Justin Sherrill – Page 51 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2020/05/162020/05/15

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/16

We need a “BSD Games” site.

2020/05/14

BSD Now 350: Speedy Bridges

This week’s BSD Now is about half an hour of mostly FreeBSD items, though there is one feedback link of interest to any newer Lenovo laptop users.

2020/05/13

A daemon(8) listens

You can now use newsyslog(8) to rotate logs being written by daemon(8), thanks to this commit from Peeter Must.

2020/05/12

tcplay(8) updated

tcplay(8) in DragonFly jumped from 2.0 to 3.3. This will be most relevant to you if you encrypt your disks. It’s nice to see DragonFly mentioned specifically on the GitHub source site.

2020/05/11

Automatic tmpfs for /var/run, on DragonFly

This thread on having a tmpfs /var/run led to this commit, making it as easy as setting a rc.conf variable.

2020/05/102020/05/09

Lazy Reading for 2020/05/10

Emacs and Vim content; I feel like I should always have one with the other.

Tiny arcade stuffed in an NES controller.
Text Radio: Realtime written interviews hosted in Google Docs. (via)
Making Emacs popular again. (via)
Termshark: a terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark. (via)
An emotional trip to the 80’s: Developing Games for the Speccy. (via)
The story behind Cryo and Westwood’s 16-bit Dune games. There’s a lot of period-specific imagery in that link that’s fun to look at. (via)
Vim as a Markdown Editor. (via)
Film restored from 1888. (via)
Synth links at things magazine.
I Turned a 1920’s Typewriter into an EDM Drum Machine. (via)
Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks. (via)
90 Days With The Pinebook Pro. (via)
SSH Tunnel – Local, Remote and Dynamic Port Forwarding. (via)
We are complicit in our employer’s deeds.
Text Adventures. (via)
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases. (via)
Bug Stories. (via)
The case of the mysterious –help directory.
Library JSON – A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads and
Related: TRACKING READING.

2020/05/092020/05/09

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/09

Good mix of history and current BSDs this week.

FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!”
Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via)
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability. More BSD history, or prehistory. (via)
You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
NetBSD Core Team Changes.
HamBSD Development Log 2020-05-07. (via)
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2).
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects. (NetBSD)
Enable firefox dark mode.
Valuable News – 2020/05/04.
Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD. I am intrigued by the “Let’s Note” laptops mentioned.
Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault.
Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD. (via)
What OSes we use here (as of May 2020).
OpenBSD ksh port for macOS and Linux. (via)
Time on Unix. (via)
Munching Squares. PDP-7, so pre-BSD, pre-UNIX?
virtualization in windows.

2020/05/082020/05/07

De-dupe bug details

The recent 5.8.1 release of DragonFly includes, among other things, a fix for a de-duplication bug in HAMMER2. If you are curious, here’s the commit / details.

2020/05/07

BSD Now 349: Entropy Overhaul

This week’s BSD Now is all FreeBSD and NetBSD news items – go read/listen; I have no special items to pick out but it’s all enjoyable.

2020/05/06

DragonFly 5.8 1 released

DragonFly 5.8.1 is released, a bugfix update for 5.8.0. The release tag commit has the list of changes, or you can go right to the release page. My users@ post has upgrade instructions.

2020/05/05

More misc debug tools

There’s a couple more small test/debug tools in DragonFly; possibly only useful if you like to poke at internals, but who doesn’t, really?

2020/05/04

dsynth and ccache

You can now use ccache to speed up dsynth even more.

2020/05/032020/05/02

Lazy Reading for 2020/05/03

Apple ][ theme this week, barely.

Shell productivity tips and tricks. (via)
Drawn.ca, back again.
The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle. SMR sounds bad.
Read man pages with vim.
ARM-ed Mac: We Have An Answer.
What’s your favorite terminal command ?
More about Sir Thomas Urquhart.
SSH hacks | a little sanity for remote workers. (via)
Apple //c Scene From ’80s Bond Film “A View to a Kill” Perfectly Re-Created With Applesoft BASIC.
War Stories: How Prince of Persia slew the Apple II’s memory limitations. There’s more in that series. (via)
And here’s Prince of Persia for you to play. (via)
Ten Years of Open Source Hardware. (via)
When Parallel: Pull, Don’t Push.
Pandoc links.
Understanding the Internet vs. Telephony. Intertwined but very different.
A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained.

2020/05/022020/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/02

Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here.

2020/05/01

Multiboot installation on DragonFly

Here’s a work in progress: Multiboot installs on DragonFly. Follow the thread for updates.

2020/04/30

BSD Now 348: BSD Community Collections

This week’s BSD Now has the normal links, but also shows off a “Open Source Retail Box Collection”, which is always fun to see – open source that reaches the shelf. Also: install stories!