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.
This thread on having a tmpfs /var/run led to this commit, making it as easy as setting a rc.conf variable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here.
- cx: A directory history utility written in C. Started on BSD. (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation – 500% if_bridge Performance Improvement. (via)
- Catch up 2020-04-30.
- Playing Counter-Strike (CSMoE) on OpenBSD ft. Zombie mod.
- OpenBSD as a primary target for a game development club? Dev + Gaming + OS Study.
- Playing Doom 3 co-op (librecoop mod) on OpenBSD.
- using zfs rollback for cache clearing.
- Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD.
- Building a WireGuard Jail with the FreeBSD’s Standard Tools.
- oxbar: configurable X11 status bar for OpenBSD. (via)
- Improving libossaudio, and the future of OSS in NetBSD.
- Valuable News – 2020/04/27.
- The Unix divide over who gets to chown things, and (disk space) quotas.
Here’s a work in progress: Multiboot installs on DragonFly. Follow the thread for updates.
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!
dhcpcd in DragonFly is updated to 9.0.2. This is a bugfix release, so no new features.
Another network fix: if you have an iwm(4) wireless Intel device, here’s how you get it to stop saying “no carrier”.
If you’ve got an urtwn(4) device (RealTek USB wireless), and you are getting errors on altq_maxlen, take a look at this solution.
A little short, I’m a little tired.
- Historical computer humor.
- 28mag, about Warhammer miniatures. (via)
- Structuring and Formatting Your Plain Text Files (Without a Markup Language).
- Setting up your own tilde club (unix).
- All of the Online Family Games. (via)
- I don’t quite understand this attack and Is this attack a case of “why not?”
- edwood, a “Go version of Plan9 Acme Editor”. Entertained by the name. (via)
- Two months with Powershell on a UNIX. (via)
- 98.css: A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs. (via)
- The Era of Fragmentation, Part 2: Sowing the Wasteland. Videotex!
Tab cleanout time!
- OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several)
- FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE.
- Valuable News – 2020/04/20.
- Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS.
- How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD.
- How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel.
- (lost the source links on those last few; sorry.)
- ‘“things to do” after you have FreeBSD installed‘.
- There’s a whole bunch of new jobs posted on the NYCBUG jobs@ list.
- Replacing existing Cisco ASA 5520 with pfSense HA Cluster.
- HardenedBSD April 2020 Status Report.
- EKCD – Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD.
- TrueNAS 11.3-U2 is Generally Available.
- Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops. Might have good news for general hardware support for other systems? (via)
- Debugging freebsd.org Resolution Failure. (via)
Charlotte Koch sent me this link some time ago and I’ve been remiss in not posting it: DragonFly through QEMU, using NVMM, on NetBSD.
BSD Now 347 is up with the usual mix of articles, with the highlight for me being “Making Unix a little more Plan9-like”. However, there’s also the news that BSD Now is breaking out on their own, away from Jupiter Broadcasting, which is exciting news! Make sure you are looking at the correct RSS feed to catch their move.