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.
Throwing all the links I can out there. March/April BUG meetings canceled for NYCBUG and SEMIBUG. FreeBSD Journal 2020/01-02. (PDF, via) FreeBSD Find Installed Hard Disk Size Information. (via) GhostBSD 20.02 Overview. (video, via) Introduction to Flua on FreeBSD. (via) FreeBSD Loader and Console Future. (via) OPNsense 20.1.2 released. FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying. TrueNAS …
Happy leap day! RSVP to the ChiBUG mailing list if you are attending the March 10th meeting, in its new location. The Vixie talk at NYCBUG is this week; this is worth making an extra trip for. Critical OpenSMTPd update. FreeBSD 12.0 EOL. A Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation. Valuable News – 2020/02/10, 2020/02/17, and …
No theme this week cause I think I hit everything. Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder. NetBSD 9.0 is out, in case you missed the late update last week. Related: NetBSD 2020 Fundraising Campaign. What started as …
UNIX history as an accidental theme this week. Are there analogues to libxo out there? Unix Heritage Wiki. (via) Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming) PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question. Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via) UNIX Review Early 80’s Ad. Cycling / bike trips and …
Another overflow week. Travel Grant Application for BSDCan is now open. Bram Moolenaar Uses This. I am curious about what specifically stopped him using BSD. Tildeverse. Several BSD communities in there. What files installed by this package have been modified post-install? Some effects of the ZFS DVA format on data layout and growing ZFS pools. …
libfetch has a vulnerability, now fixed on DragonFly in current and release, plus it also affects FreeBSD.
Be warned, this failed. I’m stalled and I have not completed this. I’m going to do jails within a jail. I already do that with poudriere in a jail but here I want to test an older version of iocage before upgrading my current jail hosts to a newer version. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 […]
There’s a lot of releases happening. Next NYCBUG meeting: February 5th. I’ll post a reminder. Don’t forget there’s ChiBUG and SEMIBUG meetings coming up on the 11th and 18th, respectively. FOSDEM 2020 is happening now and there’s a BSD devroom. (reminded via) The MWL 2020 Asia Tour. Worth catching if you are on that side …
You’ve seen it. A package gets installed. Some shell scripts are included. They get modified. It happens. But how do you know what has changed? I know there is a tool in pkg for this. I know there is a periodic script which uses it. Let’s go looking. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 periodic $ […]
BUGs BUGs BUGs this week. I’ll make sure to note the events again when they get closer, too. Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. Turn-based apocalyptic survival, open source and probably runs on BSD. (via) NYCBUG is looking for speakers for I assume February and April; March was I think filled after this was written. SemiBUG’s …