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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.

2021/02/202021/02/19

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)

2021/01/302021/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/30

A FreeBSD-heavy week.

Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD.
fzf, for BSD and other places. (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020.
FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via)
Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. (via)
GhostBSD Install and Review. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/01/25.
FOSSASIA, March 13-21, call for speakers. It’s virtual.
FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro. (via)
cool-retro-term. This will give you flashbacks if applicable.
OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released.
OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen). Maybe, maybe worth replacing this x220 with.
Mirage Online Classic, should play on any BSD.
Workaround for Bluetooth controllers on OpenBSD.
NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite.

2021/01/092021/01/07

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/09

This bulked up fast this week.

2020/12/262020/12/25

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/26

Lots of history this week.

2020/12/052020/12/04

In Other BSDs for 2020/12/05

Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week.

2020/10/312020/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/31

Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really.

Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via)
The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via)
Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via)
Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via)
History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via)
Lenovo T420 FreeBSD Tweaks. Still valid; hardware still exists. (via)
Use a raspberry-pi 2 as a firewall with FreeBSD. (via)
Automating OpenBSD Vultr VM deployment with Ansible. (via)
Default OpenBSD Web Server. Out on GitHub, not within the main repo? (via)
How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built.
Port of the week: rclone.
OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD 12.2 is out.
Realtek RTL8188CUS – USB 802.11n WiFi Review.
OPNSense 20.7.4 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/26.
BSD hardware trends. (via)
Video: C Programming on System 6 – Porting OpenBSD’s diff(1).

2020/10/242020/10/22

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/24

It’s apparently release week?

Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
NetBSD 9.1 released.
OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
TrueNAS 12.0 released.
Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

2020/10/102020/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/10

I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT.

OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via)
duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via)
Old School Disk Partitioning. (via)
Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of),
How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching BSD history.
FreeBSD laptop advice.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 5).
Valuable News – 2020/10/05.
FreeBSD 12.2-RC1 Available.
How to Recover From a BIOS Upgrade. Putting your boot sector back.
FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 2 Primer for Users.
fnaify 3.0 released.

2020/10/032020/09/30

In Other BSDs for 2020/10/03

No theme, but lots to read.

Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via)
OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via)
FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via)
FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available.
“Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also benefited from it.“
Wayland on NetBSD – trials and tribulations.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] RumpKernel Syscall Fuzzing.
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Curses Library Automated Testing.
About pipelining OpenBSD ports contributions.
Ingo announces pta (Plain Text Accounting). Only tangentially BSD, but it’s interesting how many text-only accounting programs there are.
k2k20 hackathon report: Rafael Sadowski on KDE and other packages progress.
Valuable News – 2020/09/28.
ESET file server antivirus scanner on MidnightBSD.

2020/09/122020/09/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/12

Perhaps a performance tweaks mini-theme this week?

Valuable News – 2020/09/07.
OPNsense 20.7.2 Released.
Quare FreeBSD?
FreeBSD Mini Git Primer. (via)
Install OpenBSD 6.7 with Disk Encryption and FVWM Ricing. Note for non-English speakers: “ricing” is a derogatory term. (via)
NetBSD Tips and Tricks. (via)
OpenBSD/FreeBSD performance.
Beginner’s Guide to FreeBSD. More of an overview. (via)
nut – testing the shutdown mechanism.
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 4)
pkgsrc Developer Monotony. Common in any open source project in the long term, I think.
MidnightBSD 1.2.8 and MidnightBSD 2.0-CURRENT.

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)

2020/08/222020/08/21

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.

2020/07/252020/07/23

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.

2020/07/042020/07/04

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.