Still plenty of links I haven’t even got to yet. Understanding ZFS Channel Programs. Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys. Valuable News – 2021/09/13. Ghost in the Shell – Part 6 – Learn Shell Scripting. Minecraft on lunarclient (on OpenBSD). FreeBSD 11.4 EOL. TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!) Quick …
I am severely backlogged on links. Valuable News – 2021/09/06. FreeBSD Desktop – Part 27 – Configuration – Netflix Signal Telegram. Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Development Tools Next Steps. FreeBSD moving ever so slowly to git. I think; the announcement assumes you …
Note the last link; BSD and M1. RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH. Disruptive but good. (open)rsync gains include/exclude support. Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout. Appropriate illustration. HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report. ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings. I’ll post a reminder. NYCBUG Sept …
Longer reading this week. Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC). (via) One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. (via) Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture. (via) FreeBSD development on Docker support. (via) VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init. (via) Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail. wifi project status update. …
I have some barely-BSD links this week but I don’t think you’ll mind. Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG, tomorrow. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone, so I am mentioning it early. Bringing NetBSD to Zig’s Continuous Integration. …
No mini-theme, but I was also ‘done’ early. Live Action Lazy Reading, so to speak, at NYCBUG on August 4th. Thinkpad T14 (AMD) Gen 2 – A Brave New World! OpenBSD 6.9 – Help with the “Failed to install bootblocks” issue. FreeBSD implements unprivileged chroot. (via) MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud. …
No theme this week; just catching up with all the links I didn’t get to last week. Valuable News – 2021/07/19. VirtualBox with FreeBSD + KDE. VM-to-desktop. Also VirtualBox guest additions in FreeBSD for that previous link. Managing Boot Environments. (ZFS) FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls. FreeBSD KGDB support in LLDB. A description of the …
The April to June 2021 Status Report is now available with 45 entries.
More BUG meetings are happening, which is great. Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder. The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting. The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 & VAX. The article itself is not about BSD, specifically, but some of the comments at the source …
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 …
Yes, I am clearing out all my open tabs from Solène this week. Introduction to IPFS, and OpenBSD 6.9 packages using IPFS. Semi-related: Synchronization files software. How to run a NixOS VM as an OpenBSD guest. How to install Gnome on OpenBSD. Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study. (via) Valuable News – 2021/06/21. …
Follow the helloSystem links this week. Sponsorships for DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, are available. SourceHut on NetBSD, I think, mentioned here. SANY adopts TwinCAT/BSD for the automation of wind turbines. (via) helloSystem 0.5 is out. (via several places) Related: This comment from I assume a helloSystem developer is the best polite “how do you like …
Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week. FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via) Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8). actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree. NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via) OpenBGPD …
When you install a package, you want to know it’s still around to reinstall. You’ve probably never given this much thought. Neither had I, until I read this post on Reddit. In my case, I run my own poudriere server which allows me to run my own package server. Why run your own package server? […]
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 …
Mark Felder and I have been working on a minimalist set of jail scripts for creating and updating jails. All jail management is accomplished via standard vanilla FreeBSD jails. No jail managers are involved. Everything goes through jail.conf. In this post: FreeBSD 13.0 host, recently update from FreeBSD 12.2 FreeBSD 12.s jail on that host, […]