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What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations

Magical systems thinking

The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time

News Roundup

OpenSSH 10.1 Released

KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD

Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS

GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist

Beastie Bits

• Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca

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An RNG that runs in your brain

Going Stateless

News Roundup

SmolBSD

The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

Wayland, where are we in 2024? Any good for being the default?

Omnios pxe booting

OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files

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Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2

History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes

News Roundup

Wayland on OpenBSD

OpenBGPD 8.1 released

Shoot yourself in the foot

Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while

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HAMBug hybrid meeting

• Hoping to squeeze in an in-person meeting incase the pandemic situation regresses *** ### Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0
• Do you like the articles we post? We are looking for authors (or even just your ideas) to keep providing these high quality articles.
• Job Posting *** ### OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Dev Summit *** ### OpenZFS vdev properties feature has been merged ***

News Roundup

October 2021 Home Infrastructure Status

Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records

FreeBSD Announce wayland 1.19.91

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What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It

OpenBSD 7.0 is out

News Roundup

OpenBSD and Wayland

Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost

Beastie Bits

PLAN 9 DESKTOP GUIDE
libvirt and DragonFly
EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available
Issue#1 of OpenBSD Webzine
The Beastie has landed.
It’s 1998 and you are Sun Microsystems...

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Jails: Confining the omnipotent root

• A dramatic reading of portions of the paper: Papers We Love: FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones *** ### Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean *** ## News Roundup ### NomadBSD 130R is out *** ### KDE Plasma Wayland - a week in FreeBSD *** ### Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy *** Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can ***

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Wayland on BSD

After I posted about the new default window manager in NetBSD I got a few questions, including "when is NetBSD switching from X11 to Wayland?", Wayland being X11's "new" rival. In this blog post, hopefully I can explain why we aren't yet!

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My BSD sucks less than yours

This paper will look at some of the differences between the FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems. It is not intended to be solely technical but will also show the different "visions" and design decisions that rule the way things are implemented. It is expected to be a subjective view from two BSD developers and does not pretend to represent these projects in any way.

Video

• EuroBSDCon 2017 Part 1
• EuroBSDCon 2017 Part 2

News Roundup

Even on SSDs, ongoing activity can slow down ZFS scrubs drastically

Back in the days of our OmniOS fileservers, which used HDs (spinning rust) across iSCSI, we wound up changing kernel tunables to speed up ZFS scrubs and saw a significant improvement. When we migrated to our current Linux fileservers with SSDs, I didn't bother including these tunables (or the Linux equivalent), because I expected that SSDs were fast enough that it didn't matter. Indeed, our SSD pools generally scrub like lightning.

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OpenBSD on the Desktop (Part I)

Let's install OpenBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad X270. I used this computer for my computer science studies. It has both Arch Linux and Windows 10 installed as dual boot. Now that I'm no longer required to run Windows, I can ditch the dual boot and install an operating system of my choice.

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A simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm(1)

These days, I try to use simple and stock software as much as possible on my OpenBSD laptop. I’ve been playing with cwm(1) for weeks and I was missing a status bar. After trying things like Tint2, Polybar etc, I discovered @gonzalo’s termbar. Thanks a lot!
As I love scripting, I decided to build my own.

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Beastie Bits

DragonFly v5.8.3 released to address to issues
OpenSSH 8.4 released

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HyperbolaBSD Announcement

Due to the Linux kernel rapidly proceeding down an unstable path, we are planning on implementing a completely new OS derived from several BSD implementations.

This was not an easy decision to make, but we wish to use our time and resources to create a viable alternative to the current operating system trends which are actively seeking to undermine user choice and freedom.

This will not be a "distro", but a hard fork of the OpenBSD kernel and userspace including new code written under GPLv3 and LGPLv3 to replace GPL-incompatible parts and non-free ones.

• Reasons for this include:
  • Linux kernel forcing adaption of DRM, including HDCP.
  • Linux kernel proposed usage of Rust (which contains freedom flaws and a centralized code repository that is more prone to cyber attack and generally requires internet access to use.)
  • Linux kernel being written without security and in mind. (KSPP is basically a dead project and Grsec is no longer free software)
  • Many GNU userspace and core utils are all forcing adaption of features without build time options to disable them. E.g. (PulseAudio / SystemD / Rust / Java as forced dependencies)
  • As such, we will continue to support the Milky Way branch until 2022 when our legacy Linux-libre kernel reaches End of Life.

Future versions of Hyperbola will be using HyperbolaBSD which will have the new kernel, userspace and not be ABI compatible with previous versions.

HyperbolaBSD is intended to be modular and minimalist so other projects will be able to re-use the code under free license.

• Forum Post

A simple IPFW In-Kernel NAT setup on FreeBSD

After graduating college, I am moving from Brooklyn, NY to Redmond, WA (guess where I got a job). I always wanted to re-do my OPNsense firewall (currently a HP T730) with stock FreeBSD and IPFW’s in-kernel NAT.

Why IPFW? Benchmarks have shown IPFW to be faster which is especially good for my Tor relay, and because I can! However, one downside of IPFW is less documentation vs PF, even less without natd (which we’re not using), and this took me time to figure this out.

But since my T730 is already packed, I am testing this on a old PC with two NICs, and my laptop [1] as a client with an USB-to-Ethernet adapter.

News Roundup

HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux

This is just a heads up that the Wayland option is now turned on by

default for NetBSD 9 and Linux in cases where it peacefully coexists
with X11.

• Right now, this effects the following packages:
  • graphics/MesaLib
  • devel/SDL2
  • www/webkit-gtk
  • x11/gtk3

The WebRTC option has also been enabled by default on NetBSD 9 for two Firefox versions: www/firefox, www/firefox68

Please keep me informed of any fallout. Hopefully, there will be none.

If you want to try out Wayland-related things on NetBSD 9, wm/velox/MESSAGE may be interesting for you.

LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline

Upstream describes LLDB as a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built on top of LLVM/Clang toolchain, and features great integration with it. At the moment, it primarily supports debugging C, C++ and ObjC code, and there is interest in extending it to more languages.

In February, I have started working on LLDB, as contracted by the NetBSD Foundation. So far I've been working on reenabling continuous integration, squashing bugs, improving NetBSD core file support, extending NetBSD's ptrace interface to cover more register types and fix compat32 issues and fixing watchpoint support. Then, I've started working on improving thread support which is taking longer than expected. You can read more about that in my September 2019 report.

So far the number of issues uncovered while enabling proper threading support has stopped me from merging the work-in-progress patches. However, I've finally reached the point where I believe that the current work can be merged and the remaining problems can be resolved afterwards. More on that and other LLVM-related events happening during the last month in this report.

OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base

Hardware backed keys can be generated using "ssh-keygen -t ecdsa-sk" (or "ed25519-sk" if your token supports it). Many tokens require to be touched/tapped to confirm this step.

You'll get a public/private keypair back as usual, except in this case, the private key file does not contain a highly-sensitive private key but instead holds a "key handle" that is used by the security key to derive the real private key at signing time.

So, stealing a copy of the private key file without also stealing your security key (or access to it) should not give the attacker anything.

drm/i915: Update to Linux 4.8.17

• drm/i915: Update to Linux 4.8.17
  • Broxton, Valleyview and Cherryview support improvements
  • Broadwell and Gen9/Skylake support improvements
  • Broadwell brightness fixes from OpenBSD
  • Atomic modesetting improvements
  • Various bug fixes and performance enhancements

Beastie Bits

• Visual Studio Code port for FreeBSD
• OpenBSD syscall call-from verification
• Peertube on OpenBSD
• Fuzzing Filesystems on NetBSD via AFL+KCOV by Maciej Grochowski
• Twitter Bot for Prop65
• Interactive vim tutorial
• First BSD user group meeting in Hamilton, February 11, 2020 18:30 - 21:00, Boston Pizza on Upper James St ***

Feedback/Questions

• Samir - cgit
• Russell - R
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