Some meaty links this week.
- How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system? I ask that question because I saw this.
- Undeadly has a nice set of links to all the recent BSDCan 2014 presentation videos. I don’t see Francois Tigeot’s DragonFly talk in there, though – don’t know if it got recorded.
- Packaging on FreeBSD, for those who haven’t moved to pkg yet. (via)
- DiscoverBSD news summary for 2014/05/26.
- 56 different BSD-oriented Twitter accounts.
- A recording of Michael W. Lucas’s recent OpenBSD webcast is available now. I think that link will work – might require giving your email.
- Getting files off your Android phone – this was on openbsd-misc@ but probably applies to any BSD. Follow the thread for answers.
- kornbrew, a run ‘n’ play missing package manager for BSD.
- NetBSD has moved to gcc 4.8.3.
- If you are using OpenBSD and encrypted vnd, you will need to migrate off of it before the next OpenBSD release.
- Google’s Compute Engine SDK runs just fine on OpenBSD, as Michael W. Lucas found out.
- PC-BSD Digest 30.
- Plugins in FreeNAS.
- Warren Block’s BSDCan 2014 trip report.
I have CDs for 2.2.x and 3.1 in a drawer at home. And a 7.0 box running at work (will be upgraded/replaced this summer).
YouTube link for the OpenBSD talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrFfrrY-yOo
My talk isn’t among the various BSDCan ones because it was made at PGCon — same place, different crowd and a week later.
I didn’t even knew I would soon be giving a DragonFly-related presentation during BSDCan 2014. It was a rushed job started from a random discussion in one of the hacker lounges and only made possible thanks to Dan Langille, who convinced me to stay for PGCon.
I guess I’ll have to give the same talk at BSDCan next year :-)
If anyone is interested, I have been maintaining a list of FreeBSD developers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skreuzer/lists/freebsd-developers
I also started to put one together with OpenBSD developers as well: https://twitter.com/skreuzer/lists/openbsd-developers
This might also be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4psTQ1sX7s
It’s Bob Beck’s talk at the Calgary Unix Users’ Group, recorded this Tuesday. It’s quite similar to the one he delivered at BSDCan.
@Francois Tigeot
I was actually looking for you after watching BSDTV before I realized that too yesterday.
> How old is your oldest on-disk Unixish operating system?
FreeBSD nova.ih 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #0: Tue Aug 17 22:08:10 MSD 2004 root@heart.ih:/var/src/sys/compile/NOVA i386
CPU: i386DX (386-class CPU)
alive and kicking
Why do you still have a 32bit FreeBSD system running with version 3.5? Upgrade to DragonFlyBSD.
I only have a few CDs left: 2.2.8 (Dec 1998), 3.3 (Oct 1999), a couple of 4.0 snapshots from 1999, 4.1 (Aug 2000) and an unopened 5.1 (June 2003).
Now with freebad-update and pkg it is much easier to keep things current
so things are now running 9.2 or 10.