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2020/09/052020/09/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/05

It’s a good mix this week.

ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again.
FreeBSD 11.3 EOL.
Modernizing the OpenBSD console.
Valuable News – 2020/08/31.
FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync.
6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD)
PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in OpenBSD.
GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment.
Find which package provides a given file in OpenBSD.
The roles of OSs have changed. I like the alternate world suggestion.
Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD. (via)
In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? If you’ve been reading this Digest for some time, I bet you already know many of these. (via)
My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]. (via)

2020/08/292020/08/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/29

No theme, but plenty of variety.

A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel.
Valuable News – 2020/08/24.
“TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters.
TrueNAS 12.0 beta out.
MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out.
pkgdb belongs in libdata, not var. Them’s fightin’ words!
rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc. Them too!
GhostBSD financial reports. I like seeing this out in the open. (via)
What is the oldest BSD? Not as short an answer as you may think. (via)
Tarsnap podcast episode with FreeBSD ex security officer Colin Percival. (via)
From 8′ to 4″: massive pkgsrc performance gain by replacing a shell script with awk.

2020/08/222020/08/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/22

Started this with overflow from last week.

2020/08/152020/08/13

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/15

Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there.

BSDCan 2020 videos. (via)
File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via)
My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products of culture. Related to last week’s options links.
A Generation Lost in the Bazaar. 2012 but still accurate. (via)
EvilQuest on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD and Jails at BSD Rennes, an event I did not know about. Here’s more.
Drawing Pictures The Unix Way – with pic and troff.
Valuable News – 2020/08/10.
Recovering 2.11BSD, fighting the patches.
LLVM 10.0.0 imported into -current.
NetBSD on the NanoPi NEO2. (via)
GSoC Reports: Benchmarking NetBSD, second evaluation report.
GSoC 2020 Second Evaluation Report: Curses Library Automated Testing.

2020/08/082020/08/05

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/08

Fun variety this week.

2020/08/012020/07/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/01

That last link is around the corner from me.

2020/07/252020/07/23

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/25

Lots of old BSD this week.

Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.

2020/07/112020/07/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/11

Dragged right out of my RSS feeds.

Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06.
Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too.
FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today.
Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support. (HardenedBSD)
OPNsense 20.1.8 released.
TrueCommand 1.3 out.
OpenBSD upgraders need to delete libperl.a.
Diablo (Hell/Hell co-op) – PlayOnBSD. (via)
Emulex – Cheapest 10GE for Your Homelab on FreeBSD. (via)
Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro.
Via previous link: Everyone should buy the USEBSD sticker.

2020/07/042020/07/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/04

This should be prime convention season, darnit.

Smallest device running BSD?
Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via)
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results.
BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP.
Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process.
Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD. (via)
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists. Touches early BSD UNIX.
Announcing FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes. (via)
pkgsrc-2020Q2 released.
End of support for NetBSD 7.
ChiBUG has a poll up about meeting. Vote, if you are near.

2020/06/132020/06/12

In Other BSDs for 2020/06/13

I like having shorter link texts so they all line up, but sometimes it’s unavoidably descriptive.

FreeBSD’s new Code of Conduct.
Gaming on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD HEAD Binary Upgrades. (via bsdweekly)
Install OpenBSD 6.7-current on a PineBook Pro 64. (via bsdweekly)
TrueNAS is Multi-OS. My hot take is that this is a side effect of ZFS becoming commoditized.
Speaking of which, ZFS: adding a drive back into the zpool.
DRM update committed. It’s OpenBSD, so direct render, not digital rights.
pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 Now Available.
Valuable News – 2020/06/08. Argh, there’s ad popups on what is otherwise a very nice site.
“Blood” (game) ported to NetBSD.
Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port.
Import DHCP reservations from Synology DHCP Server to OpenBSD dhcpd(8).
OpenBSD 6.7 on PC Engines APU4D4.

2020/06/062020/06/05

In Other BSDs for 2020/06/06

Remember, BSDCan 2020 is still streaming if you read this early enough.

Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe.
BastilleBSD Template updates. (via)
Bringing FreeBSD to EC2 with Colin Percival. A long and worthwhile story, on a non-BSDpodcast. (via)
The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey.
Peeking inside executables and libraries to make debugging easier. Applies to BSD as it says.
Some new fnaify-supported games.
Custom tab completions in oksh.
VAX port needs help.
FreeBSD 11.4 RC2 available.
My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. I’ve had good luck with that series.
Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
Valuable News – 2020/06/01.
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction.

2020/05/302020/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/30

Something that makes me happy: Vermaden’s Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now.

Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via)
BSD Hardware – Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via)
Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis.
OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs. (via)
Podcast interview on SNMP. Ostensibly about SNMP, but involves BSD people.
NetBSD used to default to csh.
Netatalk3 Mac file sharing on NetBSD.
Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full. Linked cause I can never remember the right ifconfig syntax for a bridge.
EXAPUNKS and Opus Magnum on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 20.1.7 released.
Valuable News – 2020/05/25.

2020/05/162020/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/16

We need a “BSD Games” site.

2020/05/092020/05/09

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/09

Good mix of history and current BSDs this week.

FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!”
Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via)
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability. More BSD history, or prehistory. (via)
You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
NetBSD Core Team Changes.
HamBSD Development Log 2020-05-07. (via)
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2).
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects. (NetBSD)
Enable firefox dark mode.
Valuable News – 2020/05/04.
Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD. I am intrigued by the “Let’s Note” laptops mentioned.
Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault.
Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD. (via)
What OSes we use here (as of May 2020).
OpenBSD ksh port for macOS and Linux. (via)
Time on Unix. (via)
Munching Squares. PDP-7, so pre-BSD, pre-UNIX?
virtualization in windows.

2020/05/022020/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/02

Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here.

2020/04/252020/04/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/25

Tab cleanout time!

OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several)
FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE.
Valuable News – 2020/04/20.
Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS.
How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD.
How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel.
(lost the source links on those last few; sorry.)
‘“things to do” after you have FreeBSD installed‘.
There’s a whole bunch of new jobs posted on the NYCBUG jobs@ list.
Replacing existing Cisco ASA 5520 with pfSense HA Cluster.
HardenedBSD April 2020 Status Report.
EKCD – Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD.
TrueNAS 11.3-U2 is Generally Available.
Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops. Might have good news for general hardware support for other systems? (via)
Debugging freebsd.org Resolution Failure. (via)

2020/04/182020/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/18

Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.

Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.

2020/04/042020/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/04

Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work.

Full history of DragonFly, documented

Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it. So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged copy.

2020/03/282020/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/28

I have multiple BSD based systems to update, reboot, and hopefully not physically visit in the next week or so.

pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE Now Available.
Booting [OpenBSD] from an FFS2 filesystem.
[packages] Retiring Python 2 support in IPython.
AnsiMail, based on ansible, not ANSI as older folks may immediately think. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/03/23.
Bob Beck Interview from EuroBSDCon 2018.
XIGMANAS 12.1.0.4 Ingva Released. Did not know this existed. (via)
More than 1/3 of commercial games for OpenBSD on sale on GOG.com. (via)
Question about a game. (Ultimate Doom, on OpenBSD, though it may apply to any BSD)
FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550.
OpenBSD’s ‘spinning’ CPU time category.
OpenBSD -current – Frequent asked questions.