No pun for a title, but it's a good description: BSD Now has an interview of Solene Rapenne, who I've linked to about a zillion times in the In Other BSDs posts.
If you have a NVMe disk that happens to let's say report inaccurate capabilities (i.e. lie cause it was built cheap), the NVMe driver in DragonFly can now attempt to survive the surprise.
CBSD, the virtualization-management-on-FreeBSD tool could be made to support DragonFly and NVMM. Here's a tracking issue for it.
DragonFly and Hyper-V's virtual disk support do not appear to co-operate well, according to this bug report. Anyone have a Hyper-V host where they can confirm?
I am definitely doing very much nothing today.
- Bandcamp: The Chaos Bazaar. Very in-depth analysis of the different business models between Bandcamp and Spotify. Also: Bandcamp may be the biggest physical music media seller in the world? (via)
- Searzall Pro. I have the original and it works great, so here's your chance to get a rather unique device. The creators have a podcast which I enjoy in part because unlike many podcasts they talk fast enough.
- 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday. (via)
- The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine. Have I linked to that hardware before?
- ElitePetite.
- A followup on the open source creators photos I think I linked to at some point.
- Zala Vacha.
- thewebisfucked.com. (via)
- Scoundrel of the Year. It's the lack of imagination that bothers me. (via many places)
- Summary of "Unix Administration Horror Stories" thread. (via)
- Might and Magic, a history.
- NextSpace: NeXTSTEP-like desktop environment for Linux. (via)
- GameDev News for 15 December 2021. Linked for the links; lots to read from there.
Merry Christmas! I am probably opening presents or poking my children to wake up and open presents hurry hurry, as you read this.
- helloSystem 0.7 is out.
- FreeBSD, Jails and SYSV IPC. (via)
- FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Advocacy.
- FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Infrastructure Support.
- FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2021 Status Update. Foundation, not Project.
- OpenVPN on OpenBSD in its own rdomain to prevent data leak.
- [talk] Linux Compat on FreeBSD. A tip for better compatibility.
- OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2.
- Persistency management of memory based filesystem on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/12/20.
- SSH Agent Restriction.
- Clang upgraded to version 13. (OpenBSD)
The holiday puns continue with BSD Now doing a reverse interview of the hosts.
Longtime readers won't be surprised by any of the content, but there's a DragonFly overview at MakeUseOf.
It's on Jitsi so you can totally attend. The announcement also mentions the next three months of presentations and who's coming in to present. There's some good (not necessarily BSD) content on the way.
Guess which link this week is a business decision I am maybe considering...
- Weird: Generative art in Common Lisp. More here from comments at source link.
- Print-your-own chocolate molds.
- All Sound Recordings Prior to 1923 Will Enter the US Public Domain in 2022.
- Related: An advent calendar of works becoming public domain in 2022.
- A list of links about fakery.
- In Praise of Glitches. I feel ...nostalgic? about uuencoding errors in rebuilt images.
- 50 years of Text Games: 2018: Weyrwood.
- Parceiro: An Extraordinary Upgrade for Amiga 1000 Users.
- Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain.
Again, trying to clean out the Solene links in my RSS feed - and not succeeding!
- Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad. Misses the point that the Unix (and BSD) philosophy was that the base system was complete and self-hosting. (via)
- Unix philosophy without left-pad, Part 2: Minimizing dependencies with a utilities package. Here is more. (via)
- NanoPi R4S - ARM64- FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/12/13.
- Secure Containerized Browser. Similar to this on DragonFly.
- OpenZFS Native Encryption.
- BSDDialog. You probably already have this installed. (via)
- Using awk to pretty-display OpenBSD packages update changes.
- Port of the week: cozy.
- What are the VPN available on OpenBSD[?]
You didn't need it or use it, but the name itself has a certain symbolism.
I feel like it's perfect that the first article linked in this week's BSD Now is for GhostBSD, since this is exactly the right date for that pun.
ChiBUG meets tonight, in person. RSVP and go, if you are near.
There's some gift ideas in here.
- The Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute. Styles and time periods. (via)
- d20 Orbs.
- Robot Arm Clock. Entertainingly dumb. (via)
- postmarketOS, an indirect explanation.
- SerenityOS, an indirect explanation.
- Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time. (via)
- Related and same source: r/selfhosted.
- Have Vint Cerf tell you about how he and others built the Internet.
- The Ether, an anti-radio. This seems like a good Christmas present to me. (via)
- This can't work out well. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2015: Lifeline, 2016: The Freshman, and 2017: Universal Paperclips.
- The Analog Thing. (via)
A little short this week but the holidays are catching up to me.
- The Apple Macintosh as a User Interface Agent for Unix Systems. (via)
- BSDCan 2022 is going to happen and maybe even in person. The call for papers is out.
- ChiBUG is meeting this Tuesday, the 14th.
- FreeBSD 12.3 is out.
- Valuable News – 2021/12/06.
- Using FreeBSD’s pkg audit to Investigate Known Security Issues.
- LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support.
- FreeBSD on Slimbook -- 14 months of updates.
- TrueNAS 12.0U7 is out.
- Cross-platform package building: Pkgsrc vs. Ravenports, parts one and two.
- Active Directory not-on-Windows, might be useful.
- A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like.
If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly _and_ installed the newest dports binary package build _and_ you are using Samba, you may need to update and rebuild.
This week's BSD Now talks about HAMBUG, the BUG meeting I don't catch enough, plus ZFS news.
Tomohiro Kusumi has removed the old GNU implementation of ext2fs from DragonFly and added the non-GPL-encumbered FreeBSD implementation of ext2fs.