DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 53 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

2020/04/182020/04/17

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/18

Accidental theme of video links, which I would not have expected for a BSD summary.

Speculoos, a FreeBSD (and Citrix) specific vulnerability. You know you’ve made it when you are a target.
January to March 2020 FreeBSD Status Report.
OpenBSD on the HP Envy 13. (via)
Ars Technica – Not Actually Linux Distro Review – GhostBSD. (via)
FuryBSD 12.1 overview. (video, via)
Ubiquiti UniFi Controller Installation on FreeBSD from ports/packages. (video, via)
3-Antivirus Protection using OPNsense Plugins. (video, via)
Northgard currently Free for the Weekend on Steam. (Can run on OpenBSD at least.)
FreeBSD progress on Slimbook Base14. (via)
Using OpenVPN with Multi-WAN. I’ve done this; it’s easier than it looks. (via)
mksh R59 released. (MirBSD Korn shell)
TrueNAS CORE is the New FreeNAS.
Setting Up Users, Permissions, and ACLs on FreeNAS. Or TrueNAS Core?
Running X Applications on a Jail created with Bastille.
Valuable News – 2020/04/13.
RIP Romeo, host of many NYCBUG events.
SEMIBUG, still meeting remotely through May.

2020/04/17

Bluetooth bounty bumped

If you want to work on Bluetooth on DragonFly, there’s more people adding to the bounty.

2020/04/16

BSD Now 346: Core File Tales

BSD 346 is out and has some interesting Unix history bits in amongst the other news.

2020/04/15

sysmouse and evdev

sysmouse, the one mouse driver for X that always works for me, now has evdev support.

Related: why is there no evdev man page in DragonFly?

2020/04/14

dhcpcd-9.0.0 in DragonFly

Imported directly by the author, DragonFly now has dhcpcd 9. The commit message lists changes.

(and there’s a 9.0.1)

2020/04/132020/04/12

FreeBSD – Office Hours

I’m posting now because it’s happening Wednesday and waiting for In Other BSDs on Saturday will be too late: the next FreeBSD Office Hours (livestream with Q&A) is happening on the 16th.

2020/04/122020/04/14

Lazy Reading for 2020/04/12

My sadly neglected RSS reader is overflowing.

Chesses 2. I posted about Chesses 1 some time ago; this is more. (via)
Paper Models of Polyhedra. (via)
Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community.
The Original Internet Bottleneck.
Gopherus – a DOS (and multi-platform, console-mode) gopher client. Getting pretty obscure here. (via)
Curses City, a simple ASCII Sim City style game using ncurses. (via)
Internet Histories, Volume 4, Issue 1. Parts available online. (via)
Tempestas II, A Clock style Barometer. No display – physical sliding parts.
pheriday 3: infrastructure. Installing Netscape 6, with screenshots, on current hardware for fun.
The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer. (via)
Roam, real hypertext.
This Super-Clean Smart Screen Puts a Newspaper on Your Wall. Neat looking but of course expensive. (via)
Wolfram Style Cellular Automata with Vim Macros. See comments at source link.
A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and tmux. (via)
UI design is fun! (via)
The Implied Appendix N.

2020/04/112020/04/10

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/11

BUG meetings are canceled, but this can’t be surprising at this point.

Installing FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3. (via)
Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve. (via)
SNMP Mastery is out. (related: The Print Book Trade, and Money)
NYCBUG meetings are suspended for obvious meetings, but there’s online chat.
BSDCan 2020 will be online-only.
No April ChiBUG meeting.
FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging.
OpenBSD andIPv6.
WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN. Linked cause there’s BSD support too. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc-2020Q1 release.
BSD Link Roundup 4.8.
Wifi renewal restarted.
LLDB work concluded.
Valuable News – 2020/04/06.
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin on OpenBSD!
Testing AGS games on OpenBSD! That’s Adventure Game Studios.
OPNsense 20.1.4 released.

2020/04/09

BSD Now 345: Switchers to BSD

BSD Now 345 has the usual batch of recent stories to cover, plus a treat – a number of community feedback items on switching to BSD.

2020/04/08

New tcsh in DragonFly

Even if you run bash, zsh, or maybe fish, tcsh is the default root shell in DragonFly – and it just had an update. (all bugfixes according to the release notes)

2020/04/07

A tip for UEFI installs

karu.pruun posted an answer on how to get DragonFly onto your GPT/EFI drive.

2020/04/062020/04/07

ssh-copy-id now included

The ssh-copy-id utility is now included in DragonFly 5.8 and in -current. Useful for your next machine setup.

2020/04/052020/04/04

Lazy Reading for 2020/04/05

No theme this week.

New “Prohibition Orcs” today.
Aggregate internet links with mlvpn.
A USB Loader for the Cidco MailStation. “worst use of Thunderbolt”.
riftty. Think about the name, and you can guess what it is. (via)
My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable. This is the future we really sorta wanted.
Preparing Presentations with Markdown. (via)
Repairing a vintage 40-kilovolt xenon lamp igniter. Not as dangerous as it sounds.
ESP8266 Network Display. “For whatever”.
The Hunt of the Unicorn, rediscovered.
gifcap – screen recordings via browser. (via)
“Dusted off my GPD Pocket PC…” (via)
Vim rendered on a cube for no reason. (via)
“Please resend the virus“.
Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup. A Google Doc, which is a new-ish trend in “public rich media”, for lack of a better phrase. (via)

Your unrelated video of the day: Horse.

2020/04/042020/04/03

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/04

Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work.

2020/04/02

BSD Now 344: Grains of Salt

Everything else is topsy-turvy, but BSD Now is a constant: it’s out like usual this week. There’s a feature about text processing, a subject I inexplicably enjoy, and a lot of things that start with Z.

2020/04/01

Spinlock tricks

This doesn’t really have any effect on you unless you are programming on DragonFly, but it’s interesting to read about a “spinlock trick” Matthew Dillon had implemented recently.

2020/03/31

New steps for vendor import

Aaron LI’s updated the development(7) man page to account for new steps in vendor import.

2020/03/30

Full history of DragonFly, documented

Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it. So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged copy.

2020/03/292020/03/27

Lazy Reading for 2020/03/29

Accidental open source ideas or maybe history this week. That might be too easy a category to fit into.

Panel Syndicate, online comics. (via Warren Ellis)
Mastermind at 50. And its impact on early computers. (via)
Opensource.builders. Alternate apps. (via)
Awesome-Selfhosted: “A list of Free Software web applications which can be hosted locally”. (via)
Text-Based VR: Explore the Pioneering World of MUSHes. (via)
DOS computer in a keyboard. (via)
Dos and Don’ts in Open Source. (via)
Remap caps lock key to escape with uncap. When you don’t have xmodmap.
The core memory inside a Saturn V rocket’s computer.
Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit.
Inside a Titan missile guidance computer.
The Abiopause. “ABIopause” may make that more clear.
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 1: Load Factor.
Should I use Vim full-time? (via)
How to program a text adventure in C. (via)
EAX x86 Register: Meaning and History. (via)
Who’s ready for more Networking History? – all about APPLETALK. (via)
XScreenSaver 5.44 Hacks the Planet. New hacks!
A history of roguelike games. (via)
There’s a tar mode in emacs?
Any KVM over IP systems need to be on secure networks.

2020/03/282020/03/27

In Other BSDs for 2020/03/28

I have multiple BSD based systems to update, reboot, and hopefully not physically visit in the next week or so.

pfSense 2.4.5-RELEASE Now Available.
Booting [OpenBSD] from an FFS2 filesystem.
[packages] Retiring Python 2 support in IPython.
AnsiMail, based on ansible, not ANSI as older folks may immediately think. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/03/23.
Bob Beck Interview from EuroBSDCon 2018.
XIGMANAS 12.1.0.4 Ingva Released. Did not know this existed. (via)
More than 1/3 of commercial games for OpenBSD on sale on GOG.com. (via)
Question about a game. (Ultimate Doom, on OpenBSD, though it may apply to any BSD)
FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550.
OpenBSD’s ‘spinning’ CPU time category.
OpenBSD -current – Frequent asked questions.