Category: pkgsrc

Lots to read this week.

• OpenBSD has two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir.
• SSD TRIM in NetBSD HEAD (-current)   (via)
• 0 Dependency Websites with OpenBSD & AsciiDoc.  (via)
• Port of GNUBoy to OpenBSD using DRM framebuffer and wscons (no X11).
• pluart(4) baud rate correction.
• Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD.
• HardenedBSD June 2022 Status Report.
• OpenBSD Webzine #10.
• snmpd(8) filter-pf-addresses deprecated.  (OpenBSD)
• Announcing the pkgsrc-2022Q2 branch.
• Full multiprocess support in lldb-server.
• Valuable News – 2022/07/04.
• In -current, dhclient(8) now just logs warnings and executes ifconfig(8).  (OpenBSD)
• r2k22 Hackathon Report: Job Snijders (job@) on rpki-client and more.
• Analyzing locks in OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge.

Mini-ZFS theme this week.

• OpenBSD Webzine #8.
• Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement.  (via several places)
• pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
• Nixxers is back!
• Need Help installing favorite game Trek73.  Followup.
• Does swap still matter?  A long thread.
• Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
• ZFS Compatibility.
• Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
• Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
• Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman!  (via)
• FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
• Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and  2022/03/28.
• Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
• Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
• HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
• paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD.  Chunky chunky.

It is status report season!

• ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central.  “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
• OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
• Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
• pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox.  (via)
• What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD.  Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
• HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports.  (via)
• The OpenBSD Webzine.  (via)
• Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
• Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
• HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
• GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
• Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
• Valuable News – 2021/10/04.

I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links.  Sorry!  I will have much more next week.

• pkgsrc-2021Q2 is out.
• Full OpenBSD Startup described on slide 48.  (via)
• A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer.  (via)
• CliFM, the non-curses file manager, was just ported to NetBSD and OpenBSD!
• Chimera Linux, with a FreeBSD userland.  (via)

Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.

• Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
• NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
• Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
• Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13.  (via)
• Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions.  “Distributions”.  (via)
• Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD.  (via)
• NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
• June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
• HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
• NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
• FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6.  It is adorable.
• What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
• Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
• aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
• FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current).  For Minecraft on BSD users.
• Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
• Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
• Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
• Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
• Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years.  Look at the first comment on the source.
• You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD.  (via)

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

• NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.
• NetBSD 9.2 is out.
• The state of toolchains in OpenBSD.
• Building LLVM on OpenBSD/loongson and OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B.
• FreeBSD Release 13.0 Highlights.
• NomadBSD 130R-20210508 released.
• Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs.
• FreeBSD on the Pine H6.
• Half-Life (including distributable game data).
• Help prospective KGB operative.  Bug report as cosplay?
• FreeBSD Desktop – Part 25 – Configuration – Random Terminal Theme.
• Valuable News – 2021/05/10 and Valuable News – 2021/05/17.
• More Go modules in pkgsrc.
• gmock and gtest on OpenBSD 6.9 hate each other.  (via)

Well, I made up for last week’s short list.

• What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter.  Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
• The origin of POSIX.  The name, not the standard.  TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin.  (via)
• Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants?  Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
• Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno.  Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD.  (via)
• NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume.  (via)
• HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
• GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
• KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
• Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
• How to split a file into small parts.
• UFS Boot Environments.
• What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
• Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay.  On OpenBSD.
• pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
• FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop.  (via)
• Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
• OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
• Only Footnotes.  But some of them are BSD footnotes!

Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead.  (scroll down)  The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.