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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.

2017/06/032017/06/01

In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03

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

2017/05/132017/05/12

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/13

A good topic range this week.

Why I love OpenBSD. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers. (via)
Unix Architecture Evolution Diagrams. 1972 Research Unix and FreeBSD, compared. (via)
Getting Michael W. Lucas to speak at your (possibly BSD) event.
4 Things About TrueNAS Replication Your Boss Wants To Know. Sounds clickbaity, but does actually describe TrueNAS usage.
OPNsense 17.1.6 released.
Health Tips for Unix Systems.
OpenBSD and You, the slides. (via)
gqrx on freebsd.
I did not know there was a Samba conference.
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold.

2017/03/252017/03/24

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/25

More thinking topics than version changes this week, which is interesting.

Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It’s the PDF transcript from the FOSDEM 2017 “My BSD sucks less than yours” presentation, linked previously. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.3 released.
Ask HN: Why is BSD becoming more popular in embedded devices? Lots of half-informed theorizing there.
The BSD family tree. Not new, but the discussion at the source link is more to look at, along with other links.
Upgrading notes for pfSense 2.3.x users, where 2.3.x < 2.3.3.
tech@openbsd.org: regarding OpenSSL Licence change. Nothing goes well with OpenSSL. Hey, it rhymes! (via)
golang now has native support for OpenBSD’s pledge(2).
“And then the murders began.” – applied to tech BSD books.
TrueNAS and ZFS terms and explanations.

2017/03/112017/03/11

In Other BSDs for 2017/03/11

Way short this week because we had high winds in my area, knocking out power for most people. I didn’t lose power, but I lost my data link.

2017/02/262017/02/17

Storage Summit tomorrow

Reminder: the 2017 FreeBSD Storage Summit is tomorrow.

2017/02/182017/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/18

Lots of storage this week.

OpenBSD as a Multimedia Desktop
Firefox 51 on sparc64 – we did not hit the wall yet (via)
Current health of the BSD Certification Group?
When did tar start auto-assuming -z? Mild GNU vs. BSD argument.
Introducing pkg_comp 2.0 (and sandboxctl 1.0)
FreeNAS/OpenZFS training.
Michael W. Lucas at the Troy Public Library. Talking about his nonfiction writing.
2017 FreeBSD Storage Summit, coming up in 9 days. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
Related: TrueNAS does S3.
FreeBSD 12 Looking At Dropping SVR4 Binary Compatibility. Would anyone notice? (via)
Choose as a contributor: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or other BSD
Using device.hints to wire physical devices to specific names.

2017/01/282017/01/27

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/28

Done all at the last minute.

Courses 6 to 9 of DevOps with Chef and FreeBSD are out.
Ansible and pfSense. (via)
“OS : The underlying overhead of computation“, an upcoming talk at NYCBSD. Note that it’s on Feb 1, not March 1 as originally posted. I’ll post a reminder.
a2k17 hackathon reports: Martin Pieuchot, Kenneth Westerback, Bob Beck.
“Noob user – want to install a UNIX OS. Help a bit?“
Michael W. Lucas will be talking at Kansas LinuxFest 2017 – in May.
NetBSD Making Progress On LLDB Debugger Support (via)
“I want to jump in, but would love some hardware advice.“
OPNsense 16.7.14 released – last in the 16.* series, I think.
TrueNAS now has a (BSD) Cinder driver for OpenStack.
IPv6 on FreeBSD/EC2.
Improving TrueOS: OpenRC. (via)
“Where is your tech passion?” If you never complete the exercise, that tells you something too.

2016/12/172016/12/16

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/17

Much better this week; I actually have links.

Man, ‘splained: 40-Plus Years of Man Page History. Doesn’t mention it, but BSD is the place for original, and good, man pages. (via)
“What’s stopping someone from writing a Cisco CLI shell for Linux or BSD?“
who even calls link_ntoa? Multiple BSDs had this issue.
Booting Android-x86 under FreeBSD bhyve (Work in progress) (via)
New stable version: HardenedBSD-stable 10-STABLE v46.18 (via)
“TIL the soviets made their own BSD” (via)
“Which BSD is good for me?“
OPNsense 16.7.11 released, OPNsense 17.1-BETA
LibreSSL documentation status report
watt time is left
openbsd changes of note 3
Disk I/O Performance Under Filesystem Journaling on FreeBSD 10.3
LISA 2016 Recap. From a BSD vendor point of view.
OpenBSD 6.0 VPN Endpoint for iOS and OSX (via)
802.11n MIMO support in OpenBSD -current (via)

2016/10/222016/10/21

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/22

Oddball links for BSD this week – but pay attention to the first one.

Get a BSD person into ARIN. Useful.
“Any experience with OPNsense?“
Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game. Linked cause it exists as a FreeBSD port and in theory could as a dport.
We Surprised The Register.
Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin.
“Adam Jimerson: Introduction to PacBSD” happening at KnoxBUG on the 25th.
PCEngines APU question.
Installing Windows 10 Under the bhyve Hypervisor. (via)
Lumina Desktop 1.1.0 released.