The first report from the just concluded u2k20 hackathon comes from Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), who writes:
How to read a commit message (a.k.a. thank you Thomas for u2k20)
Commit messages just capture the brief summary of changes. Believe i…
Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one. Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1. VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595). ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via) BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for …
No theme evolved, but lots more links this week. Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1. BSD user groups in Italy. (via) Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via) HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via) Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments …
An update has now been committed to the -stable branch for the latest firefox version, and the package is available for updating!
Previously, solene@ wrote:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen an…
Solene@ writes:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen and rust dependencies) on the stable branch (as this would require testing all rust consumers), the 6.6-stable branch won’t receive updates for ww…
It was an abnormally quiet week – probably because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because I cleared my BSD link backlog last week. perl updated to 5.30.1. (OpenBSD) a glimpse into 2020. Do you see what I see? Theo De Raadt Interview between Ottawa 2019 Hackathon and BSDCAN 2019. How job control made the …
Tom Smyth writes in about an interview he did with Theo de Raadt in between g2k19, the general hackathon in Ottawa, and BSDCAN 2019:
Have you ever wondered about the whys and the hows Theo and his friends in OpenBSD relentlessly pursue security p…
Quiet week, so catch up on your reading here. putting stuff in a proliant dl325. Not that BSD-specific but still. WireGuard OpenBSD Router. (via) Elasticsearch on MidnightBSD. How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer. Valid, though the writing may annoy you, not just because it misses BSD history completely. (via) OpenBSD system-call-origin verification. (via) …
I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his unnatural love of gelato BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker. NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions. (via) Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. (via) This is another reason to go to BUG meetings. …
Next up from the snowy Elk Lakes area with his Hackathon Report is Stefan Sperling (stsp@):
My hike to the Elk Lakes hut was more pleasent this time compared to
last time (s2k17).
Partly because the weather was better overall this time around.
A…
Lots of variety this week. NetBSD Advent Calendar 2019. (via) ARM64 and BSD discussion. Notqmail, the presentation topic for the January NYCBUG meeting and maybe for SEMIBUG at some point too. HAMBSD, presented at NorthernRST. (via) BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility. This is neat. “The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD Team is pleased to …
The
Internet Security Research Group
and partners
have announced
that Claudio Jeker (claudio@) is the third
Radiant Award
recipient.
From the
announcement:
We’re excited to announce the third Radiant Award recipient, Claudio Jeker.
When we…
Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@)
wrote to tech@
regarding a recent significant
change:
Hello,
commit from today [1] makes IP stack more paranoid. Up to now OpenBSD
implemented so called ‘weak host model’ [2]. The today’s commit alters
that for…
Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra. NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out. Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending. Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th. Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th. ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. …
Fresh from the just concluded e2k19 hackathon, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) writes in:
After 2 years it was once again time to pack skis and snowshoes,
put a satellite dish onto a sledge and hike through the snowy rockies
to the Elk Lakes hut.
…
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has
committed
code for a new exploit-prevention mechanism:
[…]
Repurpose the "syscalls must be on a writeable page" mechanism to
enforce a new policy: system calls must be in pre-registered regions.
We…
End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you. Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday. MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now. FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3. Valuable News – 2019/11/25. OPNsense 19.7.7 released. p2k19 Hackathon Report: …
Florian Obser (florian@) has
committed
code to give
unwind(8)
a flexible approach to resolving strategies:
Modified files:
sbin/unwind : resolver.c resolver.h
usr.sbin/unwindctl: unwindctl.c
Log message:
Instead of only considering…
Next up in our hackathon series from p2k19 is one from Stefan Sperling (stsp@),
who writes:
My main goal for the p2k19 hackathon was 9260 device support in iwm(4).
Firmware updates for previous device generation were an important
prerequisite st…
Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future. Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via) The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments. Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly). Valuable News – 2019/11/18. OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5). And the followup Running OpenBSD …