DragonFly BSD Digest

2018/11/122018/11/11

Web browsers on DragonFly

For better or worse, there’s different browser options out there, especially for non-mainstream platforms. You know what I mean. DragonFly developer tuxillo has put together a helpful page listing options and how to get them to build.

2018/11/112018/11/09

Lazy Reading for 2018/11/10

The movies link should keep you busy.

1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. It’s divided into sections, each one alphabetical, so if the first group doesn’t interest you, there’s more. Be ready to scroll to find a section that’s all martial arts, or an interview of Benoit Mandelbrot, or the classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot. (via)
Learning When Values are Changed by Implicit Integer Casts.
Metadata that you can’t commit into a VCS is a mistake (for file based websites).
What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive? (via)
Another look into The Psychotherapy of Racter. Linked because Racter is a sort of anti-Eliza.
Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles.
“I do not understand your concern…“
Goodness, Enumerated by Robots. Or, Handling Those Who Do Not Play Well With Greylisting. From a BSD person but not BSD specific.
David A. Wheeler’s 6502 Language Implementation Approaches. i.e languages on an Apple ][ mostly. There’s some really interesting links down at the end of that article. (via)
For example, Applesauce.
Oddball epoch dates and also microfortnights.
DKIM provides sender attribution (for both spam and not necessarily spam).
Revisiting the Unix philosophy in 2018. Maybe clickbaity a bit. (via)
I AM A COMPUTER. (via)

2018/11/102018/11/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/10

Aaaand I have a backlog again.

2018/11/092018/11/08

Hammer2 reminder: bulkfree makes some noise

For future edification: If you have HAMMER2 installed, the bulkfree operation will create console/dmesg activity even when nothing is wrong, to show operations are happening.

2018/11/08

BSD Now 271: Automatic Drive Tests

BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.

2018/11/082018/11/08

Fetching DragonFly src over https

If you happen to be using DragonFly from a network location that only allows http/https as outbound traffic, you won’t be able to update /usr/src using defaults. /usr/Makefile pulls DragonFly source using a git:// URL.

The fix is to use the read-only Github mirror. You can set origin manually or just change GITHOST in /usr/Makefile (or GITURL_SRC if you are on DragonFly-master) to “https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DragonFlyBSD”.

(Guess what I did today? Updated to note it’s different on -master. Thanks tuxillo for reminding me of this whole thing.)

2018/11/062018/11/02

NYCBUG meeting tomorrow

Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration is the presentation at tomorrow’s NYCBUG meeting. Going by the details, it’s covering multiple BSDs. Go, if you are near – I wish I was.

2018/11/05

ip6addrctl in DragonFly

Aaron LI’s added ip6addrctl(8) to DragonFly; on by default. There should be a man page entry for it within a couple hours, online.

2018/11/042018/11/02

Lazy Reading for 2018/11/04

I almost put the OpenSSH stuff in In Other BSDs yesterday, but it is really cross-platform at this point.

A fun optimization trick from rsync followed by More about auto-generated switch-cases.
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations:
Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems. From Harvard Business School, so different from the usual open source discussion. (PDF, via).
Unix in East Germany (GDR). (via)
‘Scraper’ bots and the secret Internet arms race. (via)
Exploring OmniOS in a VM (2/2).
“OpenSSH has broader key revocation than I thought“.
OpenSSH Principals. OpenSSH cert authorities and revocation; good ideas. (via)
How to Make a Roguelike. (via)
A Model M with 5 functions per key.
d100 Mutations.

2018/11/032018/11/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03

Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.

setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing the OpenBSD Virtualization FAQ.
The proper way to update FreeBSD jails between point releases. (via)
Configure OpenSMTPD to relay on a network.
SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1028.
BSD vs. System V death star poster.
MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track.
File versioning with rcs. Still built into all the BSDs, I think.
Halloween Sale Highlights. OpenBSD gaming.
NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Tokyo/Fall. (via)
Jailing the bhyve hypervisor. (via)
Everything suffers from bashism. (via)
FOSDEM 2019 will have a BSD devroom, and now’s your chance to submit a talk proposal. Due December 10th, with the conference in February.
NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Area. (via)
LISA 2018 Recap. I really like that iXSystems writes up every convention trip.
FreeBSD 12 has been branched into -STABLE. (via)
GhostBSD 18.10 Release. (via)

2018/11/02

BSDNow 270: Ghostly Releases

This week’s BSDNow has a whole lot of release news – GhostBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSH, plus plenty more. Make sure to check the Beastie Bits at the bottom of the page.

2018/11/01

openresolv added to DragonFly

Aaron LI has added openresolv to DragonFly. According to the commit message, this is for dhcpcd(8) support later. It’s added as resolvconf(8), needed for IPv6 DHCP support and a replacement for rtsold(8).

2018/10/31

Limiting arp interfaces

arp(8) can now be limited to a particular interface on DragonFly; a minor change but I mention it because otherwise you may not realize it.

2018/10/30

A rare pfi example

DragonFly has an automated installer, called PFI, for “pre-flight installer”. It’s not well-known, and there isn’t a man page to link to for it that I can find. Because of that, I jump at any chance I can get to link documentation or example configs.

2018/10/292018/10/27

Patreon and the Digest

I realized I’ve been working on the Digest for almost a decade and a half now, and I have readers outside of just DragonFly. I’ve always been grateful for the attention people pay to my aggressive trips down the rabbit hole.

I’m also always hungry. Hungry for more information, sure, but also for a sandwich. If you want to send me a link, that’s great, but until now you couldn’t really send me a sandwich. I’ve set up a Patreon page, so now you can.