This week’s BSD Now talks about the usual hardware, but also gets into the recently announced Allen K. Briggs scholarship.
Aaron LI has ported timeout(1) to DragonFly. It’s a way to run a command with a time limit, and I’m happy to say it is a cross-BSD item, coming from NetBSD by way of FreeBSD.
It’s online, so everyone can go to “Chatting About TLS and Orcs, by Michael W. Lucas“, tomorrow night. I’m putting this reminder the day before because you have to mail rsvp@lists.nycbug.org to get the Zoom invite.
I’m doing a catch-up post here to note all the smaller updates, some cross-BSD, that have gone into DragonFly in the last week or two: openresolv 3.12.0, dhcpcd 9.4.0, tzdata2020f, 802.11 channel definitions, stdbuf(1) and libstdbuf(3), sockaddr_snprintf(), and getaddrinfo(1).
End of year reviews are showing up; probably more next week.
- Core Dump Central. Versions of rogue, plus online!
- Unboxing the best gift of 1983: the Commodore SX-64.
- Cabinet Magazine finally has an RSS feed.
- Digitizing 14,000 woodblocks, a webinar. (via)
- And here’s the woodblocks, free to download.
- Fictional videogame stills. (also via)
- Managing my personal server in 2020. Not BSD but much, maybe all of it, translates. (via sorry I lost track)
- Hopefully XScreenSaver can’t crash your car.
- The Complete History Of First-Person Shooters. Linked cause the author is someone I remember reading 20 years ago. (via)
- Séamas O’Reilly’s Bumper Comics Of The Year 2020 Extravaganza. That what used to just be Vertigo has shown up in many comics.(via)
- Systems with JT, “first impression reviews of amateur operating systems”. (via)
- Life at 50. Life the game.
Your unrelated video of the week: Throat Notes, from the same person who did Double King.
I am happy to be in the new year.
- Most important this week: Chatting About TLS and Orcs, an online NYCBUG speaker event with Michael W. Lucas. RSVP so you can see.
- On the way to the first thousand BSD-powered computers in the hardware database.
- BSD Games for Linux. (via)
- Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE.
- Starting with FreeBSD jails.
- A potted history of UNIX, just up to BSD. (via)
- The FreeBSD 92. Nakatomi Socrates BSD Easter Egg. Followup from last week’s link. (Thanks, D. Ebdrup.)
- The world’s chunkiest card reader.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/28.
- Use Android USB Tethering to Get Internet on FreeBSD. (via)
- It feels like the broad Unix API is being used less these days.
- A Big Sur look for WindowMaker on OpenBSD.
You can’t tell directly from the commit message, but committing to DragonFly may trigger a reminder to MFC, based on commit message content. This is thanks to Aaron LI. It’s little, but this sort of automation is a good idea.
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date. Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.
Aaron LI’s added a pw-update.sh script to DragonFly, for use in automating group and user changes, especially as – someday – part of a binary upgrade.
So, if you find yourself in possession of an ADM-3A terminal, and want to attach it to a DragonFly machine, here is the /etc/ttys config (viewed on the ADM-3A itself of course) and the front switch settings that worked for me.
Remember, ^h deletes.
As in, right now, and online, so join in and say hi.
Thanks to liweitianux, the mirrors page on the DragonFly site has been updated. Check again to see if there’s a mirror near you, if you haven’t looked recently.
If you remember HAMMER1’s ability to create a volume that spanned multiple local disks, that capability’s been introduced to HAMMER2. Look at the commit message to see how it works so far.
Note that this is not multi-master replication.
I haven’t had many posts this past week because of a mix of work then holidays. but there’s always Lazy Reading.
- My favorite essays of life advice.
- Lode Runner.
- “just don’t use any non-essential cookies“
- Cemetery of Soviet computers. Gotta reinstall STALKER. (via)
- “Tell me you work in tech without telling me you work in tech.” (via)
- Social shell games.
- Web Conversation From the Other Side. Followup from last week.
- A Book Like Foo: Powerful Book Recommendations. (via)
- Smalltalk Zoo: Stories and simulations around the evolution of Smalltalk. (via)
- Christmas Demos.
- Repairing and bootstrapping an IBM 5170 PC/AT, part 1 and part 2.
- New Montague Portal novel: “Drinking Heavy Water”.
Lots of history this week.
- Nakatomi Socrates BSD.
- FreeBSD src now in git. (via)
- Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via)
- The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via)
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via)
- Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship.
- Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/21.
- Youtube Install Video for MidnightBSD.
- Managing Jails with Ansible: A showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD. (via)
- LimeSuiteSDR is now ported to FreeBSD. (via)
- X86 bsd router suggestions.
There’s an Q&A session for this week’s BSD Now. I haven’t looked carefully enough to see if this is the last for the year, but there’s some fun what-are-you-running-at-home material in there.
DRM in DragonFly has been updated to match Linux 4.15.18, along with recognizing some new hardware.
This week’s links are all fun, but you had better have some time to read.
- The Nethack story of Sery the tourist and Sery on the 7th floor.
- Concentrichron. (via)
- MAX HEADROOM 10\u0027 4\” Two levels of ironic there.
- The Making of Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600. (via)
- XScreenSaver 5.45 is out. New hacks, frustrating stories.
- The Be Book…in lovely HTML. (via)
- Web Conversations With the Year 2000. (via)
- Music Video Roundup. From arguably the golden age of music videos.
- Rick Priestley Uses This.
- What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway? Begs the question, but the details of building a 6-key Braille keyboard are neat.
- Precursor’s Mechanical Design. “Single-crystal diamond milling”.
- Winners of the 2020 IFComp. (via)
Your unrelated music of the week: Shimmer, Then Disappear.
Working on less traditional BSD links here.
- Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions.
- Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week.
- BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via)
- BSD Discord server. More linked in comments.
- Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific.
- There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly.
- CentOS killed by IBM – a chance to go new ways?
- Set your favorite pager.
- OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus.
- OPNsense 20.7.7 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/12/14.
This week’s BSD Now talks about shell history, Plan 9, and new-to-me ArisbluBSD, so it should be fun.