Music Thing Modular. Interesting music hardware also open sourced. (via)
Will Senn just started using DragonFly and he wrote up his experience.
Messing with boot0cfg(8) might shorten your boot time. Be careful.
I did not know about this line of SPARC laptops or that they left the planet.
Slam-Dunking the Madeleine. I love that this exists.
Libraries in the New Age, contrasted with HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge, with a reminder that some stuff only gets documented cause of one guy.
If your X session hangs when exiting the window manager, here’s some suggestions.
Strange Adventures: a film list. Most of these films were new to me and probably will be to you.
Removing pkg detritus. Applies to any system with pkg, including DragonFly. (via)
HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD. (there’s been foreshadowing)
Just the video, not the music, but it’s a new Cyriak animation. (via)
DragonFly now checks both /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.local.d during boot and shutdown, so you don’t have to mix system-installed and local rc scripts.
Based on a sample size of 1, a new DragonFly 6.4 install may have a version of pkg that is confused by config file syntax changes. If that happens to you, the same fix still works.
X Window System Basics. (via and via)
If you scramble your DragonFly system and can’t boot, here’s some immediate suggestions.