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2022/02/262022/02/23

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/26

Software releses is the mini-theme, I guess.

The important things about Unix init systems aren’t booting the system.
The history (sort of) of service management in Unix, related to previous.
OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems. (via)
What’s Ahead for FreeBSD and the Foundation in 2022.
The FreeBSD Boot Process. I like that Klara Systems just keeps publishing articles.
NFS Shares With ZFS.
Valuable News – 2022/02/21.
Packaging CopperSpice.
pfSense Plus 22.01 and pfSense CE 2.6.0 are out.
[OpenBSD]-current has moved to 7.1-beta.
Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary.

2022/02/24

BSD Now 443: Certified Unix Compliant

BSD Now this week leads with a link to the Quora article about Mac OS X’s journey to UNIX certification, which you should read if you have not already. There’s more links of course, including one on getting streaming commercial media playing on FreeBSD.

2022/02/232022/02/22

Patreon followup

If you enjoy reading my posts, whether the DragonFly-specific material during the week or the weekend rollups, I have a Patreon account where you can effectively tip me.

I’m not trying to turn this into real income, so I haven’t been plugging it – but a number of people have been contributing and I really appreciate it. I have my own reoccurring Patreon pledges, and this is a good time to point you at Linda Medley (cause I have a number of her books), ABBADON (for Kill Six Billion Demons), and Cooking Issues (cause their podcast is fun). None of that is BSD or even computer related.

2022/02/222022/02/20

A reminder on X

I know I’ll need this again, so I am making a post out of it. If you are running a DragonFly system through NVMM using the excellent site instructions, and you want X apps to display on a local Windows workstation, you need to:

Install VcXsrv (or your X server of choice) on Windows and start it up.
Install xauth and xterm on the DragonFly host.
On the DragonFly host, set these three options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. They are already there but commented out with different arguments.
```
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 0
X11UseLocalhost yes
```
Reload sshd: ‘service sshd reload’.
‘Enable X11 Forwarding’ under Connection -> SSH -> X11 in the puTTY setup dialog.

Connect to the DragonFly host with puTTY, type ‘xterm’, and a terminal window should appear on your Windows desktop within a few seconds. This could be turned into a shortcut with puTTY to avoid having redundant terminals, but I’m not writing that out yet.

2022/02/212022/02/17

Date output sanity

I use date(1) just rarely enough that I can never remember the right arguments to create a human-readable result. Now, there’s an -I arg to date(1) that uses a word instead of a format string to get ISO8601 output.

2022/02/202022/02/17

Lazy Reading for 2022/02/20

No mini-theme this week.

lofi generator. Pleasant, though it says something that it can be autogenerated. (via)
Animated Engines. (also via)
Real Spaceships. Interesting but I can’t take a chonky shuttle seriously. (via, via)
Everything I Know About Life I Learned From PowerPoint. Not the book itself, but a list of the resources used for the book, all of which are useful.
Why You Should Start a Blog Right Now. (via)
Reed-alert: five years later.
Tedium on self-hosting / cloud service replacement. A good article.
Vintage Computer Festival East (NJ) is in-person, February 26th.
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported. (via)
SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER. (via)
Ketchup mayo mustard.
Manicules.
The Influence of Roguelike Visuals.

2022/02/192022/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/19

No theme this week other than of course BSD.

Sensors Information on FreeBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q4 is out.
Valuable News – 2022/02/14.
New ‘Reckless guide to OpenBSD’ published. Weekly installments.
Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code. Note the daemon on the cover.
My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD. (via)
Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD. (via)
pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available. (via)
Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc. (via)
The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)

2022/02/182022/02/15

GhostBSD meetup, tonight

This will happen before the normal In Other BSDs post, so I am posting it now: there’s a GhostBSD virtual meetup happening tonight.

2022/02/17

BSD Now 442: Birthing Unix

This week’s BSD Now talks about a reoccurring topic for me: how UNIX happened. It links to that Kernighan talk that you should watch, too.

2022/02/16

Option options for getopt

I realize my title is a little bit buffalo buffalo buffalo, but it makes sense: getopt(3) now has a double colon option to indicate an optional argument. I link to it because I like seeing the length of the trip to DragonFly. It started as a GNU option, then showed up in NetBSD, brought to FreeBSD, and now I’m posting about it.

2022/02/152022/02/14

SEMIBUG, databases, tonight

SEMIBUG’s meeting tonight has Susan Hurst presenting on database implementation, via Jitsi. 7 PM Michigan time.

2022/02/132022/02/09

Lazy Reading for 2022/02/13

Old hardware is the mini-theme.

RAIN PSP, a homebrew 80s-style laptop.
Cosmic Background Radiation Dice. Of course a nixie display.
The comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition 2021. (via)\
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: Seeking Submissions and Pitches! (via)
Video game preservation vs copyright. I’m still not sure who owns Castle Wolfenstein. (via)
CR+LF has a long history. (via)
GitHub – ViolenceWorks/VT-69. Possibly vapor but looks neat. (via)
PC booting from a vinyl record (turn volume down). (via)
DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out.
My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022.
Epitaph to Laptops.

2022/02/122022/02/09

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/12

No mini-theme.

Mail Server Hosting on OpenBSD. (via)
Harmful things. Linked for #2. (via)
ultima online.
quBSD. “jails/bhyve implementation of a Qubes-inspired containerization schema” (via)
RAID-Z Expansion Feature for ZFS In the Home Stretch.
UNIX: On the Path to BSD.
Modern inetd in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD and Alternative Inits.
Books About FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2022/02/07.
XFCE Cupertino Way.

2022/02/10

BSD Now and Then

I missed posting about BSD Now last week, so if you didn’t check either: BSD Now 440: BSD Inside Zone and BSD Now 441: Migration to BSD. Lots of links in both to follow.

2022/02/062022/02/04

Lazy Reading for 2022/02/06

Mini-theme: music.

Retrocomputing can be more than games.
The PinePhone keyboard case. PDA nostalgia.
Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode. Linked cause The Mythical Man-Month talks about the 360 and I never had a picture in my head to connect.
The Whimsical Web. (via)
(Non-)Human, AI Reproducing Absence.
Sendxmpp as a Replacement for Mail(1). Odd but I can’t say why. (via)
The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back. (via)
Chuck Moore’s Creations (Forth and ColorForth). (via)
Writing better release notes. Points 3, 5, and 6 are important.
“A Political History of X” – Keith Packard (LCA 2020). (via)
Dialing Up. All modem sounds. (via)
Track, a vector music visualizer. (via)
John Peel Roulette. Eclectic forever. (also via)

2022/02/052022/02/04

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/05

Note the first three items are events with deadlines happening now.

There’s a NetBSD chat happening online this morning – in a few moments.
Noting again: BSDCan 2022 is going to be online, and the CFP closes Monday.
FOSDEM 2022 is happening today and tomorrow, and there’s several BSD events as usual. It’s online so you can get there.
What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS.
The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API).
Why we’re migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD. (via)
OPNSense 22.1 released.
Smallest desktop of the day with BSD: Raspberry Pi 400.
Related: r/Hardware_for_BSD.
Valuable News – 2022/01/31.
d-ptr pitfalls.
HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report.
FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s.
Can’t run Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.

2022/02/042022/02/01

Syscalls, listed

This is pretty esoteric, but all of DragonFly’s syscalls can be found in the links Aaron LI provided in this post. There’s code in there that dates back to Berkley UNIX.

2022/02/022022/02/01

BSDCan 2022: online and CFP extended

BSDCan 2022 is now going to be online, which also means the CFP has been extended so any last-minute-I’ll-go-now-that-its-virtual people can get their proposals in.

(Posting now because waiting for the normal In Other BSDs post will only give you 48 hours of prep time for a proposal.)

2022/02/01

amdgpu notes

If you are using AMD graphics on DragonFly, Aaron LI’s “how I set this up” post may be useful to you.

2022/01/302022/01/26

Lazy Reading for 2022/01/30

No theme; nicely eclectic.

3D-printable void switches. Nicely documented.
Successfully Crowdfunded Product Designs of 2021. Interesting to see what makes it. (via)
Related: poke around core77.com for a bit.
The 40 Greatest Synth Sounds of All Time. Ugh, I linked to a listicle.
A Web Around the World, Part 1: Signals Down a Wire and Part 2: If At First You Don’t Succeed… Early, early telecoms.
OpenQuest System Resource Document. D100 gaming is a new term to me. (via)
1977 computer office. The rest of Watergate Living is entertaining, or awful depending on how you feel about the 1970s. (via)
The Making of Lode Runner. (via)
Bud Plant’s Incredible Catalog. Anything able to survive Amazon’s impact has got to be good.
Mycroft Mark II, a better choice than Alexa. (via)
Processing: the Software that Shaped Creative Coding. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: Tom Baker saying “bread”. (via)