I am entertained by the notion that adventure(6), backgammon(6), battlestar(6), hack(6) and trek(6) can still get updates. I did not know, incidentally, that sendmail and trek share an author.
If you happen to have an APU2, here’s some tips on the boot process.
Some retrocomputing as a mini-theme this week.
- Download files listed in a http index with wget. Eventually you will need this.
- A Conversation With the Mysterious Dubstep Sensation Hannibal Rex.
- Stretching the c64 Palette. (via)
- Announcing Perl 7. (via)
- Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor. (also via)
- Bluetooth (sound) latency is astonishingly bad. 50ms is all it takes. (via)
- On Contact Tracing and Hardware Tokens. This would be the right guy to evaluate this.
- modernish, a shell library? I am not sure what to call it. (via)
- General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS.
- NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software. (via)
- Real VT102 emulation with MAME. (via)
- Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration. (via)
- Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II. Of course this isn’t surprising to a BSD person. (via)
- A decidedly non-Linux distro walkthrough: Haiku R1/beta2. (via)
- No lack of documentation. Linked for the image, and for the note that Twitter threads are bad for information storage. Don’t do it.
Your unrelated music of the week: Skratch Bastid. (via)
This should be prime convention season, darnit.
- Smallest device running BSD?
- Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
- The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via)
- BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results.
- BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP.
- Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process.
- Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD. (via)
- The Era of Fragmentation, Part 4: The Anarchists. Touches early BSD UNIX.
- Announcing FreeBSD Fridays: A Series of 101 Classes. (via)
- pkgsrc-2020Q2 released.
- End of support for NetBSD 7.
- ChiBUG has a poll up about meeting. Vote, if you are near.
This week’s BSD Now, by accident or design, covers booting different BSDs on different hardware – take a look.