From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed Nov 2 15:22:41 2016 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:22:41 +0000 Subject: [UkOpenBSDUsers] November Hack day Message-ID: Hello, I was thinking of holding another BSD hack day towards the end of month at the London Hack Space again. Plan is to get together & work on our project of choice, generating noise/patches/commits or just helping each other out with a problem. Anyone else fancy it? November 26 or 27??? Sevan From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed Nov 16 18:23:23 2016 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:23:23 +0000 Subject: [UkOpenBSDUsers] November London *BSD meetup Message-ID: Hello, Anyone around next Tuesday (23rd) for a meeting at The Old Red Cow again? This month, our out of town guest will Michael Dexter, the friendly neighbourhood BSD advocate. You mean know Michael from such things as BSDfund, BSDtalk, bhyve, FreeNAS, IX systems or most recently dexter at FreeBSD.org 6:30 onwards? The Old Red Cow 71/72 Long Lane, Barbican, EC1A 9EJ http://theoldredcow.com Sevan From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk Wed Nov 23 12:38:09 2016 From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:38:09 +0000 Subject: [UkOpenBSDUsers] Notes from yesterdays meeting Message-ID: <777c19b1-8995-bcf3-6999-9e525271f0ca@geeklan.co.uk> 9 front - a fork of Plan 9 with many enhancements http://9front.org theo(1) http://man.aiju.de/1/fortune Lunch with Kirk McKusick at Berkeley https://twitter.com/imetchrischris/status/797173590420373504 MeetBSD The OpenBSD hackathon in Cambridge Perl 5.24 on OpenBSD https://github.com/afresh1/OpenBSD-perl Does true(1) need to be locale aware http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=blob;f=src/true.c;h=f9ba9ffe5ee5fe5f6dca09c32e38916c0cab7a81;hb=HEAD Struggling with modern systems using 32bit EFI Windows runs great on Apple systems no longer supported by OS X??? "CPU scaling is not your problem when you can just export the processors from another host" - CPU servers in Plan 9 John Marino is adding support for pkgng to pkgsrc as well as porting synth synth - package build system written in Ada synth revealed many issues in Dragonfly BSD related to concurrent mounts/unmounts which need to be fixed, what issue lurk in NetBSD?? Devin Teske's talk on Jail Networking (vnet) at MeetBSD 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoW7pWuhT_A Implementing AES support in assembly Using a Perl framework to generate assembly - avoiding doing boilerplate Writing security sensitive components in assembly by hand as a workaround for the distrust of an optimising compiler sidechannel attacks & observing the encrypted traffic between hosts & SAN in different sites "ewaste or free to a good home" hanging out on ICB & SILC trying to hang out on ICB servers you might not be invited to Rolling your own embedded OS (BSD) image Freesbie Repology - http://beta.repology.org (shows package version status between different systems) Trying to share packages built from pkgsrc for Debian Linux on armv7l with a Nokia N900 and failing (libc too old?) Touch screen support on the BSDs SC_CUT_SPACES2TABS kernel option to preserve tabs on paste on FreeBSD VT_LOCKSWITCH ioctl in FreeBSD which prevents switching from a locked tty. FSX - File System Exerciser http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/fsx/ Ada in *BSD https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk.craeynest/ada-belgium/events/14/140201-fosdem/10-ada-bsd.pdf FOSDEM CFP https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2016-October/004628.html AsiaBSDCon CFP Oracle has bought Dyn FTP vs Kerberised FTP vs anything linked to OpenSSL building communities outside of the meetup/slack/foo in 2016 Opting to write your own code in C++ to avoid doing any auditing of OpenSSL just to get the use of crypto in through the door "Michael Dexter was bhyve user 0" "OpenBSD knights who say NIH" SIGINFO love Kirk McKusick's UNIX stash pkgsrc does not work when build shell is zsh Boris Babyan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AcktRz468 Pioneers of Soviet Computing http://www.sigcis.org/files/SIGCISMC2010_001.pdf Generic cross platform build system for software to help automate build clusters in a software project - are there any? OpenRC reducing the TrueOS boot time down to seconds rcng are fast boot times a concern for non-kernel devs & users with working resume from sleep? Maintaining documentation during a migration phase between features Updating the debugging chapter of the FreeBSD developers handbook Turnout was 11 people :) Sevan