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2021/06/192021/06/17

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/19

Follow the helloSystem links this week.

Sponsorships for DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, are available.
SourceHut on NetBSD, I think, mentioned here.
SANY adopts TwinCAT/BSD for the automation of wind turbines. (via)
helloSystem 0.5 is out. (via several places)
Related: This comment from I assume a helloSystem developer is the best polite “how do you like them apples?” comment I’ve seen in a long time.
FreeBSD package building pt. 4: (Slightly) Advanced Synth and FreeBSD package building pt. 5: Sophisticated Synth.
My EC2 wishlist.
Valuable News – 2021/06/14.
HardenedBSD 2021 Donation Run.
Help me decide: which BSD for a first tryout?
Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD. Happened to me too.
Are all installed packages available for reinstall?
Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3).
Using dpb on OpenBSD for package compilation cluster.

2021/06/122021/06/09

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/12

Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week.

FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via)
Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8).
actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree.
NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via)
OpenBGPD 7.0 is out.
LEAP is removed from FreeRADIUS and therefore from OpenBSD.
FreeBSD package building pt. 1: Introduction and test system, pt. 2: Basic Synth, and pt. 3: Intermediate Synth.
Valuable News – 2021/06/07.
Diving into toolchains. Deep dive!
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0, a test of this ZFS boot environment upgrade post I’ve linked before.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail. You may need this.
pfSense Plus 21.05-RELEASE Now Available.
GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD and GearBSD: managing your packages on OpenBSD.

2021/06/052024/04/12

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05

Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.

Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via)
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via)
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6. It is adorable.
What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current). For Minecraft on BSD users.
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years. Look at the first comment on the source.
You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD. (via)

2021/05/292021/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29

Some useful setup instructions in here.

2021/05/222021/05/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

2021/05/152021/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/15

Some opinion, some documentation.

Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via)
Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via)
As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true.
FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via)
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd. (via)
pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package. (via)
March/April 2021 FreeBSD Journal. Why doesn’t this show in the RSS feed for that site? (via)
NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting, online, May 22.
FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1.
Registration Open for the June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Talk and ytalk nostalgia.
LLDB core dump support improvements.

2021/05/082021/05/08

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/08

Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs!

Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think?
ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder.
HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report.
My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD)
KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD and Wayland on FreeBSD with AMDGPU.
OpenBSD: getting started.
NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS).
On Updating QEMU’s bsd-user fork.
Valuable News – 2021/04/26 and 2021/05/03.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 2): Excursion – FreeBSD and security.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 5. The series returns!

2021/05/012021/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/01

There’s some opinions mixed in this week!

NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.

2021/04/242021/04/26

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/24

BUG meetings seem to be happening again, which is nice.

FreeBSD iostat: Understanding the Storage Subsystem and Disk I/O. (via)
Port of the week: musickube. Looks … usable?!
Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments.
No Complexity Allowed, on hello. (via)
FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13.
Polyglot *BSD, next NYCBSD meeting, 2021/05/05. I’ll post a reminder day-of.
ChiBUG May 11th Meeting – Virtual. This too.
Initial Support for the riscv64 Architecture.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 23 – Herbe Notifications and Part 24 – Universal File Opener.
OPNsense 21.1.5 released.
Valuable News – 2021/04/19.
Port of the week: pup.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 1): OPNsense ZFS-based installation.

2021/04/172021/04/16

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/17

I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.

Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
Michael Wl Lucas’s Penguicon 2021 schedule.

2021/04/102021/04/09

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10

I’m hitting all the unixes.

Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
The pubnix history project. (via–via)
Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
Steam on FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
The state of toolchains in NetBSD.

2021/04/032021/04/02

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03

Well, I made up for last week’s short list.

What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
How to split a file into small parts.
UFS Boot Environments.
What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!

Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.

2021/03/272021/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/27

Quiet, this week.

GNU really is a different animal.
Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing.
Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD.
A working D compiler on OpenBSD.
mport package manager.
Valuable News – 2021/03/22.
Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t know about KDE Connect.
ohmyksh, for OpenBSD’s ksh.

2021/03/202021/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/20

Solene is publishing faster than I can link!

EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
Wayland on FreeBSD.
Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
Valuable News – 2021/03/15.

2021/03/132021/03/11

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/13

Literally tabs from my browser in order, here.

“TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course.
Quick-publishing of poudriere packages.
Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD.
DIY OpenBSD router advice.
OPNsense 21.1.3 released.
Valuable News – 2021/03/08.
Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD.
The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
NomadBSD 1.4 released.
My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. Lots of detail here if you are looking at a BSD laptop.
GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13.
FOSSASIA starts today.

2021/03/062021/03/05

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/06

Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week.

HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
Old USENIX pictures.
Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
OPNsense 21.1.2 released.
Use innoextract to get game files from a GOG installer.
FreshBSD relaunched. (via)
OpenBSD – make sure wsconsctl is in sync with the kernel.
MidnightBSD 2.0.5 released.
Bastille on MidnightBSD.
Related: HardenedBSD February 2021 Status Report.
A comparison between mports and FreeBSD ports.
LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed.
Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
dhcpleased(8) – DHCP client daemon. I’m going to read “please” in that every time.
resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration.
Introducing veb(4) – a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1.
Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
bhyve for Calamares Development.
Port of the week: checkrestart.

2021/02/272021/02/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/27

I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings.

XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers.
The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th.
Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours.
FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site.
ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul Vixie.
Port of the week: shapez.io – a libre factory game.
Any MMOs I can play on openbsd?
Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments.
Valuable News – 2021/02/22.
Next NYC*Bug: March 3rd Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia.
pfSense: Obscure Bugs and Code Wizards.
From Clean & Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) desktop.

2021/02/202021/02/19

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/20

There’s a lot to catch up on!

- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6.
- fstab in FreeBSD jails.
- Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
- POSIX locale tracking coming soon. (MirBSD)
- /dev/{drm,drmR} replaced by /dev/dri/{card,renderD}
- runescape on openbsd?
- LWJGL 3.x now in ports tree (makes Minecraft >1.13 run).
- XScreenSaver alpha testers sought. Needs non-Linux testers; you know what to do.
- Seeding a file server quickly.
- A Trip into FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/02/15.
- pfSense Plus 21.02-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.0-RELEASE Now Available.
- Full list of services offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
- Catchup 2021-02-13. (OpenBSD) Hey that’s my schtick!
- Project Status, happy 15th anniversary. (MidnightBSD)
- FreeBSD and I2C. (via)
- NetBSD Resources. (via)

2021/02/132021/02/12

In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13

I have a link backlog, yay!

Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
Valuable News – 2021/02/08.

2021/02/062021/02/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/06

Hardware-heavy this week, sorta.

leave(1) – remind you when you have to leave.
Valuable News – 2021/02/01.
Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD.
Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD.
BREAKING pf(4) change: change route-to so it sends packets to IPs instead of interfaces.
TwinCAT/BSD, a new (to me at least) commercial use of FreeBSD in industrial settings.
WireGuard for pfSense Software. I like that it’s sponsored work everyone gets access to.
ujoy(4) added to -current. (OpenBSD)
FreeBSD Bhyve Overview – Why Its Better Than Other Hypervisors. (via)
Gamecontroller updates in -current. Related to previous link.
OpenBSD KDE Status Report.
Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages.
AAA Gaming on OpenBSD with Google Stadia.
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin on Non-x86 Architectures.
MirBSD “announce” RSS feed. A good idea for any project.
find mostly doesn’t need xargs today on modern Unixes.