Aaron LI has rewritten calendar(1) to support Chinese (lunisolar) and Julian calendars, and along the way added support for other calendars, more options, and generally improved the program. His original source archive is available, as is his reference book.
HAMMER2 now has a ‘growfs’ directive, so if there’s room in the partition, you can expand your HAMMER2 volume to fit. Related: gpt(8) and disklabel(8) now have similar options. fdisk(8) does also.
Apparently DragonFly used to disable IOAPIC when booting in a virtual machine. This helped with some old virtual machines, but broke newer ones. It’s now enabled, which helps boot DragonFly on Google Cloud.
I went esoteric this week, and it was fun!
- 7 habits of effective text editing. (video, via)
- My divergence from ‘proper’ Vim by not using and exploring features.
- 7 versatile Vim commands that are easy to memorize. (via)
- Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework for Web Apps. It really is that. (via)
- Asciimatics – create full-screen text UIs on any platform. (via)
- How not to name variables.
- “Imperial is lit, but Metric is liter”… Linked for the measurement graph.
- An archive of a different type. I did not know this existed, but I hoped it existed, if that makes sense.(via)
- Kernel Mode Linux : Execute user processes in kernel mode. Hey, remember Windows NT and how a video error could bring it all down? (via)
- Model and Prototype of VMS Using the Mach 3.0 Kernel. 2 dead ends make a new dead end. (PDF, via)
- High-Tech Trash: Glitch, Noise, and Aesthetic Failure. Free book. (via)
It’s a good mix this week.
- ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again.
- FreeBSD 11.3 EOL.
- Modernizing the OpenBSD console.
- Valuable News – 2020/08/31.
- FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync.
- 6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD)
- PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in OpenBSD.
- GSoC 2020: Report-2: Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment.
- Find which package provides a given file in OpenBSD.
- The roles of OSs have changed. I like the alternate world suggestion.
- Running Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD. (via)
- In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? If you’ve been reading this Digest for some time, I bet you already know many of these. (via)
- My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]. (via)
There’s a new option in efibootmgr(8) on DragonFly to boot into firmware, on next boot. You may find this useful.
No pun in this week’s BSD Now title, but that’s usual now. ZFS news is the bulk of this week’s episode.
If you’ve got a newer i219 ethernet chipset – it’s now supported in DragonFly.
ncurses has been upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2 in DragonFly; a 4 year jump. Perhaps not a huge effect on you, but I want to link to it cause there’s such nice changelogs!