There’s a reported bug with NVMM and QEMU if you boot a guest using UEFI. Until it’s fixed, use BIOS.
NYCBUG is having another lunch meeting online, this Friday, 1-2 Eastern time. RSVP on the NYCBUG talk@ list if you are going.
Mini-theme: computer error.
- Astronomy community shapes their own destiny with Astropy.
- Debugging behind the Iron Curtain. (via)
- Reddit stories on crazy bugs.
- A History of Modern Computer Crashing.
- Subcutanean, a book that changes the story every time it’s printed.
- In practice, there are two types of window managers in modern X.
- Figuring out how Amiga 500 RAM expansion projects work.
- Working “Teeny-Tiny Turntable”.
- Sorta related: Is Old Music Killing New Music?
- 22 indie games to look forward to in 2022. (via)
- prior-art-dept.: OWL Guide, early hypertext, and “replacing” the Web.
Your unrelated personal frustration of the week: Legacy G Suite will no longer be free. I need to figure out a self hosting solution.
The UNIX compliance link is worth reading all the way through; it is a chunk of history I did not know at all.
- What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? Answered by the guy that led it at Apple. Note the relatively short time needed to do the same for FreeBSD. (via)
- The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 6 and Day 7.
- LibBSDDialog.
- GhostBSD 22.01.12 ISO is now available.
- Valuable News – 2022/01/17.
- Wine 7 is released. FreeBSD is the only BSD for it I think. (via)
- Suyimazu – Wine-based Game Launcher for FreeBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails With ZFS and VNET. (via)
- Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD.
- LLDB FreeBSD kernel debugging support summary.
- Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant.
- OpenBSD on the PinePhone. (via)
- BSD based solutions virtualisation/clustering of resources for VMs.
- LibreSSL update.
I only just read about it, so if you hurry you can get into the happening-now GhostBSD meetup on Jitsi.
This week’s BSD Now leads off with a toolchain name but actually starts listing all the FreeBSD Foundation year-end summaries that came out recently. Plus more links.
SEMIBUG’s January talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, and it’s tonight, 7 PM Detroit time. There’s some AV-on-OpenBSD notes that go with it.
That BBS link is possibly going to eat a zillion hours of your life. Fair warning.
- Programming in 1987 Versus Today. (via)
- late 1980s Czech video games. (via)
- The Best Comics of 2021.
- Cursed. It gets worse the longer you look at it.
- Haiku Contract Report: December 2021. Linked cause I am unsure if X11 compatibility is good or bad for an ecosystem.
- World’s First Single Chip Apple II Boots. (via)
- Public libraries are better than Google. Sounds reactionary, but I just realized my last 3 real work conundrums were solved by library books. (via)
- BBSing in the Snow Is the Best Way to Login.
- which led me to the Telnet BBS Guide.
- CathodeTV, like time travel to late night US TV circa 1979. (via)
Catching up on some items I missed last week.
- Packet Scheduling with Dummnynet and FreeBSD.
- The important Unix idea of the “virtual filesystem switch”.
- A big PostgreSQL upgrade.
- Some ways to implement /dev/fd in Unix kernels.
- Video: Q&A. About all the mostly-BSD hacking joshua stein does.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2021Q4 branch. (via)
- The BulkTracker Outage.
- GhostBSD 0nline Meetup, January 21st.
- Valuable News – 2022/01/10.
- LLDB FreeBSD live kernel debugging support.
- Minecraft 1.18.1 and latest MultiMC.
This week’s BSD Now talks about package auditing, of course, and a old software bug, and also there is last week’s BSD Now, Unix Standards Battle, which I forgot to link to last week.
It may be because I am a nerd but I enjoy reading detailed explanations of bugfixes like this one for HAMMER2. This fix is present in the 6.2 release, of course.
If you have a newly installed Firefox on a newly installed DragonFly system, you might be unable to load your Firefox account on first load, like in this screenshot. A workaround is to load your profile on a different machine and copy it over. My guess is permissions for profile creation, but that’s just a guess.
But wait, you say, what about 6.2.0? I performed my biyearly tagging error and screwed up the 6.2.0 tag, so we’re releasing with 6.2.1. On the plus side, this last minute redo let two bug fixes creep in that would have been in a later 6.2.1 anyway. This will be your first chance to try NVMM/Qemu support if you follow releases and not bleeding edge.
The release notes have the details, including the new, improved build process, and a link to the surprisingly-large list of all the changes and closed bugs.
Mini-theme this week: small hardware projects.
- Casio watch + ARM.
- RPG Maker: History & Games. (via)
- Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects. Cause then someone else owns your conversation, and the conversation is part of the project.
- Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain.
- TinyNES: An open hardware NES using the original 6502-derived chips. It’s cute! (via)
- Get Your Classic Macintosh Online & More! RaSCSI Review and Tutorial. Also aggressively cute! (via)
- 202?
- Open Source Security Process Wishlist.
- Stampadia, print and play roguelike. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2020: Scents & Semiosis. This is the last game in the series, and here’s a post about what’s next.
- The Gift of It’s Your Problem Now. I don’t agree with the political analogy, but there are good points.
- On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV.
End-of-year articles I am just catching up to now.
- The Tao of tmux (2017). Linked cause it nicely mentions configuration on BSD but also because it’s super-comprehensive. (via)
- Active Directory Needs Friends! A continuation from a previous AD-on-BSD article.
- SEMIBUG’s January 18 talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, who has cowritten several books about it.
- FreeBSD Foundation 2022 Call for Proposals.
- Toolchains adventures – Q4 2021.
- TrueCommand 2.1 is out.
- OpenBSD Webzine #6.
- Adventures in BSD parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. (via)
- Valuable News – 2022/01/03.
Not today, but for future Fridays: eat lunch with NYCBUG. Say something if you can attend.
Update: I misinterpreted, I thought it was reoccurring weekly starting next week, but it happened today. I was working and couldn’t get to it. I think it’s the equivalent meeting for this month, instead. Somebody from NYCBUG set me straight if I’m still wrong.
Posting this early cause it happens before the regular In Other BSDs post: You can eat lunch virtually with NYCBUG members this Friday, 1-2PM EST.
If you have a WhiskeyLake Intel CPU, the i915 driver on DragonFly now recognizes it for hardware acceleration. This will be in the upcoming release.
I tagged DragonFly 6.2, and I’m planning for release later this week. Release notes and ISO/IMGs to come with the release, as usual.
I almost scheduled this post for 2021/01/02.
- Zolatron 64 – first PCBs. I like that while the common market for processors is unfortunately only Intel or Apple, small-scale new platforms have become possible on a relatively trivial budget. (via)
- Make ping audible. Turn up the volume and you can tell when you plug in the correct cable in another room.
- Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright. I am sympathetic but it confuses work-for-hire terms with copyright.
- Welcoming Recorded Music to the Public Domain. Speaking of copyright…
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2019: A.I. Dungeon. The penultimate chapter.
- Monitoring the vintage server room (and reverse-engineering USB sensors). I need to set up some temperature sensors too.
- Embarrassing product names created: Windows CE.
- Introduction to the Sam Text Editor. Your non-Emacs/non-vi link of the day. (via)
- Software can just never be done it seems.
- mkrl/misbrands: The world’s most hated IT stickers. The original misconception, 20 years old. I hate this, I love this. (via)
- A followup: I went back to the Ether device I linked a few weeks ago; it seems worth buying just because it’s so different. Following links to stores that sell it took me down a rabbit hole of analog interfaces on audio equipment. Note that every store “sells” with a shot of the dials, cause it’s so fun to see.