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.
New year, new links!
- Cool, but obscure X11 tools. xterm is really the gold standard. Linked under BSD cause vermaden’s BSD-compatible comments on the source link are useful. (via)
- HardenedBSD December 2021 Status Report.
- Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4). (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/12/27.
- How to upgrade Linux to FreeBSD remotely via SSH. I like the choice of words. (via)
- 2021 Year End Fundraising Report. Multiple employees! (FreeBSD Foundation)
- 2021 in Review: Software Development, same place.
- Getting XFCE Global Menu working on OpenBSD. Might apply to other BSDs too, I dunno.
No pun for a title, but it’s a good description: BSD Now has an interview of Solene Rapenne, who I’ve linked to about a zillion times in the In Other BSDs posts.
If you have a NVMe disk that happens to let’s say report inaccurate capabilities (i.e. lie cause it was built cheap), the NVMe driver in DragonFly can now attempt to survive the surprise.
CBSD, the virtualization-management-on-FreeBSD tool could be made to support DragonFly and NVMM. Here’s a tracking issue for it.
DragonFly and Hyper-V’s virtual disk support do not appear to co-operate well, according to this bug report. Anyone have a Hyper-V host where they can confirm?
I am definitely doing very much nothing today.
- Bandcamp: The Chaos Bazaar. Very in-depth analysis of the different business models between Bandcamp and Spotify. Also: Bandcamp may be the biggest physical music media seller in the world? (via)
- Searzall Pro. I have the original and it works great, so here’s your chance to get a rather unique device. The creators have a podcast which I enjoy in part because unlike many podcasts they talk fast enough.
- 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday. (via)
- The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine. Have I linked to that hardware before?
- ElitePetite.
- A followup on the open source creators photos I think I linked to at some point.
- Zala Vacha.
- thewebisfucked.com. (via)
- Scoundrel of the Year. It’s the lack of imagination that bothers me. (via many places)
- Summary of “Unix Administration Horror Stories” thread. (via)
- Might and Magic, a history.
- NextSpace: NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux. (via)
- GameDev News for 15 December 2021. Linked for the links; lots to read from there.
Your unrelated music for the week: The Best Beat Tapes of 2021.
Merry Christmas! I am probably opening presents or poking my children to wake up and open presents hurry hurry, as you read this.
- helloSystem 0.7 is out.
- FreeBSD, Jails and SYSV IPC. (via)
- FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Advocacy.
- FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Infrastructure Support.
- FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2021 Status Update. Foundation, not Project.
- OpenVPN on OpenBSD in its own rdomain to prevent data leak.
- [talk] Linux Compat on FreeBSD. A tip for better compatibility.
- OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2.
- Persistency management of memory based filesystem on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/12/20.
- SSH Agent Restriction.
- Clang upgraded to version 13. (OpenBSD)
The holiday puns continue with BSD Now doing a reverse interview of the hosts.
Longtime readers won’t be surprised by any of the content, but there’s a DragonFly overview at MakeUseOf.
It’s on Jitsi so you can totally attend. The announcement also mentions the next three months of presentations and who’s coming in to present. There’s some good (not necessarily BSD) content on the way.