OpenBSD – Page 18 – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSDNow episode 111 is up, with an interview of Brandon Mercer, talking about OpenBSD and healthcare. There’s the usual news, plus several ‘how-to-build-something’ articles up for discussion.

2015/10/102015/10/08

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/10

I didn’t get to run through as much of the source commits as normal this week, but there’s still plenty to read.

Why do you use *BSD?
Service to read BSD 4.2 UNIX reel tape to file?
vnStat, a network monitoring tool.
Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? (via)
Assigning programs to specific video ports.
Recent OpenSMTPD errata and you
The Rise and Fall of the Operating System. Talks about rump kernels, developed on NetBSD, I think. (via)
junk filled files.
EuroBSDCon 2015 OpenBSD Presentations Online.
An interview of Jeff Rizzo about NetBSD 7. (via)
What to expect in NetBSD 7.
NetBSD-7.0 developer interview: Leonardo Taccari (via)
FreeBSD using radius for login (via)
What does the OpenBSD crowd think of Intel SGX? (via)
Closing a door, via many places, which had a link to this BSD-related note.
Verisign youtube channel has vBSDcon videos (via)

2015/10/032015/10/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/03

There’s lots to read through this week – just for BSD! I’ll have even more tomorrow.

FreeBSD cloud use cases?
Nvidia and X.
The September issue of BSD Magazine is out.
Reporting bugs and the BSD community.
(Net)BSD newbie, some questions
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/28.
Faces of FreeBSD: Allan Jude. You may have already seen that face on BSDNow.
OPNsense 15.7.15 Released.
FreeNAS: A Worst Practices Guide.
A status report on Michael W. Lucas’s two upcoming FreeBSD Mastery books, plus his other work.
tame testing.
More l2k15 Hackathon reports.
NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer and pkgsrc. They even document it.
Rebase when pushing to pkgsrc-wip’s new Git home.
pkgsrc-2015Q3 is released.
DTrace in NetBSD, though only simple scripts work right now.
NetBSD gains PCI Extended Configuration Space support.
Home server advice often boils down to “how are your backups?“
OpenBSD parts in Toyota Highlander.
Teaching to contribute to BSD. (from a just-run class)

2015/09/262015/09/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/26

This took some catching up.

MidnightBSD 0.7 is out. (via)
OPNsense 15.7.14 Released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/09/21.
New email gateway release 3.4 “rocky”, based on FreeBSD 10.2. (via)
FreeBSD on recent Lenovo Thinkpad W541. (via)
*BSD and thinkpads. (via)
Broadwell support in OpenBSD .
LibreSSL 2.3.0 Released.
Two OpenBSD hackathon summaries.
“sid is a Static Intrusion Detection and integrity checking system” for NetBSD.
sesutil additions on FreeBSD.
rmt over ssh on OpenBSD.
BSD 2.11, I assume emulated?
Network drivers are a cross-pollination success story for BSD.
New source/port change summaries for OpenBSD, on GMane.
“Cheap hardware for router, perhaps fileserver?“

2015/09/192015/09/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/19

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits.

2015/09/052015/09/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/09/05

Will I need to add a NextBSD tag? Time will tell.

Clarifying NextBSD’s Near Term Expectations.
Deleting files from /usr/, breaking your system, then recovering.
BSDOwl, “A highly portable build system targeting modern UNIX systems.” (via)
Virtualization support in OpenBSD. (via multiple)
Berkeley DB: Architecture. Remember, the B in BSD is also Berkeley. (via)
the peculiar libretunnel situation
The v0.5 release of MPTCP for FreeBSD. (via)
OpenBSD 5.8’s third song announced.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/31.
Native EFI Bootloader Support for OpenBSD.
LiteBSD for PIC32-HMZ144 released. (via)
New Release Schedule for PC-BSD.
Get your pkgsrc fixes in now, before the freeze.
If you have anything in pkgsrc-wip, please help clarify copyright as it moves to new hosting and also git.
“A bibliography of FreeBSD and BSD related papers and books.” You’ll have to dig through the .bib format, but there’s some good titles to track down in there.

2015/08/292015/08/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/29

Put together at the last minute.

NeXTBSD, a video presentation. (via multiple places)
Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd. Sort of commentary on the previous item. (also via multiple places)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/24.
OPNSense 15.7.10, 15.7.11 released.
Beyond the Fork, an OPNSense status report.
OpenBSD 5.8, Another Song.
Kernel W^X extended to i386 on OpenBSD.
SSLv3 removed from LibreSSL.
Call for Testing: Using tame() in userland.
OpenBSD’s tame gets a path list parameter. (via)
DistroWatch introduces PC-BSD’s new Enterprise package repository. (via)
Why 32-bit MIPS isn’t interesting. (via)
FreeBSD gains an ioat(4) driver.
Summer of Code 2015 just finished, and the code is starting to appear.
Lumina-fm gets a major update.
pkgsrc as non-root, a discussion. (follow the thread)

2015/08/222015/08/21

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/22

Some catchup here from stuff I missed last week:

RaspBSD.org. Raspberry Pi FreeBSD images. (via)
VMware vs. bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
OpenBSD removes support for non-UTF8 locales. (via)
Tarsnap $1000 exploit bounty. It’s since doubled to $2000. (via)
Book review: The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System.
An interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick on the most recent Design & Implementation book. (via)
BSDCan 2015 Trip Report: Koop Mast
FreeBSD 10.2 is out.
PC-BSD 10.2 is out.
NetBSd 7.0_RC3 is out.
Broadwell support in openbsd/dragonfly bsd.
What are your thoughts on GhostBSD?
Quick run down of major BSD differences?
OPNsense 15.7.9 Released.
More c2k15 reports.
OpenBSD 5.8 preorders are open.
“Resflash is a tool for building OpenBSD images for embedded and cloud systems in a reproducible way.” (via)
On “unpleasant truths” in tech books.
pkgsrc-wip is migrating away from CVS.
OpenBSD on EdgeRouter Lite.
4-count cross–pollination.

2015/08/152015/08/10

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/15

A short week, cause I’m short on time. Sorry!

The case for checksumming filesystems. (via)
How to use fw_update for Radeon on OpenBSD.
FreeBSD has imported OpenBSD’s iwm(4) driver.
FreeBSD supports more parts of the Cavium ThunderX, which I link to in part because “Cavium ThunderX” sounds like a thoracic problem.
FreeBSD has updated apr, sqlite3, serf, and svnlite in base.
NetBSD gained ARFE.
The c2k15 report keep coming!

2015/08/082015/08/07

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/08

Terse link week!

From distribution to project.
Using OpenBSD as a FreeBSD Router. (via)
More C2K15 reports on Undeadly.
A new OpenBSD Foundation donor.
OpenBSD now defaults to remote root logins permitted – with key.
Quakecon runs on BSD. (via)
BSD Magazine for I assume August.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/27.
LibreSSL 2.2.2 is out.
PC-BSD 10.2-RC1 Now Available.
FreeBSD 10.2-RC2 Now Available. No, wait, RC3.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.6 Released!
BSDCan 2015 trip report from Mark Linimon.

2015/08/052015/08/03

Tonight: What’s New with OpenBSD

If you are around New York City tonight at 6:45, make your way over to the Stone Creek Bar & Lounge, at 140 E 27th St., to hear Brian Callahan present the newest OpenBSD things.

2015/07/27

DragonFly libm changes

DragonFly now has the same math library (libm) as OpenBSD, replacing an earlier combined version of I think what NetBSD and FreeBSD ran. This doesn’t necessarily directly affect you, but it’s work worth doing; matching the underlying frameworks between BSDs helps everyone.

2015/07/252015/07/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/25

A lot of variety this week.

tame(2) WIP, process sandboxing for OpenBSD.
pbi vs pkg
Is there a BSD that fits my needs?
Which BSD is right for me?
Hyperthreading + SMP + Intel graphics on OpenBSD
EuroBSDCon 2015 Registration Is Open
DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/20.
Brute-force OpenSSH attacks. The default config is not vulnerable to this on DragonFly. FreeBSD’s config with PAM may be the only one. (via)
Domesticating applications, OpenBSD style. (via)
c2k15 reports on Undeadly: one, two, three, four.
Here is a non-BSD containers explanation, and then here’s Docker on FreeBSD.
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on August 20th at the Livingston County BSD User’s Group meeting. (That’s in Michigan, not the NY county where I work, darnit.)
FreeBSD now has a Code of Conduct.
Backgammon bug from at least 4.1a BSD, 3+ decades ago.
Tag jumping in mandoc. (I like this idea)
OpenBSD on Linode. Similar techniques might work for any BSD install. (via, via)