NetBSD – Page 6 – DragonFly BSD Digest

This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of NetBSD things including rc.d as you might guess, and covers Project Trident. Listen/read in if you are unfamiliar.

2019/02/232019/03/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23

Built entirely from open tabs.

Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.

2019/02/162019/02/15

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/16

This is all backlogged links; I have even more tabs open.

awesome-bsd, a list. (via)
OpenBSD’s KSH.
Revised KSH.
Anyone using pfsense or similar for a medium size company?
MirBSD errors “Device not configured” during installation on VirtualBox?
Pull-based Backups using OpenBSD base. I like the ‘using native tools’ approach. (via)
A bit of Sun’s history that still lingers on in Illumos. A BSD bit.
Customizing OpenBSD xenodm. (via)
Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.1 released.
How to parallelize Drist.
Installing NetBSD on Wyse Winterm S10. (via)
NomadBSD review. This… could be called a “distro”. (via)
FreeNAS 11.1-U7 is now available. (via)
Project Trident 18.12-U3 Available. (via)
How to Install GNOME on FreeBSD. There’s a lot of ads on that page… maybe don’t bother. (via)
OpenBSD gaming discovery. YES PLAY THESE EVERYONE CAN.
Port of the week: sct. Applies to I think all BSDs.
Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/02/08. If these links aren’t enough for you.
What should I do if my BIOS doesn’t support toggle between integrated and accelerated graphics cards?
is there a way to install any BSD flavor under an extended partition (MBR)?
Vincent Delft talk at FOSDEM 2019: OpenBSD as a full-featured NAS. The one BSD I haven’t heard of for storage.
Thoughts on FreeNAS 11.2. (via)
Why BSD over Linux?
mGBA emulator’s new 0.7.0 release gets pledge support on OpenBSD. (via)
Quickly post-FOSDEM.
End-Of-January Update. Includes possible FreeBSD Mastery: Jails cover.
PostgreSQL vs. fsync. FOSDEM 2019 presentation, includes fsync on BSDs. (via)

2019/02/112019/02/10

makefs makes a trip

Sascha Wildner has added makefs(8) to DragonFly, with changes of course. This chunk of code has already traveled around two other BSDs.

2019/01/262019/01/25

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/26

There’s some convention stuff scattered in here; we’re heading towards the active season…

Anyone running pfSense on non-netgate hardware in a prod environment?
vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current.
OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten. (via)
05/25/2019 : V BSDDAY in Brazil.
The first report on LLD porting.
Update Intel Microcode on FreeBSD. (via)
VPS hosting provider recommendations for OpenBSD.
The AsiaBSDCon 2019 RFP has only 5 days left. (via)
pkgstat, an OpenBSD package statistics gatherer. (via)
The risk that comes from ZFS on Linux not being GPL-compatible.
Two views of ZFS’s GPL-incompatibility and the Linux kernel.
HyperRogue on OpenBSD/macppc. (via)
Less Known pkg(8) Features. Applies to DragonFly and FreeBSD.
avoiding duplicate cronjobs.
openrsync, a “clean-room BSD-licensed implementation of rsync”. (via)
Nixers Newsletter 110. These newsletters are so jam-packed with links I’m just going to link to them directly instead of cherry-picking.
Using a Teletype Model 33 mechanical terminal. Proto-BSD. Excellent in-depth explanation.

2019/01/122019/01/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/12

Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week.

pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.
GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via)
Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via)
People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded via)
Linux network-scripts being deprecated is a problem for my home PPPoE link. Linked here cause this sort of CADT approach doesn’t happen so much on BSD…
BSD BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT. (via)
tons of updates, more coming… (hope I didn’t break anything ?) MirBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/01/04.
The process of upstreaming support to LLVM sanitizers has been finalized.
Ingo Schwarze -mandoc Better documentation – on the web and for LibreSSL video is now published.
How NetBSD came to be shipped by Microsoft. (via)
MWL’s 2018 Wrap-Up. More BSD books on the way!
GhostBSD 18.12 Now Available. (via)

Your BSD smug linksfor the week: I saw these two posts in my RSS feed, one right after the other: “Get ready to patch your Linux systems with systemd, 3x new CVEs out there as of yesterday. These enable any user to escalate to root.” and “Windows 10 Bsod on three different machines after updates. On was new out of box. Any ideas? ”

2019/01/052019/01/04

In Other BSDs for 2019/01/05

I like when I can get Net, Free, and Open items all in the same week.

Is any C code from 1970s Unix still used today in macOS or BSD?
razer blade stealth. The BSD part is at the end.
Let’s try on OpenBSD: NeuroVoider.
Is the BSD community dedicated to free software? Sealioning, maybe.
Using the Open Suse build service to build for FreeBSD?
Installing OpenBSD over FreeBSD.
SMB/CIFS on FreeBSD.
KDE4 on FreeBSD, post-mortem.
toying with wireguard on openbsd
How I did start using FreeBSD. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc, a Proposal. (via)
pkgsrc-2018Q4 branch announcement.
NetBSD entering 2019 with more complete LLVM support.
Hyper-V and GhostBSD – lockup.
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. The source link also links to the slides, from EuroBSDCon 2018, and I don’t think I linked them before.
Modern KDE on FreeBSD. (via)
Welcome to New Subscribers and Goals for 2019. r/openbsd_gaming.

2018/12/222018/12/21

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/22

I had a lot of tabs to close, if you can’t tell.

ClonOS 18.12 BETA1. I didn’t know this existed.
Next NYCBUG meeting: January 2, with a presentation on OpenBSD from Brian Callahan.
FOSSJobs. I don’t like the acronym, but I’m not going to complain if it gets someone good work. (via)
Running NetBSD on DEC VAX on SIMH on Raspberry Pi. Video. (via)
The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD. (Via many places) I don’t like the notion that the BSD implementation of ZFS is now going to be at the very best, only equal to what’s on Linux. That makes it no longer a compelling choice.
OpenBSD song 6.2: A 3 line diff. (via)
OpenRC on FreeBSD. (via)
FreeNAS 11.2 out. (via)
Related: December FreeNAS Plugins Updates.
SoloBSD 12-STABLE.
Stable release: HardenedBSD-stable 12-STABLE v1200058. (via)
OpenBSD Errata: December 22nd, 2018 (pcbopts). (via)
Grafana + InfluxDB fun on DragonFly BSD. Okay okay not other BSD.
Problem booting after upgrading to [DragonFly] 5.4. The story has a happy ending.
The Super Capsicumizer 9000. (via)
What are you using for a simple GUI TextEdit/Notepad? The usual suspects of nvi/emacs show up, but there’s a lot more options listed.
Reducing the delta with upstream version of sanitizers. (via)
Python Development on BSD.
Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)
Torchlight 2 on NetBSD *almost* works!
NetBSD desktop pt.5: automounting with Berkeley am-utils. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/12/14, Valuable News – 2018/12/21.
Standards. “There is no standard version of the tar program.” Linked with early BSD history, of course. (via)
telnet, still being a problem. (via)
protectli router.
de facto vs de jure maintenance.
The NetBSD support update before the LLVM-8.0 branching point. (via)

2018/12/082018/12/07

In Other BSDs for 2018/12/08

Once again playing catchup – but we all benefit from the abundance.

Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)
Firefox’s middle-click behavior on HTML links on Linux. Should apply to BSD too.
BSD vs. Linux. Old, but the source link has links to more discussion if that interests you.
A proposal for a new RPKI validator: OpenBSD rpki-client(1). (via)
NetBSD on AWS EC2 a1.medium (ARM). (via)
The Power to Serve – FreeBSD Power Management. (via)
NetBSD Advent Calendar 2018. (via)
Why BSD/OS is the best candidate for being the only tested legally open UNIX. (via)
NetBSD and support for two finger scroll emulation. (via)
Wherefore FreeBSD?
Securing home. (via)
The History of Unix, Rob Pike. I find this comment entertaining. (via)
Showing a Gigabit OpenBSD firewall some Monitoring Love. (via)
Portability of tar features. Linked because BSD tar is a thing. (via)

2018/11/242018/11/22

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/24

Games are the unofficial accidental theme this week.

FreeBSD 12 Release Engineering Branch Created. Also, RC1 (via)
Distrowatch.com NetBSD 8.0 Review. (via)
Celebrating 50 years of Unix. (via)
FreeBSD Network Management with network.sh. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2.1 – Install FreeBSD 12.
Our pragmatic attachment to OpenBSD PF for our firewall needs.
Linux iptables compared to OpenBSD PF (through a real example).
Bump.
(OpenBSD) /etc/malloc.conf replaced by sysctl.
(OpenBSD) ifconfig(8): vlandev and vlan upcoming option removal along with vlan(4): Replace link0 flag with txprio.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD – Dust: An Elysian Tail and Let’s Try on OpenBSD: Capsized.
GOG Black Friday Sale. A nice connection between sale and port.
Games on FreeBSD. A port of fnaify to other BSDs!
More OpenBSD contributions.
Valuable News – 2018/11/17.

2018/11/032018/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03

Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.

setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualization FAQ.
The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases. (via)
Configure OpenSMTPD to relay on a network.
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1028.
BSD vs. System V death star poster.
MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track.
File versioning with rcs. Still built into all the BSDs, I think.
Halloween Sale Highlights. OpenBSD gaming.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Tokyo/Fall. (via)
Jailing the bhyve hypervisor. (via)
Everything suffers from bashism. (via)
FOSDEM 2019 will have a BSD devroom, and now’s your chance to submit a talk proposal. Due December 10th, with the conference in February.
NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Area. (via)
LISA 2018 Recap. I really like that iXSystems writes up every convention trip.
FreeBSD 12 has been branched into -STABLE. (via)
GhostBSD 18.10 Release. (via)

2018/10/272018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/27

It’s a mad rush to get these all posted in time for the weekend.

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition. Best place to buy, with ILUVMICHAEL 30% off coupon code.
Related: Auction Winners.
Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration, coming up on November 7th.
FreeBSD amd64 syscalls. (via)
“Does anyone know if parsec works on OpenBSD?“
The BSD Club discussion forum. (via)
“What are some UNIX design decisions that proved to be wrong or short sighted after all these years?“
DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12.
libcrypto ASN.1 header removed in OpenBSD.
Show OpenSMTPD queue and force sending queued mails.
Valuable News – 2018/10/20.
FreeBSD 12 beta 1 out.
“What I learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD“. (via)
Configuring FreeBSD for Infrastructure. (via)
OPNsense 18.7.6 released.
The OpenBSD Foundation receives the first Silver contribution from a single individual.
Ohio LinuxFest 2018 Recap.
NetBSD on the RISC-V is alive. (via)
How to make routers with NetBSD’s NPF and Lua (Tokyo, Japan 2019/02/07) (via)
“TrueNAS support is pretty great“.