This has been a good week for BSD releases, hasn’t it? This week’s BSDNow gets into RISC-V, too.
SEMIBUG and Emacs presentation
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to shake your fist at the screen and mumble “viiiiiiiiiiii”.
Lazy Reading for 2021/10/17
Mini-theme: old hardware or new terminals, you pick.
- Tim Van Damme Uses This. More detail on keyboard setup than I expected.
- The 100 MHz 6502. (via)
- Mac SE/30 odyssey. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.02 out now.
- Writing a simple arcade game in Lisp. (via)
- Warp Terminal Emulator Review. Linked mostly to show how the shell/terminal is still evolving. (via)
- The Return of the Unix Shell. Related to previous idea. (via)
- The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists. (via)
- Vim Anti-Patterns That Cause Beginners to :Quit. (via)
- Not so Common Desktop Environment (NsCDE) 1.3 released. Mostly linked for the name. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2008: Violet and 2009: Fallen London.
In Other BSDs for 2021/10/16
Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases.
- Automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates in Apache with mod_md.
- FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user. (via)
- FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup.
- NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen.
- MATE 1.26.0 upgrade ready. (GhostBSD)
- Valuable News – 2021/10/11.
- OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released.
- OpenBSD 7.0 released.
BSD Now 424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge
This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.
St. Louis UNIX Users Group, today
SLUUG, which has the best acronym, meets tonight at 6ish PM Central time on Zoom.
DragonFly 6.0.1 released!
6.0.1 is tagged and available. The major reason for this update is an expired Let’s Encrypt certificate that would cause problems when downloading dpkg binaries. A list of 6.0.1 commits is available.
I recommend the usual rebuild process mentioned on the 6.0 release notes:
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgradeDon’t forget to update your packages with ‘pkg upgrade’.
Hamilton BUG meeting now
ChiBUG online meeting tonight
BSD Now 423: RACK the Stack
I managed to miss it last week, but last week’s BSD Now talks about NetFlix’s usage of FreeBSD to serve a ridiculous amount of data, among other things.
Lazy Reading for 2021/10/10
UNIX history for the mini-theme this week.
- Keyboard hacks for microwave ovens. (via)
- Raspberry Pi SDR Cyberdeck.
- Pong from the inside. (via)
- multizork. (via)
- André Arko Uses This.
- Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century. (via)
- DOS Subsystem for Linux. Why why whywhywhywhy? (via)
- Wizards and warriors, part five. (via)
- Graphic Design History Resources. (via)
- LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks. (via)
- Stanley Kubrick liked UNIX. (via)
- Our New Infrastructure.
- Dali Clock on the TRS-80 CoCo.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2007: El museo de las consciencias; Lieux communs.
- Shiner ESB, an Apple Network Server prototype, and what it did at Netscape/MCom.
Your unrelated animation of the week: Cyriak Animator Pro.
In Other BSDs for 2021/10/09
It is status report season!
- ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
- OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
- Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
- pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via)
- What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD. Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
- HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports. (via)
- The OpenBSD Webzine. (via)
- Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
- Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
- HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
- GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
- Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
- Valuable News – 2021/10/04.
Let’s Encrypt cert problem fixed
If you have encountered that problem with Let’s Encrypt and dports, the fix is committed and a make world is needed.
libvirt and DragonFly
If libvirt running with nvmm on DragonFly interests you, watch this bug report.
Lazy Reading for 2021/10/03
This is a good week for variety.
- The original Utah Teapot, which you’ve surely seen.
- Myst (2020). I forget that the original was Hypercard.
- A plenitude of alchemical domains. Linked for flowcharts.
- Log, a robotic abacus of life.
- Bespoke Synth. (via)
- Vintage Ad Browser and Cover Browser. (via)
- No one can be told what the cookie policy is. You have to see it for yourself.
- Ten Days of Steve Ditko. (via)
- Rewilding Your Attention. Of course I agree. (via)
- The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony.
- How to write a text editor for a 31 year old computer. (via)
- The code worked differently when the moon was full. (via)
- musikcube, a terminal music player and library manager. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2006: Dwarf Fortress. Yes.
In Other BSDs for 2021/10/02
Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.
- pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
- SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
- Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
- Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
- Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
- Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
- Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
- RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.
BSD Now 422: Brian Callahan
This week’s BSD Now is entirely an interview of Brian Callahan.
Let’s Encrypt certs and pkg
You may get some errors because of an expiring base Let’s Encrypt certificate when using pkg. It’s being worked on.
mirror-eu-1.dragonflybsd.org removal
The not-official-but-still-used mirror-eu-1.dragonflybsd.org mirror is going away later next month. The main site probably has enough bandwidth to compensate.
mandoc updated in DragonFly
Not huge news about mandoc, but I always like linking to updates with clear changelists.