BSD Now 275: OpenBSD in Stereo
BSD Now 275 went up a bit late, so I’m also a bit late posting about it – this past week’s episode includes among other things, a UNIX ownership history, and gopher details.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0-RELEA...
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FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE Announcement
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE. This is the first release of the
stable/12 branch.
Some of the highlights:
* OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1 [...]
Cirrus CI Support for FreeBSD
FreeBSD support was recently added to the Cirrus CI system. Cirrus CI makes your development cycle fast, efficient, and secure by leveraging modern cloud technologies. Cirrus CI scales with your team and makes shipping software faster and cheaper. Follow the FreeBSD Virtual Machines guide to find out more.
Cirrus CI Support for FreeBSD
FreeBSD support was recently added to the Cirrus CI system. Cirrus CI makes your development cycle fast, efficient, and secure by leveraging modern cloud technologies. Cirrus CI scales with your team and makes shipping software faster and cheaper. Follow the FreeBSD Virtual Machines guide to find out more.
Excuse Digest downtime
I have stuff to post, but moving DragonFly to 5.4, php to 7.2, postgres to 9.5, WordPress to 5.0, etc. Regular Digest transmissions should resume tomorrow.
Lazy Reading for 2018/12/09
Involuntary vi theme this week. Or ssh! I have lots of links.
Old mp3 players skins, a baroque mess. (via)Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 years later. (via)Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980. It continues. (via)What makes BeOS and Haiku unique. Linking for nostalgia. (via (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/12/08
Once again playing catchup – but we all benefit from the abundance.
Using the GOG.com installers for Linux, on NetBSD. (via)Firefox’s middle-click behavior on HTML links on Linux. Should apply to BSD too.BSD vs. Linux. Old, but the source link has links to more discussion if that interests you.A proposal for a (Read more.. [...]
MeatBSD, soon
If you are going to MeatBSD, the reservations have to be in by Saturday. (Which is why I am posting it now instead of on Saturday for In Other BSDs.)
script(1) updates in DragonFly
I didn’t get a chance to mention this before release: script(1) has had a refresh, now sharing more options with the FreeBSD version. The update is in DragonFly-master and in the 5.4 release.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security A...
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FreeBSD-SA-18:14.bhyve Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Insufficient bounds checking in bhyve(8) dev [...]
NYCBUG holiday party, tomorrow
NYCBUG’s holiday party is tomorrow at Suspenders. Go, if you are near New York City, and talk about what you’d like to see in a presentation. Chances are good someone there is familiar with the topic.
DragonFly 5.4 released!
DragonFly 5.4.0 has been released. This release bring a new compiler (gcc 8.0), asymmetric NUMA support, and a number of new and updated drivers for virtual machine devices and network.
My users@ post has the details on upgrading, as do the release notes. Note there’s a step in there to update initrd, which has been available for the [...]
Reducing the delta with upstream vers...
I\'ve been actively working on reducing the delta with the local copy of sanitizers with upstream LLVM sources.
Their diff has been reduced to less than 2000 Lines Of Code.
I\'ve pushed to review almost all of the local code and I\'m working on addressing comments from upstream developers.
LLVM changes
The majority of work was related to in [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/12/02
It’s a classic Lazy Reading this week – some deep dives, some history, some stuff that will take a while to explore. Enjoy!
CGSociety, computer rendering showplace. Makes me think of the old Bud Plant Catalog. (via)
Underrated websites. You may come back to this. (via)
The recent ACM/IEEE Super Computing conference reassemb [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/12/01
An oddly uplifting batch of BSD stories this week.
Tor on OpenBSD, part 5 and part 6.
Slides and transcript and code from the November NYCBUG meeting. (I wish all BUG meetings had this.)
MeatBSD, the December SEMIBUG meeting, is a meetup at a local meat-heavy restaurant, December 18th. Plan for it now, cause you need to reserve (Read more [...]
FreeBSD 12.0-RC3 Available
The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
iwn 6035 support in DragonFly
If you happen to have a Intel Centrino advanced 6035 wireless card, it now works on DragonFly, thanks to Tobias Heilig.
Otto Moerbeek on the Virtues of OpenB...
Otto Moerbeek (otto@) has issued a
series of Mastodon messages
explaining some of the the virtues of OpenBSD\'s
malloc(3)
implementation.
They provide excellent reading in easily-digestible pieces.
