May 2021 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2021/05/302021/05/29

Lazy Reading for 2021/05/30

Oddball finds week.

explain.dalibo.com, a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE explainer. (via)
Hifi Wasteland I: 100 Year Old Quick Silver Cloud, the sound of a vacuum tube decaying.
Zosya, modern games for Spectrum ZX machines, I think? (via)
The different types of modern (2021) SSH keys (and some opinions).
Related: Understanding OpenSSH’s various options around keys and key algorithms.
Pinebook Pro review.
Cracking a 35 year old Macintosh Game. (via)
Reviving a Dead Macintosh Classic, from the same place.
System76 announced an open source mechanical keyboard “Launch”. (via)
The Graphics Gremlin: a Retro ISA Video Card. (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 1991: Trade Wars 2002.
Handheld ePaper map.
Roguelike Celebration 2021 open for submissions.

Your unrelated video of the week: “treat the human face like a graphic equaliser for breakbeat“. Hypnotic. (via)

2021/05/292021/05/29

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/29

Some useful setup instructions in here.

2021/05/282021/05/27

DMA cross-platform reminder

I’ve mentioned it before, but this recent update to dma in DragonFly reminded me: “dma” stands for DragonFly Mail Agent, a minimal mail agent created for DragonFly as a lighter, local replacement for Sendmail in a base install. But! It’s cross–platform now, and even “upstream” from DragonFly.

2021/05/27

BSD Now 404: BSD Now Hosts Not Found

This week’s BSD Now is an excellent HTTP joke but is also effectively a guest episode, with some new talkers.

2021/05/26

A volunteer approaches!

James Cook is interested in working on zalloc in DragonFly, taken from the projects page. Follow his questions and the answers if this interests you.

2021/05/232021/05/22

Lazy Reading for 2021/05/23

This is a good link week; several deep dives.

50 Years of Text Games: 1990: LambdaMOO. Still running!
How to write release notes.
Sharing Secrets.
Designing Winterbloom’s Big Honking Button. (via)
Which leads me to Eurorack.
Pinebook Pro first impressions. (via)
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes. (via)
Associations: Penrose Tiling and toilet paper.
Using Xterm to Navigate the Huge Color Space. A deep dive. (via)
A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages. Surely you know some of these by now?
Why C is so influential. Video.
The blessing of the leading zero.
SIGGRAPH 2021: Technical papers preview trailer.

2021/05/222021/05/22

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

2021/05/20

BSD Now 403: The Linuxulator Investment

This week’s BSD Now, a light run, talks about licensing and industrial automation, but not at the same time.

2021/05/19

POLLHUP for Zig

Matthew Dillon implemented POLLHUP for pipes in DragonFly, in -current and 6.0. I mention it because it was for Zig support, and it’s always nice to get a bug report directly from people developing a tool or language.

2021/05/17

Remember to check the port when installing

I’ve seen this a number of times over the years: if you’re installing DragonFly and the install drive seems to disappear, it might be the USB port you plug into.

2021/05/162021/05/13

Lazy Reading for 2021/05/16

Time for a new category marking.

2021 IGF nominees: stunning environments, cosmic horror and not-horror, and there’s a bunch more summaries.
Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe.
Understanding OpenSSH’s future deprecation of the ‘ssh-rsa’ signature scheme. More than one thing named RSA, is the issue.
The Ratings Game, Part 3: Dueling Standards. Goes with lyrics labeling in music.
Digital.Visual.Material, computers as audiovisual material, a symposium. (via)
“Bluetooth” name origin story filters through to normal media – remember I linked to a similar story some time ago? There’s a lifecycle to where news shows up.
NEVER OBSOLETE. (via)
Diffusion-limited aggregation, so you now know where that one screensaver comes from. (The more interesting source.)
Nixie tubes AND persistence of vision effects, together.
50 Years of Text Games: 1988: P.R.E.S.T.A.V.B.A. and 1989: Monster Island.
A Few More Useful Pandoc Tricks.
z88dk, the z88 development kit. (via)
How the personal computer broke the human body. Excellent pictures. (via)
Who Invented Heavy Metal?

2021/05/152021/05/13

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/15

Some opinion, some documentation.

Running FreeBSD Jails with containerd 1.5. (via)
Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy. (via)
As Longtime BSD User I Have My Doubts About Our Future. First comment in the source link about not using strengths is true.
FreeBSD PKG Base Repository. (via)
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd. (via)
pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package. (via)
March/April 2021 FreeBSD Journal. Why doesn’t this show in the RSS feed for that site? (via)
NetBSD Foundation Annual General Meeting, online, May 22.
FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1.
Registration Open for the June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Talk and ytalk nostalgia.
LLDB core dump support improvements.

2021/05/13

One more reminder about pkg

If you are upgrading an older 5.8.x system to DragonFly 6, and get a lua error when updating pkg: manually copy over a config file, and you’ll be set.

2021/05/13

BSD Now 402: Goodbye GPL

This week’s BSD Now leads with that article about how the GPL isn’t fit for purpose; read it if you have not yet.

2021/05/12

IDs added for ichsmb(4)

Sascha Wildner has added the PCI IDs for various recent ichsmb(4) devices. This I think just means a correct device name in dmesg, but unidentified smbus devices has plagued me for years, even with other operating systems.

2021/05/112021/05/09

ChiBUG meeting, virtual, today

The ChiBUG May 11th Meeting is today, and it’s virtual – so you can go and should.

2021/05/102021/05/09

DragonFly 6.0 is out!

DragoFly 6.0 is tagged and ready for download. There’s ISO images and of course you can upgrade using the notes on the release page. One of the improvements in this release cycle is improved dsynth support, so of course there are many prebuilt packages available; don’t forget to update those too.