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Something that makes me happy: Vermaden’s Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now. Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via) BSD Hardware – Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via) Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis. OpenBSD …
The second RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
We need a “BSD Games” site. OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2. FreeBSD 12.1 on a laptop. Backup and Restore on NetBSD. (via) Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests. Delver (Dungeon Crawler) on OpenBSD. Session Seven (free point & click adventure game) works with fnaify. PlanetFriend / The Great Adventurer – PlayOnBSD. …
The FreeBSD Project is once again participating as a mentoring organization in the Google Season of Docs program. The goal of the program is to bring open source and technical writers together. Technical writers spend three months working closely with …
The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Good mix of history and current BSDs this week. FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!” Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via) …
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here. cx: A directory history utility written in C. Started on BSD. (via) FreeBSD Foundation – 500% if_bridge Performance Improvement. (via) Catch up 2020-04-30. Playing Counter-Strike (CSMoE) on OpenBSD ft. Zombie mod. OpenBSD as a primary target for a game development club? Dev + Gaming …
Tab cleanout time! OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several) FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE. Valuable News – 2020/04/20. Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS. How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD. How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel. (lost the source links …
Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary. Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target. January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report. OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via) Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – …
Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work. RISC OS and NetBSD running on same SoC. (via) MixerTUI 0.1. (via) Extending support for the NetBSD-7 branch. NetBSD 8.2 is available! The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1). Update Lenovo X260 BIOS with …
Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it. So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged …
I have multiple BSD based systems to update, reboot, and hopefully not physically visit in the next week or so. pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE Now Available. Booting [OpenBSD] from an FFS2 filesystem. [packages] Retiring Python 2 support in IPython. AnsiMail, based on ansible, not ANSI as older folks may immediately think. (via) Valuable News – 2020/03/23. Bob …
A bit short this week; I think everyone’s been occupied with other issues. How to Configure the WireGuard VPN Server in OPNsense. (via) ssh with 2FA. The growth of command line options, 1979-Present. Technically BSD cause of the history. (via) New FuryBSD 12.1 based images are available for XFCE, and KDE. Valuable News – 2020/03/16. …
rcorder-visualize.sh draws the dependencies for rc scripts using dot. Originally in NetBSD, then in FreeBSD, now in DragonFly.