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. …
After our article on TLS 1.3 server support in LibreSSL, we have decided to upgrade the machine running the undeadly website to newer LibreSSL.
Since earlier today the site supports TLS 1.3. Undeadly still gets an
A+ on
Qualys’
SSL Labs.
In a post to the ports@ mailing list, Landry Breuil (landry@) shared some of his notes on using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests. He made a few enhancements for Undeadly:
Read more…
In a post to tech@,
Matt Dunwoodie
announced
the availability of a
WireGuard
[VPN]
patchset for OpenBSD:
[…]
A while ago I wanted to learn more about OpenBSD development. So I
picked a project, in this case WireGuard, to develop a na…
With the following
commit,
Joel Sing (jsing@) enabled the
TLSv1.3 server code (in
LibreSSL) in -current:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: jsing@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/05/11 12:19:19
Modified files:
lib/libssl : ssl_locl.h
…
Good mix of history and current BSDs this week. FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!” Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via) …
Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here. cx: A directory history utility written in C. Started on BSD. (via) FreeBSD Foundation – 500% if_bridge Performance Improvement. (via) Catch up 2020-04-30. Playing Counter-Strike (CSMoE) on OpenBSD ft. Zombie mod. OpenBSD as a primary target for a game development club? Dev + Gaming …
While many of us have been busy social distancing, OpenBSD development work
has continued.
Noteworthy things not previously reported here include:
The OpenBSD version has moved to 6.7-beta
Some 11 syscalls have been
unlocked
since the 6.6 rele…
Tab cleanout time! OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several) FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE. Valuable News – 2020/04/20. Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS. How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD. How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel. (lost the source links …
Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary. Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target. January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report. OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via) Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – …
Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work. RISC OS and NetBSD running on same SoC. (via) MixerTUI 0.1. (via) Extending support for the NetBSD-7 branch. NetBSD 8.2 is available! The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1). Update Lenovo X260 BIOS with …
I have multiple BSD based systems to update, reboot, and hopefully not physically visit in the next week or so. pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE Now Available. Booting [OpenBSD] from an FFS2 filesystem. [packages] Retiring Python 2 support in IPython. AnsiMail, based on ansible, not ANSI as older folks may immediately think. (via) Valuable News – 2020/03/23. Bob …
Developer Otto Moerbeek (otto@)
has
been
working
on
support
to
boot
from
FFS2. He writes in with the below article, to give us a little insight into the challenges he faced while working on this.
FFS2 filesystem support has been in Open…
I had the pleasure of
sitting with Bob Beck
at EuroBSDCon
2018 in Bucharest and asking him some questions about the
OpenBSD Project, its approaches and some of his favourite
aspects of the Operating System and its projects. Bob
patiently outline…
A bit short this week; I think everyone’s been occupied with other issues. How to Configure the WireGuard VPN Server in OPNsense. (via) ssh with 2FA. The growth of command line options, 1979-Present. Technically BSD cause of the history. (via) New FuryBSD 12.1 based images are available for XFCE, and KDE. Valuable News – 2020/03/16. …