/11/15

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/16

Not as much pulled directly from the source lists this time, which is good.

It’s no surprise that I would say this, but: it makes me happy to see other BSD projects doing regular summaries, like this one or that one for PC-BSD or this general BSD summary.
A random PC-BSD review found via Google Search.
PC-BSD 10 test images are available. I wonder if that’s related to the eleventy-billion commits lately out of the PC-BSD Github account?
OpenBSD/CARP, Cisco, and schadenfreude.
The FreeBSD Foundation’s annual fundraising is on; they have already made it well along, but there’s still lots of dollars to go.
OpenBSD now has automatic disk mounting.
g4u 2.6 has entered beta. It’s “Ghost for Unix”, which gives you an idea of what it does.
EuroBSDCon 2013 DevSummit video recordings are up. I said there would be video all week, didn’t I?
Using OpenBSD with Vagrant and Veewee. Those tool names sound somewhat rude.
pbulk bulk builds for pkgsrc made easy. I was working on a script like this.
Cross–pollination makes me happy.
svn in FreeBSD is updated.
FreeBSD supports the MediaTek/Ralink RT5370/RT5372 chipset.
nvi still gets updates.
FreeBSD supports the (takes deep breath) Freescale Vybrid Family VF600 heterogeneous
ARM Cortex-A5/M4 SoC. (exhales)
FreeBSD has an IEEE Organizationally Unique Identifier. Not sure what it means.
NetBSD has a new game, hals_end. If you saw 2001 the movie, you may guess the contents.
OpenBSD has a new ugl driver for the Genesys Logic GL620USB-A
USB host-to-host link cable.

2013/11/092013/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/09

Not sure why, but there wasn’t a lot of things this week to pick out.

A short discussion of Perfect Forward Secrecy on pkgsrc-users.
PC-BSD apparently (used to) play a movie on first boot.
FreeBSD now has a ‘mini-memstick‘ install option. (a later messages says ~200M in size.)
FreeBSD has updated aacraid.
OpenBSD supports the RTS5229 card reader in rtsx(4).
OpenBSD has updated OpenSSH, and NetBSD has updated. (DragonFly has a fix for the underlying problem.)
OpenBSD has FUSE support.

2013/11/022013/11/01

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/02

There’s a surprisingly large list this week.

FreeBSD has updated netmap.
FreeBSD supports VT-d DMAR hardware. Not totally sure what that is.
FreeBSD supports the RealTek RTL8168G, RTL8168GU, RTL8411B, and RTL8168EP.
FreeBSD updated byacc to version 20130925.
FreeBSD has binary packages again.
Managed Services using FreeBSD at NYI, a whitepaper.
NetBSD has imported OpenBSD’s support for ASIX AX88178a and AX88179 USB network interfaces, in the axen(4) driver.
NetBSD supports the Broadcom BCM56340 iProc based switch.
OpenBSD supports unattended installation. See Also on Undeadly.
OpenBSD has softraid booting documentation. Someone will find this useful, I’m sure.
OpenBSD 5.4 is released.
Inspecting Packets with OpenBSD and pf, the presentation from vBSDCon.
Lua in pkgsrc has been modified.
Ocaml in pkgsrc has been updated to 4.0.1.
The BSD Router Project has hit 1.5. (via)
PC-BSD 10 alpha images are available for testing.
PC-BSD is doing weekly updates, an idea I support, unsurprisingly.
No BSD systems in Google Code-In this year, darnit.

2013/10/28

New ideas for Capsicum and DragonFly

Joris Giovannangeli, who worked on porting Capsicum to DragonFly for Summer of Code 2013, is continuing his work. He’s posted a detailed note on how to do capability management in a new way, with it retaining compatibility with FreeBSD’s capsicum implementation.

2013/10/262013/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/26

Once again, doing this at the last minute:

FreeBSD supports the FreeScale Fast Ethernet controller on a number of SoC systems.
FreeBSD’s jemalloc has been updated to 3.4.1.
FreeBSD has initial support for the RealTek RTL8106E PCIe Fast Ethernet chipset.
FreeBSD has significant changes to the CAM subsystem.
FreeBSD has initial support for the Rockchip RK3188 SoC.
FreeBSD has an updated oce(4) driver, directly supported by Emulex, the vendor. (always nice to see vendor support.)
FreeBSD now has a /usr/tests.
There’s some NetBSD in your Mercedes.
the safety of the internet is called into doubt
OpenBSD supports the cubieboard and other allwinner devices.
OpenBSD supports the XBox controller.
A few packages are being retired from pkgsrc because of lack of DESTDIR support.

2013/10/192013/10/18

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/19

I am doing this one at the last minute. I had all the articles noted, but normally I build this post over the course of the week.

FreeBSD has added the atse(4) network driver.
FreeBSD has added iw_cxgbe, for Chelsio T4/T5 chips.
FreeBSD has added (initial, minimal) AR9340 switch SoC support.
PC-BSD has an interesting install-to-SSD option that disables atime and swap.
NetBSD now has a Lua device driver to access.
NetBSD has added Apple’s libunwind.
NetBSD has added several different iic sensors from OpenBSD.
OpenBSD has added vxlan(4), a virtual LAN setup. (Layer 2 traffic over layer 3)
“Vendor said so” is a reasonable excuse.
OpenBSD has an altq replacement.

2013/10/122013/10/11

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/12

I got some PC-BSD items this week, too.

Open Source Snapshot: GhostBSD.
(Free)BSD and Dropbox.
FreeBSD finally dumped rcs.
FreeBSD’s igb(4) driver is updated to 2.4.0.
FreeBSD’s binutils now has “sup port for assembling and disassembling Intel Random Number Generator extensions“.
You can now use ‘athsurvey’ on AR5212 chipset ath(4) devices in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD branched version 11.
FreeBSD has changes contributed by… Microsoft?
PC-BSD has added a GUI version of their Life Preserver application.
PC-BSD has a new ‘pc-zmanager’ program for managing ZFS and disks.
PC-BSD has branched version 10, I think.
NetBSD runs on the iMX233/OLinuXino.
OpenBSD replaced rc4 with ChaCha20. No, I’m not sure what that means. (via)
OpenBSD now has the vmwpvs(4) driver, for VMWare paravirtualized SCSI.
OpenBSD has imported Mesa 9.2.1 and Freetype 2.5.0.1.
OpenBSD supports the AM335x EDMA3 controller.
OpenBSD supports the RTL8106E and RTL8168G/8111G networking chipsets.
Diffe-Hellman key size increased in OpenBSD. It’s from NIST Special Publication 800-57, which is unavailable as of this typing because of the stupid U.S. government shutdown.

2013/10/102013/10/08

Radeon KMS driver added

The Radeon KMS driver from FreeBSD has been imported to DragonFly by Francois Tigeot. It still has problems with ttm, but don’t let that stop you from taking advantage of it.

2013/10/072013/10/08

Here, there, everywhere for mdocml

Franco Fichtner recently received commit rights for DragonFly. This is so he could import mdocml, a OpenBSD-originating replacement for groff and man page display. Mdocml has been mentioned before on the Digest, and there’s a downloadable book. (See the more-interesting-than-it-sounds History of UNIX Manpages there too, but I digress.)

One advantage of using mdocml, as I understand it, is that groff is no longer required to view man pages. The only thing left in DragonFly that required a C++ compiler was groff. So, rebuilding could be a bit faster, and a bit less complicated.

Here’s the part that makes me happy: Changes made in DragonFly promptly made it back into NetBSD’s mdocml. Other changes rolled from DragonFly back into OpenBSD, too, and mdocml is in FreeBSD 10, though I don’t have a src change to point at right now. It all circled back around to DragonFly, too. It’s really neat to have a BSD-grown cross-BSD product.

(Incidentally, if you have a Thinkpad and keyboard issues, Franco has a patch for you to try.)

2013/10/052013/10/04

In Other BSDs for 2013/10/05

Less straight source links this week.

FreeBSD 9.2 is out.
FreeBSD no longer has GNU ar or GNU ranlib, or BIND.
FreeBSD has an Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution update. (OFED info) (helps DragonFly)
NetBSD has initial support for the OMAP1-183 board.
NetBSD has updated terminfo to 20130607.
NetBSD has imported FreeBSD’s new implementation of NFS – does not run yet.
NetBSD 6.1.2 and 6.0.3 are out.
The pkgsrc-2013Q3 freeze is over, and here’s the branch announcement.
There’s some discussion of long-term support in pkgsrc, an idea I like.
EuroBSDCon 2013 presentations for OpenBSD are online.
OpenBSD now has a built-in snmp client. Undeadly has a description.
OpenBSD now has ntpctl(8), for querying ntpd.
There’s a new MaheshaBSD video on YouTube. (it’s a custom FreeBSD setup, though DragonFly versions exist too.)

Related to DragonFly: Patrick Welche updated glib2 in pkgsrc, and is interested in hearing how it works for DragonFly users. If you have pkgsrc on your system and it’s not a quarterly release, try building t.