If you have an Intel-based system and it has trouble reading some USB ports, or odd behavior with some virtual machines, this recent bugfix in DragonFly-current may help you. I know, my description is vague, but I haven’t encountered this directly.
BSD Now 362: 2.11-BSD restoration
This week’s BSD Now leads with an interview of Warner Losh and his work with reviving 2.11BSD. Everyone’s been linking to his posts about it, so now you can hear his plans.
Maybe paging out doesn’t matter
It’s odd to think this, but the process of swapping out something entirely from RAM perhaps doesn’t really apply any more (except for compatibility).
Updating pkg when pkg is broken
A note for the future: if pkg itself isn’t working, you can use pkg-static.
Lazy Reading for 2020/08/02
Preposted early; I’m traveling during the week so I have to throw all my extra tabs in quick.
- Computer graphic history at the Pixar Online Library. Goes back to the 80s. (via)
- thecookie.website.
- Cigarettes, Space Invaders and the birth of the game watch. (via)
- Synergy, multicomputer mouse and keyboard. (via)
- Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship.
- Essays on programming I think about a lot.
- The evolution of a Scheme programmer. (via)
- On Liberating My Smartwatch From Cloud Services.
- A Better Cheatsheet.
- A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I’m sorry. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2020/08/01
That last link is around the corner from me.
- Audio Subsystem on Single Board Computers.
- Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD.
- nvi2 in FreeBSD ports.
- First screen shot of 2.11BSD as released.
- When Unix learned to reboot(2).
- Valuable News – 2020/07/27.
- OPNsense® 20.7 “Legendary Lion” released.
- Software inventory with Salt on FreeBSD. (via)
- My FreeBSD Laptop Build by Cyberdyne. (via)
- Installing Debian Under FreeBSD Bhyve. (via)
- Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C. (PDF, via)
BSD Now 361: Function-based MicroVM
This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of different releases, and also Emulex.
libressl updated
In Daniel Fojt’s ongoing series of third-party software upgrades, he’s moved libreSSL in DragonFly up a major version, from 2.9.1 to 3.1.3. This includes TLS 1.3, among other features.
Finding meltdown on DragonFly
Well, it’s really the meltdown fix for Intel. You now will see it noted if the fix is present, during the DragonFly boot process.
New ext2fs support for DragonFly
Tomohiro Kusumi has imported a new version of ext2 filesystem support into DragonFly.
Lazy Reading for 2020/07/26
Accidental topic: old-school games.
- Assignment 45, A Harry Flynn Adventure (1981). Interesting cause it’s a magazine article with the program source, something you don’t see much past the mid-80s.
- Advanced Vim Workflows. (via)
- Historical Games. (via)
- PunyInform, Inform 6 for 8-bit computers. (also via)
- Specification Writer job at Infocom LLC. “part of a clean room reverse engineering project”
- Modern Board Game Research. (via)
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator. I linked to an earlier version years ago. (via)
- IoDT The Internet of Dead Things Institute. (via)
- Laura Michet Uses This. Look at her custom SABER68 keyboard.
- March 2nd, 1943. A reminder: accurate dates in the past are bonkers hard.
- Running servers and Fred Brooks on transforming programs to products. Linked cause The Mythical Man-Month was right.
- AI Dungeon: Dragon mode. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2020/07/25
Lots of old BSD this week.
- Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
- 2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
- Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
- Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
- How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
- MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
- Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
- ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
- April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
- I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.
BSD Now 360: Full circle
This week’s BSD Now is making reference to the episode count, I think. Of note this week: lots of how-to-do-this sorts of links.
ldns updated and a link
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, ldns in DragonFly is updated to 1.7.1. This time, I do have a changelog link.
It’s a minor update, but I have to point it out because my muscle memory still won’t let go of nslookup,
DRM driver update
Francois Tigeot has updated the DRM driver in DragonFly to match what’s in Linux kernel 4.10.17. What’s that change? A few minutes of poking about doesn’t find a granular enough changelog.
Lazy Reading for 2020/07/19
I was a bit low on links last week; I made up for it this week.
- Mega Tiny Time Watch. (via)
- Commander 16. (via)
- Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40,000 disc writer (1987). (via)
- study tip: quiz yourself in vim.
- Netpbm Animation Showcase. You’ve probably used netpbm without knowing it.
- Don’t use food delivery apps; call restaurants direct.
- The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil.
- Stephen Strowes Uses This. “Network Measurement Researcher”.
- A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link.
- Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of Artificial Intelligence in Alien: Isolation. (via)
- jklp: a 36-key ergonomic keyboard. (via)
- Grinding Coffee with a TinyFPGA Board. Last sentence is the most important. (via)
- Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub.
- Perpetual motion machine compilation. (via)
- The Open Book; build your own e-reader. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2020/07/18
There’s a separate Summer of Code section this week.
- The Homura Project.
- First powerpc64 snapshots available. (OpenBSD)
- Timecounters available to userland in -current.
- Sponsor NetBSD (and pkgsrc) on Github. (via)
- Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI.
- Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM. Semisure this is still BSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD July 2020 Status Report. (via)
- Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker . (via)
- NetBSD Summer of Code reports:
- Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report.
- Extending the functionality of NetPGP, Part 1.
- Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, Part 1.
- Curses Library Automated Testing, Part 1.
- Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment, Part 1.
- Make system(3) and popen(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally, Part 1.
- Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 1.
- FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2020Q2. “Picked with the roll of a d100”.
- TrueNAS 12.0 beta available.
- Valuable News – 2020/07/13.
DMA in DragonFly, again
Not Direct Memory Access, but the DragonFly Mail Agent, born from a desire to replace larger mail transfer agents. It has its own repository, and the upgrade came from there back into DragonFly.
BSD Now 359: Throwaway Browser
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual roundup of news. Of note: experimental FreeBSD binary updates, and as you can guess from the title, another method of segregating your web browser from the rest of your environment.