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FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved

Moritz Systems have been contracted by the FreeBSD Foundation to modernize the LLDB debugger’s support for FreeBSD. We are working on a new plugin utilizing the more modern client-server layout that is already used by Darwin, Linux, NetBSD and (unofficially) OpenBSD. The new plugin is going to gradually replace the legacy one.

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Tailscale on OpenBSD

I spent some time setting this up today evening and thought I’d post the steps here. Nothing fancy, just putting together various pieces actually.
I assume you know what Tailscale is; if not check out their website. Basically it is a mesh network built on top of Wireguard. Using it you can have all your devices both within your LAN(s) and outside be on one overlay network as if they are all on the same LAN and can talk to each other. It’s my new favourite thing!

News Roundup

macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a why I left macOS

This is not a technical documentation for how I migrated from macOS to FreeBSD. This is a high-level for why I migrated from macOS to FreeBSD.
Not so long ago, I was using macOS as my daily driver. The main reason why I got a macbook was the underlying BSD Unix and the nice graphics it provides. Also, I have an iPhone. But they were also the same reasons for why I left macOS.

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Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020

We have a number of OpenBSD firewalls in service (along with some other OpenBSD servers for things like VPN endpoints), and I was recently asked how we monitor PF and overall network traffic on them. I had to disappoint the person who asked with my answer, because right now we mostly don't (although this is starting to change).

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OPNsense 20.7.6 released

This update brings the usual mix of reliability fixes, plugin and third party software updates: FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, PHP, OpenSSH, StrongSwan, Suricata and Syslog-ng amongst others.
Please note that Let's Encrypt users need to reissue their certificates manually after upgrading to this version to fix the embedded certificate chain issue with the current signing CA switch going on.

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NYC Bug Jan 2021 with Michael W. Lucas

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bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor

FreeBSD has had varying degrees of support as a hypervisor host throughout its history. For a time during the mid-2000s, VMWare Workstation 3.x could be made to run under FreeBSD’s Linux Emulation, and Qemu was ported in 2004, and later the kQemu accelerator in 2005. Then in 2009 a port for VirtualBox was introduced. All of these solutions suffered from being a solution designed for a different operating system and then ported to FreeBSD, requiring constant maintenance.

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ZFS and FreeBSD Support

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udf info leak

FreeBSD UDF driver info leak
Analysis done on FreeBSD release 11.0 because that's what I had around.

• Fix committed to FreeBSD ***

News Roundup

I'm now a user of Vim, not classical Vi (partly because of windows)

In the past I've written entries (such as this one) where I said that I was pretty much a Vi user, not really a Vim user, because I almost entirely stuck to Vi features. In a comment on my entry on not using and exploring Vim features, rjc reinforced this, saying that I seemed to be using vi instead of vim (and that there was nothing wrong with this). For a long time I thought this way myself, but these days this is not true any more. These days I really want Vim, not classical Vi.

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FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware

With the current state of FreeBSD on ARM in general, a number of hardware drivers are either set to not auto-load on boot, or are entirely missing altogether. This page is to document my findings with various bits of hardware, and if possible, list fixes.

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Introduction of a new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB

Moritz Systems have been contracted by the FreeBSD Foundation to modernize the LLDB debugger’s support for FreeBSD. We are writing a new plugin utilizing the more modern client-server layout that is already used by Darwin, Linux, NetBSD and (unofficially) OpenBSD. The new plugin is going to gradually replace the legacy one.

OpenBSD Laptop

Hi, I know it’s been a while. I recently had to nuke and re-pave my personal laptop and I thought it would be a nice thing to share with the community how I set up OpenBSD on it so that I have a useful, modern, secure environment for getting work done. I’m not going to say I’m the expert on this or that this is the BEST way to set up OpenBSD, but I thought it would be worthwhile for folks doing Google searches to at least get my opinion on this. So, given that, let’s go…

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