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2019/07/202019/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/20

And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.

Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
DTracing PostGres. (via).
What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p) added to -current. I like this sort of external support.
NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
Want to learn more about BSD.
FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.

2019/07/18

BSDNow 307: Twitching with OpenBSD

BSD Now 307 accomplishes another trifecta week, mentioning Free, Net, and Open, and also mentioning that vBSDCon’s call for papers closes tomorrow – I’m mentioning it now cause it’ll be too late to mention for In Other BSDs this weekend.

2019/07/162019/07/16

SEMIBUG tonight: OpenBSD on the desktop

Hopefully I am not too late posting this: SEMIBUG meets tonight, and the presentation is Eddie Thieda, talking about OpenBSD on the desktop.

2019/07/132019/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/13

Done early, for once! I managed to complete this by Thursday night.

LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps.
OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
Streaming to Twitch using OpenBSD.
High quality / low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 19.1.10 released, and then OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released.
vBSDCon’s Call for Papers is out. (via)
What to try first, of Michael W. Lucas’s BSD and non-BSD books?
Project Trident 19.06 Available. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3 released.
July 10 Plugins Update.
fixing telnet fixes.
aggr(4) driver added to -current. I read it as aggro, can’t help it.
Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool. (via)
FreeBSD security issues in DragonflyBSD perspective.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/08.
Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel.
Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd. (via)

2019/07/062019/07/06

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/06

I have a backlog of more BSD links to add, beyond this – it was a busy week!

ChiBUG meets this Tuesday.
Developers: How PINE64 is creating a community to compete with Raspberry Pi’s. Linked because of the apparently-decent BSD support on PINE64 stuff. (via)
And now for something completely different: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof). (via)
FreeBSD turns 26. (via)
OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation. (via)
Without a GUI–How to Live Entirely in a Terminal. I didn’t double-check for availability, but it’s essentially a list of ports to install. (via)
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Part 1.
Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report.
Porting NetBSD to HummingBoard Pulse, Part 1.
Write your own fuzzer for NetBSD kernel! [Part 1].
Forking code support in ptrace(2).
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Diablo.
Linux LVM on Openbsd?
Valuable News – 2019/07/01.
BSD Kernel Question from A Linux User.

2019/06/292019/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/29

Last minute, again.

2019/06/152019/06/14

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/15

I linked to some other BSD link roundups, so the joy of clicking can continue.

SNI support added to relayd(8) in -current.
Call for testing of ntpd(8) automatic mode.
RabbitMQ Cluster on FreeBSD Containers.
FreeBSD+ZFS Without Drives. Crazy, DWIMmy. (via)
blacklistd(8) with NPF on NetBSD. UnitedBSD is a new forum, at least to me. (via)
Routing versus Streaming throughput using FreeBSD at 10Gbps and over.
OpenBSD as an IPv6 router.
BSDCan 2019: The Future of OpenZFS and FreeBSD by Allan Jude. (Video, via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 DevSummit: We don’t see a problem. Suggestion of Project Governance additions. For FreeBSD. Follow the thread where this was mentioned.
AsiaBSDCon2019:
Manage Photography the UNIX Way.
Valuable News – 2019/06/10.
BSD Link Roundup 6.13.
OPNsense 19.1.9 released.
g2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on Access Points and Ghosts.
TrueCommand Brings Single Pane of Glass Management to TrueNAS and FreeNAS Fleets. I know it’s a press release, but it is a useful thing.
why off-the-shelf routers don’t use BSDs (or OpenBSD)? But they do?

2019/06/082019/06/07

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/08

I was a bit low on BSD links last week; not so this week.

- NetBSD 8.1 is out.
- The January-March 2019 FreeBSD status report is out.
- OpenBSD’s pledge but on Linux. (via)
- FreeBSD 11.3b3 available.
- FixedMisc [MirOS] 20190604 released!
- [ports] MariaDB upgrade.
- XSAVE and compat32 kernel work for LLDB.
- Validation and improvements of debugging interfaces.
- RSS feed for OpenBSD stable packages repository (made with XSLT).
- Homemade unofficial packages for OpenBSD-stable.
- fnaify adds initial support for XNA games.
- Valuable News – 2019/06/03.
- ARM’d and dangerous pt. 2: FreeBSD on the Pinebook (aarch64).
- g2k19 Hackathon Report: back to dee trace.
- g2k19 Hackathon Report: Andrew Fresh on portgen(1), coffee, and more. What a nice thing to set up at a convention!
- Smartisan becomes Iridium Donor for 2019.
- Recent Security Innovations.
- acme-client(1) moves to Let’s Encrypt v02 API.

2019/06/012019/05/31

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/01

I have an inexplicably short BSD section this week. Post-BSDCan fatigue? I don’t know, but I have lots on the docket for tomorrow, I promise.

ZFS on APU2; follow the thread for details.
What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux? (via)
Something that Linux distributions should not do when packaging things. Linked because I’ve seen people pick Linux over a BSD because they assume (wrongly!) that a large commercial Linux distribution would have up to date packages.
For the umpteenth time, help a “*BSD newbie” pick the right operating system.
vmctl(8): command line syntax changed.
fnaify 1.3 released – more games are “fnaify & run” now.
Related: GOG.com Summer Sale – OpenBSD Highlights.

2019/05/252019/05/24

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/25

Watch for post-BSDCan slides and material and ideas to show up in the next few weeks.

NetBSD 8.1-RC1 is out.
BSDCan 2019 papers are showing up, plus this iXsystems recap.
pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 now available.
WANT TO PLAY A GAME? Ooh, look at the simulated phosphor! (via)
Valuable News – 2019/05/20.
How does BSD benefit you personally?
NetBSD For The ODROID-C2. (via)
g2k19 hackathon report from Claudio Jeker.
RunHyve. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3-b1 is out.
Automount Synology NFS shares from OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop with MATE. Don’t run the script via fetch like it says. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.8 released.
FreeNAS as your server OS. I didn’t know there was a hypervisor option within FreeNAS.

2019/05/182019/05/17

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/18

I have more links than I expected.

Brief netbsd.org outages tomorrow.
SEMIBUG vmm hypervisor demo on the 21st.
WireGuard on OpenBSD. (via)
No itch to scratch.
Simple shared folder with Samba on OpenBSD 6.5.
Confusion with used/free disk space in ZFS.
Valuable News – 2019/05/09.
BSDCan 2019 Auction Items, and next Beaks novel.
Video of live reading of “FreeBSD Journal” column.
Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS.
Intel MDS. A problem not specific to any one BSD, really. (via)
Bad utmp implementations in Glibc and FreeBSD. (via)
syzkaller found a bug.
Keep Crashing Daemons Running on FreeBSD. First three words are a potential band name. (via)
HumbleBundle Spring Sale – OpenBSD Highlights.

2019/05/112019/05/10

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/11

The last weather station link is a real gem.

BSDCan 2019 details.
The Open Source Financial Developers Association could use some BSD testing.
iXsystems Takes the Plunge with Liquid Immersion Servers.
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2019 projects. (NetBSD)
Improvements in forking, threading, and signal code. (NetBSD)
Valuable News – 2019/05/06.
Simple way to generate strong passwords. (via)
My Bash Script to Brighten up your BSD box by wallpapers from Reddit. (via)
OpenBSD, httpd & WordPress: Making it work. (via)
OPNsense 19.1.7 released.
OmniOS – r151030 – Stable and LTS Release is out.
ZFS Implementation in Python. (via)
Supporting Go Modules in pkgsrc (Part 2). (via)
A weather station fit for a PDP-11. This is gloriously useless.

2019/05/09

BSD Now 296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5

This week’s BSD Now covers (ecumenically) OpenBSD’s release, NetBSD 9, the FreeBSD jails book, and so on. Check the show notes for details.

2019/05/042019/05/03

In Other BSDs for 2019/05/04

I’m still not making through all the stuff I need to link to, but this is enough to keep you busy for today.

The FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey.
Some useful features of (GNU) date for things like time conversion. Compares to the FreeBSD version.
ZFS on Linux on FreeBSD for testing. Argh.
Informal CDBUG session this week – speak up if you are near.
Next Batch of Updated Plugins and How to Recover from Failed Plugin Updates. (iXSystems)
OpenBSD automatic upgrade. (via)
Mount your ZFS datasets anywhere you want.
Valuable News?-?2019/04/29.
stardew valley not working on openbsd 6.5 -current.
LLDB: extending CPU register inspection support.
What are the differences between Linux and OpenBSD? (via)
Writing Exploit-Resistant Code With OpenBSD. (via)
CFT: FreeBSD Package Base.
TrueCommand: Manage Multiple FreeNAS and TrueNAS Systems.

2019/04/272019/04/26

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/27

I have cleared out my backlog of general BSD stuff but am still a month behind on DragonFly news, which is the opposite of usual.

OpenBSD 6.5 released.
Michael W. Lucas’s FreeBSD Mastery: Jails is out.
FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition.
Related: Lucas is presenting for something like 24 hours straight at Penguincon 2019, including BSD topics. The ice cream-related presentations sound the most fun.
pfSense VLAN Configuration, a question.
Valuable News – 2019/04/22.
Categorizing OpenBSD Bugs. (via)
fh: file history with ed(1), diff(1), awk(1), sed(1) and sh(1). Almost BSD. (via)
OS108-20190422 released with added splash. (via)
powerpc64 architecture support in FreeBSD ports. (via)

2019/04/202019/04/19

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/20

Nicely mixed topics this week.

It’s several years old, but worth viewing: .ike’s presentation of “Shell Fu” from NYCBUG, as video. Also: May event speaker needed. (via)
The FreeBSD-12 support model.
“OpenVMS vs. Unix” (antagonists or sisters?).
Previous link via Nixers Newsletter 121.
Back in the Day: UNIX, Minix and Linux. The author rewrote wump(6) for 4.3 BSD.
Looking for a worm and encrypted storage solution. FreeNAS + Greentec.
OpenSSH 8.0 released. (via)
Create a dedicated user for ssh tunneling only. OpenBSD as the example platform.
Deploying munin-node with drist. Probably could be done on any BSD.
Valuable News – 2019/04/15.
Next Polish BSD user group meeting: April 25th. I’ll post a reminder.
Moving your IMAP server to a third party: FastMail. FastMail is a mail host I’ve heard recommendations for multiple times.
GhostBSD 19.04 Now Available. (via)
docbook2mdoc-1.0.0 released.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: On rsync, ssh, and ports cruft.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: unwinding in Taipei.
Setting up a new Dovecot server on FreeBSD with an OSX mail.app client.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q1 release.
BSD Link Roundup 4.12.
battery consuming battery software.

2019/04/132019/04/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13

Straight open tab dump, again!

FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and password-protected .od* files. Not strictly BSD but could surprise someone.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Putting the hack(6) in hackathon, and other stories.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on 802.11? progress, suspend/resume and more.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient, disklabel, and more.
Our plan for handling TRIM’ing our ZFS fileserver SSDs.
Playing Slay the Spire on OpenBSD.
From Zero to NVMM.
Introducing funlinkat.
Valuable News – 2019/04/08.
~~OPNsense 19.1.5 released~~ no wait OPNsense 19.1.6 released.
April Plugins Update.
Run S3 Object Storage on FreeNAS and TrueNAS.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” Print Sponsor Gifts Threaten to Topple. The book is available to order now.
NOWBSD.

A late update: BSDCan 2019 registration, plus an update.

2019/04/062019/04/05

In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06

Lots of BUG news this week; thank you all for the leads on groups to watch.

Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019. Note the meeting has been moved up a week.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella.
April 9th Meetup. ChiBUG.
Rusted ravens: Ravenports march 2019 status update. There’s some DragonFly stuff in there I haven’t had a chance to link to.
How to use NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi. (via)
Serenity: x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles. Almost UNIX, almost BSD. (via)
Before Unix: An Early History of Timesharing Systems. Influences on BSD.(via)
OpenRA imported – game engine recreation for RTS games of the Command & Conquer family. (via)
Project Trident 18.12-U8 Available. (via)
Removing PF. (via)
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup. (via)
LLDB/LLVM report for March 2019. NetBSD.
Continuation of signal semantics improvements. NetBSD.
iked curve25519 group number change. OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2019/04/01.
Sega Dreamcast Running NetBSD. (via)
UNIX and BSD Discord/Matrix Servers.
BSD Router Project 1.92 is now available. (via)

2019/03/302019/04/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/30

A reminder: tell me about bugs.

If you missed the most recent NYCBUG meeting, here’s the video: Maintaining qmail in 2019 by Amitai Schleier. (thanks, bsdtv)
Next NYCBUG meeting, in a few days: Verification As Code of Infrastructure As Code. I’ll post a reminder.
Removing PF. NetBSD. (via)
OpenBSD testing wiki. (via)
Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service. (via)
WireGuard for NetBSD. Slides from AsiaBSDCon 2019. (via)
The tilde.institute of OpenBSD Education. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 Proceedings. (via)
nixers newsletter 118.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2018.
SoloBSD 19.03-STABLE.
Valuable News – 2019/03/25.
using syncthing between my OSX laptop and my FreeBSD server.
sysctlview, a sysctl explorer. (via)
OS108 released. (via)
a2k19 hackathon report from Ken Westerback.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” ebook escaping!
Thinkpad X1 Carbon 6, using OpenBSD.

2019/03/232019/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/23

Heading towards spring, and I have weekend work, so pasting in everything I’ve got handy:

Setting up RRDtool for OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
EuroBSDcon CFP is open. (via)
SPARCbook 3000ST – The coolest 90s laptop. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 18 – Global Dashboard.
Fix Broken Dependency on FreeBSD. This seems dangerous.
Using an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse.
openrsync, the site. Apparently becoming another integrated Open* tool. (via)
[tmux] style syntax changes. Not necessarily BSD-specific.
pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available.
Valuable News – 2019/03/18.
Installing Snort on OpenBSD 6.4.
rdist(1) – when Ansible is too much. (via)
Sync Dropbox with TrueNAS and FreeNAS – Issue #65.
FreeBSD Journal Jan/Feb 2019 Edition. (via)
BSD Router Project 1.92. (via)
A few questions from someone who used Linux.
Getting ‘FreeBSD-10.2 is vulnerable’ messages on a 12.0 host.
ZFS Encryption is still under development (as of March 2019).