This week’s BSD Now is a little sad about FreeBSD 13/i386 going to a less-supported platform, but there’s plenty of links to other stories.
LibreSSL update and a reminder
LibreSSL in DragonFly has had a minor update, from 3.2.3 to 3.2.4, thanks to Daniel Fojt. It’s a bugfix update, but I’m using it as a chance to remind everyone you can use LibreSSL for everything in dports, too.
bmake vs dports
If you’re running on DragonFly master, make sure you are on the right version of bmake. If you are on 5.8, it won’t affect you.
There can be only one (tmpfs mount)
Well, that’s not exactly correct: you can mount more than one tmpfs, and you can mount multiples at the same spot, but I can’t think of a reason to do so. In fact, it could happen by accident, but there’s a fix for that in DragonFly, thanks to Aaron LI. Not a major problem, but mentioning it in case you saw it and were confused.
Lazy Reading for 2021/02/21
Today’s date is slightly confusing.
- A point to consider before retr0brigting. Dirt as nostalgia.
- Ditherpunk 2 — beyond 1-bit. I like the layout, not just the content. (via)
- pineapple60, an ergonomic keyboard with trackpoint. Made to fit in a Thinkpad. (also via)
- Visiting Another World, about Gemini. (via)
- Wonders of extraction: Coffee (part 1).
- 16th century automata.
- Unwinnability and Wishbringer.
- Starting FORTH. (via)
- Of tea, cakes and computers, Georgina Ferry (Wuthering Bytes 2019). I think I linked to another telling of this story years ago; the first business app was for a British caterer. (via)
- Neopixel LED Skirt. The bouncing ball animation is neat.
- I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You.
- Make the BeBox great again: TLS 1.2, inetd and more for PowerPC BeOS R5. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/20
There’s a lot to catch up on!
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- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6.
- fstab in FreeBSD jails.
- Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
- POSIX locale tracking coming soon. (MirBSD)
- /dev/{drm,drmR} replaced by /dev/dri/{card,renderD}
- runescape on openbsd?
- LWJGL 3.x now in ports tree (makes Minecraft >1.13 run).
- XScreenSaver alpha testers sought. Needs non-Linux testers; you know what to do.
- Seeding a file server quickly.
- A Trip into FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/02/15.
- pfSense Plus 21.02-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.0-RELEASE Now Available.
- Full list of services offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
- Catchup 2021-02-13. (OpenBSD) Hey that’s my schtick!
- Project Status, happy 15th anniversary. (MidnightBSD)
- FreeBSD and I2C. (via)
- NetBSD Resources. (via)
One more building fix
Because there’s a newer version of sh(1) in DragonFly, you may need to update your 5.8 system to continue building ports from source. Binary installation through pkg still works as expected so this may not affect you.
BSD Now 390: Commercial Unix Killer
The menacing BSD Now for this week covers a bunch of stuff, not just post hoc arguments, but there’s a special request: old retail BSD software. If you have older commercial disks or images floating around, they want to know.
New dports packages
There’s a new build of DragonFly 5.8 binary packages available. There’s a sudo fix in there for the recent public cross-platform CVE it had, plus the linked announcement describes how to get around a pkg upgrade bug.
Lazy Reading for 2021/02/14
Another informal history theme, not uncommon.
- Amulets, cassette tape art? (via)
- Early warning signs of shitty software.
- Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science, by Knuth. (via)
- The History of Trackers. (via)
- The Second Coming of Star Wars. The video games.
- The quest for Wolfenstein 3D music on the Apple IIgs.
- Tomorrow is ENIAC Day. 75 years! (via)
- MIDICSV. Structured text and music, has potential. (via)
- How and why I stopped buying new laptops. (via)
- On Planetary in 2020.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1976: Adventure.
- The Animation That Changed Cinema. 30 minutes of good animation.
- Free MWL novel.
Your unrelated music link of the week: Best electronic music on Bandcamp, January 2021.
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13
I have a link backlog, yay!
- Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
- The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
- Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
- Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
- Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
- The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
- TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
- OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
- OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
- pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
- WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
- We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
- Valuable News – 2021/02/08.
BSD Now 389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails
It’s been a quiet week, but at least we have the regular BSD Now episode to hear. They talk about Plan 9 this week, which I guess isn’t BSD but still entertains me.
Lazy Reading for 2021/02/07
There’s a few links in here that you could lose hours to. Those are the best!
- A 6502 (think Apple I) as a clamshell.
- “predicting the weather in the earth’s core is hard“. Meaning, the earth speeds up and slows down, unpredictably.
- Colour & Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum Group Collection. (via)
- Simulating Zoom circa 1990. The whole Slow Networks series there is fun. (also via)
- Useful video clips of Turing Award winners. Talking about innovations with the people that actually did them; Knuth on compiler writing, Hellman on public key encryption, etc.
- I wish every program that wanted ‘a SQL database’ would let me use SQLite. Same.
- The Hidden, Destructive Legacy of ‘Duke Nukem’. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1975: dnd.
- Bluetooth trackball Mark II. The ball is the trackball. (via)
- Semi-related: The Computer History Museum’s short films sorted by topic. You will also find some gems here.
- “The center of the Cloud is in Ashburn, Virginia”. The Cloud, the Civil War, and the “War on Coal”. (via)
- little sound dj, emulating a Game Boy just to make music. (via)
- “TLS Mastery” first draft done! Looking for technical reviewers.
- Generative Unfoldings, Opening April 1, 2021. All open source generative art.
- Links about todo.txt.
In Other BSDs for 2020/02/06
Hardware-heavy this week, sorta.
- leave(1) – remind you when you have to leave.
- Valuable News – 2021/02/01.
- Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD.
- Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD.
- BREAKING pf(4) change: change route-to so it sends packets to IPs instead of interfaces.
- TwinCAT/BSD, a new (to me at least) commercial use of FreeBSD in industrial settings.
- WireGuard for pfSense Software. I like that it’s sponsored work everyone gets access to.
- ujoy(4) added to -current. (OpenBSD)
- FreeBSD Bhyve Overview – Why Its Better Than Other Hypervisors. (via)
- Gamecontroller updates in -current. Related to previous link.
- OpenBSD KDE Status Report.
- Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages.
- AAA Gaming on OpenBSD with Google Stadia.
- FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin on Non-x86 Architectures.
- MirBSD “announce” RSS feed. A good idea for any project.
findmostly doesn’t needxargstoday on modern Unixes.
BSD Now 388: Must-have security tool
With a title like this, it seems you must listen to the newest BSD Now. The title’s talking about pf-badhost. There’s more covered in the episode.
jitsi and DragonFly
I’m not sure if this is directly helpful, but a recent series of posts about running jitsi on DragonFly covers the different parts of setting it up. There isn’t a “this is the solved answer” post to point at; I’m linking to the start of the thread as it might be useful for someone.
NYCBUG online Feb 3rd
Michael Dexter will be giving a talk for NYCBUG’s February 3rd meeting (6:45 PM Eastern) titled “Fifteen Years and Fifteen Minutes: Applying Occam’s Razor to FreeBSD with OccamBSD“. If you want to attend – and you should – email for the Zoom link; the address to email is in the linked message.
(I managed to miss putting this in In Other BSDs Saturday, but that’s OK; you should go cause this is a topic that isn’t covered anywhere else.)
Lazy Reading for 2021/01/31
Accidental theme of UNIX-ish history this week.
- Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it, internationalization edition. But are they clacky?
- mouSTer Is a Universal USB-Mouse Adapter for Retro Computers. (via)
- Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986.
- Folklore Generator. (via)
- Things I’ve learned about A/UX. I think not a BSD so it goes here.
- XTerm does graphics! (sort of). (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1974: Super Star Trek.
- Also from 1974: Moon Rocket Landing, for a calculator.
- The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is still developed and modern in 2021. Nostalgia for some readers. (via)
- OpenVMS CDE Desktop Remote X session GUI. Linked cause it’s unexpected. (via)
- Ben Zotto reconstructs a corrupted Apple II game he made in elementary school. Neat but multi-tweet stories on Twitter are just an easy way to lose information. (via)
- The select command.
- The Retro Mobile Gaming Database. (via)
- The Subcreation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien. (via)
Your unrelated music of the week: The Most Noble Adventures of Erebor’s Finest Son, In His Quest To Butcher Orcs And Save The World. “Metal, minus those boring verses, choruses and solos, thus leaving only the most metal of song components; riffs and slams.” It’s bebop in metal form, and if you understand that joke you are a music nerd and it’s wonderful. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/01/30
A FreeBSD-heavy week.
- Remembering the work of David M. Tilbrook and the QED editor. Pre-BSD.
- fzf, for BSD and other places. (via)
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2020.
- FreeBSD/i386 demoted to Tier 2 for FreeBSD 13.x
- The strange case of the ching in the unix. (via)
- Create FreeBSD pkg(8) Mirror Using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. (via)
- GhostBSD Install and Review. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/01/25.
- FOSSASIA, March 13-21, call for speakers. It’s virtual.
- FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro. (via)
- cool-retro-term. This will give you flashbacks if applicable.
- OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released.
- OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen). Maybe, maybe worth replacing this x220 with.
- Mirage Online Classic, should play on any BSD.
- Workaround for Bluetooth controllers on OpenBSD.
- NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite.
BSD Now 387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio
This week’s BSD Now is mostly OpenBSD news items – media work, password keepers, and so on.