If you have a UEFI system, efibootmgr(8) is now available.
It’s teeny models week. I am reaching outside my normal topics this week, too.
- Typology of LEGO Computers. (via)
- Last Pole, the remnant of an international network. (via)
- Tactical Computer Terminal. Probably super-heavy, too.
- Political Compasses in Odd Topologies. No, they don’t make sense, but I love graphs. (via)
- Old computers made of paper. (via)
- DIY Adafruit projects. (via)
- Power Outage. The PowerPC transition for Apple. Topical for the long-rumored ARM move.
- Haiku R1/beta2 has been released. Related to the processor discussion in that Power Outage article, through BeOS. (via)
- Interaction Design.
- Reclaiming Keynes. I am not necessarily Keynesian. (via)
- Algonuts. Peanuts via StyleGAN2. See the about page for a good discussion of what this sort of reproduction means. (also via)
- Exploded Fatmac.
- Bring That Beat Back, a book review. (via)
- An Occult Psychogeography of Hawksmoor’s London Churches. From Hell is one of the best comics ever, and I say that because of the artist. (via)
- Heck, most everything from Top Shelf is good.
- The Small Web. (via)
A relatively calm week.
- I was late and didn’t link to it before, so: BSD Now 355: Man Page Origins.
- National FreeBSD Day just happened. (via)
- FreeBSD 11.4 is out.
- .Xcompose tips. Not really BSD but that’s where you’d use it.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 21 – Configuration – Compton.
- Valuable News – 2020/06/15.
- System Shock on OpenBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD June 2020 Status Report.
- Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM. (via)
The serial port in DragonFly is now set by default to 115200, not 9600 as anyone over 40 probably has memorized (along with the numbers 640, 1024, and 4.3M).
shutdown(8) and reboot(8) have some changes, which I find entertaining: “harder to kill“.
DragonFly’s sysclock_t is now a 64-bit value. This is a dramatic change, but should be invisible to userland. Meaning, you don’t have to recompile world/update packages/etc. It’s interesting but not eventful.
The first version of HAMMER took automatic snapshots, set within the config for each filesystem. HAMMER2 now also takes automatic snapshots, via periodic(8) like most every repeating task on your DragonFly system.
Wide topic range, again.
- Pie Marches On, the best book about pie making I’ve ever read – and it’s about 80 years old.
- The Success and Failure of Ninja. (thanks, Tse Gratis)
- Google Code-In is finished. Summer of Code and Summer of Docs is still running.
- Remembering John Conway’s FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language. (via)
- Jagged Little Tapes. One of the few things VHS did well.
- Miniature cardboard synthesizers. (via)
- Why sysadmins don’t like changing things, illustrated.
- ADM-3A Dumb Terminal Home Automation Hub. “because why not?”
- The Symbolic Links Virtual Machine. (via)
- Wireless is a trap. I have come to agree with this.
I like having shorter link texts so they all line up, but sometimes it’s unavoidably descriptive.
- FreeBSD’s new Code of Conduct.
- Gaming on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD HEAD Binary Upgrades. (via bsdweekly)
- Install OpenBSD 6.7-current on a PineBook Pro 64. (via bsdweekly)
- TrueNAS is Multi-OS. My hot take is that this is a side effect of ZFS becoming commoditized.
- Speaking of which, ZFS: adding a drive back into the zpool.
- DRM update committed. It’s OpenBSD, so direct render, not digital rights.
- pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 Now Available.
- Valuable News – 2020/06/08. Argh, there’s ad popups on what is otherwise a very nice site.
- “Blood” (game) ported to NetBSD.
- Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port.
- Import DHCP reservations from Synology DHCP Server to OpenBSD dhcpd(8).
- OpenBSD 6.7 on PC Engines APU4D4.
BSD Now is out for this week; no specific theme but there is a link to something I didn’t know existed: the Scotland Open Source podcast.
HAMMER2 just became a little more DWIM: the pfs-list and pfs-delete directives will now look across all mounted filesystems, not just the current directory’s mount path. pfs-delete won’t delete any filesystem name that appears in more than one place, though.
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.