DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 36 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

2021/05/222021/05/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

2021/05/20

BSD Now 403: The Linuxulator Investment

This week’s BSD Now, a light run, talks about licensing and industrial automation, but not at the same time.

2021/05/19

POLLHUP for Zig

Matthew Dillon implemented POLLHUP for pipes in DragonFly, in -current and 6.0. I mention it because it was for Zig support, and it’s always nice to get a bug report directly from people developing a tool or language.

2021/05/17

Remember to check the port when installing

I’ve seen this a number of times over the years: if you’re installing DragonFly and the install drive seems to disappear, it might be the USB port you plug into.

2021/05/162021/05/13

Lazy Reading for 2021/05/16

Time for a new category marking.

2021 IGF nominees: stunning environments, cosmic horror and not-horror, and there’s a bunch more summaries.
Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe.
Understanding OpenSSH’s future deprecation of the ‘ssh-rsa’ signature scheme. More than one thing named RSA, is the issue.
The Ratings Game, Part 3: Dueling Standards. Goes with lyrics labeling in music.
Digital.Visual.Material, computers as audiovisual material, a symposium. (via)
“Bluetooth” name origin story filters through to normal media – remember I linked to a similar story some time ago? There’s a lifecycle to where news shows up.
NEVER OBSOLETE. (via)
Diffusion-limited aggregation, so you now know where that one screensaver comes from. (The more interesting source.)
Nixie tubes AND persistence of vision effects, together.
50 Years of Text Games: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. and 1989: Monster Island.
A Few More Useful Pandoc Tricks.
z88dk, the z88 development kit. (via)
How the personal computer broke the human body. Excellent pictures. (via)
Who Invented Heavy Metal?

2021/05/152021/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/15

Some opinion, some documentation.

Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via)
Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via)
As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true.
FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via)
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd. (via)
pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package. (via)
March/April 2021 FreeBSD Journal. Why doesn’t this show in the RSS feed for that site? (via)
NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting, online, May 22.
FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1.
Registration Open for the June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Talk and ytalk nostalgia.
LLDB core dump support improvements.

2021/05/13

One more reminder about pkg

If you are upgrading an older 5.8.x system to DragonFly 6, and get a lua error when updating pkg: manually copy over a config file, and you’ll be set.

2021/05/13

BSD Now 402: Goodbye GPL

This week’s BSD Now leads with that article about how the GPL isn’t fit for purpose; read it if you have not yet.

2021/05/12

IDs added for ichsmb(4)

Sascha Wildner has added the PCI IDs for various recent ichsmb(4) devices. This I think just means a correct device name in dmesg, but unidentified smbus devices has plagued me for years, even with other operating systems.

2021/05/112021/05/09

ChiBUG meeting, virtual, today

The ChiBUG May 11th Meeting is today, and it’s virtual – so you can go and should.

2021/05/102021/05/09

DragonFly 6.0 is out!

DragoFly 6.0 is tagged and ready for download. There’s ISO images and of course you can upgrade using the notes on the release page. One of the improvements in this release cycle is improved dsynth support, so of course there are many prebuilt packages available; don’t forget to update those too.

2021/05/092021/05/03

Lazy Reading for 2021/05/09

Nostalgia mini-theme this week, or maybe “classical”?

The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons. Talking about Appendix N. (via)
tmp.out vol. 1. Not a common sort of site nowadays. (via)
BASIC 10-liners for Atari. Also no longer common. (also via)
Haiku activity report – March and April 2021.
PalmOS on x86: API porting. (via)
Turning an iPad Pro into the Ultimate Classic Macintosh. (via)
Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster. A good example of cost externalization.
The fate of Imgur.
The question of how to do non-annoying multi-factor authentication for SSH. Not the answer, just the question.
Spacewar 1 and the Beginnings of Video Game Aesthetics.
50 Years of Text Games: 1987: Plundered Hearts.
My Palm LiveDrive! and Palm LifeDrive in a Windows 2000 QEMU VM.

2021/05/082021/05/08

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/08

Lots to read, yet I still have unposted tabs!

Refurb weekend: Hewlett-Packard 9000/350. HPUX which was BSD, I think?
ChiBUG is meeting May 11th, on Zoom. There’ll be a presentation on iked(8). Go, especially if you’ve ever done IPSEC anything. I’ll post a reminder.
HardenedBSD April 2021 Status Report.
My Infrastructure as of 2020. (OpenBSD)
KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD and Wayland on FreeBSD with AMDGPU.
OpenBSD: getting started.
NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS).
On Updating QEMU’s bsd-user fork.
Valuable News – 2021/04/26 and 2021/05/03.
FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 2): Excursion – FreeBSD and security.
Ghost in the Shell – Part 5. The series returns!

2021/05/07

DragonFly 6.0 soon

There’s only been one issue found in the release candidate so far. It’s fixed, so I’ll tag and build 6.0 within the next few days.

2021/05/062021/05/07

BSD Now 401: OpenBSD Dog Garage

This week’s BSD Now has a great title, and you can guess what the first linked article will be. The other items in this week are analytic and also entertaining in their own way.