BSD Now has made it to the 400-episode milestone, and this one is a normal mix - the FreeBSD 13 release, multifactor on OpenBSD, etc.
With good timing, 6.x packages are now available for those of you who need them.
Maybe hardware hacks is the sub-theme this week.
- Bluetooth, based on this guy.
- Walkie-talkies that work over IP but without a network.
- Yay! Web Curios is back!
- Percy Ludgate talk, upcoming.
- WiFiStation: A WiFi interface for the Cidco MailStation. Reliably bonkers.
- Palm PDA nostalgia on its way!
- What I learned of the VOIP hacker scene by setting up a SIP Honeypot. Ongoing for years. (via)
- Step Inside the Miniature Worlds of Tatsuya Tanaka. (via)
- Squeezebox Keyboard. Also bonkers. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1986: Uncle Roger.
- geminiquickst.art. (via)
- Trying out learning more Vim on demand.
- The best version of the Unix Magic poster. (via)
BUG meetings seem to be happening again, which is nice.
- FreeBSD iostat: Understanding the Storage Subsystem and Disk I/O. (via)
- Port of the week: musickube. Looks ... usable?!
- Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments.
- No Complexity Allowed, on hello. (via)
- FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13.
- Polyglot *BSD, next NYCBSD meeting, 2021/05/05. I'll post a reminder day-of.
- ChiBUG May 11th Meeting - Virtual. This too.
- Initial Support for the riscv64 Architecture.
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 23 – Herbe Notifications and Part 24 – Universal File Opener.
- OPNsense 21.1.5 released.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/19.
- Port of the week: pup.
- FreeBSD router take 2 (pt. 1): OPNsense ZFS-based installation.
Since DragonFly 6.x is a major number change, there's no prebuilt packages that match that release number. As of this writing, the mirror master site shows 5.10 packages, which would work... if that was the next release. That's where the number change trips it up. There should be new 6.x packages in the next few days. (Thanks to Jan Peter Vogt for the reminder)
This week's BSD Now is more technical than usual, talking about a bunch of setup options. The title lead is an article about sandbox environments in different BSDs, though unfortunately vkernels are not covered.
The image should be at your nearest mirrors now.
The first RC for DragonFly 6.0 is branched. I don't expect a need for a second one; this release has been a long time baking (look at the commit list!) and is pretty well refined.
I'll be working on branching and releasing DragonFly 6.0 over the next while. We're overdue for a release. Tentatively, I'll branch tomorrow night, and start working on test images and release notes. The release will come in about a week, if there's no surprises.
Some nice in-depth reading awaits you below.
- Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup. A filtered list rather than a Github document, finally. (via)
- The Magician's Library. (via)
- The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme. Many of these links I've had previously - or wish I had. This will eat some hours. (via many places)
- IF talks at Flights of Foundry, happening now.
- The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike. (via)
- Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970. Linked for the lesson and for just looking at the equipment. (via)
- Related: The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 40: Wendy Carlos - A Clockwork Orange. Kinda hard to see the rest of the series, but interesting to see what a synth lesson looks like now: screenshots. (via)
- The Overedge Catalog: New Types of Research Organizations.
- Mac Chimes of Death. The car crash was a crowd-pleaser. (via)
- Everything VPN Is New Again. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1985: A Mind Forever Voyaging.
I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.
- Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
- Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
- UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
- OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
- Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
- A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
- LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
- My Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
- pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
- TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
- Michael Wl Lucas's Penguicon 2021 schedule.
Along with the normal news summaries, the latest BSD Now offers a bounty to the first person implementing Coordinated Mars Time; a worthy idea.
There's a new build of binary packages available, for both 5.8 and DragonFly-current.
ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren't near.
Some looks backward to prior links, but in a good way.
- Beatportal's Definitive Guide to Techno. (via)
- Which reminds me of eternal favorite Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.
- Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong. There's a whole chapter about this in the most in-depth regex book I ever read.
- ifconfig.co. Fetch that site for your plain text IP, plus other features. (via)
- How does Go know time.Now? (via)
- When Hackers Were Heroes. A worthwhile history read / book review. (via)
- Map ruler overlays in Cogmind. Linked for the quality demonstration animations.
- AFFINITIES, public domain images bound.
- Gossamer Network, an exploration of very specific data visualizations through a website. (via)
- Generative Unfoldings, computer art. (also via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1983: Suspended and 1984: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
- Even the footnotes have footnotes.
- research!rsc: Unix Viruses. Linked for the history. (via)
- Picking an operating based on feel.
I'm hitting all the unixes.
- Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
- Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
- Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven't seen it in dports yet.
- I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I'll post a reminder, of course.
- The pubnix history project. (via-via)
- Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
- FreeBSD's ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
- Steam on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
- Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
- The state of toolchains in NetBSD.
I thought I had done this before, but apparently not: the site is switched to https by default. Tell me if you notice problems from that.
This week's BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles - I see some Gemini sneaking in! - and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.
HardenedBSD 2021 "State of the Hardened Union", presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.