HAMMER2 just became a little more DWIM: the pfs-list and pfs-delete directives will now look across all mounted filesystems, not just the current directory’s mount path. pfs-delete won’t delete any filesystem name that appears in more than one place, though.
If you have UEFI hardware, there’s been an update in DragonFly of the TianoCore EDK II headers. If you are like me, you will find the tianocore.org site helps to understand what this is for.
Hardware as the informal theme this week.
- Browse Minimally. You know what I like most about lynx or links? Lack of side effects.
- Ditch the Thinkpad, Save the Keyboard.
- Pulse Motor Runs on Wacky Power Sources. Potato.
- PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000. As the page says, “ultra-rare”. (Thanks, Erik Blomberg)
- Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990. (via)
- Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America. Free ebook for the next month; lots of history in there. (via)
- The tz database vs astrological records. Not really “versus”, but strange to think how exacting this nonscience can be.
- The Shareware Scene, Part 4: DOOM. I remember this. Seismic!
- The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH.
- Structuring and Formatting Your Plain Text Files (Without a Markup Language)
- How to use tmux to create a multi-pane Linux terminal window. Does not have to be Linux, of course.
- The Lovecraftian Bundle.
Remember, BSDCan 2020 is still streaming if you read this early enough.
- Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe.
- BastilleBSD Template updates. (via)
- Bringing FreeBSD to EC2 with Colin Percival. A long and worthwhile story, on a non-BSDpodcast. (via)
- The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey.
- Peeking inside executables and libraries to make debugging easier. Applies to BSD as it says.
- Some new fnaify-supported games.
- Custom tab completions in oksh.
- VAX port needs help.
- FreeBSD 11.4 RC2 available.
- My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. I’ve had good luck with that series.
- Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
- Valuable News – 2020/06/01.
- BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction.
BSDCan 2020 is being streamed right now and tomorrow, with all talks available.
This week’s BSD Now has the most exciting title I’ve heard in some time, related to the type of disk being used in one of the stories. This week is mostly installation tales, really.
If you’re looking to use jails, there’s been a brief discussion about them on users@, which will be useful if you want to install packages or figure out how the loopback address works.
DragonFly’s patch(1) is now at 2.0-12u11. I mention this not because it’s a dramatic change but because it’s a basic tool. Also, a benefit from our new committer.