Fun variety this week. FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. 2.11BSD Missing Patches. Ultra Hat Dimension – PlayOnBSD. Mostly linking because of the name. Valuable News – 2020/08/03. BSD Gaming is Improving – Proton on FreeBSD. (via) A BSD phone lives! Sorta. BSD Router Project 1.97. (via) FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included …
With
this commit
and several more, Patrick Wildt (patrick@)
upgraded -current to version 10.0.0 of LLVM:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: patrick@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/08/03 08:30:27
Log message:
Import LLVM 10.0.0 release in…
Dragged right out of my RSS feeds. Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via) Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06. Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too. FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today. Deep Integration of …
In this commit, Paul Irofti (pirofti@) added support for reading timecounters in userland without making a syscall.
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Since we reported the first bits of powerpc64 support going into the tree on 16 May, work has progressed at a steady pace, resulting in snapshots now being available for this platform.
So, if you have a POWER9 system idling around, go to your neare…
This should be prime convention season, darnit. Smallest device running BSD? Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via) The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via) BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results. BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP. Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process. Command Line Bug …
Chroot OriginsThis blog post will examine original artifacts to clear up some confusion about where chroot(2) and chroot(8) came from. The answer turns out to be simple, and the confusion was understandable. This shows the benefits of groups like …
In the following
commit
(and a bunch of others), David Gwynne (dlg@) imported most of the code submitted recently by Jason A. Donenfeld and Matt Dunwoodie to allow you to use WireGuard natively on OpenBSD:
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Wesley Mouedine Assaby who runs the OpenBSD Jumpstart webpage with hints and tips for beginners about OpenBSD in general has produced a visualization of how PCs boot into OpenBSD.
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I presented a talk on how I used OpenBGPd as a control plane for my ISP.
I cover areas such as Routing fundamentals, a lightning introduction to BGP.
An interesting aspect of the design is how the OpenBSD / OpenBGPd
is used to control the routing…
I like having shorter link texts so they all line up, but sometimes it’s unavoidably descriptive. FreeBSD’s new Code of Conduct. Gaming on OpenBSD. FreeBSD HEAD Binary Upgrades. (via bsdweekly) Install OpenBSD 6.7-current on a PineBook Pro 64. (via bsdweekly) TrueNAS is Multi-OS. My hot take is that this is a side effect of ZFS …
If you want to boot DragonFly on your UEFI machine, and also OpenBSD, and also Linux, Martin Aleksandrov Ivanov has you covered.
Jonathan Gray (jsg@) has just committed an update to the
DRM code to the tree.
This update brings support for newer AMD and Intel graphics parts.
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 22:48:16 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>
To: sourc…
Remember, BSDCan 2020 is still streaming if you read this early enough. Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe. BastilleBSD Template updates. (via) Bringing FreeBSD to EC2 with Colin Percival. A long and worthwhile story, on a non-BSDpodcast. (via) The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey. Peeking inside executables and libraries to make debugging easier. Applies to …
Something that makes me happy: Vermaden’s Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now. Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via) BSD Hardware – Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via) Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis. OpenBSD …
Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
posted to misc@
a useful summary of the state of play of FFS2
in the 6.7 release (and, to some extent, -current).
In his mail, Otto clarifies some things about the latest release:
In OpenBSD 6.7, ffs2 is the default for ne…
In a commit touching quite a few files, Theo recently renamed the installation images from installXX.fs to installXX.img:
Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 11:04:29 -0600 (MDT)
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
To: source-changes@openbsd.org
…
The OpenBSD project has released OpenBSD 6.7, marking the 48th release of our favorite operating system. The announcement message and the release page both have detailed information.
These are some highlights of the improvements in the present rele…
In a set of commits to the tree on Saturday, Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) added the early beginnings of support for the 64-bit PowerPC platform:
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 11:11:14 -0600 (MDT)
From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>
To: sourc…
We need a “BSD Games” site. OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2. FreeBSD 12.1 on a laptop. Backup and Restore on NetBSD. (via) Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests. Delver (Dungeon Crawler) on OpenBSD. Session Seven (free point & click adventure game) works with fnaify. PlanetFriend / The Great Adventurer – PlayOnBSD. …