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 …
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 …
Dr. Brian Robert Callahan (bcallah@)
blogged about his work in getting D compiler(s) working under OpenBSD.
The first paragraph reads:
I got GDC, the GNU D Compiler, working on OpenBSD. Supporting D has been a very long time coming. Here’s the st…
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 …
Hoping to be able to make a conference in Vienna in September (and doing it digitally if not), the EuroBSDCon is now accepting submissions for presentations and tutorials.
Read more at 2021.EuroBSDCon.org
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 …
In a recent blog post, OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne (solene@) offers an over view of the security features offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
The first paragraph of the introduction reads,
In this text I will explain what makes Op…
With the following
commit,
Florian Obser (florian@) imported
dhcpleased(8),
DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases
from servers, plus
dhcpleasectl(8),
a utility to control the daemon:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian…
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 …
With the following
commit,
Florian Obser (florian@) imported
resolvd(8),
a daemon for handling nameserver configuration:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/02/24 11:10:41
Added files:
sbin/resolvd :…
In this commit, David Gwynne (dlg@) adds a new veb(4) driver to the tree. David’s goal is to replace the old bridge(4) driver:
Read more…
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) is
teasing
OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1 hardware:
So OpenBSD boots multi-user on the new Apple M1 hardware. This still
has some hacks in it that need to be fixed, so don’t expect support
for this in the tree…
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; …
Recent noteworthy things commited to -current and not previously reported include:
[2021-01-26] Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
continues work
[with help from Mark Kettenis (kettenis@)] on
supporting
the Apple M1.
[2021-02-06] Solène Rapenne (…
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. …
You may have missed the event during the weekend, but with this commit, OpenBSD -current turned 6.9-beta.
The commit message reads,
Read more…
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 …
Does your pf configuration have route-to rules? If so, you need to consider the implications of this commit by David Gwynne (dlg@) carefully.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: dlg@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/01/31 17:31:05
Modified files:…