No pun, but lots of links in this week’s BSD Now, including a link to EuroBSDCon 2022, happening in Austria.
makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2 on DragonFly, so you can create HAMMER2 file system images, same as a CD image or a DOS disk.
When you are setting up a DragonFly machine on Hetzner, pay attention to this bug report for dhcp setup. The short answer is “use dhcpcd”.
Mini-theme of old games.
- The Nethack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists. (via)
- I’ve played dopewars on Slack. Linked because dopewars is really a variant of unique-genre game Taipan.
- Clarus returns home. (via)
- 3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text. I find Source Code Pro works very well.
- I posted about arttime before; the author helpfully reminded me version 1.5 is out.
- Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches.
- David Ahl places all his classic computing publications into the Public Domain. I loved those books. (via)
- Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games).
- Dial-a-story.
- CaptionIt, live subtitles on a heads-up display, open source. (via)
- Dinosaur Pictures and Facts. My favorite dinosaur. (also via)
- Game Design Mimetics. (also via)
Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.
- Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
- Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
- Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
- (NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
- Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
- Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
- Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?
- Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 part 1 and part 2.
- Speeding up autoconf with caching. A followup to a BSD Now link.
- OpenBGPD 7.4 released.
It’s on Jitsi, so anyone can reach it. Tonight, 7 PM eastern.
This week’s BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tonight, and it’s all about OpenSSH, with Michael W. Lucas presenting. He literally wrote the book on it.
This is a week of fun links.
- Cyberdeck Cafe. All custom terminals.
- My PSU just won’t do.
- So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router. A good T-carrier explanation.
- Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? (via)
- A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game.
- Interactive Art Museum. Pleasing webgubbins. (via)
- A Trail Tale. A very nice presentation of an Appalachian Trail hike; something I’d like to do someday. (also via)
- Porting Doom to A/UX. (via)
- Artvee, public domain art search engine. (via)
- Fun With Power Monitoring on the Apple IIe.
- Installing a payphone in my house. The last paragraph is the best. (via)
- Regular expressions are effectively a (hard) programming language.
- How is Voyager still talking after all these years?
- Frogress Bar.
More links this week to make up for last week’s short haul.
- Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
- OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
- FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
- OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
- Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
- HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report.
- Give WindowMaker a macos Mojave look.
- OpenLDAP update. (OpenBSD)
- Vim colour scheme changes. (also OpenBSD)
- Minecraft server on OpenBSD. (via)
- Valuable News for 5/30, 6/6, and 6/13.
- OPNsense 22.1.8 and OPNsense Business Edition 22.4.1 released.
- OpenIKED 7.1 released.
This week’s BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there’s a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.
An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out – and quickly – which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn’t be visible from a user perspective.
The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I’m preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
Mini-theme of hardware this week.
- Electronic Catan LCD Tiles. (via)
- Watchy, open hardware and software watch.
- Modal dialogs and other things that steal keyboard focus are dangerous. That makes me so mad.
- DuskOS. Linking cause “low impact computing” has turned into “postapocalyptic computing” for some people. (via)
- Catalogs and Context. (via)
- What happened to Perl 7? (via)
- Related: perl v5.36.0 has been released. (via)
- Access the Tesla API with Perl!
- BBQ20KBD. (via)
- Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 MK3. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games crowdfunded book launch teaser.
- XModem in 2022. (via)
- The Thompson MO5, I’ve never seen before. Plus free BASIC. (via)
A bit short cause I ran out of time.
- qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
- NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.
Hopefully there’s a new ISO/img on the mirrors for DragonFly 6.2.2 by the time you read this – or you can just update your installation. The changelog is short, because this is a bugfix-level release. Also, don’t forget there’s a new set of binary packages out; update that too if you haven’t.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.
If you’re interested in having virtio_console on DragonFly, keep an eye on this bug report.