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2021/12/042021/12/03

In Other BSDs for 2021/12/04

Not just release announcements this week.

NYCBUG is down today for a significant hardware move.
FOSDEM 2022 is going to have a BSD Devroom. It’s online, so you can submit prerecorded talks – submissions due December 31.
Valuable News – 2021/11/29.
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available.
mfs: sometimes useful?
Exploring NetBSD’s msgs(1). (via)
Review: Netgate 6100.
FreeBSD article writers needed. I’ve linked to Klara Systems before.
Speaking of which, UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
New Test System. OpenBSD storage book is next apparently.
HardenedBSD November 2021 Status Report.
doas insults. This is a gem. (via)
The previous link led me to 9front’s theo.
Simple network dashboard with vnstat.
The state of Steam on OpenBSD.
Logitech MX Keys and MX Master on OpenBSD using Logi Bolt.
OpenBSD Webzine #5.

2021/11/272021/11/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/27

Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US.

2021/10/162021/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/16

Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases.

2021/10/092021/10/07

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/09

It is status report season!

ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via)
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD. Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports. (via)
The OpenBSD Webzine. (via)
Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
Valuable News – 2021/10/04.

2021/09/252021/09/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/09/25

I forgot to link to BSD Now 421: ZFS eats CPU on Thursday!

Valuable News – 2021/09/20.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 7 – ZSH Setup.
GhostBSD build tool development visualization, 2014-2021.
Migrating from Apache/WordPress to relayd/httpd/Hugo.
Technology Roadmap. (FreeBSD) I support this idea of publishing plans.
Improving GDB register model compatibility in LLDB.
Cruelty Squad brings Executive Mindset to OpenBSD.
OPNsense 21.7.3 released.
php_mail() on FreeBSD and WordPress. (via)
Automatically lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock.
OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
“DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Cover Reveal. BSD front and center.

2021/08/282021/08/27

In Other BSDs for 2021/08/28

Longer reading this week.

2021/08/212021/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2021/08/21

I have some barely-BSD links this week but I don’t think you’ll mind.

Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG, tomorrow. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone, so I am mentioning it early.
Bringing NetBSD to Zig’s Continuous Integration. (via)
FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks The OS Install. (via)
PackagingCon 2021 – a conference for package manager developers and packagers. Hope it includes BSD packaging. (via)
iXSystems is hiring. (a BSD-specific company)
NetBSD Explained. (via)
Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11. More acronyms than not in that sentence. (via)
SerenityOS. Slightly BSD-related. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/08/09 and 2021/08/16.
EC2 boot time benchmarking.
OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop.

2021/07/212021/07/20

NVMM lands in DragonFly

Aaron LI’s added NVMM, hardware acceleration for virtual machines, to DragonFly.

The version of qemu in dports is not set up to support this, yet. Until then, you can download a prebuilt version.

Since NVMM originated on NetBSD, the NetBSD documentation page for it describes how to use it quite well. There’s a man page in DragonFly for it too, of course. There’s even basic machines to try.

2021/07/172021/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/17

More BUG meetings are happening, which is great.

Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting.
The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 & VAX. The article itself is not about BSD, specifically, but some of the comments at the source link are.
A Glimpse of the Canon object.station 41. A NeXT iteration I didn’t know about. (via)
Meet the Summer 2021 [FreeBSD] Foundation Interns.
Status of Online Conference Software on FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/07/05 and 2021/07/12.
Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
Repairing Akonadi on FreeBSD.
Filtering spam using Rspamd and OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD.
NetBSD/Desktop: Scalable Workstation Systems. Old but interesting. (via)
[Semibug] RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for more info.
Total Mastery, the bundle. Includes multiple FreeBSD Mastery books.

2021/07/102021/07/09

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/10

I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week.

pkgsrc-2021Q2 is out.
Full OpenBSD Startup described on slide 48. (via)
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer. (via)
CliFM, the non-curses file manager, was just ported to NetBSD and OpenBSD!
Chimera Linux, with a FreeBSD userland. (via)

NVMM and DragonFly?

Judging from this large number of commits talking about NVMM support, Aaron Li is bringing NVMM from NetBSD to DragonFly. And here’s some minor statistics.

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.

2021/04/102021/04/09

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.