No pun, but lots of links in this week’s BSD Now, including a link to EuroBSDCon 2022, happening in Austria.
makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2
makefs(8) now supports HAMMER2 on DragonFly, so you can create HAMMER2 file system images, same as a CD image or a DOS disk.
Hetzner cloud and DragonFly
When you are setting up a DragonFly machine on Hetzner, pay attention to this bug report for dhcp setup. The short answer is “use dhcpcd”.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/26
Mini-theme of old games.
- The Nethack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists. (via)
- I’ve played dopewars on Slack. Linked because dopewars is really a variant of unique-genre game Taipan.
- Clarus returns home. (via)
- 3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text. I find Source Code Pro works very well.
- I posted about arttime before; the author helpfully reminded me version 1.5 is out.
- Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches.
- David Ahl places all his classic computing publications into the Public Domain. I loved those books. (via)
- Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games).
- Dial-a-story.
- CaptionIt, live subtitles on a heads-up display, open source. (via)
- Dinosaur Pictures and Facts. My favorite dinosaur. (also via)
- Game Design Mimetics. (also via)
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/25
Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.
- Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
- FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
- Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
- Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
- (NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
- Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
- Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
- Is FreeBSD a Real UNIX?
- Legends start at 1.0! – FreeBSD in 1993 part 1 and part 2.
- Speeding up autoconf with caching. A followup to a BSD Now link.
- OpenBGPD 7.4 released.
GhostBSD meetup tonight
It’s on Jitsi, so anyone can reach it. Tonight, 7 PM eastern.
BSD Now 460: OpenBSD airport folklore
This week’s BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.
rEFInd design for all the BSDs
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.
SEMIBUG: SSH and Michael W. Lucas
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is tonight, and it’s all about OpenSSH, with Michael W. Lucas presenting. He literally wrote the book on it.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/19
This is a week of fun links.
- Cyberdeck Cafe. All custom terminals.
- My PSU just won’t do.
- So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router. A good T-carrier explanation.
- Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? (via)
- A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game.
- Interactive Art Museum. Pleasing webgubbins. (via)
- A Trail Tale. A very nice presentation of an Appalachian Trail hike; something I’d like to do someday. (also via)
- Porting Doom to A/UX. (via)
- Artvee, public domain art search engine. (via)
- Fun With Power Monitoring on the Apple IIe.
- Installing a payphone in my house. The last paragraph is the best. (via)
- Regular expressions are effectively a (hard) programming language.
- How is Voyager still talking after all these years?
- Frogress Bar.
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/18
More links this week to make up for last week’s short haul.
- Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
- OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
- FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
- OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
- FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
- Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
- HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report.
- Give WindowMaker a macos Mojave look.
- OpenLDAP update. (OpenBSD)
- Vim colour scheme changes. (also OpenBSD)
- Minecraft server on OpenBSD. (via)
- Valuable News for 5/30, 6/6, and 6/13.
- OPNsense 22.1.8 and OPNsense Business Edition 22.4.1 released.
- OpenIKED 7.1 released.
Closing credit
BSD Now 459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark
This week’s BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there’s a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.
Two versions, both right
An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out – and quickly – which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn’t be visible from a user perspective.
HAMBUG meeting tomorrow
The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I’m preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/12
Mini-theme of hardware this week.
- Electronic Catan LCD Tiles. (via)
- Watchy, open hardware and software watch.
- Modal dialogs and other things that steal keyboard focus are dangerous. That makes me so mad.
- DuskOS. Linking cause “low impact computing” has turned into “postapocalyptic computing” for some people. (via)
- Catalogs and Context. (via)
- What happened to Perl 7? (via)
- Related: perl v5.36.0 has been released. (via)
- Access the Tesla API with Perl!
- BBQ20KBD. (via)
- Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 MK3. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games crowdfunded book launch teaser.
- XModem in 2022. (via)
- The Thompson MO5, I’ve never seen before. Plus free BASIC. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/11
A bit short cause I ran out of time.
- qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
- NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.
DragonFly 6.2.2 out
Hopefully there’s a new ISO/img on the mirrors for DragonFly 6.2.2 by the time you read this – or you can just update your installation. The changelog is short, because this is a bugfix-level release. Also, don’t forget there’s a new set of binary packages out; update that too if you haven’t.
BSD Now 458: Traceroute interpretation
This week’s BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.
virtio_console bug report
If you’re interested in having virtio_console on DragonFly, keep an eye on this bug report.