binutils and ld in DragonFly have been set to binutils234 and ld.bfd temporarily, for what appears to be work with the EFI bootloader. This should not make a difference for normal use; rebuilding binaries will give you different results but they’ll run.
Change your clocks, depending on what time zone you are in.
- Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User.
- I did not realize org mode has its own website. (via)
- a truly naked, brutalist html quine. (via)
- Bookmark alignment chart. (scroll to end)
- What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It? (via)
- List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools. (via)
- Results from 20 years of experiments summarized. Food experiments, done by a scientist. (via)
- Writing a Book with Unix. (via)
- Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers.
- Telemelt, group console playing simulator. (via)
- I Solved British Square.
- Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public.
- Stereoscopic computing: converting Quake and Doom.
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really.
- Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via)
- The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via)
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via)
- Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via)
- History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via)
- Lenovo T420 FreeBSD Tweaks. Still valid; hardware still exists. (via)
- Automating OpenBSD Vultr VM deployment with Ansible. (via)
- Default OpenBSD Web Server. Out on GitHub, not within the main repo? (via)
- How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built.
- Port of the week: rclone.
- OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD 12.2 is out.
- Realtek RTL8188CUS – USB 802.11n WiFi Review.
- OPNSense 20.7.4 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/26.
- BSD hardware trends. (via)
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Porting OpenBSD’s diff(1).
cpdup(1) will now exactly recreate symlinks. That may be helpful for your backup strategy if it already involves cpdup.
This week’s BSD Now is all about releases – OpenBSD, NetBSD, BastilleBSD…
Well, it doesn’t fix anything, but it seems like an answer that almost always helps: running sysmouse usually fixes most X11 mouse problems.
You can now use compilers.conf(5) to switch to clang10/llvm10 for building Dragonfly. Untested yet!
Two shopping months until Christmas!
- I’ll take “problems we solved correctly in the 80s” for $100, Alex.
- Come Internet With Me: Zettelkasten method.
- Building a computer in Conway’s game of life. (via)
- MONOSPACE, less than 1kb of code. (via)
- archive.assembly.org, so many short films, related to the last link.
- The HTML5 accelerator card.
- Basic Unix Tools – dd.
- Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor. (via)
- Replacing FreshRSS With Miniflux. (via)
- SSH 2FA with Google Authenticator and Yubikey. (via)
- 2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read. i.e. USENET. (via)
- introducing the i.webthings directory. Find some spare time before following that link; there’s a lot there.
It’s apparently release week?
- Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via)
- BSDCan 2021 is canceled.
- NetBSD 9.1 released.
- OpenBSD 6.8 Released.
- REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer.
- TrueNAS 12.0 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/19.
- FreeBSD Q3 2020 report.
- FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track.
- Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD.
- how to play celeste with sound—sort of. AKA getting fmod to play on a BSD.
- People asking about FreeBSD licencing.
- OpenBSD 6.8 introduces a new hardware database client program.
- Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!
This is the most straightforwardly-named BSD Now in a while: it’s an interview of Kyle Evans talking about his projects in FreeBSD.
This seems so minor, but such a good idea: a regular check to make sure kernel and userland are in sync.
Daniel Fojt’s updated libedit in DragonFly; not huge, but I mention it cause I’ve seen the very first bug fixed in the commit listing; garbled history.
Matthew Dillon added “existence locks” to DragonFly, which as usual he committed with a long, descriptive message.
Some esoteric gems this week.
- Derek Muller’s video on Penrose Tilings. One of those useful patterns to name, like Markov chains.
- B3 Biennale – Panel on computer game history of the Eastern Bloc.
- Something to think about: the longest-running computer ever built is also the farthest away.
- FTP Fadeout.
- SAILDART, an e-book. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Dump and Restore Tape Program, which gives you an idea of the history it covers. (via)
- Developing Multitile Creatures in Roguelikes. That… is a problem that sorta upends some basic assumptions.
- “More Lively Counterfaits” Experimental Imaging at the Birth of Modern Science.
- Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader.
- Oxide Computer Company. Building their own computer, plus their blog has neat logo entries and podcast talks. (via)
- System 6 programming, by joshua stein. I just like seeing a fat mac in use.
- Super Merryo Trolls or An Adventure From The Days Before VRAM. (via)
This list of links runs in the same order of the BSD RSS feeds in my reader. What a coincidence!
- pkgsrc-2020Q3 released.
- The FreeBSD Town Hall was Wednesday and I didn’t post about it in time, but previous Town Halls are available.
- Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/10/12.
- OpenBSD Laptop. (via)
- Cryptographic Signing using
ssh-keygen(1)with a FIDO Authenticator. - RETGUARD for powerpc and powerpc64 added to -current.
- How to open source: going from NetBSD to Linux.
- Michael W. Lucas is having a book sale.
There’s now -K (kernel) and -U (user env) options to uname. Minor, but good to know the change.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual roundup, with I think the highlight being a discussion of how SSDs can sometimes still not be fast enough for a ZFS scrub, depending on how it’s scheduled.
The ChiBUG monthly meeting has gone virtual, so go now if you are interested. The thread about it also includes some notes on how to connect under BSD that may be useful beyond this immediate event.
I always thought of cross-pollination – sharing of code between BSDs – as a good thing. This seems like the most basic way to do that: same base sh.
I guess history is a micro-theme?
- Think Twice Dice. (via)
- Happy Birthday, Ethernet. Still interoperable, 40 years later. (via)
- How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU with our home-built C compiler. Sorta UNIX. (via)
- “Myst” demake for Apple II. (via)
- Ars Electronic 2017. Follow the art links.
- Spamtoberfest.
- Related, Hacktoberfest needs to stop.
- IFComp 2020 games are up.
- Transport Tycoon.
- New Object Storage Protocol Could Mean the End for POSIX. (thanks, Matthew C)
- Retry Mock Toys, Or, model rockets are fun.
- The Digital Future of Tabletop Games. (via)
- Dispatch 09 — Synthetic Reality & The Metaverse. (also via)
- A Nixie Tube Watch. Exactly as clunky as it sounds.
- Welcome to your Bland. (via)