This week’s BSD Now, which I remembered to link to on time, is about Unix tools as a concept.
A historical focus this week but then again that’s not uncommon.
- Great Moments in Taxonomy. Several links to follow.
- Team Tsathogga / City of Spires setting primer, for Severed Fane.
- Dungeons and Desktops, a history of computer RPGs. (via)
- The Elusive Shift, early D&D from wargaming to roleplay. (also via)
- Bent? is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box. (via)
- Infinite Mac, an instant-booting Quadra in your browser. I got system7.app to crash playing Marathon so that is accurate.
- Spacewar! is 60 Today!
- Why the fascination with retrocomputing? (via)
- The Tao of Acme. (via)
- Retro Lite CM4: a Compute Module 4 gaming console. (via)
- Webinar – Ethernet’s Emergence from Xerox PARC: 1975-1980. These are not historians, but the actual people who created and implemented it. (via)
Last news item is the saddest.
- Does swap still matter? I linked to an earlier iteration of the thread but there’s more.
- System with a GNU userland and a BSD kernel.
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 is out.
- Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/04.
- helloSystem 13.1-RC1.
- Multiprocess support for LLDB.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS. Part 1 of 4.
- Writing a NetBSD kernel module. (via)
- TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor. (via)
- Bill Jolitz has passed away. (via)
448: Controlling Resource Limits and 449: Reproducible clean $HOME are both available, because I’m a slacker and didn’t link when they were published.
I thought I was going to be short this week, and then started cleaning out old open browser tabs…
- The Framework is the most exciting laptop I’ve ever used.
- Note taking in Emacs with howm.
- Eponymous Laws Part I: Laws of the Internet. (via)
- TORI Nixie Calculator. Every maker buzzword in a single product.
- Preserving more of the history of logic programming (especially source code). (via)
- Related: softwarepreservation.org.
- Stevie Wonder and His Dream Machines. Related to all the synth links I post. (via)
- The Art of the For… Next Loop. (via)
- TZDB and some challenges of long data. (via)
- In the Hall of the Third Blue Wizard – KickStarter Launch.
- Wi-Fi Memories.
- Lumon.
- Majestic Fantasy, old school D&D.
- Swords and Wizardry, same.
- WebAssembly in my Browser Desktop Environment. (via)
- cool-retro-term: A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display. (via)
Mini-ZFS theme this week.
- OpenBSD Webzine #8.
- Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
- pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
- Nixxers is back!
- Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
- Does swap still matter? A long thread.
- Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
- ZFS Compatibility.
- Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
- Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
- Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
- FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
- Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
- Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
- HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
- paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.
Mini-theme: 4-part writeups.
- Comas Channel. Food manufacturing; somewhat hypnotic. (via)
- Yocto boot2qt for the Seeed reTerminal (Qt 6). (via)
- Electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos has a website. (indirectly via)
- A Web Around the World, Part 6: Routing Calls.
- Recent narrative games: winter 2021 edition.
- [Review] Rackham Vale (and the Four Eras of OSR Publishing). Linked for the indie RPG publishing history, which has mostly passed me by.
- 22 years of Emacs. (via)
- SGI320/540 Visual Workstations. An extremely specific site. (via)
- Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal. (via)
- The Cube Rule of Food Identification. (via)
- Four Tiny Essays On SF/F. (via)
- Hard Drive History.
- Mouse Museum. (via)
Note the new-to-me book news in there.
- The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022.
- FreeBSD 13.1 beta2 is out.
- Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD.
- OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems.
- Testing parallel forwarding.
- NetBSD is in Google Summer of Code 2022.
- LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released.
iwx(4)gains 11ac 80MHz channel support.- Yet Another New Book: “Letters to ed(1)”. From the FreeBSD Journal Letters Column.
- New Sponsorships Open, and More Crowdfunding. For OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems. There’s some interesting notes on Kickstarter in there too.
- EuroBSDCon 2022 CFP is open.
- an open source git server written in Elixir that works on OpenBSD. (via)
- NetBSD Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8). (via)
Episode 447, “Path to BSD” is up now, as is 446, “Debugging ioctl problems“. 446 was up last week but I missed my change to link to it. Check the Tadpole link if you have not; those are a weird chunk of history.
It’s apparently possible to get a panic by yanking a HAMMER2 disk out of your system, which is only likely when using a USB thumb drive, formatting it to HAMMER2, and not bothering to unmount it. Anyway, that poorly-described-by-me problem is fixed.
Old computer mini-theme.
- POCKIT, a modular computer. (via)
- Exploring the Amiga. (via)
- Remote Desktop Fun For Your Old Macintosh. (via)
- Some tiny personal programs I’ve written. (via)
- More Than a Dozen Command Line Tools I’ve Written. (via)
- Relativistic Ray Tracing.
- A Colorful “Peek” at the Graphics Performance of the Apple II.
- Smurk (1981/1982). Linked for the Smurfenstein screenshot.
- A UTF-8 / Ruby tutorial. (via)
- History of Interactive Computing. (video, via)
You will notice some clustering of links; my list filled up fast.
- Where
cutcomes into Unix (and a bit on the history ofawk) - Why no Unix error device? and There is a Unix error device.
- FreeBSD 13.1-beta available.
- FreeBSD 2021 Q4 status report.
- Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence.
- ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions.
- Valuable News – 2022/03/14.
- My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting.
- Retina, HiDPI scaling in KDE Plasma.
- Committing dotfiles and other essentials. I already copy .vimrc around too much.
helloSystem 0.6.0 is out.As is the experimental version. 0.7.0 is most recent.- Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code.
- FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2.
There’s an odd bug in ipfw that is now fixed in DragonFly 6.2/6.3. If you are using ipfw and adding networks and hosts in a specific order, the netmask will be set wrong.
There’s also a problem with the overnight bulkfree cleanup in Hammer that’s had various attempts to fix it over time – it’s now really truly fixed. It mattered only if you had an extremely large number of inodes – 100000000 or so,
Matthew Dillon wrote up an explanation for both.
ChiBUG’s monthly (rescheduled) meeting is tonight. RSVP if you can attend, to make sure the restaurant has the seating.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tomorrow. If you don’t know what Backus-Naur is, this meeting is via Jitsi and you can find out.
If you were hoping for a mini-theme of synthesizers, you are in luck.
- Chonky Palmtop.
- What’s your favorite vim shortcut/hack
- My New Old Apple Macintosh SE/30 Computer. (via)
- Emulating Vintage Mac Compilers. (via)
- The problem of keeping track of hardlinks as you traverse a directory tree. Linked cause this was a pain for HAMMER2, too.
- Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition).
- Becoming Universal: A New History of Modern Computing. (via)
- The Sinclair QL. (also via)
- The Casio QA-100, a simulated synth/sequencer. (via)
- The Casio MT-40/MT-41 and sleng teng riddim, the start of dancehall. (via)
- Original Jungle Samples. (via)
- Making Portishead’s “Dummy”: The Production Experiments of a Trip-Hop Classic. (via)
- An Improvement on the Pomodoro Technique.
- All desktop calculators are wrong, so I had to build my own. (via)
No theme, but decent material.
- OpenBSD 7.1 beta running Xfce4 bare metal on an M1 MacBook Air.
- On overwriting disks (on OpenBSD 7.0-current). (via)
- Native IPv6 with OpenBSD and Aussie Broadband. (via)
- FreeBSD Journal – 2022 – 01/02. (via)
- Valuable News – 2022/03/08.
- FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q4.
- Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server.
- Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix.
- Tuning Laptop Power Consumption on FreeBSD. (via)
- mtw(4), a driver for MediaTek MT7601U Wi-Fi devices.
This week’s BSD Now has a nicely eclectic group of links, including one to a music server that is new to me, Navidrome.
Sandy River is the newest DragonFly mirror, with ISOs and dports packages.
SLUUG (St. Louis Unix Users Group) is meeting tonight and Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation is presenting, among others. It’s available through Zoom.