FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.
Thanks to Levente Kurusa and Aaron LI, pkill(1) now has a -T option, to limit the killed processes to the current terminal. It’s a minor change, but worth remarking cause if you are killing multiple processes, your muscle memory is going to take over.
I am not sure if these Radeon cards are tested on DragonFly, but it’s a good base to start from.
Double links is the sub-theme today.
- PLATO Adventure (1979). Adventure/Zork was everywhere.
- Plus an incomplete guide.
- Wing Commander III. The graphics have aged remarkably well.
- Lotus 1-2-3 at arbitrary terminal sizes. (via)
- Similar: Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one.
- Trainspotting, A story of trains, computers, and two images. (also via)
- And then: Mystery Solved.
- Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life. (via)
- My Life in E-ink. (via)
- Oh, the intellectual property rights you’ll extend. Copyright and the problems that come with its overextension. (via)
- Sorta related: Internet Archive Infrastructure, a video. (via)
- A Vim Guide for Advanced Users. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1980: MUD. Oh, it’s getting good.
- Over the weekend: Commodore 128DCR keyboard extension, updates to Be-Power. Linked to remind me to find a gopher client.
- TEXT ADVENTURES. A description of Twine. (via)
Literally tabs from my browser in order, here.
- “TLS Mastery” pre-order on my web store. Get the BSD cover of course.
- Quick-publishing of poudriere packages.
- Implement a «Command not found» handler in OpenBSD.
- DIY OpenBSD router advice.
- OPNsense 21.1.3 released.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/08.
- Easy spamAssassin with OpenSMTPD.
- The many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2.
- FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
- NomadBSD 1.4 released.
- My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. Lots of detail here if you are looking at a BSD laptop.
- GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13.
- FOSSASIA starts today.
I’d hope that a name like dRAID meant it was a DragonFly system, but no, as this BSD Now episode mentions it as a ZFS technology. Plus the normal news and a tool called ‘just’. Unfortunately ju.st is taken.
Prompted by this email, I’ll say if there’s a DragonFly code bounty that interests you, put your name on it. Payment is on completion.
I was sure I had posted a link to this before, but apparently not: “How to install DragonFly BSD 5.6.1 plus MATE and some aplications” (Youtube, via)
ChiBUG’s having a virtual meeting tomorrow night. Register now, especially if you want to hear what Paul Vixie has to say. (You should)
Long shot question: Are any of you in France and able to get this chocolate mold directly at a lower price? Valrhona doesn’t sell square molds into the US market.
- Just one more turn: Dragon’s Lair. A quarter eater, as I called it when that mattered.
- Laura Jedeed Uses This. Not your normal tech equipment descriptions.
- Split Keyboards Gallery. (via)
- Troubleshooting a Commodore 1541 disk drive.
- Retr0brighting my Commodore 128 keyboard.
- Strange chip: Teardown of a vintage IBM token ring controller. Linked for pictures as usual.
- Electronic Plastic, electronic games. (via)
- Link: Taking This Serially and also What signal a RJ-45 serial connection is (probably) missing.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1979: The Cave of Time.
- In Defense of Interactive Graphics. (via)
- XScreenSaver version 6 beta 2. Eh, also a BSD link.
- The Sound of Fractals & Photographs. Not an article about it, but actually the sound. (video, via)
- Mixdown’s Greatest Drum Machines Of All Time: Part One. There’s more past that. (via)
Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week.
- HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
- TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
- Old USENIX pictures.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
- OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
- OPNsense 21.1.2 released.
- Use innoextract to get game files from a GOG installer.
- FreshBSD relaunched. (via)
- OpenBSD – make sure wsconsctl is in sync with the kernel.
- MidnightBSD 2.0.5 released.
- Bastille on MidnightBSD.
- Related: HardenedBSD February 2021 Status Report.
- A comparison between mports and FreeBSD ports.
- LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed.
- Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
- dhcpleased(8) – DHCP client daemon. I’m going to read “please” in that every time.
- resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration.
- Introducing veb(4) – a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
- OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1.
- Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
- bhyve for Calamares Development.
- Port of the week: checkrestart.
New to me, at least, on the DragonFly images page.
This week’s BSD Now is almost all FreeBSD-related, with mention of something I haven’t investigated enough yet: helloSystem.
NYCBUG’s on Zoom, tonight at 18:45 eastern.
If you enjoy the weekend reading, or even the weekday posts, consider my Patreon. It’d be nice if it bought me some good coffee.
- The Public Domain Review’s Caption Contest.
- Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer. (video, via)
- Typographische Jahrbücher, 1902.
- What else hath God wrought? “lo”, one of my favorites. (via)
- 72 encounters from the City of Spires.
- Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step).
- History of the PDF format. (via)
- Stores for Commodore 128 components.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1977: Zork and 1978: Pirate Adventure.
- MacLynx beta 3 — really!
- The Plain Text Tools I Use (2021 Edition).
- Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program. Very much a transitional machine between early analog and modern.
- “Basic Computer Games“, an updated version of the book. (via)
Your unrelated to anything at all image of the week: Saskatchewan!
I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings.
- XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers.
- The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th.
- Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours.
- FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site.
- ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul Vixie.
- Port of the week: shapez.io – a libre factory game.
- Any MMOs I can play on openbsd?
- Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments.
- Valuable News – 2021/02/22.
- Next NYC*Bug: March 3rd Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia.
- pfSense: Obscure Bugs and Code Wizards.
- From Clean & Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) desktop.
This week’s BSD Now is a little sad about FreeBSD 13/i386 going to a less-supported platform, but there’s plenty of links to other stories.
LibreSSL in DragonFly has had a minor update, from 3.2.3 to 3.2.4, thanks to Daniel Fojt. It’s a bugfix update, but I’m using it as a chance to remind everyone you can use LibreSSL for everything in dports, too.
If you’re running on DragonFly master, make sure you are on the right version of bmake. If you are on 5.8, it won’t affect you.