Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US. Valuable News – 2021/11/22. Project Report: Add support for chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3). Why V7 Unix matters so much. Wired XBox 360 Controller minor issue. Torn between getting a used thinkpad vs a new Chromebook. OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Developer …
Some history, some games. tmpfs-13, an experimental hellosystem build. Latest iortcw [Return to Castle: Wolfenstein] on OpenBSD. What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter. (via) FreeBSD Quarterly Report, 2021Q3. Installing and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX on the VAX (1988). (via) FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual-boot testbed using Desktop Hardware. (via) GhostBSD online …
Note the upcoming SEMIBUG meeting. I’ll post a reminder. Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2. (via) Manage Kubernetes Cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl. (via) What if Internet stops? How to rebuild an offline federated infrastructure using OpenBSD. OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption. (via) SEMIBUG is meeting November 16th, with a presentation from …
Interesting developments (in -current) since
OpenBSD 7.0 include:
Wireless drivers
iwm(4) and
iwx(4)
now support 40MHz channels –
see
commits.
On tech@, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) has
requested testing
of a diff to add such support to
iwn(4)…
I finally cleared out most of my BSD RSS. Now everyone has to post more stuff and refill! The OpenSSH server has limits on what user authentication you can use. V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one. 4BSD like everything else. OpenBSD hardware recommendations. OpenBSD on a Framework computer. SOLVED: …
Live in-person meetings are happening, slowly, finally. Register Today for the November 2021 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. How BSD Authentication Works. (via) Valuable News – 2021/10/19. Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment. Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD. Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System. Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. Software and hardware. FreeBSD switches the default …
Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases. Automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates in Apache with mod_md. FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user. (via) FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen. MATE 1.26.0 upgrade ready. (GhostBSD) pfSense Software is 15 Today! Valuable News – 2021/10/11. OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released. OpenBSD 7.0 …
The OpenBSD project
has released
OpenBSD 7.0,
the project’s 51st release.
As usual, the release page
offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to
other resources such as the
detailed changelog.
Notable improvem…
It is status report season! ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation. OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python. Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions. pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via) What every …
In the run-up to the OpenBSD 7.0 release, we note several recent interesting
things previously unreported:
The 7.0 release song
is available.
The loongson hardware platform
has been
retired.
The upcoming
OpenBSD 7.0
will be the last release…
As a result of a licence change by
Realtek,
that company’s wireless firmware images are now included in the tree.
The following
commit
by Kevin Lo (kevlo@)
explains the details:
Read more…
Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links. pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched. SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026. Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via) EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available. Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via) Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD. Faster packages …
Did you just run
syspatch(8)
and see it fail?
Here’s the reason: one of the two root certificates
behind the (excellent)
Let’s Encrypt
CA service has expired.
A bug in (the "legacy" verifier of)
LibreSSL
also contributed.
The s…
EuroBSDCon 2021
was held [virtually] earlier this month.
Videos of the presentation are
now available.
Amongst the OpenBSD-related presentations is that by
Marc Espie (espie@) –
Debug Packages in OpenBSD
(slides,
video).
I forgot to link to BSD Now 421: ZFS eats CPU on Thursday! Valuable News – 2021/09/20. Ghost in the Shell – Part 7 – ZSH Setup. GhostBSD build tool development visualization, 2014-2021. Migrating from Apache/WordPress to relayd/httpd/Hugo. Technology Roadmap. (FreeBSD) I support this idea of publishing plans. Improving GDB register model compatibility in LLDB. …
Still plenty of links I haven’t even got to yet. Understanding ZFS Channel Programs. Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys. Valuable News – 2021/09/13. Ghost in the Shell – Part 6 – Learn Shell Scripting. Minecraft on lunarclient (on OpenBSD). FreeBSD 11.4 EOL. TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!) Quick …
I am severely backlogged on links. Valuable News – 2021/09/06. FreeBSD Desktop – Part 27 – Configuration – Netflix Signal Telegram. Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Development Tools Next Steps. FreeBSD moving ever so slowly to git. I think; the announcement assumes you …
Thanks to a
commit
by Damien Miller (djm@),
scp(1) (in -current)
now defaults to using the
SFTP protocol:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/08 17:31:39
Modified files:
usr.bin/ssh : scp.1 scp.c
…
In a recent
message
to tech@ Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) wrote about
analysis of kernel lock contention.
We reproduce the message(s) here, reformatted with his permission.
Unlocking UVM [virtual memory – Ed.]
faults makes build time decrease a lo…
Note the last link; BSD and M1. RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH. Disruptive but good. (open)rsync gains include/exclude support. Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout. Appropriate illustration. HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report. ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings. I’ll post a reminder. NYCBUG Sept …