I’m hitting all the unixes. Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date. Knuth is still working on TeX. (via) Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via) XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet. I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD. ChiBUG will be meeting …
snmpd can be royal pain to configure. I got my hints from Ryan Steinmetz, the maintainer for the FreeBSD port. Lately, net-snmpd has changed how net-snmp-config works. In this post: FreeBSD 12.2 net-snmp-5.9_3,1 Compare my hints with the following, run today with net-snmp-5.9_3,1: [dan@nginx01:~] $ sudo net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user -ro -x AES -a SHA -A ‘secret123’ […]
Well, I made up for last week’s short list. What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports. The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via) Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, …
Quiet, this week. GNU really is a different animal. Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing. Another pair: Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD and Enable 2 factor auth on OpenBSD using TOTP. A working D compiler on OpenBSD. mport package manager. Valuable News – 2021/03/22. Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t …
Solene is publishing faster than I can link! EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open. Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via) FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via) Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via) Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via) Wayland on FreeBSD. Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD. Using pkgsrc …
Literally tabs from my browser in order, here. “TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course. Quick-publishing of poudriere packages. Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD. DIY OpenBSD router advice. OPNsense 21.1.3 released. Valuable News – 2021/03/08. Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD. The many ways to launch FreeBSD in …
Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week. HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG. TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released. Old USENIX pictures. Valuable News …
I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings. XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers. The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th. Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours. FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site. ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul …
There’s a lot to catch up on! FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6. fstab in FreeBSD jails. Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s. POSIX locale tracking coming soon. (MirBSD) /dev/{drm,drmR} replaced by /dev/dri/{card,renderD} runescape on openbsd? LWJGL 3.x now in ports tree (makes Minecraft >1.13 run). XScreenSaver alpha testers sought. Needs non-Linux testers; …
I have a link backlog, yay! Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via) The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer. Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator. Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via) Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days. The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. …
Hardware-heavy this week, sorta. leave(1) – remind you when you have to leave. Valuable News – 2021/02/01. Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD. Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD. BREAKING pf(4) change: change route-to so it sends packets to IPs instead of interfaces. TwinCAT/BSD, a new (to me at least) commercial use of FreeBSD in industrial …
Michael Dexter will be giving a talk for NYCBUG’s February 3rd meeting (6:45 PM Eastern) titled “Fifteen Years and Fifteen Minutes: Applying Occam’s Razor to FreeBSD with OccamBSD“. If you want to attend – and you should – email for the Zoom link; the address to email is in the linked message. (I managed to …
A FreeBSD-heavy week. Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD. fzf, for BSD and other places. (via) FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020. FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via) Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and …
It’s the week of Very Long and Excited Page Titles that Give Me Long Link Lines. FreeBSD Xfce4 on VMware Installation Guide. (via) HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report. (via) Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools. (via) Just realized this… Dennis Ritchie is the true innovator! Posted for the single comment. Unix time is in its …
The October to December 2020 Status Report is now available with 42 entries.
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 …
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 …
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. …