Posts in category FreeBSD
FreeBSD 11.2-BETA1 Available
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.2 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.
In Other BSDs for 2018/05/05
BUGs BUGs BUGs!
The May 15th SemiBUG meeting will be a hands-on web server workshop. Bring equipment.
The June 19th SemiBUG meeting will be on BCHS.
The May 2 NYCBUG meeting has no official presentation, but it’s happening.
BSD licensed bc in NetBSD. The GNU version was removed in other BSDs. (Thanks, Bill Sorenson)
SMTP client adde [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/28
Some nice tech explanations this week.
OpenBSD on my fanless desktop computer. Read to find out more about the RUNBSD stickers. (via)
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold for 2018!
Hardware accelerated AES/HMAC-SHA on octeons.
Caddy Web Server on FreeBSD.
free command for OpenBSD. I’d love to see a deep dive into the various BSD *stat (Read [...]
Perl @INC – customizing it for FreeBS...
This post is all about creating technical debt. If you accept that, go for it. I’m avoiding porting my FreshPorts scripts into SITEPERL. Why? I’ll migrate them to SITEPERL after BSDCan & PGCon. Right now, I need to get the servers upgraded from Perl 5.24 to Perl 5.26, because 5.24 is deprecated.
FreshPorts uses Perl for p [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/21
Opinion time: The Reddit / Hacker News forums have reached the anything/everything point where there’s no longer a focus. Lobste.rs is worth visiting, though, for BSD content and in general.
MAP_STACK Stack Register Checking Committed to -current.
Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD. (via)
Run OpenBSD on your web server. (via)
Introduction to [...]
More cross-pollination
I like code that travels through multiple BSDs.
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/14
Totally last-minute summary, but I’m hitting every BSD category.
Godot running on OpenBSD, though I didn’t know what Godot was.
Finding what you’re looking for on Linux. BSD too. I link it because I always forget arguments to find(1).
OPNsense 18.1.6 released.
New M-Series storage devices from iXSystems.
How to write ATF tests [...]
vis, unvis, across BSDs
I haven’t been able to say this in a while, but: I like cross-pollination.
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/07
Losing power at home this week put a dent in my reading throughput, so to speak, but this will do.
DragonFFI: FFI/JIT for the C language using Clang/LLVM. Not actually related to DragonFly or really BSD, but I like the synchronicity. (via)
Simplifying Linux with … fish? Or BSD.
New BSDMag issue – with a feature (Read more...)
Book Review: Ed Mastery
I don’t normally offer guest posts here, but on this rare occasion I couldn’t say no. Here’s a guest post from Michael W Lucas.
What one of us finds delightful, another person might find loathsome. That’s human nature. I keep reminding myself of this every time people start babbling about the virtues of something I fin [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/31
Happy Almost Fool’s Easter Day! I have to be at work in a few hours, at 3 AM, so this is all I was able to find in the time I have.
Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD? (via)
Userland PCI drivers. NetBSD. (via)
A nice note about OpenBSD right on the Void Linux (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/17
The first news item about pfSense is not necessarily new, but new to me.
The next major release of pfSense is going to be significantly different. (other info)
OpenBSD Gaming Resource, PDF from a previous comment here.
PkgsrcCon 2018. (via)
What is your experience with Dragonfly as a user desktop?
speaking at mug.org (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/03/10
It’s a week for good quotes to pull from linked stories.
Interview with MidnightBSD Founder and Lead Dev Lucas Holt. (via)
Meltdown-mitigation syspatch/errata now available. For OpenBSD.
a2k18 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on dhclient and more.
John Carmack on OpenBSD, C++ & machine learning. “Linux is a lot of things, [...]
