In Other BSDs for 2021/12/04

Not just release announcements this week.

NYCBUG is down today for a significant hardware move.
FOSDEM 2022 is going to have a BSD Devroom. It’s online, so you can submit prerecorded talks – submissions due December 31.
Valuable News – 2021/11/29.
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available.
mfs: sometimes useful?
Exploring NetBSD’s msgs(1). (via)
Review: Netgate 6100.
FreeBSD article writers needed. I’ve linked to Klara Systems before.
Speaking of which, UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards.
New Test System. OpenBSD storage book is next apparently.
HardenedBSD November 2021 Status Report.
doas insults. This is a gem. (via)
The previous link led me to 9front’s theo.
Simple network dashboard with vnstat.
The state of Steam on OpenBSD.
Logitech MX Keys and MX Master on OpenBSD using Logi Bolt.
OpenBSD Webzine #5.

2021/12/032021/12/02

New 2021Q4 binary packages

There’s a new build of binary packages for DragonFly, based off the 2021Q4 quarterly ports release. This will require an upgrade of most if not all packages cause of a switch from LibreSSL to OpenSSL as the default SSL library.

2021/12/02

BSD Now and then

I missed last week’s BSD Now – 430: OpenBSD Onwards – and there’s this week, 431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents.

2021/11/30

dsynth updates

There’s been a number of updates to dsynth(1), the DragonFly package-building tool. This won’t matter much unless you like building the entire ports collection at once, but it is interesting to see how resource-intensive chromium building can be.

2021/11/282021/11/23

Lazy Reading for 2021/11/28

No mini-theme this week.

Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher. (via)
The Tildeverse Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup server is fixed. There’s a tilde DCSS server?
I Have No TV. Gobs of documentaries. (via)
Concert Roulette. (also via)
Building WireGate: A WireGuard front to detect compromised keys. (via)
T700 Crowdfunding. More Thinkpad life extension. (via)
Tiny Emus. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 2013: A Family Supper and 2014: 80 Days.
Homebrew Game Characteristics.
Plain Text Project Tools Roundup November 17, 2021.
One of these JPEGs is not like the other.
Pirijan Uses This. A different style UT answer than I’ve seen before.
Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit. (video, via)
Cambridge, another falling-blocks game. Check the Other Notable Games links at the end. (via)

2021/11/272021/11/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/27

Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US.

2021/11/23

Synproxy/pf note to save

Linked here cause maybe it’ll help someone else with synproxy and pf in DragonFly: synproxy state doesn’t work in Packet Filter.

2021/11/22

CBSD support for qemu/nvmm in DragonFly

ifconfig(8) in DragonFly is gaining a description field, to ease porting of CBSD.

2021/11/212021/11/16

Lazy Reading for 2021/11/21

This is a good mix this week.

Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image. I’ve linked to other stories about this image before. (lost the source link, sorry)
A Close Look at a Spinlock.
The Monstrosity Email Has Become. (via)
FURBY MODULE – A Synthesizer Module That Houses A Furby. The synth itself is worth a look. (via)
The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95.
Oh, great, there’s a year 2028 problem too. (via)
The history of writing in 1.5 hours.
Upstairs, Downstairs: d20 Power Relations.
Faces of Open Source. Doug McIlroy looks like Otto Mentalis from Psychonauts 2. Coincidence? (via)
Fermentabot 1.0 and a data-collecting version.
New Brothers Quay film on the way. (via)
Tindie, a maker market site. Interesting niche products. Found via this story.

2021/11/202021/11/17

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/20

Some history, some games.

tmpfs-13, an experimental hellosystem build.
Latest iortcw [Return to Castle: Wolfenstein] on OpenBSD.
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter. (via)
FreeBSD Quarterly Report, 2021Q3.
Installing and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX on the VAX (1988). (via)
FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual-boot testbed using Desktop Hardware. (via)
GhostBSD online meetup, December 11.
Call For Testing: Removing and hardening sensitive files.
Valuable News – 2021/11/15.
Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0. BSD-oriented.
OpenBSD and Linux comparison: data transfer benchmark. Interesting results… Excessive ACKing?

2021/11/18

BSD Now 429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots

429

Advanced ZFS Snapshots

has a literal headline, plus other straightforward articles. No puns, darnit.

2021/11/162021/11/08

SEMIBUG tonight: Deb Goodkin, FreeBSD Foundation

SEMIBUG’s meeting is tonight, online, with Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation presenting.

2021/11/142021/11/10

Lazy Reading for 2021/11/14

No minitheme this week.

userland: a book about the command line for humans. Indirectly, a description of how flexible a shell really is. (via)
More x220 hacking. It is of course less useful over time. (both via)
Modifying my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine. Simple upgrades help too. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 2012: Howling Dogs. Porpentine!
Companies and their stewardship of open source projects.
Your SMART drive database of attribute meanings needs regular updates.
Kino Cult. Good films and BADFILMS. (via)
AI Weirdness, oddball AI results. (via, via)
Floppy emulators. More used than you may realize. (via)
Software Folklore. I’ve linked to some of these stories before. (via)
Obsessive keyboard building. Sorry, it’s a Twitter thread. (via)
Forgotten Image Formats.

2021/11/132021/11/11

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/13

Note the upcoming SEMIBUG meeting. I’ll post a reminder.

Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2. (via)
Manage Kubernetes Cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl. (via)
What if Internet stops? How to rebuild an offline federated infrastructure using OpenBSD.
OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption. (via)
SEMIBUG is meeting November 16th, with a presentation from Deb Goodkin, head of the FreeBSD Foundation. It’s online.
How I ended liking GNOME. Also, using X with the loss of one hand.
Valuable News – 2021/11/08.
UNIX Mouse Shootout.
0ad several versions behind, cant play online because of this. Linking so I remember to play it.
FreeBSD Documentation: Papers We Love To Read.
go-modules.mk.
depotdownloader issues.
FreeBSD 12.3RC1 is out.
OPNsense 21.7.5 released.
OpenBSD Webzine #4.

2021/11/11

BSD Now 428: Cult of BSD

This week’s BSD Now talks about some recent history articles, and links to CultBSD, a new based-on-FreeBSD… distribution? I’m not sure what to call these based-on-a-BSD products.

2021/11/10

New DragonFly mirror

In Iran, of all places – Google decided this was spam so I am a few days late in posting it to the mirrors page.

2021/11/09

HAM-BUG meeting now online

These are extended so HAM-BUG may still be meeting when you read this.

2021/11/092021/11/03

ChiBUG meeting tonight

ChiBUG is meeting tonight at 6PM at Giordano’s. Go if you are near Chicago.

2021/11/082021/11/05

amdgpu support in DragonFly

The amdgpu driver, equivalent to Linux 4.19, has been committed along with supporting changes in ttm. Credit goes to Sergey Zigachev, Francois Tigeot, and Matthew Dillon for the work. The module is now built by default in bleeding edge DragonFly. Note the amdgpu commit message lists some options that need to be set.

2021/11/072021/11/04

Lazy Reading for 2021/11/07

I need a D&D tag.

The World of Outdoor Survival. A reconstruction of the original D&D environment. (via)
Speaking of the original D&D… (via)
How X Window Managers Work, And How To Write One (Part I). (via)
Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator. (via)
ClockWork DevTerm. For portable Dwarf Fortress. (via)
PowerPC notebook Prototypes Updates and next Talks – October 2021. (via)
Cosmic Conquest (1982) – A resurrection of a realtime strategy game written in Forth. (via)
How brutalist design is taking over the internet. (via)
Better Perl: Four list processing best practices with map, grep, and more. (via)
I am ambivalent about this joke/keyboard. (via)
TinkerDifferent. (via)

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