March 2022 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2022/03/272022/03/22

Lazy Reading for 2022/03/27

Mini-theme: 4-part writeups.

Comas Channel. Food manufacturing; somewhat hypnotic. (via)
Yocto boot2qt for the Seeed reTerminal (Qt 6). (via)
Electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos has a website. (indirectly via)
A Web Around the World, Part 6: Routing Calls.
Recent narrative games: winter 2021 edition.
[Review] Rackham Vale (and the Four Eras of OSR Publishing). Linked for the indie RPG publishing history, which has mostly passed me by.
22 years of Emacs. (via)
SGI320/540 Visual Workstations. An extremely specific site. (via)
Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal. (via)
The Cube Rule of Food Identification. (via)
Four Tiny Essays On SF/F. (via)
Hard Drive History.
Mouse Museum. (via)

2022/03/262022/03/23

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/26

Note the new-to-me book news in there.

The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
Testing parallel forwarding.
NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4) gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.
Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There’s some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)

2022/03/24

BSD Now and Then: 446 and 447

Episode 447, “Path to BSD” is up now, as is 446, “Debugging ioctl problems“. 446 was up last week but I missed my change to link to it. Check the Tadpole link if you have not; those are a weird chunk of history.

2022/03/22

HAMMER2 vs USB stick pulls

It’s apparently possible to get a panic by yanking a HAMMER2 disk out of your system, which is only likely when using a USB thumb drive, formatting it to HAMMER2, and not bothering to unmount it. Anyway, that poorly-described-by-me problem is fixed.

2022/03/202022/03/16

Lazy Reading for 2022/03/20

Old computer mini-theme.

POCKIT, a modular computer. (via)
Exploring the Amiga. (via)
Remote Desktop Fun For Your Old Macintosh. (via)
Some tiny personal programs I’ve written. (via)
More Than a Dozen Command Line Tools I’ve Written. (via)
Relativistic Ray Tracing.
A Colorful “Peek” at the Graphics Performance of the Apple II.
Smurk (1981/1982). Linked for the Smurfenstein screenshot.
A UTF-8 / Ruby tutorial. (via)
History of Interactive Computing. (video, via)

2022/03/192022/03/19

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/19

You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.

Where cut comes into Unix (and a bit on the history of awk)
Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
~~helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.~~ As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.
Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.

2022/03/16

ipfw and Hammer fixes in DragonFly

There’s an odd bug in ipfw that is now fixed in DragonFly 6.2/6.3. If you are using ipfw and adding networks and hosts in a specific order, the netmask will be set wrong.

There’s also a problem with the overnight bulkfree cleanup in Hammer that’s had various attempts to fix it over time – it’s now really truly fixed. It mattered only if you had an extremely large number of inodes – 100000000 or so,

Matthew Dillon wrote up an explanation for both.

2022/03/152022/03/08

ChiBUG meets tonight

ChiBUG’s monthly (rescheduled) meeting is tonight. RSVP if you can attend, to make sure the restaurant has the seating.

2022/03/14

SEMIBUG and Backus-Naur tomorrow

SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tomorrow. If you don’t know what Backus-Naur is, this meeting is via Jitsi and you can find out.

2022/03/132022/03/09

Lazy Reading for 2022/03/13

If you were hoping for a mini-theme of synthesizers, you are in luck.

Chonky Palmtop.
What’s your favorite vim shortcut/hack
My New Old Apple Macintosh SE/30 Computer. (via)
Emulating Vintage Mac Compilers. (via)
The problem of keeping track of hardlinks as you traverse a directory tree. Linked cause this was a pain for HAMMER2, too.
Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition).
Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing. (via)
The Sinclair QL. (also via)
The Casio QA-100, a simulated synth/sequencer. (via)
The Casio MT-40/MT-41 and sleng teng riddim, the start of dancehall. (via)
Original Jungle Samples. (via)
Making Portishead’s “Dummy”: The Production Experiments of a Trip-Hop Classic. (via)
An Improvement on the Pomodoro Technique.
All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own. (via)

2022/03/122022/03/10

In Other BSDs for 2022/03/12

No theme, but decent material.

2022/03/10

BSD Now 445: Journey to BSD

This week’s BSD Now has a nicely eclectic group of links, including one to a music server that is new to me, Navidrome.

2022/03/092022/03/07

New US mirror for DragonFly

Sandy River is the newest DragonFly mirror, with ISOs and dports packages.

2022/03/092022/03/09

SLUUG meeting, FreeBSD presentation

SLUUG (St. Louis Unix Users Group) is meeting tonight and Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation is presenting, among others. It’s available through Zoom.