FreeBSD – Page 7 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Sometimes you get 2 nice tips: I like seeing this NetBSD->FreeBSD->DragonFly cross pollination in this commit, and also now I know I can fsck a FAT volume on BSD.

3rd bonus: that last sentence sounds terribly rude.

2020/01/112020/05/21

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/11

No theme evolved, but lots more links this week.

Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1.
BSD user groups in Italy. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via)
HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via)
Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments may also be interesting.
Valuable News – 2020/01/06.
The BSDCan 2020 call for papers closes on the 19th; get yours in soon!
ChiBUG meets on the 14th. I’ll post a reminder.
Using rsnapshot for easy backups.
Archives are important to retain and pass on knowledge. Someday, you will thank you.
Firefox pkg for 6.6-stable will not receive latest updates. (OpenBSD)
FreeBSD end-of-year recap by adridg. FreeBSD, Calamares.
Hunspell on FreeBSD. (via)
Bastille Containers on FreeBSD.
Related: A practical guide to containers on FreeNAS for a depraved psychopath.
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean. The comments in the source link note you can get any BSD installed that way.

2020/01/042020/01/03

In Other BSDs for 2020/01/04

It was an abnormally quiet week – probably because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because I cleared my BSD link backlog last week.

2019/12/282019/12/27

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/28

Quiet week, so catch up on your reading here.

putting stuff in a proliant dl325. Not that BSD-specific but still.
WireGuard OpenBSD Router. (via)
Elasticsearch on MidnightBSD.
How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer. Valid, though the writing may annoy you, not just because it misses BSD history completely. (via)
OpenBSD system-call-origin verification. (via)
usb(4) and uhid(4) changes.
unwind(8) no longer uses http to detect captive portals.
OPNsense 19.7.8 released.
“New” laptop. Thinkpad X250 + NetBSD 9.0 RC1 + velox (tiling wayland compositor). Linked cause velox is new to me.
Hyperbola – News: Announcing HyperbolaBSD Roadmap. (via)
Visual Studio Code port for FreeBSD. (via)
Noting it late because of the holiday: BSD Now 330: Happy Holidays, All(an).
Happy Holidays From HardenedBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/12/23.
OpenBSD has to be a BSD Unix and you couldn’t duplicate it with Linux. “… the OpenBSD developers are clearly willing to remove support for something if they feel strongly enough about it”.
The followup, The BSD and Linux approaches to development put coherence in different places. Finally a non-license argument.
Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610. Odd, and I think had some BSD parts. Lots of other neat hardware on that site. (via)

2019/12/212019/12/21

In Other BSDs for 2019/12/21

I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his ~~unnatural love of gelato~~ BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker.