You can now create FAT volumes on DragonFly. Not exactly high-tech, but a filesystem that most anything can read and write.
All over the place this week.
- Arthur-PC – a HD64180 based computer. Hardcore.
- ADOBE SUCKS (SCROTUM). Adobe product alternatives. Bookmark it cause you won’t remember the URL and searching for the phrase… Well, guess. (via)
- 8BIT, a documentary. (via)
- Useful Unknown Websites, Reddit, and Useful Unknown Websites, MetaFilter. (partially via)
- SheepFilms. (via)
- L0phtCrack. A name from the past. (via)
- The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated. (via)
- Stephen Bourne: Early days of Unix and design of sh. (via)
- Tune Tracker Command Center. Haiku under the hood. (via)
- Hypertext tools from the 80s. Good followup links at the end too. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2010: Digital: A Love Story.
- “unexpected hunter activity“
- What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer.
- ScummVM is 20, and I don’t even know all the games it supports. (via)
Live in-person meetings are happening, slowly, finally.
- Register Today for the November 2021 FreeBSD Vendor Summit.
- How BSD Authentication Works. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/10/19.
- Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment.
- Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD.
- Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System.
- Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. Software and hardware.
- FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh. Muscle-memory issues may get you. (via)
- Open Source Summit 2021 Conference Recap. Live people?!
- FreeBSD Foundation October 2021 Fundraising Update.
- The State of Gaming on OpenBSD in 2022. Stick with it.
- One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower.
- GhostBSD 21.10.16 ISO is now available.
- Experimenting with a new OpenBSD development lab.
- Story of making the OpenBSD Webzine. (There’s 2 issues so far)
This has been a good week for BSD releases, hasn’t it? This week’s BSDNow gets into RISC-V, too.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.
Mini-theme: old hardware or new terminals, you pick.
- Tim Van Damme Uses This. More detail on keyboard setup than I expected.
- The 100 MHz 6502. (via)
- Mac SE/30 odyssey. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.02 out now.
- Writing a simple arcade game in Lisp. (via)
- Warp Terminal Emulator Review. Linked mostly to show how the shell/terminal is still evolving. (via)
- The Return of the Unix Shell. Related to previous idea. (via)
- The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists. (via)
- Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners to :Quit. (via)
- Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 1.3 released. Mostly linked for the name. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2008: Violet and 2009: Fallen London.
Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases.
- Automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates in Apache with mod_md.
- FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user. (via)
- FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup.
- NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen.
- MATE 1.26.0 upgrade ready. (GhostBSD)
- Valuable News – 2021/10/11.
- OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released.
- OpenBSD 7.0 released.
This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.
SLUUG, which has the best acronym, meets tonight at 6ish PM Central time on Zoom.
6.0.1 is tagged and available. The major reason for this update is an expired Let’s Encrypt certificate that would cause problems when downloading dpkg binaries. A list of 6.0.1 commits is available.
I recommend the usual rebuild process mentioned on the 6.0 release notes:
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgradeDon’t forget to update your packages with ‘pkg upgrade’.
I managed to miss it last week, but last week’s BSD Now talks about NetFlix’s usage of FreeBSD to serve a ridiculous amount of data, among other things.
UNIX history for the mini-theme this week.
- Keyboard hacks for microwave ovens. (via)
- Raspberry Pi SDR Cyberdeck.
- Pong from the inside. (via)
- multizork. (via)
- André Arko Uses This.
- Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century. (via)
- DOS Subsystem for Linux. Why why whywhywhywhy? (via)
- Wizards and warriors, part five. (via)
- Graphic Design History Resources. (via)
- LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks. (via)
- Stanley Kubrick liked UNIX. (via)
- Our New Infrastructure.
- Dali Clock on the TRS-80 CoCo.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2007: El museo de las consciencias; Lieux communs.
- Shiner ESB, an Apple Network Server prototype, and what it did at Netscape/MCom.
Your unrelated animation of the week: Cyriak Animator Pro.
It is status report season!
- ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
- OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
- Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
- pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via)
- What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD. Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
- HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports. (via)
- The OpenBSD Webzine. (via)
- Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
- Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
- HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
- GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
- Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
- Valuable News – 2021/10/04.
If you have encountered that problem with Let’s Encrypt and dports, the fix is committed and a make world is needed.
If libvirt running with nvmm on DragonFly interests you, watch this bug report.
This is a good week for variety.
- The original Utah Teapot, which you’ve surely seen.
- Myst (2020). I forget that the original was Hypercard.
- A plenitude of alchemical domains. Linked for flowcharts.
- Log, a robotic abacus of life.
- Bespoke Synth. (via)
- Vintage Ad Browser and Cover Browser. (via)
- No one can be told what the cookie policy is. You have to see it for yourself.
- Ten Days of Steve Ditko. (via)
- Rewilding Your Attention. Of course I agree. (via)
- The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony.
- How to write a text editor for a 31 year old computer. (via)
- The code worked differently when the moon was full. (via)
- musikcube, a terminal music player and library manager. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2006: Dwarf Fortress. Yes.
Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.
- pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
- SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
- Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
- Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
- Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
- Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
- Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
- RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.
This week’s BSD Now is entirely an interview of Brian Callahan.