pfSense – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

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? ”

2018/11/172018/11/18

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/17

Still lots of BSD stuff happening.

DWM on FreeBSD, monocle not showing up.
Play Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
Project Trident RC3 available. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 ? dmesg?????? / KOF2018-NetBSD. Yeah, I know it’s all question marks. Something in my publishing chain doesn’t understand all character sets. (via)
FreeBSD 12.0-b4 available.
Capsicum.
FreeNAS.
Polish BSD User Group OpenBSD Gaming talk (slides, PDF, Polish) (via)
Linux and FreeBSD networking. (via)
The Source History of Cat. (via)
FreeBSD 10.4 EOL.
Valuable News – 2018/11/11. You can tell my backlog size from this.
ZFS Boot Environments Reloaded at NLUUG Autumn Conference 2018.
OpenBSD in Stereo with Linux VFIO.
Play “Crazy Train” through your APU2 speaker. This prompted the “Someday you will need this” tag for this post.
pfSense with a hardware identifier.
The Tor Project needs a data architect.
Assembly language on OpenBSD amd64+arm64. (via)

2018/10/132018/10/27

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13

Still playing catchup with links.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
Process title and missing memory space.
Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)

2018/09/012018/08/31

In Other BSDs for 2018/09/01

Lots of event notices in here… Watch for what’s near you.

The next KnoxBUG meeting is September 5th, with a Trident demo. I’ll post a reminder.
OpenBSD.Amsterdam. Dedicated OpenBSD/vmd servers, which is a neat idea. Could probably do the same thing with vkernels.
MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. (via)
Configuring OpenBSD – System and user config files for a more pleasant laptop. Not all of it is OpenBSD-specific. (via)
Happy Bob’s Libtls tutorial. Also not wholly OpenBSD-specific; more libressl-specific. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2019 is happening March 21-24, Tokyo, Japan. (via)
Ravenports now on gcc 8.2.
Recent freebsd-jobs posts.
[talk] ARM – any Tier-1 *BSD options? Nice support work from Netgate.
libfuzzer, parts 1, 2, and 3 – a Summer of Code project for NetBSD. I linked the first one before, but hadn’t followed up until now. (via)
OpenBSD, SpamPD and the Startup Bug. (also via)
Public Access Multics. I am happy just typing that sentence.

2018/08/182018/08/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/18

Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.

Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.

2018/06/302018/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/30

Some of this is overflow from last week.

m:tier subscription service for long-term OpenBSD updates. This is a good idea, connecting a service to the people that want to pay for it – without interfering with the “normal” free usage.
FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds. The comments at the link source may be better.
A Beginner’s Guide to Firewalling with pf. (via)
pfSense in VMware Workstation. (via)
“Would anyone be interested of this tool supported BSD?“
Using UNIX as IDE. (via)
FreeBSD 11.2 released.
HardenedBSD: Feature comparison vs other BSD distros. (via)
Booting OpenBSD kernels in EFI mode with QEMU. (via)
Call for testers – Audio improvements for NetBSD 8.1. (via)
WiFi Refresh. (via)
Rewards of Up to $500K Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 11 – Key Components – Blue Light Spectrum Suppress. I didn’t know about Redshift; I like it.
Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon account, and a video to go with it. I’ve wondered if I should do something like that for the Digest.

2018/06/092018/06/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/06/09

BSDCan is running this weekend. There is, depending on what time you are reading this, a livestream.

Retguard: An improved stack protector for OpenBSD. (via)
Mailing lists vs Github. Relevant to most every BSD project. (via)
need help determining the best HA solution for 3 pfSense VM guests.
OpenBSD’s ksh(1) does not export PWD, causing unexpected problems. (via)
GOG.com summer sale – OpenBSD highlights.
libcsi – Crypto Simplified Interface.
Author Discoverability.
Your own VPN with OpenIKED & OpenBSD. (via)
zedenv, a ZFS Boot Environment Manager for FreeBSD and Linux. (via)
TrueOS to Focus On Core Operating System. Not a name change; it’s work on becoming a base like Debian. (via)
Isotop: French desktop-oriented OpenBSD distro. (via)
May 2018 Status Report: Cross-DSO CFI in HardenedBSD. (via)
Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server.
Valuable News – 2018/06/05.

2018/04/072018/04/06

In Other BSDs for 2018/04/07

Losing power at home this week put a dent in my reading throughput, so to speak, but this will do.

DragonFFI: FFI/JIT for the C language using Clang/LLVM. Not actually related to DragonFly or really BSD, but I like the synchronicity. (via)
Simplifying Linux with … fish? Or BSD.
New BSDMag issue – with a feature on OpenBSD Gaming. (via)
Tarsnap pricing change.
BSDCan 2018 schedule is up. Some people from my employer are going; I may too.
DIY Hardware firewall on OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 6.3 Released.
Untangle vs pfSense.
Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD. (via)
32+ great indie games now playable on -current; 7 currently on sale! Rogue Legacy is fun, though I’ve only played the Windows version, not on any BSD.
TrueNAS 11.1 – What’s New.

2018/03/172018/03/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17

The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.

The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, ~~PDF~~ document from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org 10 April 2018.
FreeBSD to be Featured at SCaLE 16x.
8 months with TrueOS. (via)
This Tuesday at SemiBUG: QubeOS vs OpenBSD.
NetBSD Spectre/Meltdown summary. (via)
Not merging stuff from FreeBSD-HEAD into production branches, or “hey FreeBSD-HEAD should just be production”
Quickly build and test applications across different BSD kernels with tonixxx.
*BSD projects and Google Summer of Code.
Broadcom 43xx 1.0 driver for MBP mid 2014.
OPNsense 18.1.4 released.

2018/01/272018/01/26

In Other BSDs for 2018/01/27

Done last minute on Friday, mostly.

grep your way to freedom. (via)
Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions.
Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames. (via)
pfSense home unit. Follow the thread for some interesting hardware suggestions, including this one.
OpenBSD <-> projectors. In case of future need.
OPNSense 17.7.12 released.
Michael W. Lucas podcast interview.
“Permissive licensing is wrong?” – No it’s not! (2/2).
DiscoverBSD for 2018/01/22.
How To Run Your Own Mail Server. (via)
T_PAGEFLT – Working with the NetBSD kernel. (via)
False rumours or not? False.
A better looking XDM. (via)
What would be your elevator pitch to a Linux user on why they should try a BSD distribution?

2017/12/232017/12/22

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/23

Last minute, of course.

2017/11/182017/11/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18

Whee!

2017/11/112017/11/10

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/11

A good variety this week.

Building software with Ravenports.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover.
LISA 2017 Conference Recap.
LibreSSL 2.6.3 released. (via)
First Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition preorders available.
GhostBSD 11.1 RC1 is ready! (via)
p2k17 Hackathon reports: 1 2 3 4 5.
Why did we build our solution on top of FreeBSD?
Nearly Online Zpool Switching Between Two FreeBSD Machines.
Upcoming SemiBUG workshop suggestion.
Open source Visio-ish network diagramming. (From a BSD list, so I’m linking it here.)
pfSense – Cisco Aironet AP’s (only 1 works, all identical).
NAT through pfSense question.
Ilja van Sprundel – Are all BSDs are created equally? Video, unfortunately picking “winners”. (via)
4.2BSD on SIMH vax with networking. (via)
NetBSD on Allwinner SoCs Update. (via)

2017/11/042017/11/02

In Other BSDs for 2017/11/04

This was an easy week for finding links.

API provisioning for BCHS web apps. Looks like there’s a new near-monthly article about using BCHS near-monthly, which I did not know. For example: kwebapp. (via)
Next planned NYCBUG meeting: January 3rd.
FOSDEM 2018 will have a BSD Devroom; the call for papers is out now – due the 26th.
os-test. Lots of BSD results. (via)
Windows 10, VirtualBox 5.2.0 w/ FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT Guest.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Report.
OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Recap.
PFSense for PCI compliant network?
Two-factor authentication for SSH on FreeBSD 11 – Part 1 – SSH Key+Account Password. (via)
How to use bta2dpd(8) with Bluetooth headphone under NetBSD-current. (via)
ZFS Feature Flags.

2017/10/282017/10/26

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/28

For once, I was able to work ahead and get this done early!

2017/10/142017/10/13

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/14

All at the last minute, this.

rcmds removed from FreeBSD. (Thanks, Jeremie)
Michael W. Lucas will be presenting on Tarsnap at the next SemiBUG meeting – the 17th.
There may be a OpenBSD porting workshop with NYCBUG in early December.
The anatomy of ldd program on OpenBSD.
How to create BSD bootable USB Stick ?
EuroBSDcon 2017: “travel notes” after the conference. (via)
pfSense 2.4.0-RELEASE Now Available! (comments)
OpenBSD 6.2 released.
openbsd changes of note 629.
FreeBSD and APRS, or “hm what happens when none of this is well documented..”
I’m thinking about OpenBSD again. (via)
Transition to Zstandard-compressed packages has begun.

2017/10/072017/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2017/10/07

Assembled all on Thursday!

No Plan Survives Contact with the Internet. pfSense 2.4.0 delay, related to recent dnsmasq discoveries.
pfsense rant.
Exploring BSD for my CDN.
Ohio LinuxFest 2017 Recap.
First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished! Related: Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon.
OPNsense 17.7.5 released.
autoconf/clang (No) Fun and Games.
FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE out.
Upgrading from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.1 via freebsd-update and beadm.
ClonOS offers web-based container/VM management on FreeBSD base. (via)
LibertyBSD 6.1 released. (via)
Anybody interested in taking over my Emacs front-end to (Free)BSD pkg?
How to blank laptop screen?
Any way to control the battery charge levels (thinkpad)
Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance. (via multiple places)
pkgsrc-2017Q3 is out.

2017/07/292017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/29

I’ve been on the road, so this is a bit light.

What linux/BSD distros update Quicker? Yay graphs! (via)
Building a BSD home router (pt. 6): pfSense vs. OPNsense. (via)
SEMIBUG has a new website.
Building a BSD home router parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and possibly more since I wrote this link out. (via)

2017/06/032017/06/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03

Even more overflow, pushing my pre-published posts forward.

2017/05/272017/05/25

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/27

A good chunk of this is overflow from last week.

The iXSystems Kansas Linux Fest report. I’d like to see the slides they used.
PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (via)
Best free alternative to pfSense?
OpenBSD laptop.
Is there a more clear PacBSD installation guide?
GhostBSD 11 ALPHA having issues with MATE Desktop.
documentation is thoroughly hard.
Logical Domains on SunFire T2000 with OpenBSD/sparc64. (via)
Are there are BSD projects similar to Googles Fuchsia OS?
Any interest in porting TFS (the new ZFS clone in Rust) to BSDs? The most fun response.
Can’t get Thinkpad t450s trackpoint working on OpenBSD.
openbsd changes of note 622.
Devuan Jessie 1.0 released. It’s Linux, but important here because it’s without systemd. (via)
Support for Controller Area Networks (CAN) in NetBSD.
KnoxBUG meeting on May 30th. Sam Fourman talking about FreeNAS.