October-December 2020 Status Report
The October to December 2020 Status Report is now available with 42 entries.
In Other BSDs for 2021/01/09
This bulked up fast this week. Xfce 4.16 has landed in FreeBSD ports. (via) List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD. (via) GNU Date and several versions of RFC 3339 dates. Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator. (via) FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. (via) Remote work notes from a longtime …
In Other BSDs for 2021/01/02
I am happy to be in the new year. Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see. On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database. BSD Games for Linux. (via) Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD …
In Other BSDs for 2020/12/26
Lots of history this week. Nakatomi Socrates BSD. FreeBSD src now in git. (via) Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via) The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via) ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via) Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship. Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD. …
In Other BSDs for 2020/12/19
Working on less traditional BSD links here. Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions. Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week. BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via) BSD Discord server. More linked in comments. Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific. There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly. CentOS killed by …
The replacement – a followup
Yesterday, I started a zpool replace. It finished overnight, and dropped the suspect drive out of the vdev. The resilver finished in the middle of the night: As you can see, da22p1 has taken the place of da17p1. The resilver took As the new drive is being resilvered, I started looking at metrics. Here is […]
smartctl output TOSHIBA MD04ACA500 653AK2MXFS9A
It is time to replace /dev/da17 in knew. An upcoming blog post will document the replacement. I’m seeing these messages: Dec 12 09:23:03 knew smartd[2124]: Device: /dev/da17 [SAT], 40 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Dec 12 09:53:04 knew syslogd: last message repeated 1 times Dec 12 10:23:03 knew syslogd: last message repeated 1 times Dec 12 […]
In Other BSDs for 2020/12/12
Straight from tabs. How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF. Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020). Show diff output in color. FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via) macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via) Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My …
In Other BSDs for 2020/12/05
Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week. Install FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Step by Step Guide. (via) Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1. Alpine Linux on FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Inside chroot(8). (via) Netatalk on OpenBSD or how to build a free Time Capsule. (via) Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation on NetBSD. …
In Other BSDs for 2020/11/28
The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of. For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near. Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via) The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via) Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to …
Hosting multiple web servers behind a single IP address
Virtual hosts for a website are a thing. One webserver can host multiple websites. They can all be on the same IP address, different IP addresses, different ports, etc. This post is about using a proxy service. Before I started with this solution, at home I hosted every website on the same server. My firewall […]
In Other BSDs for 2020/11/14
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week. Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System. Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it). Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via) Valuable News – 2020/11/09. OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update. Mktemp started on OpenBSD. Windows Subsystem for …
In Other BSDs for 2020/11/07
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time… CDBUG meetings going virtual. FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure. November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th. What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games? HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report. A …
In Other BSDs for 2020/10/31
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really. Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via) The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via) Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via) Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via) History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via) Lenovo T420 …
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Available
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information …