December 2017 – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2017/12/092017/12/08

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/09

Last minute, as always!

The anatomy of tee program on OpenBSD. (via)
Leaving Amazon AWS. (via, I think)
FreeBSD Port-Knocking.
s2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling (stsp@) on wireless (iwm(4), athn(4) and more) progress.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/12/03.
Cross-BSD pollination. (DragonFly->OpenBSD, via)
FreeBSD 11.0 is end-of-lifed.
OPNsense 17.7.9 released.
BSDCan 2018 Call for Papers is out. (via)
DTrace & ZFS Being Updated On NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD desktop for newbies. (via)
What sort of fun projects are you guys working on using Dragonfly?
pledge() work in progress.
arm64 platform now officially supported [and has syspatch(8)].
“SSH Mastery” 2nd ed tech reviewers wanted.

2017/12/08

Network driver changes: ix, faith

The ix(4) driver in DragonFly has been updated to match a new vendor release, and the faith(4)/faithd(4) driver is gone.

2017/12/07

BSDNow 223: Compile once, debug twice

BSDNow 223 covers a wide range: debuggers, Rust, Docker, EuroBSDCon 2017, pine64, and some network tools for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

2017/12/06

NYCBUG get-together tonight

There’s a NYCBUG get-together tonight at Suspenders in Manhattan, New York City, 7 PM. There’s no technical presentation, but who cares? Start the end-of-year-drinking!

2017/12/05

Boggle, banner, tetris added

Rimvydas Jasinskas has added the OpenBSD versions of banner(1), boggle(6), and tetris(6), along with additional fortune(6) material.

Odd note: tetris(6) originated with a 1989 International Obfustcated C Code Contest winner, according to the man page, but I can’t find it in the 1989 list.

2017/12/042017/12/03

DragonFly 5.0.2 released

DragonFly 5.0.2 is released. As you may guess from the version number, this is a bugfix release. The release tag has the full details. Update through the normal process of a buildworld/buildkernel, at your leisure.

2017/12/032017/12/02

Lazy Reading for 2017/12/03

Some overflow from last week, thank goodness.

Reprogramming a $13 consumer wifi-enabled outlet. (via)
A minimalist guide to tmux. (via)
Rules to the Game of Dungeon. Simultaneous to D&D creation.
The Shocking Truth Behind Arnold Nordsieck’s Differential Analyzer. (via)
Sharper Pixels. “Premium retro gaming”.
Perl 6 Advent Calendar. (via)
Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text Accounting. (via)
Capabilities for Open Source Innovation. Open source and software innovation are linked. (via)
Git PSA: git-rev-parse.
The Motherboard Guide to Avoiding State Surveillance. Not bad as general security advice. (via)
Bjarne Stroustrup’s many crimes against programming.
Mozilla Releases Open Source Voice Recognition and Voice Data Set. Need more open versions of collections like this. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: new Cyriak animation: I heard you love horses (via)

2017/12/022017/12/09

In Other BSDs for 2017/12/02

Totally last-minute.

“Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (1/2)
Reflections on Hackathons.
Cheap temp and humidity sensors. Probably BSD-compatible, given the list.
OpenBSD Router Boilerplate. (via)
Suggestions on High-end Laptop for dual-booting with BSD/Windows.
The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD.
Linux user picking a BSD for Personal Computer.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/11/27.
Two-factor authentication SSH with Duo in FreeBSD 11 (7:23)

2017/12/01

BSDNow 222: How Netflix Works

No interview this week for BSDNow 222, but lots of procedure details on FAMP, server moves, and bhyve.

2017/12/01

No more Dungeon Master

This is not as catastrophic as it may seem. I did not know this, but there’s a utility called dm(8), for Dungeon Master, used to control game access on a BSD system. It’s now gone on DragonFly, since its controls aren’t needed, and its setuid ability definitely isn’t needed.