Posts in category FreeBSD
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/20
Nicely mixed topics this week.
It’s several years old, but worth viewing: .ike’s presentation of “Shell Fu” from NYCBUG, as video. Also: May event speaker needed. (via)
The FreeBSD-12 support model.
“OpenVMS vs. Unix” (antagonists or sisters?).
Previous link via Nixers Newsletter 121.
Back in the Day: UN [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13
Straight open tab dump, again!
FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and [...]
Converting thin jails to thick jails
I have been using ezjail since at least 2008 (see earlier blog post). A few years ago, I started deploying iocage on new servers. About three months ago, I starting converting systems from ezjail to iocage.
When I converted my first system, I found that the existing documentation for conversion was incomplete. Specifically, symlinks were a p [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/06
Lots of BUG news this week; thank you all for the leads on groups to watch.
Talking Jails at Semibug, 9 April 2019. Note the meeting has been moved up a week.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” and a new novella.
April 9th Meetup. ChiBUG.
Rusted ravens: Ravenports march 2019 status update. There’s some DragonFly stuff in there (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/30
A reminder: tell me about bugs.
If you missed the most recent NYCBUG meeting, here’s the video: Maintaining qmail in 2019 by Amitai Schleier. (thanks, bsdtv)
Next NYCBUG meeting, in a few days: Verification As Code of Infrastructure As Code. I’ll post a reminder.
Removing PF. NetBSD. (via)
OpenBSD testing wiki. ( (Read more. [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/23
Heading towards spring, and I have weekend work, so pasting in everything I’ve got handy:
Setting up RRDtool for OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
EuroBSDcon CFP is open. (via)
SPARCbook 3000ST – The coolest 90s laptop. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 18 – Global Dashboard.
Fix Broken Dependency on FreeBSD. This seems (Read [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/16
There’s a number of long-running BSD series out there nowadays, some of which I’m linking to here. That’s a nice change.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 15 – Configuration – Fonts & Frameworks. (via)
Nixers Newsletter 117.
“Just picked this up today!” (a SPARC laptop)
package of the moment: tview [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/09
If these aren’t enough links, some of them are links to more links.
Using MRTG on OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
LLDB from trunk is running on NetBSD once again!
Metasploit on OpenBSD. (via)
Looking at NetBSD from an OpenBSD user perspective. (via)
2019 (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/03/02
I didn’t even realize Summer of Code was upon us again.
Hello world, no root. (NetBSD on Nintendo64). (via)
Google Summer of Code 2019 participants: FreeBSD, NetBSD.
Why OpenBSD rocks. (via)
SecBSD: Unix-like operating system focused on computer security. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2 (Rea [...]
BSD Now 287: rc.d in NetBSD
This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of NetBSD things including rc.d as you might guess, and covers Project Trident. Listen/read in if you are unfamiliar.
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23
Built entirely from open tabs.
Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/16
This is all backlogged links; I have even more tabs open.
awesome-bsd, a list. (via)
OpenBSD’s KSH.
Revised KSH.
Anyone using pfsense or similar for a medium size company?
MirBSD errors “Device not configured” during installation on VirtualBox?
Pull-based Backups using OpenBSD base. I like the ‘using native tools̵ [...]
makefs makes a trip
Sascha Wildner has added makefs(8) to DragonFly, with changes of course. This chunk of code has already traveled around two other BSDs.
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/09
Whee!
ZFS and GPL terror: How much freedom is there in Linux?
Setting the boot logo on a Thinkpad. Done on an OpenBSD install but should nominally work for anything on a Thinkpad. Also, how to make a boot logo. (via)
FreeBSD Journal Column. Start reading issues now if you like, and you have some large (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/02
Inadvertent theme: release news.
Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using [...]
The hardware-assisted virtualization ...
Over two years ago, I made a pledge to use NetBSD as my sole OS and only operating system,
and to resist booting into any other OS until I had implemented hardware-accelerated
virtualization in the NetBSD kernel (the equivalent of Linux\' KVM, or Hyper-V).
Today, I am here to report: Mission Accomplished!
It\'s been a long road, but we now [...]
