This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of different releases, and also Emulex.
In Daniel Fojt’s ongoing series of third-party software upgrades, he’s moved libreSSL in DragonFly up a major version, from 2.9.1 to 3.1.3. This includes TLS 1.3, among other features.
Well, it’s really the meltdown fix for Intel. You now will see it noted if the fix is present, during the DragonFly boot process.
Tomohiro Kusumi has imported a new version of ext2 filesystem support into DragonFly.
Accidental topic: old-school games.
- Assignment 45, A Harry Flynn Adventure (1981). Interesting cause it’s a magazine article with the program source, something you don’t see much past the mid-80s.
- Advanced Vim Workflows. (via)
- Historical Games. (via)
- PunyInform, Inform 6 for 8-bit computers. (also via)
- Specification Writer job at Infocom LLC. “part of a clean room reverse engineering project”
- Modern Board Game Research. (via)
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator. I linked to an earlier version years ago. (via)
- IoDT The Internet of Dead Things Institute. (via)
- Laura Michet Uses This. Look at her custom SABER68 keyboard.
- March 2nd, 1943. A reminder: accurate dates in the past are bonkers hard.
- Running servers and Fred Brooks on transforming programs to products. Linked cause The Mythical Man-Month was right.
- AI Dungeon: Dragon mode. (via)
Lots of old BSD this week.
- Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
- 2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
- Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
- Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
- How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
- MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
- Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
- ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
- April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
- I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.
This week’s BSD Now is making reference to the episode count, I think. Of note this week: lots of how-to-do-this sorts of links.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, ldns in DragonFly is updated to 1.7.1. This time, I do have a changelog link.
It’s a minor update, but I have to point it out because my muscle memory still won’t let go of nslookup,
Francois Tigeot has updated the DRM driver in DragonFly to match what’s in Linux kernel 4.10.17. What’s that change? A few minutes of poking about doesn’t find a granular enough changelog.
I was a bit low on links last week; I made up for it this week.
- Mega Tiny Time Watch. (via)
- Commander 16. (via)
- Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40,000 disc writer (1987). (via)
- study tip: quiz yourself in vim.
- Netpbm Animation Showcase. You’ve probably used netpbm without knowing it.
- Don’t use food delivery apps; call restaurants direct.
- The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil.
- Stephen Strowes Uses This. “Network Measurement Researcher”.
- A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link.
- Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of Artificial Intelligence in Alien: Isolation. (via)
- jklp: a 36-key ergonomic keyboard. (via)
- Grinding Coffee with a TinyFPGA Board. Last sentence is the most important. (via)
- Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub.
- Perpetual motion machine compilation. (via)
- The Open Book; build your own e-reader. (via)
There’s a separate Summer of Code section this week.
- The Homura Project.
- First powerpc64 snapshots available. (OpenBSD)
- Timecounters available to userland in -current.
- Sponsor NetBSD (and pkgsrc) on Github. (via)
- Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI.
- Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM. Semisure this is still BSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD July 2020 Status Report. (via)
- Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker . (via)
- NetBSD Summer of Code reports:
- Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report.
- Extending the functionality of NetPGP, Part 1.
- Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, Part 1.
- Curses Library Automated Testing, Part 1.
- Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment, Part 1.
- Make system(3) and popen(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally, Part 1.
- Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 1.
- FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2020Q2. “Picked with the roll of a d100”.
- TrueNAS 12.0 beta available.
- Valuable News – 2020/07/13.
Not Direct Memory Access, but the DragonFly Mail Agent, born from a desire to replace larger mail transfer agents. It has its own repository, and the upgrade came from there back into DragonFly.
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual roundup of news. Of note: experimental FreeBSD binary updates, and as you can guess from the title, another method of segregating your web browser from the rest of your environment.
Both pf-badhost and unbound-adblock are now supported on DragonFly, as described in this post to users@ from Jordan Geoghegan. Other BSDs, too.
I didn’t know what sklearn was, but I know how to get it working on DragonFly, now.
I need to always preview these posts, cause cutting and pasting text sometimes brings along formatting elements not visible in the editor, but play heck with the actual layout.
- D&D Map Sketcher. (via)
- Web desktops. (via multiple places)
- Land of the Rising Sound | A Roland Retrospective. (via)
- What Ever Happened To Hearing Aid Beige?
- 120,000pt Helvetica. (via)
- Sloanstarter.
- Related: Robin Sloan’s delicious and expensive olive oil.
- Long Egg Production. It’s in German, so I can’t tell what this is.
- Historic Tale Construction Kit. (Thanks, Ben Collver)
Dragged right out of my RSS feeds.
- Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06.
- Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too.
- FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today.
- Deep Integration of Filesystem Extended Attribute Support. (HardenedBSD)
- OPNsense 20.1.8 released.
- TrueCommand 1.3 out.
- OpenBSD upgraders need to delete libperl.a.
- Diablo (Hell/Hell co-op) – PlayOnBSD. (via)
- Emulex – Cheapest 10GE for Your Homelab on FreeBSD. (via)
- Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro.
- Via previous link: Everyone should buy the USEBSD sticker.
This week’s BSD Now has a word combo I didn’t expect for a title, plus a number of useful learning links. This week’s highlight: more Yubikey BSD support.
Daniel Fojt has fixed something that has bothered me for years: you no longer need to manually create wlan interfaces; devd does it for you.