BSD Link Roundup 5.16
There's a whole lot going on this month so far in the BSD realm, so we've rounded up some links for you to check out. The links range from security advisories, NVIDIA drivers, daemons, to jails. FreeBSD 12.1 Release Process:...
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Runhyve – Virtual Machine Manager
Runhyve is an Open Source virtual machine manager for Bhyve, the Open Source hypervisor originally written for FreeBSD. Runhyve is currently still in the early stages of development, but you can track their progress on their Git sites and watch the demo on the...
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BSD Now Episode 298: BSD On The Road
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss a UFS bug being fixed after 36 years, BSD on the road, OpenBSD automatic upgrades, ex2fs and DTrace support for FreeBSD, dedicated SSH tunnel, OpenBSD 6.5 VMM VMs, and some others. Hit play...
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GPU Passthrough on Bhyve
Michael Yuji recently discovered a way to passthrough a GPU card to FreeBSD on the bhyve virtualization platform. The guest needs to be a *nix system to work however. See the article below on what the user did, as well as the implications for the FreeBSD and bhyve...
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[How-To] Apache with Self-signed Certificate on FreeBSD 12
This tutorial by user Amos Mibey will show you how to set up Apache with SSL certificate on your FreeBSD operating system. Apache is an Open Source HTTP Server, serving about a third of all active websites across the world wide web. For the full set of instructions,...
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VULS – Vulnerability Scanner For Linux/FreeBSD
VULS is an Open Source vulnerability scanner that uses information from NVD and OVAL and is agent-less. It currently supports FreeBSD versions 10 and 11 among various Linux distros. Notable features are the VulsRepo (its OSS web UI), Terminal Based Viewer, and...
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FreeBSD Journal March/April 2019 Debugging and Testing
The latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal is out! The main articles featured are automated testingf ramework, FreeBSD GDB debugging, and using DTrace to diagnose excess LDAP connections. Other topics are listed below. If you didn't know, the journal is now free as of...
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BSD Now Episode 297: Dragonfly In The Wild
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling discuss FreeBSD ZFS versus ZFS on Linux peformance, DragonflyBSD 5.4.2, iocell containing web services, Solaris 11.4 SRU8, SSH Agent forwarding issue, upgrade OpenBSD 6.4 to 6.5, among other things....
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Google Summer of Code 2019
This year's Google Summer of Code has seven FreeBSD projects consisting of ports build process, VNET in FreeBSD jails, virtual memory compression, firewall test suite, kernel sanitizers, ping, and bhyve. Shout out to the mentors who are supporting these young student...
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[How-To] Install and Configure Telegraf on FreeBSD 12
This tutorial by user Amos Mibey will show you how to get Telegraf set up on your FreeBSD operating system. Telegraf is an Open Source server agent designed to help monitor data from stacks, sensors, and systems. See the link below for the full set of instructions....
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FreeNAS 11.2-U4 is now available
The developers of FreeNAS have made available the 4th update to FreeNAS 11.2. **11.2-U4.1 hot-fix release is now available to address an alert services error**. This release has several security fixes and feature improvements to the UI. There is a known plugin issue...
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AsiaBSDCon 2020 – Call for Proposals and Papers
Next year's AsiaBSDCon will be held at the Tokyo University of Science. The deadline for submitting Tutorial Proposals and Paper Submissions is 1 November 2019. Registration is not open yet, but check back later to enjoy talks and network with professionals from one...
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BSD Now Episode 296 – It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss OpenBSD 6.5, mounting ZFS datasets, NetBSD 9 branch testing, LibreSSL 2.9.1, FreeBSD Mastery: Jails - Bail Bond Denied Edition, ed(1) a good editor back in the days, and some more. Click play...
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TrueCommand: Manage Multiple FreeNAS and TrueNAS Systems
From the people who bring you FreeNAS and TrueNAS, the developers at iXsystems have released the first public beta of TrueCommand. The single pane of glass management platform TrueCommand is designed to simplify IT operations through administration and control of...
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Call for Testing (CFT) for FreeBSD + ZoL and Pkgbase
Kris Moore, FreeBSD contributor and spear-header of the ZFS on FreeBSD project, announced a Call for Testing of the latest development built on FreeBSD 12-STABLE. You can download the ISO from the link below. In other recent news, a TrueOS inspired package base for...
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BSD Link Roundup 4.30
Here's a collection of BSD links from this past month of April, ranging from discussions about home use, drivers, performance, and even an article about kernel modules from 1999! A FreeBSD box for home: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/a-freebsd-box-for-home.70451/...
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BSD Now Episode 295: Fun with funlinkat()
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling introduce funlinkat(), discuss AT&T U-Verse with OpenBSD Router, NetBSD on Raspberry PI, ZFS encryption, a tutorial on rump kernel servers/clients, OpenBSD 6.4 and Snort, and some more. Click play...
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[How-To] Install PyroCMS on FreeBSD 11
This tutorial from Vultr will show you how to get PyroCMS set up on your FreeBSD operating system. PyroCMS is an Open Source content management system written in PHP. You will also be walked through the initial setup for PHP, MariaDB, Nginx, and Composer. See the link...
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FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey
The FreeBSD Core Team is requesting you, and users of FreeBSD around the world, to fill out a community survey regarding use cases, contributions, where you get your information, and overall your thoughts about the Open Source operating system. See the link below to...
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BSD Now Episode 294: The SSH Tarpit
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict Reuschling and Allan Jude discuss a Plan 9 cluster powered by Raspberry Pi, SSH tarpits, Ansible and rdist, loving OpenBSD, first FreeBSD port, Tilde Institude of OpenBSD, among others. Press play below to tune in:...
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