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 …
Florian Obser (florian@)
has committed
a significant speed boost for
traceroute(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/03 03:13:00
Modified files:
usr.sbin/traceroute: Makefile traceroute.8 tracerou…
With the following
commit,
Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@)
gave
xterm(1)
some
unveil(2)
goodness:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: xenocara
Changes by: matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/02 03:31:38
Modified files:
app/xterm : main.c
Log …
With the following
commit,
Tobias Heider (tobhe@)
added client-side support for DNS configuration
to iked(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: tobhe@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/01 09:30:07
Modified files:
sbin/iked : config.c …
Job Snijders (job@)
imported
the
timeout(1)
utility from NetBSD:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: job@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/01 09:50:34
Added files:
usr.bin/timeout: Makefile timeout.1 timeout.c
Log message:
Import timeo…
OpenBSD Journal co-editor Solène Rapenne (solene@) writes,
I have a simple DSL line with 15 Mb/s in download and 900 kb/s upload rates and there are many devices using the Internet and two people in remote work. Some poorly designed software (mostl…
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
committed
a change which significantly reduces
hibernate
time on machines with larger amounts of RAM:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/30 03:45:29
Modified files:
sys/ker…
In a
message to tech@
Damien Miller (djm@)
explained the consequences of his recent
commit:
[…]
RSA/SHA1, a.k.a the "ssh-rsa" signature type is now disabled by default
in OpenSSH.
While The SSH protocol confusingly uses ov…
Claudio Jeker (claudio@) has
committed
support for simple include and exclude cases
in (open)rsync:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: claudio@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/29 07:43:46
Modified files:
usr.bin/rsync : Makefile extern.h …
Longer reading this week. Remote desktop on NetBSD with Xnest (no VNC). (via) One week with FreeBSD 13 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. (via) Linux is dead, long-live Docker monoculture. (via) FreeBSD development on Docker support. (via) VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init. (via) Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail. wifi project status update. …
OpenBSD Journal co-editor Peter Hansteen writes in, saying
When Jonathan at SEMI_bug asked me whether I could do a talk for them, it took me a few moments to come up with a good subject and title. But for what would be a lunchtime session in the …
I have some barely-BSD links this week but I don’t think you’ll mind. Peter Hansteen is presenting virtually for SEMIBUG, tomorrow. “Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better”. 1 PM Eastern, cause he’s in a different time zone, so I am mentioning it early. Bringing NetBSD to Zig’s Continuous Integration. …
With the following
commit,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) moved -current
to version 7.0-beta:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/08/17 09:03:56
Modified files:
sys/conf : newvers.sh
etc/root :…
No mini-theme, but I was also ‘done’ early. Live Action Lazy Reading, so to speak, at NYCBUG on August 4th. Thinkpad T14 (AMD) Gen 2 – A Brave New World! OpenBSD 6.9 – Help with the “Failed to install bootblocks” issue. FreeBSD implements unprivileged chroot. (via) MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud. …
No theme this week; just catching up with all the links I didn’t get to last week. Valuable News – 2021/07/19. VirtualBox with FreeBSD + KDE. VM-to-desktop. Also VirtualBox guest additions in FreeBSD for that previous link. Managing Boot Environments. (ZFS) FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls. FreeBSD KGDB support in LLDB. A description of the …
Now enabled by default on OpenBSD -current is dhcpleased(8), a dynamic host configuration protocol daemon written by florian@ (Florian Obser), who spoke with us about his work:
I suppose this is either the KAME project’s fault, or if we don’t wan…