BSD Now 345 has the usual batch of recent stories to cover, plus a treat – a number of community feedback items on switching to BSD.
Even if you run bash, zsh, or maybe fish, tcsh is the default root shell in DragonFly – and it just had an update. (all bugfixes according to the release notes)
karu.pruun posted an answer on how to get DragonFly onto your GPT/EFI drive.
The ssh-copy-id utility is now included in DragonFly 5.8 and in -current. Useful for your next machine setup.
No theme this week.
- New “Prohibition Orcs” today.
- Aggregate internet links with mlvpn.
- A USB Loader for the Cidco MailStation. “worst use of Thunderbolt”.
- riftty. Think about the name, and you can guess what it is. (via)
- My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable. This is the future we really sorta wanted.
- Preparing Presentations with Markdown. (via)
- Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter. Not as dangerous as it sounds.
- ESP8266 Network Display. “For whatever”.
- The Hunt of the Unicorn, rediscovered.
- gifcap – screen recordings via browser. (via)
- “Dusted off my GPD Pocket PC…” (via)
- Vim rendered on a cube for no reason. (via)
- “Please resend the virus“.
- Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup. A Google Doc, which is a new-ish trend in “public rich media”, for lack of a better phrase. (via)
Your unrelated video of the day: Horse.
Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work.
- RISC OS and NetBSD running on same SoC. (via)
- MixerTUI 0.1. (via)
- Extending support for the NetBSD-7 branch.
- NetBSD 8.2 is available!
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1).
- Update Lenovo X260 BIOS with OpenBSD. (via)
- My Latest Self Hosted Hugo Workflow using FreeBSD Jails, Caddy, Restic and More. (via)
- NextCloud on OpenBSD. Clever image. (via)
- My New Print Bookstore.
- Cloud images for *BSD, based on cloud-init. (via)
- OPNsense 20.1.3 released.
- Playing Half-life using xash3d : Puffy against Black Mesa. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/03/30.
- rethinking openbsd security.
Everything else is topsy-turvy, but BSD Now is a constant: it’s out like usual this week. There’s a feature about text processing, a subject I inexplicably enjoy, and a lot of things that start with Z.
This doesn’t really have any effect on you unless you are programming on DragonFly, but it’s interesting to read about a “spinlock trick” Matthew Dillon had implemented recently.