dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8)
Florian Obser (florian@) has enabled
dhcpleased(8)
and
resolvd(8)
[on both of which we
reported
earlier]
in base.
The commits are,
Read more…
In Other BSDs for 2021/07/17
More BUG meetings are happening, which is great. Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder. The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting. The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 & VAX. The article itself is not about BSD, specifically, but some of the comments at the source …
In Other BSDs for 2021/07/10
I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week. pkgsrc-2021Q2 is out. Full OpenBSD Startup described on slide 48. (via) A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer. (via) CliFM, the non-curses file manager, was just ported to NetBSD and OpenBSD! Chimera Linux, with …
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/26
Yes, I am clearing out all my open tabs from Solène this week. Introduction to IPFS, and OpenBSD 6.9 packages using IPFS. Semi-related: Synchronization files software. How to run a NixOS VM as an OpenBSD guest. How to install Gnome on OpenBSD. Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study. (via) Valuable News – 2021/06/21. …
Progress in support for the riscv64 platform
Since our
previous report,
there has been significant progress on support for riscv64:
There’s now a
web page for the platform,
with details of (broadened) hardware support (for those lucky/deserving enough
to have hardware, of course).
Follo…
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/19
Follow the helloSystem links this week. Sponsorships for DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, are available. SourceHut on NetBSD, I think, mentioned here. SANY adopts TwinCAT/BSD for the automation of wind turbines. (via) helloSystem 0.5 is out. (via several places) Related: This comment from I assume a helloSystem developer is the best polite “how do you like …
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/12
Multiple links from one source is the mini-theme this week. FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective. (via) Simple use of Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8). actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt. The comments at the source all disagree. NetBSD : Enable swap encryption by default. (via) OpenBGPD …
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05
Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order. Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work. NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera. Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels. Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via) Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via) Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in …
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29
Some useful setup instructions in here. NetBSD: Using virtualization: QEMU and NVMM. Didn’t know this existed. (via) Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean. (via) FreeBSD Desktop – Part 26 – Configuration – Conferencing and Meetings. Valuable News – 2021/05/24. HardenedBSD Switching IRC Servers. NYCBUG is doing that too. And other spots. My state …
Opening a Garage Door Using OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi
Sven G is back with another tale of using a Raspberry Pi in his garage:
OpenBSD lets one control the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi. Controlling
a garage door is simple: connect the GPIO output pin to one side of a
relay’s coil, connect the 5 volt …
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22
Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through. NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today. NetBSD 9.2 is out. The state of toolchains in OpenBSD. Building LLVM on OpenBSD/loongson and OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B. FreeBSD Release 13.0 Highlights. NomadBSD 130R-20210508 released. Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs. FreeBSD on …
The state of toolchains in OpenBSD
Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has
blogged
about the recent history and current state of toolchains on OpenBSD.
It provides a good explanation of how and why things got to where they stand.
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/15
Some opinion, some documentation. Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via) Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via) As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true. FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via) CGI with Awk on OpenBSD …
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/08
Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs! Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think? ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder. HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report. My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD) …
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/01
There’s some opinions mixed in this week! NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via) FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via) OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via) Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via) Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via) FVWM 3 and Quest for …
OpenBSD 6.9 released
The OpenBSD project has released
OpenBSD 6.9, the project’s 50th release. As usual the release page offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions as well as links to other resources such as the detailed changelog.
Notable improvements i…
Initial Support for the riscv64 Architecture
With the following
commit,
Dale Rahn (drahn@)
imported initial support for the
64-bit
RISC-V
architecture:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: drahn@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/04/22 20:42:17
Added files:
sys/arch/riscv64: Makefile
…
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/17
I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far. Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8. Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD. UFS Boot Environments for ARM. OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via) Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, …
My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD
We received a contribution from Sven G, about checking the temperature in the garage where his dog sleeps with OpenBSD:
I was inspired by the April 2017 article in undeadly.org about
getting OpenBSD running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+.
My goal was to…
In Other BSDs for 2021/04/10
I’m hitting all the unixes. Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date. Knuth is still working on TeX. (via) Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via) XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet. I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD. ChiBUG will be meeting …