Merry Christmas! Here is a present. I haven’t been posting while I fiddle with layouts, or just get too busy from holiday work, but here’s a pile of links, also known as “all my open tabs so that I can now close them”.
- In praise of Plan 9.
- X11 Conservancy Project.
- A brief history of murder in Ultima Online. (via)
- A2osX. “Multi Tasking OS for Apple IIe //c IIgs”.
- An objective criteria for deprecating community platforms,
- Mailing List Freebies. Worth it worth it. Also recent book plans.
- GoToSocial on OpenBSD, a Fediverse adventure.
- The Art Teacher from Drohobycz. New Brothers Quay!
- The Foundation and the FreeBSD Desktop.
- Pattern Collider. (via)
- Weekend Links 650, the source for the previous link, relinked cause of the note on Tom Phillips’ death. Phillips is responsible for A Humument, one of the more dense and complex books I’ve ever read. “Read” isn’t the correct term.
- Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD vs. Linux – Where and How To Run OpenZFS.
- The Palmpilot returns, this time in your browser.
- Dwarf Fortress’ Steam version immediately punched me in the gut. Note to self: buy.
- Best Books of 2022.
- Still Going: A zine on using old technology. (via)
- New Desktop Synth, Prismatic Spray, Offers Knobby Control Of Bytebeat Synthesis. Linked for the app name, which I hope you recognize. (via)
- Magic Cap, from the Magic Link to the DataRover and the stuff in-between.
- XScreenSaver 6.06 out now. Newest screen hack is related to a pipes game I now can’t find the link for.
- What we can learn from vintage computing.
- How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg.
- Recently updated blogs on ooh.directory.
- Vintage-Style Map of the Mandelbrot Set.
- feedle.world. An RSS feed of RSS feeds.
- Blogroll. Curated.
- Open source is democratizing video game development.
- Speech-to-text with Whisper: How I Use It & Why.
- Sierpi?ski Triangle Interpreted as Musical Notes.
- The Best Buried Treasures Of 2022.
- As (Not) Seen In The Art of Darkness.
- Haiku R1/beta4 has been released. (via)
- 9th International Workshop on Plan 9. Important because it’s all BSD licensed now. (via)
Edited later to add: Mörk Borg? Mörk Borg! Mörk Borg!
While I slowly work on the layout, here’s something that can’t wait: ChiBUG meets tomorrow at the usual place, 6 PM. Go, if you are anywhere near Chicago.
Keeping your published fiction and technical book list in SNMP is definitely a new use of a MIB to me.
If you’re near Chicago, go to the ChiBUG meeting tonight at 6.
It’s Long Article Title week!
- If only the kids knew about pipes
- OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop (via)
- FreeBSD Kernel Developer job at Klara
- The feasibility of pledge() on Linux (via)
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Third Quarter 2022
- How-to Guide: Binary Package Management on FreeBSD
- Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS
- Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform
- Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator
- Keeping FreeBSD Secure: Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team
- Valuable News – 2022/10/18
- NetBSD Arm on Oracle Cloud
- OpenBSD 7.2 Released
- BSD-XFCE (via)
- Newer NetBSD can still run on a 75 mHz Pentium
SEMIBUG is hosting a presentation by David Maxwell on security and NetBSD, tonight. It’s hosted online so if you can read this, you can attend.
Accidentally OpenBSD-heavy this week.
- OpenBSD build KDE software using kdesrc-build tutorial for beginners.
- How old various Unix signals are.
- SEMIBUG: NetBSD and Security, Oct 18th. Online.
- We are stuck with
egrepandfgrep(unless you like beating people) - A kiosk computer running OpenBSD
- Valuable News – 2022/10/10
- Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)
- Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)
- Further memory protections committed to -current
- A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools
- Automatic mounting of volumes on FreeBSD
This special episode of BSD Now has an interview with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s some history being reported there by the people that lived it.
No theme this week for the BSD section.
- Fiber + Static IP = Self-Hosting Glory! Sounds suspiciously like my ISP.
- OpenBSD: Manage DNS, DNSSEC (to automate TLSA records). (via)
- Red Hat OpenShift versus FreeBSD Jails. (via)
- Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux ip(8) Correctly Works. (via)
- Fun with FreeBSD: Your First Linux Guest. (via)
- OpenBSD.app – quick full-text searching of OpenBSD packages for -stable and -current. (via)
- bsddialog 0.4 and LGPL-Free bsdinstall.
- Meet the 2022 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students: Koichi Imai, Christos Margiolis, and Jake Freeland.
- SCALE19X Conference Report.
- HardenedBSD September 2022 Status Report.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 3.
- Valuable News – 2022/10/03.
The first link and the title for this week’s BSD Now doesn’t have anything to do with BSD as far as I know, but I think it’s funny.
The social meeting for NYCBUG is tonight, at Torch & Crown Brewing. Go, if you are near.
- Next NYCBUG social gathering is this Wednesday.
- Ultima Online’s 25th anniversary. Linked here cause it works on OpenBSD without Wine, according to the comment. (via)
- Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch.
- How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie.
- A DMD 5620 Terminal Emulator. This is a terminal I’ve never seen before.
- EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different).
- EuroBSDCon 2022.
- EuroBSDCon 2022.
- The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather[sic] is like.
- Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use.
- Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails.
- Toolchains Adventures Q3 2022.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/26.
- How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update.
BSD Now this week is titled ‘EuroBSDCon’, but as far as I know they weren’t there – haven’t listened to the episode yet. Any readers here go?
Check the first link; it’s time-dependent.
- Happening tomorrow: Peter Hansteen presents to SEMIBUG about pf. It’s online and he’s certainly an authoritative speaker.
- Desktop-installer: Use your Cleverness for Creativity. Note there’s multiple tabs within this writeup. (via)
- A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD.
- Open Source in Enterprise Environments – Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
- FreeBSD Cope with WiFi Fuckup.
- AsiaBSDCon 2023 is happening. (via)
- Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures using Binary Ninja. (via)
- Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation.
- How to Setup Apache/FCGID on NetBSD 9.3.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/19.
- “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” draft done!
This week’s BSD Now is the normal roundup of stories. I won’t point you at anything specific; it’s all good.
In-person. Though it might be canceled; I am preposting this and it hasn’t been settled as of right now. Go, if you are near Chicago and it happens.
I got subscribed to the UNIX Heritage Society mailing list and it’s already turned up some good stories.
ps(1)gains support for tree-like display of processes. OpenBSD, though it would be useful everywhere, hint, hint.rcctl(8)gains a “configtest” action.- Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed.
- Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD.
- “interesting old-timey UNIXes” – I do not know where these intersect with the more well known branches of the family tree.
- Time overflows have always been with us.
- A fresh look at FreeBSD. (via)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy. By Rob Pike. Note the timestamp, for 2 reasons.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/12.
- Installing BSD on an older Dell Laptop: having some issues.
- -current has moved to 7.2. OpenBSD.
- rpki-client 8.0 released.
- ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 20th.
This week’s BSD Now has two things I want to highlight – articles on Linux ABI and on dma. You’ll just have to click through.