Google Summer of Code – DragonFly BSD Digest

The next KnoxBUG meeting is September 5th, with a Trident demo. I’ll post a reminder.
OpenBSD.Amsterdam. Dedicated OpenBSD/vmd servers, which is a neat idea. Could probably do the same thing with vkernels.
MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. (via)
Configuring OpenBSD – System and user config files for a more pleasant laptop. Not all of it is OpenBSD-specific. (via)
Happy Bob’s Libtls tutorial. Also not wholly OpenBSD-specific; more libressl-specific. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 is happening March 21-24, Tokyo, Japan. (via)
Ravenports now on gcc 8.2.
Recent freebsd-jobs posts.
[talk] ARM – any Tier-1 *BSD options? Nice support work from Netgate.
libfuzzer, parts 1, 2, and 3 – a Summer of Code project for NetBSD. I linked the first one before, but hadn’t followed up until now. (via)
OpenBSD, SpamPD and the Startup Bug. (also via)
Public Access Multics. I am happy just typing that sentence.

2018/06/232018/06/22

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/23

Lots of announcements, lots of reading. Note the first item listed is happening today.

Book Fair, 23 June 2018. Michael W. Lucas is at the Scriptorium Book Fest today, in Michigan. Go if you are near and get a signed BSD book.
Escape from System D, Episode V. Interesting cause it mentions BSD and interesting for spot-on characterization of Twitter/Hacker News feedback. (via)
25 years of FreeBSD. (via)
NetBSD Summer of Code reports: libfuzzer, kernel address sanitizer, and kernel undefined behavior sanitizer.
Valuable News 2018/06/17.
FreeBSD Desktop, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. I linked to a few of the early ones before, but I want to present a complete (so far) list.
FreeBSD 11.2-RC3 Available.
OPNsense 18.1.10 released.
httpd(8) Gains Simple Request Rewrites.
SMT Disabled by Default in -current.
More Mitigations for (potential) CPU Vulnerabilities.
LDAP client added to -current. This, or a similar LDAP client, should be present in all BSDs.
KDE on FreeBSD – June 2018. 5 is almost working in DragonFly, too, by the way. (via)
itch.io Summer Sale + General itch.io Feature.
“what’s good in openbsd superior than freebsd?“
HardenedBSD 11-STABLE v1100055.4 Released. (via)
“Today I stumbled upon a BSD Wikipedia page. Why should I choose BSD over a Linux based distro?“

2018/03/312018/03/30

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/31

Happy Almost Fool’s Easter Day! I have to be at work in a few hours, at 3 AM, so this is all I was able to find in the time I have.

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD? (via)
Userland PCI drivers. NetBSD. (via)
A nice note about OpenBSD right on the Void Linux page. (see lower left.)
40 years BSD Mail – 1978-03-25 – 2018-03-25. (via)
A Note on SYSVIPC and Jails on FreeBSD. (via)
Boosting the NetBSD release handling. (via)
How does DragonflyBSD compare to FreeBSD?
OpenBSD 6.3 Retro Gaming Station with a microsoft sidewinder gamepad pro. Works great!
Handling of daemon/gid/uid in application.
The February 2018 iXSystems newsletter.
Introduction to email (pt. 1): Email basics.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 1 – Simplified Boot.
What’s a good BSD to start out with?

2018/03/172018/03/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, ~~PDF~~ document from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
8 months with TrueOS. (via)
This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
OPNsense 18.1.4 released.

2017/09/092017/09/08

In Other BSDs for 2017/09/09

Already overflowed to next week.

New story: Savaged by Systemd. Lucas, what hast thou wrought?
A few questions about BSD
FreeBSD package management with Pkg (1/2). Applies to DragonFly, too.
OpenBSD Community goes platinum.
OPNsense 17.7.1 released.
FreeBSD 10.4-BETA3 Available.
A Brief History of Solaris (SunOS) Ports. Technically a BSD. (via)
My first patch to OpenBSD. (via)
Getting acme.sh to renew certs via cronjob on FreeBSD
GSoC 2017 Reports: Add SUBPACKAGES support to pkgsrc, part 1. (via)
Best BSD for Kaby Lake w/ Integrated Graphics.
FreeBSD – what processes in what jails are using swap?
LLVM libFuzzer and SafeStack ported to NetBSD. (via)
OpenBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (5th Gen). There’s a cost-saving tip in there for anyone planning a purchase.
Solaris reported dead again. Illumos is working fine, though.

2017/05/15

DRM from Linux to DragonFly to Haiku

Summer of Code project spotted via random search: “port Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Driver for i915, from the Linux kernel to Haiku with the help of DragonflyBSD’s Linux Compatibility layer…” Seen here, via this.