Shhh! Something is coming... Don't tell anyone.

#BoxyBSD #OpenIndiana #OpenSolaris #Solaris #Illumos #Hipster #VM #Hosting

New Tribblix SPARC m30 release now available for install and upgrade.

http://www.tribblix.org/download.html#sparc

#tribblix #illumos #sparc

Guess, I spoilered something for #BoxyBSD now.

#illumos #solaris #opensolaris

Our first weekly will start on the 25th, April 2024 at 7 PM (GMT+2).

You can find all the details on the #BSDCafe wiki:
https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:weekly-bsdpub

For the first one, I already created a small agenda (https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:weekly-bsdpub-meeting-minutes-2024-04-25). You are highly encouraged to modify and extend this, as well as upcoming agendas!

Overview:
Day: Thursdays (weekly)
Time: 7 PM - 8 PM (GMT +2)
Where: https://meet.gyptazy.ch/BSDPub (Jitsi)
Infos: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:weekly-bsdpub
Agenda: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/docs:weekly-bsdpub-meeting-minutes-2024-04-25
Info: No recordings, no deep tech dives (keep it simple, we have calls for the details, no pressures to anyone, have fun and enjoy)

When I started the poll to ask for interests in such a meeting I wasn’t sure that even more than 5 people would be interested. I’m happy to see this amount of interested BSD users. I’m aware of the different timezones and it might make sense to have a second timeslot. This one mostly covers the European and near-east users. I’m happy to hear suggestions regarding preferred timeslots for the US, Asia,… so far, I’m happy to see at least a few of you next Thursday in the call!

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #helloSystem #BSDCafe #BSDNetwork #OpenSource #Solaris #illumos #openindiana #community #meeting #havefun #fun #BSDPub

Different timezones make it really hard to just have a single meeting and it might end up in two or even three ones but also trying to avoid fragmentation. But this will probably work out more in an iterative way…

The current idea is to start Thursdays, 7pm GMT+2 in an unmoderated public jitsi session where everyone can join. I think the targeted user group is able to handle it in that way, like we always do.

The question is also, do we want to have an agenda or only open minded jump in and see how it works out?! My experience is, that people might be shy to start talking, it’ll be silent and people start to drop’s drop. An agenda might be helpful for an initial start but I also want to avoid having an introduction round where everyone tells something about himself. I mean, this can be done optionally, but I’m also aware of it that some may feel uncomfortable with this. This round should just make fun and not make any pressure or someone feeling uncomfortable.

So, agenda or open minded and free to talk for the first sessions?

#BSDPub #BSDCafe #BSDNetwork
#helloSystem #DragonFlyBSD #HardenedBSD #GhostBSD #pfSense #illumos #tribblix #solaris #opensolaris #zfs #community #social

Hey #BSD Fans!

We all share the same interests - #BSD based systems like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD.

We chat all day, sharing thoughts, questions and help. We talk on Matrix across different channels, we share on the #Fediverse. We have @vermaden@bsd.cafe's newsletter, we have @dexter@bsd.network's #FreeBSD #Jails and #bhyve calls and many other ones I can't list here.

Wondering if there would be and interests in the #BSDNetwork, #BSDCafe, etc., for a weekly smalltalk session like in a pub. Just a Jitsi based video/audio call where we can meet, discuss things from newsletter, trending things from the #Fediverse or just have off-topic and openminded discussions. This could result into the #BSDPub meeting.

I know, some people are shy - keep your cam off until you feel comfortable and feel free to join the discussions. Even this meetings should make fun and no pressure - so if someone is not in the mood or can't make it - no worries. No one will judge.

Would you be interested?

#helloSystem #DragonFlyBSD #HardenedBSD #GhostBSD #pfSense #illumos #tribblix #solaris #opensolaris #zfs #community #social

Wednesday's #OpenZFS Production User Call recoding:

https://youtu.be/n5I4py4-w2A

We discussed special device removal, a 66TB NVMe device, and much more!

#FreeBSD, #Illumos, #Linux, #macOS, #Windows

Yesterday's Jail/Zones call recording is up!

We discussed upcoming events, anti-FreeBSD FUD, @dch's OCI container progress and container registries, IPv6 networking and more!

https://youtu.be/DVXRq77BcU0

#FreeBSD #illumos #Docker #Containers

@anubhav @Tubsta @dexter @alelab As such, it can become a project (independent of company) once again. It will also be more maintainable long term if the current WebUI is turned into effectively a shell script. #Unix #ZFS #OpenZFS #FreeBSD #Illumos #OmniOS #OmniOSCE #SmartOS #FreeNAS #TrueNAS

@anubhav @Tubsta @dexter @alelab It seems that the solution is to just use #FreeBSD or #Illumos (#OmniOS, #OmniOSCE, #SmartOS) with hardware from SuperMicro (or others) and #FreeNAS / #TrueNAS as UI and related via shell script. I believe that this is the route. The original source of FreeNAS was the #BSDrouter project (rather than a company). #Unix #ZFS #OpenZFS

I don't know what it is about #OmniOS (or probably any #Illumos distribution), but it just feels right. I know this is really vague, but that's the best description I could come up with. I just boot it up and immediately get the feeling of "yes, this is it, this is how it should be".

#oksh 7.5 has been released: https://github.com/ibara/oksh/releases/tag/oksh-7.5

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #Solaris #Illumos #Shell #KornShell #ksh

The recording of the April 4th, 2024 bhyve Production User Call

https://youtu.be/Y_spbe5TEzo

We discussed the #Fudo security appliance which is now available as a #bhyve VM, TPM Emulation, a VM framework for #NetBSD, AMD SEV and untrusted public VM providers, identifying tap/bridge performance bottlenecks, diagnosing PCI Pass-Through (PPT) issues, and the various FUD surrounding #TrueNAS CORE and other #FreeBSD-based appliances.

#illumos

Thanks to #pkgsrc community's Smart Person @jperkin of #SmartOS to providing signed packages for #NetBSD #MacOS #CentOS #Illumos check out : https://pkgsrc.smartos.org

The April 2nd #FreeBSD Jails / #illumos Zones Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/30lCuMg8Rt4

We discussed automatic epair allocation, block cloning, PkgBase jails, the xz backdoor, OpenBGPd, OCI container repos, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

#Unix #Containers

@joel As the website notes in the About page, "the server resides at hackerspace.am, so please anticipate downtime when the electricity is out" 😅 I’ll make a status page today for all the services.

I also did a very bad editorial choice by deciding "there's not much news... let's try monthly" but todays article ended up being long. I will go back to weekly, every Sunday at 00:00 AM UTC, scheduled, so people don't wait.

Thank you for the interest <3

#illumos #solarish

@joel As the website notes in the About page, "the server resides at hackerspace.am, so please anticipate downtime when the electricity is out" 😅 I’ll make a status page today for all the services.

I also did a very bad editorial choice by deciding "there's not much news... let's try monthly" but todays article ended up being long. I will go back to weekly, every Sunday at 00:00 AM UTC, scheduled, so people don't wait.

Thank you for the interest <3

#illumos #solarish

#solaris hosting a lot of other stuff 😅 #openindiana and #lmde VM‘s LamerIntro, ProTracker and yt video and everything really usuable. Go no further! Support your #illumos based distros and get the 11.4.42 CBE release and help porting the stuff you miss 🚀 Options are good!!

Several recordings are up!

https://YouTube.com/@callfortesting

Thank you @antranigv for co-hosting during #AsiaBSDCon!

#FreeBSD #illumos #OpenZFS #bhyve

Sorry to be offline during the Great bsd.network Outage of 2024.

Other #illumos people and #pgksrc #freebsd folks, can you contribute your links as well? https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/13178

Soon @bagder will have the most comprehensive list of packaging projects on earth :)

Vielen Dank an die @clt_news #clt2024 Organisation und die Möglichkeit #illumos und #NetBSD vorzustellen.

A quick bhyve/ARM64 demo based on experiments during the informal #bhyve Production User Call today:

https://youtu.be/rNueEWozJQQ

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

Tuesday's #FreeBSD Jails / #illumos Zones Production Users Call:

https://youtu.be/7NP8xIZfZn8?si=CrmZZ3H77oH9fWeB

We discussed /etc/jail.conf default syntax that transparently leverages the new .include feature, the -C cleanup flag Review, fstab syntax unmounting, one second Jail duplication and cloning with ZFS block cloning, PkgBase jail creation, and much more!

Informal OpenZFS call today. No recording.

Seems as though many #MATE Desktop users were wondering if any new releases were coming. Well, it looks like there was one already, just not officially announced.

https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace/status/1765515229595578643

As for #Wayland support, it didn't seem as though much of it was finished when I last checked some months ago, but after tweet, I decided to check on the Wayland support status, and holy cow! Most of it is pretty much done!

https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/developers-corner/wayland-meson/

#MateDesktop #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #illumos #unix

Today's #FreeBSD / #illumos #bhyve Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/gpH8aIQxXUI

We discussed the sysutils/bmd bhyve management tool for FreeBSD, benchmarking considerations, hypervisor portability, and much more!

#Virtualization

Yesterday's #OpenZFS Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/DDZTTviK2V4

We further explored the idea of "Native OpenZFS whiteout support" and bhyve hot-pluggability.

#FreeBSD #illumos #Linux #macOS #Windows #NetBSD

A wild #blog post appears!

FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++

See how I got the Intel #compiler running on #FreeBSD and outputting native FreeBSD binaries--and how you can too!

It also builds a working FreeBSD kernel...

#compilers #program #programming #unix #linux #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #solaris #intel #c #cpp #llvm #clang #gcc #gnu #software #softwaredevelopment

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240306.html

Today's #FreeBSD / #illumos Zones Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/vop2Dn2Vqqw

We discussed packaged base jails, CI updates, jailed Samba, and authentication.

I did yet another thing no one asked for: getting the most recent version of the #Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ #Compiler running on #FreeBSD and generating native FreeBSD binaries.

#linux #unix #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #solaris #illumos #compilers #c #cpp #compile #program #programming

Today's #bhyve Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/KKXdUMb5XbU

We discussed Chris' bhyve storage model benchmarking, SAS multipathing, Jan's UCL macro project, and more!

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

Today's #bhyve Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/KKXdUMb5XbU

We discussed Chris' bhyve storage model benchmarking, SAS multipathing, Jan's UCL macro project, and more!

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

Today's short and sweet #FreeBSD Jails / #illumos Zones call recording:

https://youtu.be/Y2ZN67ikD74

We discussed the feasibility of merging JIDs and PIDs, and @crest's new UCL macro work.

So Let's encrypt has some performance tweaks for #zfs for all #performance freaks out there

https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases

Also works on #illumos and #freebsd

TIL the Oxide rack uses bhyve for its virtualisation layer on Illumos. https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026 #FreeBSD #Illumos

Self-reflection time!

We had a very unique #bhyve Production User call where we discussed what defines a Production User, bhyve/ARM64, vmrun.sh, SR-IOV issues, Documentation, and much more!

https://youtu.be/d2itG4o1rMA

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

Today's #FreeBSD Jail / #illumos Zones call recording:

https://youtu.be/Q-OoE0L031M

Welcome to #illumos new news source!

https://news.illumos.am/2024w07/

🔐 ZFS encryption and notification service on OmniOS
— Joel Carnat

https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/zfs-encryption-and-notification-service-on-omnios/

#zfs #omnios #illumos #unix

My #NetBSD intro talk is accepted at @clt_news #CLT2024 - woop woop! And if you’re not into #NetBSD visit our #illumos stand ;-)

Today's #bhyve Production User Call recording:

https://youtu.be/X1joWFfpTX8

We discussed the slirp Review, resources for VMware users (or lack there of), Chris' work on the Handbook, the four fundamental types of documentation, more GRUB/UEFI-CSM/BIOS boot strategies such as booting a kernel directly with EFI, plus vmstated and Zelta updates and brainstorming.

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

Subscribers know this...

Today's #FreeBSD Jails / #illumos Zones call is up:

https://youtu.be/J7TmEqmBAXY

Thank you @dvl @dch @antranigv and others for joining!

Did this not post?

The recording of yesterday's #bhyve call is up:

https://youtu.be/esg27xUtHuA

Lots of great discussions and yet more network buffer diagnostics!

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

@selfhst
Lots of Tribblix, with a scattering of OmniTribblix, and the odd bit of Solaris. (This is on mostly Intel, but with a significant presence of SPARC.)

#illumos #tribblix

Today's #bhyve Production User Call recording:

https://youtu.be/Rt4aB6D5-OE

We discussed web UI strategies, UEFI-CSM/SeaBIOS... and a spicy topic you'll only see in the notes!

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

Today's #OpenZFS Production User Call:

https://youtu.be/I0HSMQdOQbs

We discussed how we define "Production User" and new features, big and small.

#illumos #FreeBSD #Linux #macOS #Windows

It was a pleasure to meet all the #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #illumos #pkgsrc friends at #fosdem - so big thanks to everybody!

I released oed-7.4, the portable version of #OpenBSD ed(1).

Very minimal changes, but still some changes.

Get it here: https://github.com/ibara/oed

#ed #unix #editor #editors #text #linux #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #solaris #aix #texteditor #texteditors #vi #vim #emacs

Sadly I’ve only one M shirt left, if you are at #fosdem and like an #illumos shirt poke me! I need the space for other stuff ;-)

#fosdem #fosdem2024 #opensolaris #bsd #zfs #dtrace #opensource

https://gyptazy.ch/misc/fosdem-2024-open-source-conference-brussels-insights/

#opensource #open #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #foss #debian #linux #rockylinux #python #coding #rust #rustlang #techtalks #openran #illumos #unix #opensolaris #openindiana #omnios #dyson #wifi

@drscream #illumos T-Shirt size L plz? 🤤

Get yourself ready for some #illumos #NetBSD #dtrace #pkgsrc #zfs stickers at #fosdem

The #OmniOS package servers are very slow here (Armenia). I'd like to have a local repo in AM. I have the storage and the bandwidth to support customers, but I'm having a hard time setting up a local IPS repo.

I'm planning to support only the last two core/extras repo. Will add bloody if requested.

If anyone has any docs on how to do such a setup, please let me know

I got to the point where I can do `pkgrecv` and `pkg set-publisher` locally. Now I need to expose to www and build HTML
#illumos

@timfoster Took me a while, but I did it and blogged about it! yey!

https://antranigv.am/posts/2024/02/omnios-mirror-one/

#OmniOS #illumos

Ready for #FOSDEM #illumos #pkgsrc #dtrace #omniosce #tribblix

So, there's some work in #k8s to support #OpenBSD #FreeBSD and #Illumos. This is new (to me, at least)!

https://github.com/tnorlin/kubernetes/releases

The recording of today's #bhyve Production User Call is up!

https://youtu.be/Tg-mnqp7VZ0

Welcome Ivo!

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

The ad-free Production User Call and bhyvecon archive is about to hit 100 hours and 100 videos!

https://youtube.com/@callfortesting

Thank you everyone who has participated to date and we always welcome new participants!

#LikeAndSubscribe

#OpenBSD #bhyve #FreeBSD #illumos #Linux #Virtualization

We had the single most lively #OpenZFS PUC today and it should be online in an hour or so.

We were blessed by the illustrious @jimsalter and discussed an idea for a feature!

What if 'zfs delete' or 'empty' did the equivalent of rolling back to a snapshot of the empty dataset when it was freshly created?

This came from Rod's suggestion of an option to always auto-create an @empty snapshot on new datasets.

#illumos #FreeBSD #Linux #macOS #Windows #NetBSD

The recording of today's Jail/Zones call is up:

https://youtu.be/VmkKYKM4d80?si=xFP2JzAT_aTmxrRP

We discussed NEW, fundamental features now that .include is in:

Jail descriptors and hooks.

#FreeBSD #illumos

A new #blog post appears!

Can GCC use Clang as its assembler?

Come with me on this wild ride to use #GCC without the #GNU #binutils and instead use #clang and the #LLVM binutils.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240122.html

#compile #compiler #compilers #dlang #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Solaris #Illumos #Unix #program #programming #programmer #code #coding

Sadly no #illumos (and #bsd) stand at @fosdem this year. But we plan a illumos dev and friends dinner and maybe a hacking day at another location. Add yourself to our survey if you like to join: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T3c539689658e4947

The recording of today's #bhyve PUC is up:

https://youtu.be/b9MWzMrrcEA?si=R8OX5qDA43EH0EhJ

#FreeBSD / #illumos #Virtualization

#LikeAndSubscribe
#AndAttend!

You are welcome to join the #bhyve hackathon FRIDAY at 10AM Pacific.

Use the regular meeting link found at https://callfortesting.org

Topics:

1. Consolidate advanced networking documentation. (Yelling "Read the VALE paper!" has proven unhelpful)

2. UEFI, UEFI-CSM, GRUN, ChuckGRUB, SeaBIOS, rEFInd, rEFI, OpenCore, CoreBoot, etc. Bootathon

3. Your topic!

#FrerBSD / #illumos #Virtualization

The year is 2024 and bpftrace crashes when there's an extra whitespace.

bpftrace is DTrace 2.0? DTrace my ass. I've never seen DTrace crash because of an extra whitespace.

Hell, I've never seen DTrace crash, ever.

#DTrace #bpftrace #Unix #Linux #sysadmin #illumos

The recording of today's Jails/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/PvA7GyuOn9o?si=Uwuvg4urtmcutNxR

We discussed Doug's plans for an OSI working group and a number of new Jail features.

#FreeBSD #illumos

Do you have any impressive #bhyve deployment numbers you can share?

Please come out from the cold.

Asking for a friend.

No really! He's friendly too!

#FreeBSD #illumos

@bonkers @kkarhan @landley @OS1337 @Raspberry_Pi Uuups, erm, sorry we are not OpenSolaris. We are #illumos we descend from OpenSolaris but please do not expect everything to be the same. That has led to much bad blood before, we would like people to come in with a fresh curiosity. It is not a nostalgia trip if you are looking for that I am afraid we cannot provide that.

Tribblix m29 for SPARC now available

http://www.tribblix.org/download.html

#tribblix #illumos

@abit_kt7 @jhx FreeBSD works perfectly on workstations/laptops. Sometimes drivers are lacking, but there's always a workaround.

I like using #macOS because it uses #FreeBSD userland. e.g. date(1) is from FreeBSD, grep is, ls is, find is, xargs is, ps is, ping is, etc.

And if you bug Apple long enough, they even update their codebase from FreeBSD. I’ve had good luck in that.

macOS has other goodies that FreeBSD has as well, such as DTrace (thank you #illumos), pf (thank you #OpenBSD), etc.

Links for the Production User Calls are (finally) consolidated at https://callfortesting.org

Jails/Zones
#OpenZFS
#bhyve

#FreeBSD #illumos #Virtualization

The recording of today's #bhyve Production User call is up:

https://youtu.be/6sG2FTQXY-M?si=W8puLtOobOlXlD6H

#FreeBSD #illumos

Focussing on #FreeBSD, #NETBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD and #helloSystem in the discussions, also all other flavors like #PFSense, #Illumos (#OpenIndiana) are welcome! You’re a #Linux fan (#Ubuntu, #Debian, #RedHat, #NixOS, #Gentoo,…) - just jump in: #BSDCafe:bsd.cafe

More on my blog:
https://gyptazy.ch/blog/bsd-cafe-the-community-for-bsd-systems-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd/

Thank you all for a GREAT Jail/Zones call that had equal amounts of each thanks to rescheduling. Looking at you @Toasterson *!

https://YouTube.com/@callfortesting

#FreeBSD #illumos #OpenIndiana

* OpenIndianaJones?