October 2021 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2021/10/312021/10/28

Lazy Reading for 2021/10/31

Spooky Reading!

Empowering People … and Their Things.
Stillfleet, a tabletop game with space hulks. Not Space Hulk, though. The character generator is fun. (via)
The slab and the permacomputer.
We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly.
Casio IRC. (via)
Vintage computer pictures. (also via)
You use more open source software than you think.
To Boldly Go Where No Internet Protocol Has Gone Before. Of course Vint Cerf dresses that well, and here’s the poster he’s holding. (via)
Repetition, In Four Parts. Linked cause of the regex explanation.
The First Modern Drum Machine. (via)
Juncture, for visual essays. Created originally to talk about plants, of all things. (via)
50 Watts, and 50 Watt Books. (via)
The ENIAC Monte Carlo program from 1947 on a poster. The first stored instruction program ever. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 2011: Nested.
Space probe software bug. 17 years to Y2038.
Skip songs by looking.

Your unrelated music of the week: OV / ER / LO / AD from the Kleptones. The last two are linked but not yet released, so if they don’t work yet, come back in a week.

2021/10/302021/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/30

I finally cleared out most of my BSD RSS. Now everyone has to post more stuff and refill!

The OpenSSH server has limits on what user authentication you can use.
V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one. 4BSD like everything else.
OpenBSD hardware recommendations.
OpenBSD on a Framework computer.
SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
SOLVED: linker_load_file: /boot/modules/openzfs.ko – unsupported file type.
Advanced ZFS Snapshots.
LLDB serial port communication support.
OpenBSD Webzine issue 3.
My FreeBSD laptop… without a GUI!? A good idea; try it!
Benchmarking compilation time with ccache/mfs on OpenBSD.
Reuse of OpenBSD packages for trying runtime.
Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/10/25.
FreeBSD 12.3 BETA is out.
Catchup 2021-10-08 for OpenBSD Journal.
Realtek wireless firmwares imported!
pfSense Plus Software Version 21.05.2 is Now Available for Upgrades.
September 30th, 2021 syspatches: some assembly might be required.
Fall 2021 Advocacy Update.
OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched. (via)
Advanced Documentation Retrieval on FreeBSD. Necessary skills, for sure. (via)
Best BSD to try out GNUSTEP + Windowmaker?

2021/10/28

BSD Now 426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero

This week’s BSD Now talks about OpenBSD and OpenZFS – but not at the same time; don’t misread this.

2021/10/27

FAT on DragonFly

You can now create FAT volumes on DragonFly. Not exactly high-tech, but a filesystem that most anything can read and write.

2021/10/242021/10/21

Lazy Reading for 2021/10/24

All over the place this week.

Arthur-PC – a HD64180 based computer. Hardcore.
ADOBE SUCKS (SCROTUM). Adobe product alternatives. Bookmark it cause you won’t remember the URL and searching for the phrase… Well, guess. (via)
8BIT, a documentary. (via)
Useful Unknown Websites, Reddit, and Useful Unknown Websites, MetaFilter. (partially via)
SheepFilms. (via)
L0phtCrack. A name from the past. (via)
The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated. (via)
Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh. (via)
Tune Tracker Command Center. Haiku under the hood. (via)
Hypertext tools from the 80s. Good followup links at the end too. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 2010: Digital: A Love Story.
“unexpected hunter activity“
What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer.
ScummVM is 20, and I don’t even know all the games it supports. (via)

2021/10/232021/10/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/23

Live in-person meetings are happening, slowly, finally.

Register Today for the November 2021 FreeBSD Vendor Summit.
How BSD Authentication Works. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/10/19.
Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment.
Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD.
Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System.
Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. Software and hardware.
FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh. Muscle-memory issues may get you. (via)
Open Source Summit 2021 Conference Recap. Live people?!
FreeBSD Foundation October 2021 Fundraising Update.
The State of Gaming on OpenBSD in 2022. Stick with it.
One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower.
GhostBSD 21.10.16 ISO is now available.
Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab.
Story of making the OpenBSD Webzine. (There’s 2 issues so far)

2021/10/21

BSD Now 425: Releases galore

This has been a good week for BSD releases, hasn’t it? This week’s BSDNow gets into RISC-V, too.

2021/10/18

SEMIBUG and Emacs presentation

SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.

2021/10/172021/10/14

Lazy Reading for 2021/10/17

Mini-theme: old hardware or new terminals, you pick.

Tim Van Damme Uses This. More detail on keyboard setup than I expected.
The 100 MHz 6502. (via)
Mac SE/30 odyssey. (via)
XScreenSaver 6.02 out now.
Writing a simple arcade game in Lisp. (via)
Warp Terminal Emulator Review. Linked mostly to show how the shell/terminal is still evolving. (via)
The Return of the Unix Shell. Related to previous idea. (via)
The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists. (via)
Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners to :Quit. (via)
Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 1.3 released. Mostly linked for the name. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 2008: Violet and 2009: Fallen London.

2021/10/162021/10/14

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/16

Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases.

2021/10/152021/10/14

BSD Now 424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge

This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.

2021/10/142021/10/13

St. Louis UNIX Users Group, today

SLUUG, which has the best acronym, meets tonight at 6ish PM Central time on Zoom.

2021/10/132021/10/12

DragonFly 6.0.1 released!

6.0.1 is tagged and available. The major reason for this update is an expired Let’s Encrypt certificate that would cause problems when downloading dpkg binaries. A list of 6.0.1 commits is available.

I recommend the usual rebuild process mentioned on the 6.0 release notes:

make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgrade

Don’t forget to update your packages with ‘pkg upgrade’.

2021/10/12

Hamilton BUG meeting now

It’s not on their web page but it’s on Jitsi, so you can join now. (alerted via)

2021/10/122021/10/06

ChiBUG online meeting tonight

ChiBUG is meeting tonight, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD“.

2021/10/11

BSD Now 423: RACK the Stack

I managed to miss it last week, but last week’s BSD Now talks about NetFlix’s usage of FreeBSD to serve a ridiculous amount of data, among other things.