Rimvydas Jasinskas has been making DragonFly world buildable on other system. I don’t know what for, but it’s interesting. There are many more commits than the ones I linked.
This week’s BSD Now has links to a number of about-BSD articles, as usual. Take note – there’s links to two European BUG meetings I didn’t have noted, under Beastie Bits.
Random number generation on DragonFly now runs per–CPU, and a bit faster. No real user effect, but randomness is one of those endlessly complex topics that are fun to read about.
NYCBUG meets tomorrow, at Chartbeat. You can bring in food, too! Go, if you are near.
Today’s date is fun to type.
- Elizabeth Goodspeed’s list of open access archives, historical ephemera and found materials. (via)
- Tinker Tech, a review of the Pinebook Pro that’s an exact description of the target audience.
- Pinebookpro gaming part 2, related. (via)
- NexDock 2, a Kickstarter I regret missing. (via previous link)
- Meet micro:bit. I think I linked these before. (via)
- SourceGen Disassembly Projects. Mostly Apple][. (via)
- PastWindow, a window with a 6-month delay. (via)
- Plotting Perlin Landscapes. Pen plotters are hypnotizing to watch in motion.
- Sea and Spar Between, an online generator of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson’s poetry, mashed together. Read the instructions. (via)
- The text adventure game of exiting a telnet session. (via)
- Coffee++ keyboardlayout (ENTI-key++). For when you don’t want to put down your drink. (via)
- Mysterious packets in the night. Linked cause live monitoring is underrated.
- AI Dungeon and Creativity.
- Tangent: The Automated Dungeon Master.
- Bucklespring, Model M audio emulation. (via)
- Terminal Phase, a terminal-based space shooter. (via)
- The happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work.
- KnightOS was an interesting operating system.
- The 4X seen as an RPG. (via)
- Master of Orion, in-depth.
- anideafora.website. Exactly that. (via)
- 2020 Web Milestones. Flash and Python 2 finally stop this year. (via)
Your unrelated music link of the day: The Death Metal Double Life of “Atypical” Star Keir Gilchrist. (thanks, Drew Diver) Getting that link made me notice the Bandcamp RSS feed quietly stopped working; an inquiry to their support got me this independent link for now.
There’s a lot of releases happening.
- Next NYCBUG meeting: February 5th. I’ll post a reminder.
- Don’t forget there’s ChiBUG and SEMIBUG meetings coming up on the 11th and 18th, respectively.
- FOSDEM 2020 is happening now and there’s a BSD devroom. (reminded via)
- The MWL 2020 Asia Tour. Worth catching if you are on that side of the world; these events sound fun.
- FreeBSD quarterly status report for 2019Q4.
- “OpenBSD/arm64 on the Pinebook Pro with working wireless, USB and graphics!” (via)
- Related: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a bored open source developer. (via)
- HardenedBSD Tor Onion Service v3 Nodes.
- The Idealistic Future of HardenedBSD.
- LPE and RCE in OpenBSD OpenSMTPD. (via)
- Related: OpenSMTPD advisory dissected. (via)
- Deploy Kubernetes Cluster on FreeBSD Bhyve (CBSD). (via)
- Meet FuryBSD: A New Desktop BSD Distribution. (via)
- Thoughts on FuryBSD 12.0. (via)
- Insights into Why Hyperbola GNU/Linux is Turning into Hyperbola BSD. (via)
- FreeNAS 11.3-RELEASE Available. (via)
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release.
- Valuable News – 2020/01/27.
- Debugging FFS Mount Failures. On NetBSD, but FFS is everywhere.
- First release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available!
- Clang build bot now uses two-stage builds, and other LLVM/LLDB news. NetBSD.
- GSoC 2019 Final Report: Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
- Working towards LLDB on i386. NetBSD.
- Improving the ptrace(2) API and preparing for LLVM-10.0. NetBSD.
- Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn.
- pppac(4) replaces tun(4) in npppd(8). OpenBSD.
- [packages] firefox 71.0: pledge configuration change. OpenBSD.
- Should you abandon Linux and switch to *BSD?
- OPNsense 19.7.10 released.
- OPNsense 20.1 “Keen Kingfisher” released.
- BSD Link Roundup 1.29.
- FreeBSD MiniConf at LCA2020 Conference Recap. (via)
- Locking down the Instance Metadata Service: Announcing imds-filterd. I like new tools for not-BSD coming from BSD-using vendor.