This Turkey Day (for U.S. readers) episode of BSD Now talks about the perennial idea of BSD admin certification, along with the usual roundup of recent news.
If you have newer AMD hardware, it’s a little better supported now.
Francois Tigeot has made a number of updates to the ttm and radeon code, bringing it line with the Linux 4.9 kernel version. If you have a radeon(4)-using video card, you may find this useful.
Also, evergreeen and radeonsi chipset users have acceleration disabled. You may not notice depending on your workload.
There’s been a fresh binary build of dports – and then some more updates to cover a variety of security issues in some of those ports. Now is a good time for a ‘pkg upgrade’.
Small computers is the accidental theme this week.
- Remembering the TRS-80.
- 80s Corporate Airbrush-High Tech. Eighties! (via)
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? You could have a website, not just a social media identity, and be much better off for it. (via)
- Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. (via)
- Good signoffs. (via)
- Open Library book sponsorships. (via)
- ASCIIdent. All-ASCII characters, open world game. (via)
- are.na, a site I am repeatedly stumbling into. A sort of blogging platform/visual recorder? I have only just started to look, but it seems like a good place to record an aesthetic, sort of like ffffound was, once.
- The Teletext Archaeologist – A visual and interactive teletext history. (via)
- Pocket Popcorn Computer. (via)
- Review of Pinebook Pro. The hardware notes are most relevant, not the Linux whateverness. (via)
- Ditching Event Platforms for the IndieWeb. (via)
- The Invention of Forth. (via)
- Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating.
- Neovim and the state of text editor art in 2019. First explanation of “why NeoVim” that I’ve seen. (via)
- Emacs: Fury Road. (via)
Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future.
- Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via)
- The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments.
- Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly).
- Valuable News – 2019/11/18.
- OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5).
- And the followup Running OpenBSD on SPARC64 (HTTPd, packages, patching, X11, …)
- GEOM NOP.
- p2k19 reports: Martin Pieuchot: The Unknown Plan,
Landry Breuil on unveil(2)-ing Mozilla, sqlite3 testing, Jeremy Evans on PostgreSQL and Ruby, krw@ adventures. - Creating new users dedicated to processes. Could work on any BSD except for doas.
- Board of Directors and Officers elected. For NetBSD.
- Support for Realtek RTL8125 2.5Gb Ethernet controller. For OpenBSD. 2.5Gb seems so arbitrary. (via)
- Why is BSD>Linux?
- Lessons Learned from Sendmail. Video. There’s lots of EuroBSDCon videos out there, but this is a good one cause this is one of the prototypical packages. (via)
- BSD Link Roundup 11.18.
- The Six Prequels to “FreeBSD Mastery: Jails”.
- Proof I Am a Monster.
It hasn’t been updated or used for some time, but libc_r was 20+ years old. Now it’s gone. You know someone younger than this code, or maybe even younger than the last time I talked about it.
BSD New 325 has a bunch of release news this week, including FreeBSD 12.1, and as you can guess from the title, rainbow tables.
If you are like me, you’ve typed “make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel …” about a zillion times. Now, you can encapsulate that process in a shorter statement: ‘make build-all install-all‘. The real benefit is these new steps also run in parallel to match the number of CPUs present, and logs to file instead of the console, automatically.
Some of the larger application sets on DragonFly have had trouble building, and inconsistent problems with that build. i.e. rust would fail, but in different parts of the build process, every time. It looks to be a problem with signal interaction, and there’s now much safer ways to do that on DragonFly.
That is going to require a full buildworld/buildkernel if you are on DragonFly-master, 5.7. Release/5.6 users are unaffected.
Michael W. Lucas is presenting on sudo, to match his recent book, at SeMiBUG, tomorrow night. I think it may be getting held at a different location than usual. Go, if you are near.
Happy birthday to my father, today.
- ALL HAIL LORD ENKI. It’s like a giant version of Lazy Reading; I hope you have some reading time set aside. (via)
- 80×25.
- Lesser Known Coding Fonts. (via)
- Niche Museums. You may be happily surprised to find one of these near you. (via)
- Sougwen Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist & (re)searcher based in New York. A casual look appears to show an antist that works in tandem with robots to produce art. (via)
- Apple I Emulator as a Shader. How could I not link this? (via)
- Terminal Phase: building a space shooter that runs in your terminal. (via)
- Take Take Take: Rethinking How I Consume Free and Open Source Software. (via)
- Tabs or spaces for indentation? Statistics on 3.8 million Perl files created in 24 years. (via)
- Riana Pfefferkorn Uses This. Always interesting to see the personal computer setup for someone strongly focused on security.
- FANGo. If you can’t not participate, you get to at least not conform.
- Newstweek: note that this is from 2011.
- three.js. 3 dimensions on the web. This would be sheer magic to 1998 me. (via)
- 200 word RPG challenge. Complete by the time you read this. (via)
- 80×25.
- RSS-Bridge. Creates feeds from walled gardens. (via)
- Today in Hoffman Lenses.
- Formally modeling database migrations.
- The Greatest OSR Blog Posts Known to Man.
Your unrelated music link of the week: The Wyrding Module: Typhonic Neural Tantra. (via multiple places)
Some commercial stuff this week, even.
- A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984. PreBSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report. (via)
- This probably applies to all BSDs on certain Intel CPUs. (FreeBSD-SA-19:26.mcu)
- FreeNAS/TrueNAS 11.3 beta available. Also, the Mini E product.
- rpki-client recycles some uid/gids on OpenBSD.
- Any games that can be recommended that requires virtually no configuration/setup on OpenBSD? Again, possibly valid for every BSD.
- OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base. I mentioned this before, sorta, but it’s important.
- p2k19 Hackathon Report: Good vibes from Bucharest.
- HEADS UP: ntpd changing. On OpenBSD.
- DNSSEC enabled in default
unbound(8)configuration. - OpenZFS Developer Summit 2019.
- HardenedBSD Status Report. (via)
- Valuable News – 2019/11/12.
- LLDB Threading support now ready for mainline.
- Modern BSD Computing for Fun on a VAX! NetBSD on VAX hardware at BSDCan 2019, in video. I feel like I was destined to type a sentence like that sooner or later.
I link because they are good: 10% speedup. Or, because they made me laugh: “Basically, don’t use this.”
BSD Now 324 is up, with the normal mix of content. It includes a heck of a awk statement for renaming files, and mention of a deployment management system for BSD I hadn’t heard about – Bastille.
Remember how I said dsynth defaults to txz (tarred, XZipped) ? I was apparently wrong and it was using tgz (tarred, gnuzipped). Now it really truly defaults to txz, for space.
ChiBUG meets tomorrow, at the usual place. Go, if you are near.
Covering lots of ground this week.
- youshouldhaveseenthis.com. Common meme language. (via)
- youshouldhaveALSOseenthis.com. More.
- How political events affect the files on your computer – timezone files, in this case.
- Fraidycat, sort of like an RSS reader but it takes in everything. Watch this project; I am a big fan of Tiny Tiny RSS, but this is a much more accessible approach.
- Space Cruiser Orion for the console.
- So much for games on Linux. Related, and I can sympathize.
- Major Mode for Reading EPUBs in Emacs. This will be handy for someone. (via)
- Homebrew Cray-1A. How have I not linked this yet? (via)
- Vim Splits and Vim tmux Navigator, two approaches to the same idea. (via)
- Announcing sshign. Similar to gpg but less painful, I assume. (via)
- Build your own X. (via)
- A visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum. Every picture is pretty.
- I’m Officially Part of the IndieWeb. Continuation from last week’s small theme. (via)
- sql-murder-mystery. It’s exactly what it sounds like. (also via)
- Team 6502. (via)
- Internet Synthesis Protocol. Good MIDI is actually good. You can probably recognize crap MIDI music, but there’s been entire albums built using MIDI where you may not realize it.
- Tangential to that: I think Zappa’s released more albums posthumously than when he was alive.
- New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches.
Your unrelated music link of the week: Orodruin: Ruins Of Eternity. Tolkien-ish doom metal.
Aaaand back to normal.
- FreeBSD 12.1 is released.
- ChiBUG is meeting November 12th. I’ll post a reminder.
- U2F support in OpenSSH HEAD. Excellent news. (via)
- What can software authors do to help Linux distributions and BSDs package their software?
- Linux VS open source UNIX. (via)
- Stabilization of the ptrace(2) threads continued.
- Valuable News – 2019/11/04.
- EuroBSDCon 2019 videos available. OpenBSD oriented, but there’s a full playlist for the conference.
- OPNsense 19.7.6 released.
- New openbsdstore available with 6.6 T-shirts. More wearable than CDs.
- Will the Real UNIX Please Stand Up? An abbreviated but decent history.
- FuryBSD 12.0-XFCE-11-06-2019-01 released.
- asr has been renamed to stub in unwind.conf(5).
- Linux Professional Institute Releases BSD Specialist Certification – re BSD Certification Group.
- My peertube OpenBSD gaming channel. Peertube is getting popular.
- Dead Cells running on OpenBSD.
- MidnightBSD 1.2 now available.