If you have UEFI hardware, there’s been an update in DragonFly of the TianoCore EDK II headers. If you are like me, you will find the tianocore.org site helps to understand what this is for.
Hardware as the informal theme this week.
- Browse Minimally. You know what I like most about lynx or links? Lack of side effects.
- Ditch the Thinkpad, Save the Keyboard.
- Pulse Motor Runs on Wacky Power Sources. Potato.
- PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000. As the page says, “ultra-rare”. (Thanks, Erik Blomberg)
- Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990. (via)
- Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America. Free ebook for the next month; lots of history in there. (via)
- The tz database vs astrological records. Not really “versus”, but strange to think how exacting this nonscience can be.
- The Shareware Scene, Part 4: DOOM. I remember this. Seismic!
- The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH.
- Structuring and Formatting Your Plain Text Files (Without a Markup Language)
- How to use tmux to create a multi-pane Linux terminal window. Does not have to be Linux, of course.
- The Lovecraftian Bundle.
Remember, BSDCan 2020 is still streaming if you read this early enough.
- Understanding How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe.
- BastilleBSD Template updates. (via)
- Bringing FreeBSD to EC2 with Colin Percival. A long and worthwhile story, on a non-BSDpodcast. (via)
- The FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey.
- Peeking inside executables and libraries to make debugging easier. Applies to BSD as it says.
- Some new fnaify-supported games.
- Custom tab completions in oksh.
- VAX port needs help.
- FreeBSD 11.4 RC2 available.
- My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390. I’ve had good luck with that series.
- Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
- Valuable News – 2020/06/01.
- BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction.
BSDCan 2020 is being streamed right now and tomorrow, with all talks available.
This week’s BSD Now has the most exciting title I’ve heard in some time, related to the type of disk being used in one of the stories. This week is mostly installation tales, really.
If you’re looking to use jails, there’s been a brief discussion about them on users@, which will be useful if you want to install packages or figure out how the loopback address works.
DragonFly’s patch(1) is now at 2.0-12u11. I mention this not because it’s a dramatic change but because it’s a basic tool. Also, a benefit from our new committer.
This week’s Lazy Reading supported, kindly, by Tse Gratis volunteering a bunch of links.
- OpenVMS: Rollout of V9.0 and Beyond. Still going? (via)
- Compiling for the Z-machine version 3.
- <blink>
- What sort of SSH keys our users use or have listed in their authorized keys files. An anthropological survey, in a way.
- Big Box Collection. Software boxes. (via)
- Buy Your Own Nuclear Reactor Control System. (via)
- Obscure PDFs. Surely there are gems in here. (via)
- Like for instance “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:
The Unix Legacy“. By Rob Pike in 2001. - Roam Research.
- Desk setup from the guy who created i3. (via)
- How I would put voice control in everything. Sensible! (via)
- History of UNIX Manpages. (via)
- The Tse Gratis section:
Something that makes me happy: Vermaden’s Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now.
- Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via)
- BSD Hardware – Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via)
- Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis.
- OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs. (via)
- Podcast interview on SNMP. Ostensibly about SNMP, but involves BSD people.
- NetBSD used to default to csh.
- Netatalk3 Mac file sharing on NetBSD.
- Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full. Linked cause I can never remember the right ifconfig syntax for a bridge.
- EXAPUNKS and Opus Magnum on OpenBSD.
- OPNsense 20.1.7 released.
- Valuable News – 2020/05/25.
This week’s BSD Now links to a bunch of what I call ‘resource’ articles, things that tell you how to do things and use stuff. It’s good reading if you have the time.
Updates to third-party utilities happen often in DragonFly, and I don’t often link because they may not affect users much – but I’m noting a change to xargs(1) cause given what xargs does, any mistake you make will be repeated many times.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, wpa_supplicant(8) in DragonFly jumped from version 2.1 to 2.9. There’s a nice changelog for the curious.
It’s rare, but I was able to collect most of these links more than 24 hours before you are reading them.
- Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC.
- The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The Statists. Minitel!
- The Internet’s Many Branches.
- Roguelike Celebration is going to happen! (virtually) Plus there’s a call for papers.
- PRINTING PRESSES ARE GIANT GPUS. (via)
- New book: “Cash Flow for Creators”. If you are working anything but a corporate job ever, this will have value for you.
- The Deprecated *nix API. (via)
- When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery. (via)
- Announcing the Second Edition of Learning Markdown.
- Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D. (via)
- Hagoromo chalks, progress & Vim. (via I lost it, sorry)
- Desperate Pleas for Nothing. I get at least one of these every week.
- C&C open sourced. (via)
For once I started on these early in the week.
- Savaged by systemd, now available as an audiobook.
- OpenBSD in a laptop, part 1 and part 2. (via, via)
- FreeBSD and Google Season of Docs.
- WireGuard on FreeBSD Quick Look: Testing VPN in Jail Network. (via)
- Beautiful background pictures on OpenBSD.
- Communauté OpenBSD française.
- Valuable News – 2020/05/18.
- Hexen II (Co-op) – PlayOnBSD.
- BSD Weekly issue 20.
- Installation images renamed from .fs to .img. OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD 6.7 Released.
- Setting Up Windows iSCSI Block Shares on TrueNAS & FreeNAS.
- Even online, BSDCan 2020 needs volunteers.
- First seed for OpenBSD/powerpc64 planted by kettenis@. How plentiful is this architecture these days?
BSD Now covers this week’s OpenBSD release, along with other topics. I’ll point out the “FreeNAS Spare Parts Build” since everyone does that sooner or later.
Thanks to Aaron LI and Daniel Fojt, libpcap and tcpdump in DragonFly have been updated. The vendor does The Right Thing and provides easy-to-find changelogs for both.
Martin Ivanov has completed his multiboot + DragonFly tutorial. You can read his users@ post on it now, though it should show up in dragonflybsd.org documentation soon.
No theme, cause I’m nicely spread out this week over topics.
- Historical rediscovery: Zarf’s Old Time Religion search.
- The Shareware Scene series: Part 1: The Pioneers, Part 2: The Question of Games, and Part 3: The id Boys.
- Recruiter Spam. I am quite familiar with this. (via)
- The Adventurer-Dense to Adventurer-Sparse Spectrum: Vance to Tolkien. I have several Vance books out from the library I want to get through.
- Zork 1977 Source Code Released. Linking late to this cause I wanted a good analysis, not just a link like most people had.
- Atom Adventures (1981). Linking cause the screenshots and map make me nostalgic, even though I never had that game or even architecture.
- Feynman videos.
- Ways of Seeing, which I am surprised I have not linked before.
- Bible + D&D.
- Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY. (via multiple)
- A minimal .vimrc.
- The FLOPKEY, possibly the slowest keyboard ever. (via)
- My New Old Apple IIe Computer. Oh, what a lucky guy. (via)
- ReActiveMicro. Found via previous story.
- Regular Expressions for Regular Folk. (via)
- jrnl – the command line journal. (via)
- “gundial“.