Introduction
Pf-badhost
is a very practical, robust, stable and lightweight security script for network servers.
It’s compatible with BSD based operating systems such as {Open,Free,Net,Dragonfly}BSD and MacOS. It prevents potentially-bad IP addre…
OpenBSD developer Vadim Zhukov (zhukov@)
has added preliminary OpenBSD support to
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio release
26.1.0
and later. The changes come as part of an ongoing collaboration between the upstream
OBS
project and OpenBSD …
This bulked up fast this week. Xfce 4.16 has landed in FreeBSD ports. (via) List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD. (via) GNU Date and several versions of RFC 3339 dates. Reviving the 1973 Unix text to voice translator. (via) FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. (via) Remote work notes from a longtime …
I am happy to be in the new year. Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see. On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database. BSD Games for Linux. (via) Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD …
With the following
commit,
Marcus Glocker (mglocker@)
added an enhanced privacy control for video recording:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mglocker@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/12/28 11:28:11
Modified files:
sys/dev : video.c …
Lots of history this week. Nakatomi Socrates BSD. FreeBSD src now in git. (via) Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via) The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via) ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via) Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship. Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD. …
Working on less traditional BSD links here. Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions. Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week. BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via) BSD Discord server. More linked in comments. Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific. There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly. CentOS killed by …
Straight from tabs. How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF. Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020). Show diff output in color. FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via) macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via) Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My …
Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week. Install FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Step by Step Guide. (via) Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1. Alpine Linux on FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Inside chroot(8). (via) Netatalk on OpenBSD or how to build a free Time Capsule. (via) Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation on NetBSD. …
The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of. For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near. Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via) The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via) Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to …
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week. Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System. Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it). Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via) Valuable News – 2020/11/09. OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update. Mktemp started on OpenBSD. Windows Subsystem for …
Undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen writes in, saying,
On Saturday November 7th I remote participated in OpenFest 2020 with an updated version of the OpenBSD and you talk.
Recordings will be released after the conference, but I was happy eno…
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time… CDBUG meetings going virtual. FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure. November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th. What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games? HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report. A …
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really. Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via) The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via) Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via) Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via) History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via) Lenovo T420 …
Solène Rapenne (solene@) has written a
blog entry
on the software system underlying the building of -stable packages:
In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details
of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastruct…
It’s apparently release week? Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via) BSDCan 2021 is canceled. NetBSD 9.1 released. OpenBSD 6.8 Released. REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer. TrueNAS 12.0 released. Valuable News – 2020/10/19. FreeBSD Q3 2020 report. FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for …
On its 25th birthday,
the OpenBSD project has released
OpenBSD 6.8,
the 49th release.
The new release comes with a large number of improvements and debuts a new architecture, OpenBSD/powerpc64, running on the POWER9 family of processors. The ful…
Introduction
Hitherto, releases of the
fwobac
software (which underlies
Undeadly)
have been unsigned.
This is overdue for change, so for the latest release [version 1.7], we are providing a digital signature.
As signing is being performed manua…
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has
committed
RETGUARD
(see
previous
coverage)
for the macppc (powerpc) and powerpc64 platforms:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mortimer@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/10/12 08:52:09
Modified files:
gnu/llvm…
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT. OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via) duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via) Old School Disk Partitioning. (via) Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of), How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching …