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In Other BSDs for 2018/03/10

Mar 10, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
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, [...]
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In Other BSDs for 2018/03/03

Mar 03, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
The first link about TorBSD is important: many of the major security issues in computing trace back to having only one vendor or product or whatever, used by everyone. An Open Letter to BSD-powered Companies and Projects.  (via) NetBSD GPU support (Intel HD 4400). Device Driver Development for BSD. Hypervisor on dfly? Unfortunately, StackOve [...]
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New committer: Fernando Apesteguia (p...

Mar 03, 2018 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
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LLDB restoration and return to ptrace...

Mar 01, 2018 ~ Written by Kamil Rytarowski
I\'ve managed to unbreak the LLDB debugger as much as possible with the current kernel and hit problems with ptrace(2) that are causing issues with further work on proper NetBSD support. Meanwhile, I\'ve upstreamed all the planned NetBSD patches to sanitizers and helped other BSDs to gain better or initial support. LLDB Since the last time [...]
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New committer: Devin Teske (ports)

Mar 01, 2018 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
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In Other BSDs for 2018/02/24

Feb 24, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Another across-the-BSDs week. What’s Next for Feature Development in FreeNAS/TrueNAS? Description of the 1969 proto-Unix system based on a 2812 line PDP-7 assembly kernel.  (via) The Known Costs of Security Embargoes. Military Grade Data Wiping In FreeBSD With BCWipe. “Has Linux lost its way?” comments prompt Debian developer to revisit Fr [...]
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DragonFly porting notes, again

Feb 19, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Remember: there’s a separate document about porting FreeBSD drivers to DragonFly.  I note it cause it’s useful and because Rimvydas Jasinskas just updated it.
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In Other BSDs for 2018/02/17

Feb 17, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Reached overflow again!  That secretly makes me happy. Discord channels for BSD’s? SemiBUG’s speaker schedule for the next few months is published.  Note next meeting is on the 20th. SVS to mitigate meltdown.  (NetBSD) Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD.  Another FOSDEM video, which I note because [...]
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Trying iocage to get an old version o...

Feb 15, 2018 ~ Written by Dan Langille
Sometimes you just need that old version. So I installed it. FreeBSD 9.3 Sorry, but this article is light. I stopped taking notes after a bit…. We created a VM via VMware, put FreeBSD 11.1 on it, over ZFS. Then install iocage. This is what it looked like: $ sudo iocage fetch Setting up zpool [zroot] for iocage usage If (Read mo [...]
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FreeBSD Project to participate in Goo...

Feb 14, 2018 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
The FreeBSD Project is pleased to announce its participation in Google\'s 2018 Summer of Code program, which funds summer students to participate in open source projects. This will be the FreeBSD Project\'s fourteenth year in the program, having mentored over 210 successful students through summer-long coding projects between 2005 and 2017.
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exFAT support in DragonFly

Feb 13, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Tomohiro Kusumi has brought in exFAT support to DragonFly from FreeBSD.  Useful for cross-platform drives when FAT32 isn’t enough, and NTFS brings its own problems.
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New committer: Slava Shwartsman (src)

Feb 08, 2018 ~ Written by freebsd news flash
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In Other BSDs for 2018/02/03

Feb 03, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Whee! The history of NetBSD/atari and support for ATARI compatible Milan.  Not in English, but it’s a slide deck so lots of pictures.  (via) The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign.  “If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be (Read m [...]
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In Other BSDs for 2018/01/27

Jan 27, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Done last minute on Friday, mostly. grep your way to freedom.  (via) Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions. Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames.  (via) pfSense home unit.  Follow the thread for some interesting hardware suggestions, including this one. OpenBSD <-> projectors.  In case [...]
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tape02

Jan 25, 2018 ~ Written by Dan Langille
World, please meet tape02. It’s been around for a while, but never properly introduced. For the record: $ uname -a FreeBSD tape02.int.unixathome.org 11.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Nov 14 06:12:40 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 $ zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC [...]
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In Other BSDs for 2018/01/20

Jan 20, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
Done well ahead of time. ELI5: In 2018, what are the pros and cons between Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS in terms of kernel technology and user space tools. Adding IPv6 to an Nginx website on FreeBSD / FreshPorts. Should I use BSD? Certifications…are they worth it? Will they be in the future? OPNsense 18.1-RC2 released. CPU microcode updat [...]
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BSD News 15/01/2018

Jan 16, 2018 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
Last week in BSDReleases: OPNsenseNews: OpenBSD, OPNsense, Meltdown, Spectre, Dragon Fly, FreeBSD, BhyveBSDSecOpenBSD Errata: January 14th, 2018 (libssl)ReleasesOPNsense® 18.1 Release Candidate 1For more than 3 years now, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable [...]
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Adding IPv6 to an Nginx website on Fr...

Jan 13, 2018 ~ Written by Dan Langille
FreshPorts recently moved to an IPv6-capable server but until today, that capability has not been utilized. There were a number of things I had to configure, but this will not necessarily be an exhaustive list for you to follow. Some steps might be missing, and it might not apply to your situation. All of this took about 3 hours. We (Read m [...]
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In Other BSDs for 2018/01/13

Jan 13, 2018 ~ Written by justin sherrill
A full slate of BSDs this week. Church of BSD.  From 2005, and it is accurate for that timeframe.  (via) ADOM, newly updated at 3.0.6, but only at 1.1.1_6 in ports/dports, pkgsrc, and two years gone in OpenBSD.  But the ADOM download page lists new BSD versions?  I may not have (Read more...)
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BSD News 08/01/2018

Jan 09, 2018 ~ Written by Jan Hovancik
Last week in BSDNews: DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, BSDSec, HardenedBSD, Meltdown, Spectre, MirOS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDnow, Releases: HardenedBSDBSDSecNetBSD Security Advisory 2018-002: Local DoS in virecoverNetBSD Security Advisory 2018-001: Several vulnerabilities in context handling ReleasesHardenedBSD-stable 10-STABLE v1000050.1D [...]
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