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. …
Throwing all the links I can out there. March/April BUG meetings canceled for NYCBUG and SEMIBUG. FreeBSD Journal 2020/01-02. (PDF, via) FreeBSD Find Installed Hard Disk Size Information. (via) GhostBSD 20.02 Overview. (video, via) Introduction to Flua on FreeBSD. (via) FreeBSD Loader and Console Future. (via) OPNsense 20.1.2 released. FreeNAS and TrueNAS are Unifying. TrueNAS …
We have a new p2k19 report from Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@),
who writes:
My first OpenBSD hackathon
When
p2k19
was announced, I was quite happy that it was located in Bucharest.
A quick check of flight connections, showed that there is a di…
Happy leap day! RSVP to the ChiBUG mailing list if you are attending the March 10th meeting, in its new location. The Vixie talk at NYCBUG is this week; this is worth making an extra trip for. Critical OpenSMTPd update. FreeBSD 12.0 EOL. A Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation. Valuable News – 2020/02/10, 2020/02/17, and …
Ken Westerback (krw@) kindly wrote in with a report
from last month’s
a2k20
hackathon in Hobart, Australia:
tl;dr — excellent coffee fuelled lots of hacking in Hobart
I started my journey to Hobart via Sydney in a state of some anxiety.
A…
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…