From rvrnt at use.startmail.com  Sat Jun  3 10:00:23 2017
From: rvrnt at use.startmail.com (Mr Vanderdenduur)
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 10:00:23 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] =?utf-8?q?Librem_or_Libreboot=E2=80=A6?=
Message-ID: <d2203267-72a6-ee66-9a8f-f2d91d008472@use.startmail.com>

Hello all,

maybe good alternative laptops for FreeBSD: Libreboot 
<https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/> and Librem 
<https://puri.sm/products/>

Vanderdenduur

?

From rvrnt at use.startmail.com  Sat Jun  3 10:11:55 2017
From: rvrnt at use.startmail.com (Mr Vanderdenduur)
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2017 10:11:55 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] =?utf-8?q?Librem_or_Libreboot=E2=80=A6?=
In-Reply-To: <d2203267-72a6-ee66-9a8f-f2d91d008472@use.startmail.com>
References: <d2203267-72a6-ee66-9a8f-f2d91d008472@use.startmail.com>
Message-ID: <edaee220-63d3-25a6-db35-53c0d28c824e@use.startmail.com>

Oops! NetBSD, OpenBSD and LibertyBSD users can rejoice!

https://libreboot.org/faq.html#can-i-use-bsd

Vanderdenduur


Le 03/06/2017 ? 10:00, Mr Vanderdenduur a ?crit :
> Hello all,
>
> maybe good alternative laptops for FreeBSD: Libreboot 
> <https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/> and Librem 
> <https://puri.sm/products/>
>
> Vanderdenduur
>
> ?
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From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk  Mon Jun 12 16:34:27 2017
From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:34:27 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] June's London *BSD meetup - 16/06/17
Message-ID: <a346150e-d527-1f1a-4ffe-f9785676e136@geeklan.co.uk>

Hello,
This months meeting will again be at the pub called The Hand and Shears
(it's around the corner from our previous regular venue).
Our visiting guest this month is Thomas Klausner <wiz at NetBSD>.

Friday the 16th, 6:30 onwards??

The Hand & Shears
1 Middle Street
Cloth Fair
London
EC1A 7JA
Tel: 020 7600 0257
http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk

Sevan

From rvrnt at use.startmail.com  Mon Jun 12 17:02:44 2017
From: rvrnt at use.startmail.com (Mr Vanderdenduur)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:02:44 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] June's London *BSD meetup - 16/06/17
In-Reply-To: <a346150e-d527-1f1a-4ffe-f9785676e136@geeklan.co.uk>
References: <a346150e-d527-1f1a-4ffe-f9785676e136@geeklan.co.uk>
Message-ID: <c4529f1a-2b4f-25d3-3be5-2bdde091e259@use.startmail.com>

Too bad? I'll be on trip. See you the month after.
Have all fun on Friday.

best,

Raf

Le 12/06/2017 ? 16:34, Sevan Janiyan a ?crit :
> Hello,
> This months meeting will again be at the pub called The Hand and Shears
> (it's around the corner from our previous regular venue).
> Our visiting guest this month is Thomas Klausner <wiz at NetBSD>.
>
> Friday the 16th, 6:30 onwards??
>
> The Hand & Shears
> 1 Middle Street
> Cloth Fair
> London
> EC1A 7JA
> Tel: 020 7600 0257
> http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk
>
> Sevan
> _______________________________________________
> Ukfreebsd mailing list
> Ukfreebsd at uk.freebsd.org
> http://mailman.uk.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/ukfreebsd
> UK BSD Groups http://www.bsdgroups.org.uk
> Hosted by EXOnetric http://www.exonetric.net



From tj at enoti.me  Mon Jun 12 18:57:40 2017
From: tj at enoti.me (tj)
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:57:40 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] June's London *BSD meetup - 16/06/17
In-Reply-To: <a346150e-d527-1f1a-4ffe-f9785676e136@geeklan.co.uk>
References: <a346150e-d527-1f1a-4ffe-f9785676e136@geeklan.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20170612175739.GA50156@tom-desk.erg.abdn.ac.uk>

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 04:34:27PM +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> Hello,
> This months meeting will again be at the pub called The Hand and Shears
> (it's around the corner from our previous regular venue).
> Our visiting guest this month is Thomas Klausner <wiz at NetBSD>.
> 

Are there any plans for another weekend BSD hack weekend in London? I
would love to attend one, but the journey all the way down from Scotland
needs a little planning.

Could this maybe discussed on Friday?

Reciprocally, I will happily host one if anyone wants to join me in
Aberdeen.

- [tj]

From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk  Tue Jun 13 14:50:54 2017
From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:50:54 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] pkgsrcCon 2017 London, registration open
Message-ID: <b6e7bfe4-64b4-76da-dcbf-817cb6069c64@geeklan.co.uk>

Hello,
Registration for pkgsrcCon, London is now open[1]. A pre-event social
will be held at the end of the month (details will be post on the
website[2]). Saturday the 1st of July we will hold a day of talks at The
BCS followed by another social event and on Sunday the 2nd of July we'll
have a hack day at the London Hack Space.
The events are open to all, there are no tickets on sale. However
registration is required for The BCS on Saturday.

Registration website closes on the 29th of June.

You are likely to hear the following talks to on Saturday and others
(waiting for replies).

In no particular order:
Giovanni Bechis - Pledge in OpenBSD
Pierre Pronchery - pkg-query
Thomas Merkel - Testing your pkgsrc development on multiple platforms
with vagrant and virtualbox
Sevan Janiyan - A mix of two halves
Bennie Siegert - Bulk builds in the cloud
Alistair Crooks - pkgsrc - foundations & abstractions, building from
source on 23 platforms
Alistair Crooks - Running a third of the internet on BSD
David Spencer - Slackbuilds
Charles Forsyth - Something regarding portability (details TBA)
Vsevlod Stakhov - The architecture of Pkg - a modern package manager for
BSD systems

If you would like to give a talk on Saturday, we still have slots open.


Sevan
[1] https://events.bcs.org/book/2610/
[2] http://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2017/

From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk  Fri Jun 16 11:27:44 2017
From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:27:44 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] pkgsrcCon 2017 London, registration open
In-Reply-To: <b6e7bfe4-64b4-76da-dcbf-817cb6069c64@geeklan.co.uk>
References: <b6e7bfe4-64b4-76da-dcbf-817cb6069c64@geeklan.co.uk>
Message-ID: <1b2bb211-049f-d2c2-5a30-0eafc034d8ff@geeklan.co.uk>

On 13/06/2017 14:50, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> Charles Forsyth - Something regarding portability (details TBA)

Charles Forsyth - Not/configure
"After abandoning UNIX in the late 1980s as a self-contained
time-sharing system unsuitable for modern distributed environments, Bell
Labs 1127 developed two further operating systems, Plan 9 and Inferno,
with completely new kernels and new or substantially reworked programs
in user space. Both systems emphasise portability. Following a brief
summary of that alternative universe, I shall explore various aspects of
that portability. Compilers, tools, conventions, simplicity and
restraint all play their part."

From david at cantrell.org.uk  Fri Jun 16 13:48:18 2017
From: david at cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:48:18 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] pkgsrcCon 2017 London, registration open
In-Reply-To: <b6e7bfe4-64b4-76da-dcbf-817cb6069c64@geeklan.co.uk>
References: <b6e7bfe4-64b4-76da-dcbf-817cb6069c64@geeklan.co.uk>
Message-ID: <20170616124818.GA29181@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 02:50:54PM +0100, Sevan Janiyan wrote:

> Registration for pkgsrcCon, London is now open[1]...
> 
> In no particular order:
> Giovanni Bechis - Pledge in OpenBSD
> Pierre Pronchery - pkg-query
> Thomas Merkel - Testing your pkgsrc development on multiple platforms
> with vagrant and virtualbox
> Sevan Janiyan - A mix of two halves
> Bennie Siegert - Bulk builds in the cloud
> Alistair Crooks - pkgsrc - foundations & abstractions, building from
> source on 23 platforms
> Alistair Crooks - Running a third of the internet on BSD
> David Spencer - Slackbuilds
> Charles Forsyth - Something regarding portability (details TBA)
> Vsevlod Stakhov - The architecture of Pkg - a modern package manager for
> BSD systems

Looks very interesting, but alas I won't be able to make it. Will there
be videos online afterwards?

-- 
David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age

From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk  Sat Jun 17 11:22:25 2017
From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 11:22:25 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] Notes from yesterdays meeting
Message-ID: <1a491986-c126-6843-a715-93acdb105a53@geeklan.co.uk>

ipv6 sage t-shirts https://ipv6.he.net/certification/
pkgsrcCon demo session sorted
https://twitter.com/pplsassembly/status/874754736595009536
strings in C++
9+ hour bootstrap time for Rust on Illumos via pkgsrc bulkbuild
Telegram cipher choices
building silos with centralised services on a decentralised network
mastodon social network
Cultural differences between between technical communities who try to
understand the strengths and weaknesses of their tools vs those that
look to replace / rewrite at earliest opportunity (hello docker)
the fight for pid one on a system which does PID randomisation
how does performing postmortem debugging on a systems with KASLR work?
Fun remote mounting media via supermicro ipmi interface
Ravenports is a new approach to packaging not based on make
https://github.com/jrmarino/Ravenports
Fallout from latest Perl update in pkgsrc
kauth subsystem in NetBSD
distributed filesystems like AFS & Gluster
Upspin Project http://upspin.io
Rob Pike presenting Upspin https://youtu.be/giUatBmmb_Y?t=4757
SolarisStudio on Linux
C++11 issues with SolarisStudio 12.4
http://libtrue.xyz see https://github.com/libtrue/libtrue/issues
Encumbered true http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html
Need for accelerometer support on tablet/laptop hybrids to set screen
orientation correctly
switch to shell based true in NetBSD
http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=361
Smoke testing of all base utilities FreeBSD gsoc project
https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2017/SmokeTestingOfBaseUtilities
veriexec always reports an error even completing successfully and
becoming active
TrustedBSD file system firewall
SSD garbage collection & copy of on write file systems
FreeBSD TRIM support in ZFS moving upstream to OpenZFS??
LFS - the reference COW filesystem??
NetAPP WAFLs - tasty and expensive
Contentious project members who are unable to accept constructive feedback
Opioid epidemics
iptables loving
pkgsrcCon - a romantic weekend everyone
The person in the middle of systemd & docker
https://lwn.net/Articles/676831/
clumsy & poorly implemented tools harbour bad habits e.g outlook users &
email
vi bindings in visualstudio
Debian's reproducible builds project
Decent laptop support in OpenBSD
ACPI behaviour of Apple hardware between operating systems which report
themselves as Darwin or other (Windows?)
history of navigation via HJKL keys
Issues with larger numbers with -j
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2017/06/14/msg018289.html
More lua modules planned for NetBSD base

From venture37 at geeklan.co.uk  Fri Jun 23 14:48:15 2017
From: venture37 at geeklan.co.uk (Sevan Janiyan)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:48:15 +0100
Subject: [Ukfreebsd] pkgsrcCon 2017 London, pre-event social 30/6/17
Message-ID: <d58af455-cd9a-6384-663c-f52acc55bdfe@geeklan.co.uk>

Hello,
The pre-event social will be at The Hand and Sheers pub, next Friday,
from 7pm onwards.

The Hand & Shears
1 Middle Street
Cloth Fair
London
EC1A 7JA
Tel: 020 7600 0257
http://www.thehandandshears.co.uk

Look out for someone wearing a blue wireframe beastie OpenBSD t-shirt[1]


Sevan
[1] https://www.openbsd.org/images/tshirt-2.jpg