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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.

2015/07/252015/07/23

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)

2015/07/182015/07/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/18

I seem to have In Other BSDs exactly 1 day off from the OPNsense release schedule, so far.

A wild Puffy appeared! (via)
FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2 Now Available
Reducing RAM usage in pkgin
~~OPNsense 15.7.2 Released~~ OPNsense 15.7.3 Released
Lumina Desktop 0.8.5 Released
Sudo Replacement Hits the Tree “doas”
Making my RPI serial console work (on NetBSD)
pkgsrc-2015Q2 packages for OS X now available
mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox (BSDCan 2015 presentation)
Bit the bullet and installed a pfSense router at work
This ThinkPad Batteries thread is full of good information.
The x201/x220/x230 series of ThinkPads seem to be universally recommended for BSD; especially OpenBSD. (My x220 at work, while it does not run a BSD, is fantastic)
A bug that takes 45 intervening years to have an effect.
NUMA in FreeBSD.
CloudABI discussion/explanation, to some extent.
recoverdisk(1), a program I did not know about. (via)

2015/07/042015/07/04

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/04

Insert fireworks graphic here.

OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective. (via)
Call for Testing: Valgrind on OpenBSD.
10.2-PRE-RELEASE and 11.0-CURRENT Images Available for Testing. (PC-BSD)
BSDCan 2015 trip reports: Zbigniew Bodek and Vsevolod Stakhov.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/29.
DistroWatch Weekly talks about running FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi 2 computer. (via)
BSD Magazine: “Web server security”.
FreeNAS 10: A developer’s perspective.
NetBSD on NVIDIA Jetson TK1 (Tegra K1)
New binary releases for NetBSD on Raspberry Pi
BSD dmesg collection service
OPNSense 15.7 is released.
finding bugs in tarsnap
FreeBSD gets a graphical front-end for pkg-ng. (probably works for DragonFly dpkg too) (via)
User account administration for Linux/BSD
moving from Linux to BSD and the Acer C720. I already replied all over that.

2015/06/272015/06/26

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/27

More and more BSDCan videos keep showing up. (See the bottoms of individual speaker pages on the BSDCan site.) Here’s the PC-BSD summary.

A pfSense SG-2440 review at Maximum PC.
pfSense 2.2.3 is out.
Puppet and OpenBSD.
I love cross-pollination.
There’s a new BSD user group in Vancouver, Canada. “VanBUG”.
TrueOS/PC-BSD/FreeNAS keep showing as building from the same source tree. That makes sense.
Ingo Schwarze’s slides (PDF) from his recent CDBUG/NYCBUG presentations. (via)
NetBSD 7.0_RC1 is out.
Commit jokes are the best jokes.
FreeBSD on Azure.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/22.
BSDCan 2015 trip reports one and two.
PC-BSD Documentation can now be Translated Using Pootle.
out with the old, in with the less. Notable link to “Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers“.

2015/06/062015/06/05

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/06

A more compact week.

usesthis.com has a BSD category. (via)
Another BSD technology comes to Windows.
BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code. 15 year old article. (via)
Next CDBUG meeting is June 17th.
BSD Magazine for May.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/01.
FreeBSD 8.4 is reaching end-of-life.
“The launchd on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD train is never coming“. (via)
There seems to be some sort of merging between PC-BSD and FreeNAS build scripts – or something more complex is happening?
FreeNAS 10 Hackathon.
My FreeNAS Lab.
Putting OpenBSD in the cloud.
Replacements for OpenBSD 5.7 disc 2 have been shipped.
There’s two new LibreSSL mailing lists.
Yay, cross-pollination!
OpenBSD now supports RTL8188CE wifi cards via rtwn(4).
Duovero Gumstix boards are (or will be?) supported on FreeBSD.
SRIOV support for Intel 10G cards on FreeBSD.

2015/05/232015/05/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/23

A calmer week, probably because of the U.S. holiday.

FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is out (eBook format).
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/18.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 is out. (Update: hotfix)
freebsd-wifi-build (via)
bhyve on Pluribus, a platform I’m unfamiliar with. (via)
pkgSrcCon is happening July 4-5 in Berlin.
I like cross-pollination.
Diagnosing softraid failures on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD now has ntpd on by default.
OpenSMTPD vs. Logjam.
spamd/pf rule changes.
Various OpenBSD remote update methods.
FreeNAS status report.
iXSystems is gaining a dev blog.

2015/05/162015/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/16

This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week. I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here.

Royal activity affecting your open source files.
Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve.
Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD. I’d be worried about keeping partially bad RAM in place, but this is probably being used on a larger scale.
25 year old col bug, fixed.
The start of NUMA support in FreeBSD.
Alpine POC and Routerboard support in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD now supports more than 8 audio channels.
NetBSD is starting to gain EdgeRouter support.
NetBSD gains in-kernel splash screen support.
Openresolv 3.7 is in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
EU study recommends OpenBSD. (Thanks, PCTF)
Now, sshd in OpenBSD defaults to ‘PermitRootLogin=no‘ (like in DragonFly!)
Device Developer’s Conference, happening in the UK over the next month or so. (via openbsd-misc)
OpenBSD has released, shipped, and there’s some discs with errors being replaced, though there’s a workaround.
From 0 to an OpenBSD install, with no hands and a custom disk layout. (via)
Livingston County, Michigan has a BSD user group starting up.
PC-BSD 10.2.1-RC1 comments.
BSDCon Brazil 2015 has a call for papers out.
New to BSD, Questions about Firewall configuration.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/11.
A week of pkgsrc #10.
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENTMAY2015 images now available
Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS
pfSense is now available as a “VMware Ready Virtual Firewall Appliance“.
Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap talk is online.
As is the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.
BSDTalk 253 has 30 minutes of conversation with George Neville-Neil about “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System”, 2nd edition.

2015/05/02

In Other BSDs for 2015/05/02

I’ve already mentioned the Hammer2/OpenBSD Summer of Code project (one of several), but here’s more:

The April issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBSD on an iBook G4
Midnight BSD 0.6 is out.
OpenBSD 5.7 is out.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.4 is out.
PC-BSD 10.1.2 RC1 is out.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/27.
FreeBSD project report for 2015Q1.
Hacking “/ on ZFS” and GELI Encrypted Drives, the Old-School Way
Michael W. Lucas is giving a “Tarsnap talk” at mug.org on May 12 to match his book.
vBSDCon is happening September 11-13 in Reston, VA.

(No mailing list links this week; I’m way behind in my reading because of work. Sorry!)

2015/04/252015/04/24

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/25

It’s been a relatively calm week, for once.

New Delhi has a BSD user group. (via)
PC-BSD and 4K — Oh my!
Is nvidia the best option for gaming on FreeBSD?
EuroBSDCon 2015 has extended the time for paper submission, cause they have so much to work through.
Hipster keyboard layout on NetBSD
The pkgsrc-security GPG key has changed.
Binary packages of pkgsrc-2015Q1 for illumos and OS X are available.
I like cross–pollination.
PC-BSD can now restore encrypted volumes over iSCSI.
Two more mentions of OpenBSD (though any should work) on Vultr.
Better OpenBSD performance on KVM via x2apic mode.
OpenBSD rolls their own file(1).
OpenBSD has W^X support for i386 userland now.
2-factor authorization on FreeBSD. (via)
My switch to OpenBSD, first impressions (via)
Microsoft .NET Running on FreeBSD 10.1/amd64 (via)

2015/04/112015/04/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/11

At the last minute, as usual.

Contributing to OpenBSD. “I spent two days hunting through Xenocara & graphics card driver code Finally found a good workaround: get a wife.” (via)
Invented by OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 5.7 highlights.
Raspberry Pi 2 support in NetBSD. (via)
AMD Catalyst might be coming to FreeBSD. Comments are more useful than the article, so I’m just linking to them.
FreeBSD and beadm.
The History (and Future) of FreeNAS & TrueNAS.
flashrd, for creating embeddable OpenBSD images. (via)
OpenBSD window manager discussion.
A bounty for OpenBSD/Xen.
A gdb script for printing routing tables on FreeBSD.
Bitrig and pkgsrc.
PDF presentations possible on PC-BSD.
PC-BSD now has a “ISCSI replication configuration wizard“.
NYCBUG has an OPNSense mirror available.

Lastly: nvi2, a multibyte folk of nvi, seen in multiple places. This may be good for every BSD to adopt. (every other BSD, I mean.)

2015/04/042015/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/04

If you’re part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule. I’m able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I’m on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/30.
Lumina 0.8.3 is released.
Building PC-BSD Utilities From Source. (video)
BSD Magazine for March.
Directly building FreeBSD AMI images.
FreeBSD daily status reports, a little more human-readable.
4 new commands in FreeBSD DDB.
The FreeBSD boot loader can now take your GELI passphrase.
A probably definitive answer on OpenBSD and clang.
pf tables mean no reloading.
BSD contributor Paul Schenkveld has died.
If you are in the UK, there’s a mini OpenBSD ports hackathon happening now.
NetBSD systems can now resize / on reboot, if space is available.
LibreSSL in pkgsrc, soon.
NYCBUG’s next meeting is April 8th, with Christos Zoulas presenting blacklistd.

2015/03/282015/03/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/28

It’s been a quiet week in BSD-land, at least in terms of me finding links.

“I know BSD isn’t secure because I can’t install Norton.“
“Oops” and there’s D-Link DIR-655 support in FreeBSD.
The ata driver in FreeBSD is ~~removed~~ modified. (see comments)
Steam available on PC-BSD. Old news, but always good.
service(8) now available in NetBSD too.
How to check out older revisions of pkgsrc packages.
Tips on a DB9-RJ45 serial cable for Sun hardware, from OpenBSD.
URL blacklisting in OpenBSD.
lmc(4) and san(4), removed from OpenBSD.
RFC7427 support in OpenBSD.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/23.

2015/03/12

BSDNow 80: The PC-BSD Tour II

The newest BSDNow video goes into PC-BSD and booting, and interviews Justin Gibbs about the FreeBSD Foundation.

2015/03/072015/03/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/07

Whee!

Which would be better as a free desktop; PC-BSD or OpenBSD?
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/02.
M0n0wall alternatives at DiscoverBSD.
BSD Magazine for February. (I think.)
A preview of PC-BSD’s upcoming 10.1.2 release.

2015/02/282015/02/28

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/28

Well, this week just sort of took off for BSD links.

FreeBSD on the POWER8: It’s alive! (via)
Freenas and ESXI-Vmware snapshots
PHP 5.3 and Ruby 1.8.7 appear to be on the way out of pkgsrc.
PC-BSD gains a sort of automatic TOR-mode.
OpenBSD Foundation 2014/2015 newsletter.
OpenBSD 5.7 on Minnowboard Max.
Aww, no more punchcard utilities.
FreeBSD has some upgrades around tape utilities.
Installworld… installcloud?
“If you work for a lottery and you’re using random(3) to select the winning numbers, please let me know.“
uefisign(8), a UEFI Secure Boot signing utility.
pkg in pkgsrc. (via)
“How can I crate a bootable BSD via GNU/Linux?“
DiscoverBSD for 2015/02/23.
ZFS, and How to Make a Foot Cannon.
A week of pkgsrc #7.
BSDCan proposals and rejections.
NetBSD on IBM’s SoftLayer and Microsoft’s Azure and more

A late update: NYCBUG’s upcoming meetings and presentations, with the next one on March 4th, this week. If you have a local BSD user group, I would like to know about it!

2015/02/212015/02/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/21

There’s some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It’s inextricable from the rest of the links.

Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop. (also)
“Has Linux lost its way?” (via) (also)
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/16.
Curious if FreeBSD or any other BSD district would work better on a MacBook pro?
Which
Am I taking a realistic route to learning more about internals? (hey, it’s DragonFly!)
Speaking of which: cross–pollination.
More cross-pollination, and surprise from me; I didn’t know USB video link worked on any BSD.
The m0n0wall project has ended.
The end of ‘games’ as a separate object on FreeBSD.
Tetris: still changing.
autonet – simple automatic wifi chooser on OpenBSD.
pkgsrc binaries as an exit strategy from systemd.
IPFW now the default firewall (and on) in PC-BSD.
The updated roadmap to 1.0.0 for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, to go with the 0.8.2 release.
PC-BSD at SCALE.
s2k15 hackathon report.

2015/02/142015/02/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/14

Happy Valentine’s Day!

The OpenBSD Foundation 2015 Fundraising Campaign. (via)
Anyone tried CloudByte before? (ZFS on FreeBSD).
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/09.
PC-BSD featured on itwire.com.
From the OpenBSD s2k15 hackathon: the stack overflow that wasn’t and Authenticated TLS ‘constraints’ in ntpd(8).
Jazz concert with OpenBSD synths.
“Help me add FreeBSD/amd64 build support to .NET CoreCLR“.
“Can you push a BSD OS through the wire/network?” The original poster has never heard of PXEbooting?
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT Images Now Available!
Speaking of which, PC-BSD now uses OpenNTPD by default.
An old large-disk anecdote from OpenBSD.
“world’s first Canadian cross device driver“
pkgsrc-2014Q4 packages for OS X now available.
NTP over HTTPS.
Aww, freebsd/wii.

Your not-BSD BSD link of the week: Badass Space Dragon.

2015/02/072015/02/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/07

This week is relatively quiet.

Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7. (via)
OpenBSD networking on Macbook Pro?
PC-BSD 10.1.1 is out.
Is there any RNDIS support in any BSD?
Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
Stuck between OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD (mostly Web and File Server)
devctl, a new device control utility in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained a VCHI driver for the Broadcom “VideoCore IV GPU”.
Things you can remove from FreeBSD.
PC-BSD gains ‘personacrypt’, for encryption of home directories.
OpenBSD gained iwm(4), for Intel 7260 wifi.

2015/01/312015/01/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/01/31

I’m not sure how I ended up with so much BSD material this week, but hey, we all benefit!

A user’s experience with OpenBSD as a desktop. (via)
FreeBSD Jail Management Tools.
nanoBSD for servers – part 1. (via)
Sonicwall to pfSense?
My first OpenBSD port. (via)
Two new LibreSSL shirts, with cash going back to the project.
What did Sony do to make FreeBSD awesome graphics wise with Playstation 4?
pkgng and manual steps.
long term support considered harmful
The practical result of OpenBSD’s support policy. Rebuttal to previous link. (via)
PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC2 now available.
OpenBSD popularity vs Linux when talking about servers security (via)
Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split. (via)
pfSense-2.2-RELEASE now available! I’ll be upgrading systems to that at work this weekend…
SECURITY : OPENBSD VS FREEBSD. (via)
Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD.
Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015 and OpenBSD, a review.
Initial Zynq (Xilinx) support in NetBSD.
glass tty fonts in NetBSD, mentioned here, seen here.
portable cwm 5.6 is out.
Assistance for the “too much RAM” delay problem.
Slides for “OpenBSD: Redundant & Transparent Firewalls” (thanks Siju)
A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users. (via)

Your extended read: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, from the NANOG operators list. Follow the thread. It’s theoretically about Linux, but people name BSD solutions all through it. Hmm…