Ever wanted to run OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve?
Releases
MidnightBSD 3.1.3 release: Updated OpenSSH to 9.2p1, Added quirk for WD MyPassport Ultra External HDD, Fix read/write past buffer end: perl-security 140, nvi 2.2.1, Update pci_vendors to 2023.09.22 version, OpenZFS: Ensure that zfs_getattr() initializes the va_rdev field , nfscl: Fix processing of a rare Rename reply case.
BSDSec
No security announcements.
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News
Valuable News – 2024/01/01: The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems.
Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement for FreeBSD in 2023: As part of our continued support of the FreeBSD Project, they have a full-time staff member dedicated to improving the Project’s continuous integration system and the test infrastructure. In 2023, they added more testing jobs for ARM64 architectures like testing with Kernel Address Sanitizer and building test for non-standard compilers like GCC 12 and 13.
BSD Now 539: In this special holiday episode the BSDNow hosts get together to answer questions that listeners have sent over time. They give you updates on their gear, books they read, favorite places, and a whole lot more.
KDE Plasma on OpenBSD: KDE Plasma is now fully functional on OpenBSD and available via the package system. To install, a simple: $ pkg_add kde-plasma.
FreeBSD 2023 in Review: Infrastructure: Among the myriad of ways the FreeBSD Foundation supports FreeBSD, helping to maintain the Project’s infrastructure is one of the most important. They work in conjunction with the cluster administration team to ensure they have the hardware they need to keep everything running smoothly.
Tutorials
Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve: The bhyve hypervisor has been ported to Illumos and provides an altervative to KVM. SmartOS created an OpenBSD image but it’s quite old. Author of this managed to run OpenBSD 7.4 on OmniOS.
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