May 2020 – DragonFly BSD Digest

This week's Lazy Reading supported, kindly, by Tse Gratis volunteering a bunch of links.

OpenVMS: Rollout of V9.0 and Beyond. Still going? (via)
Compiling for the Z-machine version 3.
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What sort of SSH keys our users use or have listed in their authorized keys files. An anthropological survey, in a way.
Big Box Collection. Software boxes. (via)
Buy Your Own Nuclear Reactor Control System. (via)
Obscure PDFs. Surely there are gems in here. (via)
Like for instance "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy". By Rob Pike in 2001.
Roam Research.
Desk setup from the guy who created i3. (via)
How I would put voice control in everything. Sensible! (via)
History of UNIX Manpages. (via)
The Tse Gratis section:

Something that makes me happy: Vermaden's Valuable News and BSD Now have both been reliable as clockwork for a long time now.

Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy. (via)
BSD Hardware - Details of BSD Powered Computers Over the World. (via)
Zig, a new language (that supports BSD). Thanks, Tse Gratis.
OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs. (via)
Podcast interview on SNMP. Ostensibly about SNMP, but involves BSD people.
NetBSD used to default to csh.
Netatalk3 Mac file sharing on NetBSD.
Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full. Linked cause I can never remember the right ifconfig syntax for a bridge.
EXAPUNKS and Opus Magnum on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 20.1.7 released.
Valuable News – 2020/05/25.

Welcome Daniel Fojt, our newest committer.

This week's BSD Now links to a bunch of what I call 'resource' articles, things that tell you how to do things and use stuff. It's good reading if you have the time.

Updates to third-party utilities happen often in DragonFly, and I don't often link because they may not affect users much - but I'm noting a change to xargs(1) cause given what xargs does, any mistake you make will be repeated many times.

Thanks to Daniel Fojt, wpa_supplicant(8) in DragonFly jumped from version 2.1 to 2.9. There's a nice changelog for the curious.

It's rare, but I was able to collect most of these links more than 24 hours before you are reading them.

Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC.
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 3: The Statists. Minitel!
The Internet's Many Branches.
Roguelike Celebration is going to happen! (virtually) Plus there's a call for papers.
PRINTING PRESSES ARE GIANT GPUS. (via)
New book: “Cash Flow for Creators”. If you are working anything but a corporate job ever, this will have value for you.
The Deprecated *nix API. (via)
When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery. (via)
Announcing the Second Edition of Learning Markdown.
Dungeons & Dragons at a Distance: Early Play-by-Mail D&D. (via)
Hagoromo chalks, progress & Vim. (via I lost it, sorry)
Desperate Pleas for Nothing. I get at least one of these every week.
C&C open sourced. (via)

For once I started on these early in the week.

Savaged by systemd, now available as an audiobook.
OpenBSD in a laptop, part 1 and part 2. (via, via)
FreeBSD and Google Season of Docs.
WireGuard on FreeBSD Quick Look: Testing VPN in Jail Network. (via)
Beautiful background pictures on OpenBSD.
Communauté OpenBSD française.
Valuable News – 2020/05/18.
Hexen II (Co-op) - PlayOnBSD.
BSD Weekly issue 20.
Installation images renamed from .fs to .img. OpenBSD.
OpenBSD 6.7 Released.
Setting Up Windows iSCSI Block Shares on TrueNAS & FreeNAS.
Even online, BSDCan 2020 needs volunteers.
First seed for OpenBSD/powerpc64 planted by kettenis@. How plentiful is this architecture these days?

BSD Now covers this week's OpenBSD release, along with other topics. I'll point out the "FreeNAS Spare Parts Build" since everyone does that sooner or later.

Thanks to Aaron LI and Daniel Fojt, libpcap and tcpdump in DragonFly have been updated. The vendor does The Right Thing and provides easy-to-find changelogs for both.

Martin Ivanov has completed his multiboot + DragonFly tutorial. You can read his users@ post on it now, though it should show up in dragonflybsd.org documentation soon.

No theme, cause I'm nicely spread out this week over topics.

Historical rediscovery: Zarf's Old Time Religion search.
The Shareware Scene series: Part 1: The Pioneers, Part 2: The Question of Games, and Part 3: The id Boys.
Recruiter Spam. I am quite familiar with this. (via)
The Adventurer-Dense to Adventurer-Sparse Spectrum: Vance to Tolkien. I have several Vance books out from the library I want to get through.
Zork 1977 Source Code Released. Linking late to this cause I wanted a good analysis, not just a link like most people had.
Atom Adventures (1981). Linking cause the screenshots and map make me nostalgic, even though I never had that game or even architecture.
Feynman videos.
Ways of Seeing, which I am surprised I have not linked before.
Bible + D&D.
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY. (via multiple)
A minimal .vimrc.
The FLOPKEY, possibly the slowest keyboard ever. (via)
My New Old Apple IIe Computer. Oh, what a lucky guy. (via)
ReActiveMicro. Found via previous story.
Regular Expressions for Regular Folk. (via)
jrnl - the command line journal. (via)
"gundial".

We need a "BSD Games" site.

This week's BSD Now is about half an hour of mostly FreeBSD items, though there is one feedback link of interest to any newer Lenovo laptop users.

You can now use newsyslog(8) to rotate logs being written by daemon(8), thanks to this commit from Peeter Must.

tcplay(8) in DragonFly jumped from 2.0 to 3.3. This will be most relevant to you if you encrypt your disks. It's nice to see DragonFly mentioned specifically on the GitHub source site.

This thread on having a tmpfs /var/run led to this commit, making it as easy as setting a rc.conf variable.

Emacs and Vim content; I feel like I should always have one with the other.

Tiny arcade stuffed in an NES controller.
Text Radio: Realtime written interviews hosted in Google Docs. (via)
Making Emacs popular again. (via)
Termshark: a terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark. (via)
An emotional trip to the 80's: Developing Games for the Speccy. (via)
The story behind Cryo and Westwood's 16-bit Dune games. There's a lot of period-specific imagery in that link that's fun to look at. (via)
Vim as a Markdown Editor. (via)
Film restored from 1888. (via)
Synth links at things magazine.
I Turned a 1920’s Typewriter into an EDM Drum Machine. (via)
Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks. (via)
90 Days With The Pinebook Pro. (via)
SSH Tunnel - Local, Remote and Dynamic Port Forwarding. (via)
We are complicit in our employer's deeds.
Text Adventures. (via)
Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases. (via)
Bug Stories. (via)
The case of the mysterious --help directory.
Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads and
Related: TRACKING READING.

Good mix of history and current BSDs this week.

FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: "I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!"
Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via)
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability. More BSD history, or prehistory. (via)
You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
NetBSD Core Team Changes.
HamBSD Development Log 2020-05-07. (via)
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2).
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects. (NetBSD)
Enable firefox dark mode.
Valuable News – 2020/05/04.
Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD. I am intrigued by the "Let's Note" laptops mentioned.
Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault.
Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD. (via)
What OSes we use here (as of May 2020).
OpenBSD ksh port for macOS and Linux. (via)
Time on Unix. (via)
Munching Squares. PDP-7, so pre-BSD, pre-UNIX?
virtualization in windows.

The recent 5.8.1 release of DragonFly includes, among other things, a fix for a de-duplication bug in HAMMER2. If you are curious, here's the commit / details.