Straight from tabs. How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF. Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020). Show diff output in color. FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via) macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via) Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My …
Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week. Install FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Step by Step Guide. (via) Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1. Alpine Linux on FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Inside chroot(8). (via) Netatalk on OpenBSD or how to build a free Time Capsule. (via) Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation on NetBSD. …
The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of. For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near. Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via) The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via) Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to …
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week. Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System. Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it). Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via) Valuable News – 2020/11/09. OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update. Mktemp started on OpenBSD. Windows Subsystem for …
Undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen writes in, saying,
On Saturday November 7th I remote participated in OpenFest 2020 with an updated version of the OpenBSD and you talk.
Recordings will be released after the conference, but I was happy eno…
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time… CDBUG meetings going virtual. FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure. November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th. What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games? HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report. A …
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really. Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via) The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via) Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via) Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via) History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via) Lenovo T420 …
Solène Rapenne (solene@) has written a
blog entry
on the software system underlying the building of -stable packages:
In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details
of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastruct…
It’s apparently release week? Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via) BSDCan 2021 is canceled. NetBSD 9.1 released. OpenBSD 6.8 Released. REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer. TrueNAS 12.0 released. Valuable News – 2020/10/19. FreeBSD Q3 2020 report. FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for …
On its 25th birthday,
the OpenBSD project has released
OpenBSD 6.8,
the 49th release.
The new release comes with a large number of improvements and debuts a new architecture, OpenBSD/powerpc64, running on the POWER9 family of processors. The ful…
Introduction
Hitherto, releases of the
fwobac
software (which underlies
Undeadly)
have been unsigned.
This is overdue for change, so for the latest release [version 1.7], we are providing a digital signature.
As signing is being performed manua…
Todd Mortimer (mortimer@) has
committed
RETGUARD
(see
previous
coverage)
for the macppc (powerpc) and powerpc64 platforms:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mortimer@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/10/12 08:52:09
Modified files:
gnu/llvm…
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT. OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via) duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via) Old School Disk Partitioning. (via) Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of), How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching …
No theme, but lots to read. Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via) OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via) FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via) FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available. “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also …
Ingo (schwarze@) writes in about a side project he’s been working on to do his own accounting:
Sometimes, it happens to me that i make little progress with the
work i planned to do (so let’s not talk about the badly needed
mandoc release today)…
Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed. On the use of a life. A BSD business. FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via) FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why? Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via) k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van …
Fresh off the k2k20 hackathon, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@)
writes in:
Due to the pandemic, this hackathon seemed to be called very spontaneously.
Fortunately, the hackathon was over a weekend. This enabled me to attend
without missing any prof…
The fourth report from k2k20 comes from Florian Obser (florian@), who worked mostly on DNS related things:
I spent the week before the hackathon with monitoring the current
pandemic situation. Will ze germans let me in? Will I put people at
risk?…
Our next k2k20 report comes from Klemens Nanni (kn@):
I’d been looking forward to k2k20 just like my
other hackathon with its unique
atmosphere where getting work done in fact means holiday hacking with friends.
There was nothing big on my l…
Fresh off the just-finished k2k20 hackathon, here is a report from Bob Beck
(beck@):
We have a saying about hackathons – They are for starting something,
or for finishing something. This time for me was a "finishing
something" – I land…