OpenBSD – DragonFly BSD Digest

2024/01/072024/01/05

Lazy Reading for 2024/01/07

Of course the first thing I did was type the wrong year into the title of this post.

OpenBSD printing and Avery labels.
pkgsrc-2023Q4 out.
Next NYC*BUG: Jan 10th.
DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s.
There’s a thread about disklabel on the TUHS list that went from interesting history to OpenFirmware discussion and then into the problem of bootstrapping/hardware monitors. Lots more I didn’t link. (iPhone-related)
‘Merchants of Complexity’: Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud. Recurring monthly payments for static goods are a goldmine – for the seller. (via)
Critical mass in the Goldilocks zone. (via)
Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. I don’t agree with it but it is interesting.
2024 FreeBSD community survey. Closes tomorrow.
Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate. I don’t know the products well enough to say this is the only analysis.
Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store. Counterintuitively, he’s charging less money but making more money.
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again. Read the article for the links inside it.

2022/10/222022/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/22

It’s Long Article Title week!

2022/10/152022/10/13

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/15

Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.

2022/10/082022/10/07

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/08

No theme this week for the BSD section.

Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
SCALE19X Conference Report.
HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
Valuable News – 2022/10/03.

2022/09/242022/09/22

In Other BSDs for 2022/09/24

Check the first link; it’s time-dependent.

Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It’s online and he’s certainly an authoritative speaker.
Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there’s multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
Open Source in Enterprise Environments – Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
“OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!

2022/09/172022/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2020/09/17

I got subscribed to the UNIX Heritage Society mailing list and it’s already turned up some good stories.

ps(1) gains support for tree-like display of processes. OpenBSD, though it would be useful everywhere, hint, hint.
rcctl(8) gains a “configtest” action.
Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed.
Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD.
“interesting old-timey UNIXes” – I do not know where these intersect with the more well known branches of the family tree.
Time overflows have always been with us.
A fresh look at FreeBSD. (via)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy. By Rob Pike. Note the timestamp, for 2 reasons.
Valuable News – 2022/09/12.
Installing BSD on an older Dell Laptop: having some issues.
-current has moved to 7.2. OpenBSD.
rpki-client 8.0 released.
ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 20th.

2022/09/102022/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2022/09/10

Yay, another week that overflowed with links!

2022/09/032022/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2022/09/03

This is an overflow week.

2022/08/272022/08/22

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/27

Catchup since I was on the road last week.

2022/08/202022/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/20

Done while on the road.

Beastie In For Checkup: Analyzing FreeBSD with LockDoc. (via)
A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI.
FreeBSD Foundation Soliciting Proposals for Handbook Writing.
RAID 1C support added. Mirroring and encryption, if you are like me and can’t ever remember RAID levels.
OpenBSD Webzine #11.
sftp-server(8) gains support for home-directory request.
Desktop Environments preferred by various distributions, over time.
Emulating the Amstrad CPC on NetBSD. (via)
ravynOS – Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD. A fork of helloBSD, I think. (via)
FreeBSD – a lesson in poor defaults. I think I’ve linked to earlier editions. (via)
Coffee with Brian Kernighan. (via)

2022/08/132022/08/10

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/13

The last link has some interesting applications to try.

logcheck – egrep: trailing backslash (\).
Meta-programming in Shell. (via)
MGR, a pre-X windowing system that I’ve never knowingly seen before. (via)
The odd return value of the original 4.2 BSD gethostbyname().
NetBSD 9.3 released.
FreeBSD 2022Q2 report.
svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base.
Ada development on FreeBSD 13.1. (via)
FreeBSD 13.0 EOL.
Valuable News – 2022/08/08.
/usr/games removed from the default $PATH. (OpenBSD)
What softwares do you recommend to a daily use BSD system?

2022/08/062022/08/04

In Other BSDs for 2022/08/06

Some useful tips hidden in there this week.

How to use two gpus (intel and nvidia) attached to two monitors on FreeBSD.
Freshly installed NetBSD booting on a 80386 DX40 with 8MB of RAM. MB.
OPNSense 22.7 released. (via)
Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond.
Valuable News – 2022/08/01.
Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. The source link has a good comment about what’s wrong with sudo as currently used. Also, I did not know about .hushlogin.
Even more randomness.
HardenedBSD July 2022 Status Report.
depenguin.me, reminded of this FreeBSD-on-shared-host-install by this Hetzner news.
A brief history of looking up host addresses in Unix. Ugh, NIS.
Run FreeBSD 13.1 for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac with HVF Acceleration. (via)
Microsoft’s Xenix – Microsoft tries their hand at UNIX.

2022/07/232022/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/23

No mini-theme this week.

An assortment of timestamp formats found in our (Unix) logs.
How efficient can cat(1) be?
NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server.
Related: rjc shows Minecraft running on OpenBSD too.
Also: DragonFly too; I did it.
Valuable News – 2022/07/18.
Game of Trees 0.74 released.
OpenBGPD 7.5 released.
Using BSD make for your (small) project. A mini-tutorial. (via)
NetBSD is using a fork of the tz database. There’s a backstory.
-current has moved to 7.2-beta.
What is the most minimalistic BSD for desktop?

2022/07/162022/07/17

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/16

Started with overflow from last week.

Toolchains adventures – Q2 2022.
Your next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD’s ImportC.
Comparative BSD cheatsheet?
From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1.
/bin/true used to be an empty file. (via)
How we run a Minecraft server.
Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd.
Looking for a USB WiFi adapter that is compatible with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
rpki-client 7.9 released.
Porting OpenBSD pledge() to Linux. (via)
How Unix didn’t used to support ‘#!’, a brief history.
Valuable News – 2022/07/11.
Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison. It’s been a long time since E17.
helloSystem version 14-experimental is tagged.

2022/07/092022/07/07

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/09

Lots to read this week.

2022/07/022022/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/02

There’s multiple online and offline BUG meetings this month; go if you can.

2022/06/252022/06/26

In Other BSDs for 2022/06/25

Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.

Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
(NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?
Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 part 1 and part 2.
Speeding up autoconf with caching. A followup to a BSD Now link.
OpenBGPD 7.4 released.

2022/06/182022/06/14

In Other BSDs for 2022/06/18

More links this week to make up for last week’s short haul.

Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report.
Give WindowMaker a macos Mojave look.
OpenLDAP update. (OpenBSD)
Vim colour scheme changes. (also OpenBSD)
Minecraft server on OpenBSD. (via)
Valuable News for 5/30, 6/6, and 6/13.
OPNsense 22.1.8 and OPNsense Business Edition 22.4.1 released.
OpenIKED 7.1 released.

2022/06/112022/06/12

In Other BSDs for 2022/06/11

A bit short cause I ran out of time.

qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.

2022/05/282022/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2022/05/28

I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.

Valuable News – 2022/05/23.
deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
Blue Systems Farewell.
LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.