pkgsrc – Page 5 – DragonFly BSD Digest

I managed to be on the road and so did not post about the milestone 100th episode of BSDNow, which has an interview with Sebastian Wiedenroth about both pkg and pkgSrcCon, along with all their other news.

I’m glad to see 100 episodes together of a video podcast for BSD; if you had asked me a few years ago if that was possible, I’d have dismissed the idea. Not for lack of news, obviously, but because I didn’t think anyone would have that level of dedication. Investing time and care is what sets people apart, and they’ve done it.

2015/08/012015/07/29

In Other BSDs for 2015/08/01

It’s an unexpectedly diverse list this week.

The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn’t. The best explanation for the much-linked OpenSSH story last week: PAM is the problem.
pfSense 2.2.4 is released.
OPNsense 15.7.4 Released.
A week of pkgsrc #11.
The 2015Q2 FreeBSD status report is out.
FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 Now Available.
Introducing BSDHistory, and how it is set up.
BSD Graphics.
What BSD do you use, and for how long have you been using it and how?
NetBSD on the Nvidia Jetson TK1 (via)
A new fancy FreeBSD boot screen.
Switching a static blog to OpenBSD’s new httpd server. (via)
Three new c2k15 reports on Undeadly: one, two, three.
HardenedBSD Completes Strong ASLR Implementation.
FreeBSD on the c720. (via)
Yay cross–pollination.
Fixing the GPT booting bug with FreeBSD and some Thinkpads. Also, asking Lenovo for a BIOS fix. (thanks, Warren Block)
pkgsrc-2015Q2 binary packages for illumos now available.
Anyone here use DragonFly? Not an ‘other’ BSD, but this was a good place to put the link.

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)

2015/07/112015/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2015/07/11

This is a week for unexpected BSD news – OpenBSD and Microsoft, a new 4.4BSD variant, and so on.

Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD. (via)
FreeNAS 10: Early M2 Preview.
More BSDCan trip reports, from Warren Block, Christian Brueffer, Kamil Czekirda, and Shonali Balakrishna.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/06.
Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor. Probably related to OpenSSH-in-Powershell.
Also, SunSSH replaced by OpenSSH.
OPNSense 15.7.1 out. 15.7 is apparently a release branch, so this is what you follow.
pkgsrcCon 2015: A year of pkgsrc 2014 – 2015. All the presentations are online, in fact. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2015 Preliminary Program Published.
A new (to me) BSD: “LiteBSD is a variant of 4.4BSD operating system adapted for microcontrollers.” It’s BSD on some super–teeny hardware. I don’t know what I’d do with it, but I’d love to get something like that working.
OpenBSD and Valgrind, instructions.
If you’ve got Bitcoin and an urge to donate to OpenBSD, pace yourself.
July 20th, Calgary: OpenBSD hackathon/discussion.
pkgsrc 2015Q2 released.
Moving pkgsrc-wip away from Sourceforge. Turns into a long argument about CVS.
Yay cross-pollination! (and thanks to Sascha Wildner for turning up WARNS levels and fixing things, for years.)
FreeBSD ports is now also using a quarterly model.
FreeBSD now has the CloudABI model, sorta like Capsicum.
FreeBSD Vagrant images can now be automatically uploaded to Google Compute Engine, VMware, and (new to me) Hashicorp Atlas.
Fractal cells, a new BSD-based quick startup platform. Launching at end of month. (via)

2015/06/202015/06/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/06/20

I compiled this all bit early, so hopefully nothing exciting happens between now and when it gets posted.

DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/16.
YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”. (BSD-friendly)
Signify shortcomings.
BSDCan 2015, a review.
BSDNow has an already-mentioned BSDCan presentation roundup, and various OpenBSD presentations are showing on the OpenBSD papers page, and there’s a video collection page too. (via)
Best laptop for FreeBSD or variants? (via)
Mandoc: becoming the main BSD manual toolbox [pdf] (via)
PkgsrcCon 2015 is definitely happening.
We’re about halfway through the pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze.
OpenBSD 5.8 has been branched. (Is that the right term?)
NetBSD has internal storage on the EdgeRouter. OpenBSD can boot there too. Is there something switch like (12+ ports) that boots a BSD? Other than Juniper? (speaking of which, I worked on an EX4300 a few days ago and liked it.)
Temperature handling in OpenBSD has been much improved.
FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black units now support HDMI.

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.

2015/04/252015/04/24

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)

2015/04/182015/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2015/04/18

I couldn’t help the commentary on some of these links.

The Arrival of TrueNAS 9.3 and more.
Has anyone tried making a BSD phone? They did; starts with an i.
softraid(4) – RAID 5 Call for Testing for OpenBSD.
OpenBSD’s rcctl. (via)
Solaris moves to pf. I still wish for compatibility tests so people can tell what’s supported in the flavor of pf they are running.
Same news seen here.
Time Machine for every Unix out there. Or use Hammer. (via)
Optimizing TLS for High–Bandwidth Applications in FreeBSD [pdf]. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/13.
Spinning up a quick cloud instance with Digital Ocean. Includes BSD hosts.
A week of pkgsrc #8
FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is available for pre-order.
Cross-platform software packaging with pkgsrc.
pfSense 2.2.2 is out.
pkgsrc-2015Q1 is out.
pkgsrc shirts are available.
BSDStats is out as version 6.0, though it needs to be tested. Please run, especially if you are on DragonFly.
Setting up your own mail server, BSD edition. (via)
The talk on blacklistd from the April NYCBUG meeting. The slides are available too. (via)
NYCBUG is also hosting a new Polish BSD users group list (“subcarpathian” is a fun word) and has a list of upcoming events – straight through into fall!

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.

2015/03/212015/03/22

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/21

Not done in a last-minute rush before the weekend, yay! Done early cause I have to work over the weekend, boo!

Tarsnap Mastery is out in print form. (as is author Michael Lucas’s newest sci-fi)
Active Directory and FreeBSD. Might apply to all BSDs? (via)
GhostBSD 10.1-alpha1 is out. (via)
pfSense 2.2.1 is out.
making security sausage. “Even if most users will just run yummi-gummi-belli-rubrub or whatever to install binary fixes, they should be able to inspect the changes.” I just like that package manager name.
What differences would I notice when using BSD?
Suggestions for honeypotting on BSD?
DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/16.
virtio on FreeBSD now works asynchronously.
OpenBSD papers from AsiaBSDCon 2015 are up.
Martin Pieuchot could use some OpenBSD hardware.
OpenSSH 6.8 is out.
Home server rack suggestions. Includes perennial favorite, the LackRack.
How to format your diffs for OpenBSD.
Good; they’re talking to each other.
The pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze is on.

2015/03/142015/03/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/03/14

I goofed up and didn’t complete last weeks’ In Other BSDs before it published, so you get some extra this week.

DiscoverBSD news for 2015/03/09.
FreeBSD Flame Graphs. (via)
pkgsrc-2014Q4 binaries for illumos/SmartOS, plus support policy.
15 years of FreeBSD Foundation.
autofs(5) on FreeBSD.
DisplayLink adapters now work on FreeBSD.
USB now consistently works on Raspberry Pi devices with FreeBSD.
W^X in your browser, via the OpenBSD Foundation.
OpenBSD and Summer of Code.
Pre-orders for OpenBSD 5.7 are possible.
Encrypted replication in PC-BSD.
Better i386 NetBSD radeon support.
The pkgsrc-2015Q1 freeze starts in a few days.
3-way cross-pollination.

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!