No theme this week cause I think I hit everything. Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder. NetBSD 9.0 is out, in case you missed the late update last week. Related: NetBSD 2020 Fundraising Campaign. What started as …
Ken Westerback [krw@ when wearing his OpenBSD hat]
wrote us with this update about the
OpenBSD Foundation’s work:
As the OpenBSD Foundation begins to prepare the 2020 fundraising
campaign we would like to thank all the contributors to our 2019
…
UNIX history as an accidental theme this week. Are there analogues to libxo out there? Unix Heritage Wiki. (via) Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming) PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question. Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via) UNIX Review Early 80’s Ad. Cycling / bike trips and …
Video recordings from
FOSDEM 2020
are now available.
The OpenBSD presentations were:
Giovanni Bechis (giovanni@) – OpenSMTPD over the clouds,
the story of an HA setup
Florian Obser (florian@) – unwind(8),
A privilege-separated, validating D…
Another overflow week. Travel Grant Application for BSDCan is now open. Bram Moolenaar Uses This. I am curious about what specifically stopped him using BSD. Tildeverse. Several BSD communities in there. What files installed by this package have been modified post-install? Some effects of the ZFS DVA format on data layout and growing ZFS pools. …
There’s a lot of releases happening. Next NYCBUG meeting: February 5th. I’ll post a reminder. Don’t forget there’s ChiBUG and SEMIBUG meetings coming up on the 11th and 18th, respectively. FOSDEM 2020 is happening now and there’s a BSD devroom. (reminded via) The MWL 2020 Asia Tour. Worth catching if you are on that side …
BUGs BUGs BUGs this week. I’ll make sure to note the events again when they get closer, too. Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. Turn-based apocalyptic survival, open source and probably runs on BSD. (via) NYCBUG is looking for speakers for I assume February and April; March was I think filled after this was written. SemiBUG’s …
Fresh in from u2k20 is this report from Tracey Emery, who visited the hackathon in Uckermark, Germany after getting invited by Stefan Sperling (stsp@):
Stefan Sperling and I started a discussion in November about a CGI program, which would work in ht…
The first report from the just concluded u2k20 hackathon comes from Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@), who writes:
How to read a commit message (a.k.a. thank you Thomas for u2k20)
Commit messages just capture the brief summary of changes. Believe i…
Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one. Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1. VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595). ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via) BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for …
No theme evolved, but lots more links this week. Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1. BSD user groups in Italy. (via) Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via) HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via) Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments …
An update has now been committed to the -stable branch for the latest firefox version, and the package is available for updating!
Previously, solene@ wrote:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen an…
Solene@ writes:
Dear OpenBSD users, due to Firefox being too complicated to package (thanks to cbindgen and rust dependencies) on the stable branch (as this would require testing all rust consumers), the 6.6-stable branch won’t receive updates for ww…
It was an abnormally quiet week – probably because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because I cleared my BSD link backlog last week. perl updated to 5.30.1. (OpenBSD) a glimpse into 2020. Do you see what I see? Theo De Raadt Interview between Ottawa 2019 Hackathon and BSDCAN 2019. How job control made the …
Tom Smyth writes in about an interview he did with Theo de Raadt in between g2k19, the general hackathon in Ottawa, and BSDCAN 2019:
Have you ever wondered about the whys and the hows Theo and his friends in OpenBSD relentlessly pursue security p…
Quiet week, so catch up on your reading here. putting stuff in a proliant dl325. Not that BSD-specific but still. WireGuard OpenBSD Router. (via) Elasticsearch on MidnightBSD. How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer. Valid, though the writing may annoy you, not just because it misses BSD history completely. (via) OpenBSD system-call-origin verification. (via) …
I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his unnatural love of gelato BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker. NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions. (via) Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. (via) This is another reason to go to BUG meetings. …
Next up from the snowy Elk Lakes area with his Hackathon Report is Stefan Sperling (stsp@):
My hike to the Elk Lakes hut was more pleasent this time compared to
last time (s2k17).
Partly because the weather was better overall this time around.
A…
Lots of variety this week. NetBSD Advent Calendar 2019. (via) ARM64 and BSD discussion. Notqmail, the presentation topic for the January NYCBUG meeting and maybe for SEMIBUG at some point too. HAMBSD, presented at NorthernRST. (via) BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility. This is neat. “The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD Team is pleased to …
The
Internet Security Research Group
and partners
have announced
that Claudio Jeker (claudio@) is the third
Radiant Award
recipient.
From the
announcement:
We’re excited to announce the third Radiant Award recipient, Claudio Jeker.
When we…