This query had karu.pruun write a short note on how to contribute (device driver) development work to DragonFly. Don’t forget grok.
BSD Now 406: Jailed Gemini Capsule
Sounds like a space drama: this week’s BSD Now covers some different flavors of virtualization plus notes a Michael W. Lucas interview.
maxvnodes change in DragonFly
If you are one of those unlucky/foolhardy people running DragonFly with very little RAM, this maxvnodes change will help you out.
(DragonFly is not that RAM-hungry in normal circumstances, anyway; 1-2G is ‘safe’, last I knew.)
Pageout refactoring in DragonFly
Lazy Reading for 2021/06/06
A short but oddball batch of links this week.
- Ambigram StyleGAN faces. Somewhat disturbing but well explained. (via)
- How Developers Choose Names. (also via)
- Perl / Unix One-liner Cage Match, Part 1 and Part 2. (via)
- rpg-cli: Your filesystem as a dungeon! Did I link this already? (via)
- Electric Ink Analysis. Product review as category review.
- Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins. Video. (via)
- RetroForth investigation.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1992: Silverwolf.
- More 6502 Updates.
- Problems with video recreations of classic pinball.
- Gun book. (via)
- Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the movie, which I am sure I have mentioned before.
- A New Session. A telnet-only magazine. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05
Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.
- Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
- NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
- Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
- Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via)
- Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via)
- Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD. (via)
- NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
- HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
- NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
- FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6. It is adorable.
- What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
- Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
- aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
- FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current). For Minecraft on BSD users.
- Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
- Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
- Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
- Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
- Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years. Look at the first comment on the source.
- You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD. (via)
BSD Now 405: OOM Killer Feature
This week’s BSD Now talks about starts (NetBSD, DragonFly releases) and ends (preventing memory-based process kills, deleting boot environments).
zalloc progress report
James Cook continues to work on zalloc, and he’s published a small report on his progress.
Nolan Bushnell conversation Thursday
Normally I’d throw this into the Lazy Reading section, but it’s happening Thursday and that would be too late: Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari (and Chuck E. Cheese) is doing a live Q&A Thursday in conjunction with ICHEG.
NYCBUG: Minimal Scripted Configuration
Tomorrow, for NYCBUG, Minimal Scripted Configuration from Eric Radman. Go, if you’re online.
Lazy Reading for 2021/05/30
Oddball finds week.
- explain.dalibo.com, a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE explainer. (via)
- Hifi Wasteland I: 100 Year Old Quick Silver Cloud, the sound of a vacuum tube decaying.
- Zosya, modern games for Spectrum ZX machines, I think? (via)
- The different types of modern (2021) SSH keys (and some opinions).
- Related: Understanding OpenSSH’s various options around keys and key algorithms.
- Pinebook Pro review.
- Cracking a 35 year old Macintosh Game. (via)
- Reviving a Dead Macintosh Classic, from the same place.
- System76 announced an open source mechanical keyboard “Launch”. (via)
- The Graphics Gremlin: a Retro ISA Video Card. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1991: Trade Wars 2002.
- Handheld ePaper map.
- Roguelike Celebration 2021 open for submissions.
Your unrelated video of the week: “treat the human face like a graphic equaliser for breakbeat“. Hypnotic. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29
Some useful setup instructions in here.
- NetBSD: Using virtualization: QEMU and NVMM. Didn’t know this existed. (via)
- Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 26 – Configuration – Conferencing and Meetings.
- Valuable News – 2021/05/24.
- HardenedBSD Switching IRC Servers.
- NYCBUG is doing that too.
- And other spots.
- My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions.
- Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can.
- FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 3): Excursion – De-hardening OPNsense for 2022?
- FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 4): Demoting my ISP’s router.
- OPNsense 21.1.6 released.
- Opening a Garage Door Using OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi.
- KDE Plasma Wayland – a week in FreeBSD.
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o3.
- Why OpenBSD?
- SemiBUG, meeting soon with Jitsi?
DMA cross-platform reminder
BSD Now 404: BSD Now Hosts Not Found
This week’s BSD Now is an excellent HTTP joke but is also effectively a guest episode, with some new talkers.
A volunteer approaches!
James Cook is interested in working on zalloc in DragonFly, taken from the projects page. Follow his questions and the answers if this interests you.
Lazy Reading for 2021/05/23
This is a good link week; several deep dives.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1990: LambdaMOO. Still running!
- How to write release notes.
- Sharing Secrets.
- Designing Winterbloom’s Big Honking Button. (via)
- Which leads me to Eurorack.
- Pinebook Pro first impressions. (via)
- Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes. (via)
- Associations: Penrose Tiling and toilet paper.
- Using Xterm to Navigate the Huge Color Space. A deep dive. (via)
- A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages. Surely you know some of these by now?
- Why C is so influential. Video.
- The blessing of the leading zero.
- SIGGRAPH 2021: Technical papers preview trailer.
In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22
Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.
- NetBSD Annual General Meeting is today.
- NetBSD 9.2 is out.
- The state of toolchains in OpenBSD.
- Building LLVM on OpenBSD/loongson and OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Yeeloong 8101B.
- FreeBSD Release 13.0 Highlights.
- NomadBSD 130R-20210508 released.
- Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs.
- FreeBSD on the Pine H6.
- Half-Life (including distributable game data).
- Help prospective KGB operative. Bug report as cosplay?
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 25 – Configuration – Random Terminal Theme.
- Valuable News – 2021/05/10 and Valuable News – 2021/05/17.
- More Go modules in pkgsrc.
- gmock and gtest on OpenBSD 6.9 hate each other. (via)
BSD Now 403: The Linuxulator Investment
This week’s BSD Now, a light run, talks about licensing and industrial automation, but not at the same time.
POLLHUP for Zig
Matthew Dillon implemented POLLHUP for pipes in DragonFly, in -current and 6.0. I mention it because it was for Zig support, and it’s always nice to get a bug report directly from people developing a tool or language.
Remember to check the port when installing
I’ve seen this a number of times over the years: if you’re installing DragonFly and the install drive seems to disappear, it might be the USB port you plug into.