Whee!
- HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
- TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
- Old USENIX pictures.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
- OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
In Other BSDs for 2021/03/06
Whoops – I managed to somehow not put the correct publish date on this when I started filling it out. Hopefully it reappears in people’s feeds again. especially cause I did some hardcore link/tab/RSS cleanouts this week.
- HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, April 7th, NYCBUG.
- TrueNAS 12.0-u2.1 released.
- Old USENIX pictures.
- Valuable News – 2021/03/01.
- OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong. The return of MIPS, which I liked.
- OPNsense 21.1.2 released.
- Use innoextract to get game files from a GOG installer.
- FreshBSD relaunched. (via)
- OpenBSD – make sure wsconsctl is in sync with the kernel.
- MidnightBSD 2.0.5 released.
- Bastille on MidnightBSD.
- Related: HardenedBSD February 2021 Status Report.
- A comparison between mports and FreeBSD ports.
- LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed.
- Multi-OS PXE-booting from FreeBSD 12: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
- dhcpleased(8) – DHCP client daemon. I’m going to read “please” in that every time.
- resolvd(8) – daemon to handle nameserver configuration.
- Introducing veb(4) – a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge.
- OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1.
- Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id.
- bhyve for Calamares Development.
- Port of the week: checkrestart.
New desktop images
New to me, at least, on the DragonFly images page.
BSD Now 392: macOS inspired Desktop
This week’s BSD Now is almost all FreeBSD-related, with mention of something I haven’t investigated enough yet: helloSystem.
NYCBUG: Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia
NYCBUG’s on Zoom, tonight at 18:45 eastern.
New games on DragonFly
Lazy Reading for 2021/02/28
If you enjoy the weekend reading, or even the weekday posts, consider my Patreon. It’d be nice if it bought me some good coffee.
- The Public Domain Review’s Caption Contest.
- Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer. (video, via)
- Typographische Jahrbücher, 1902.
- What else hath God wrought? “lo”, one of my favorites. (via)
- 72 encounters from the City of Spires.
- Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step).
- History of the PDF format. (via)
- Stores for Commodore 128 components.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1977: Zork and 1978: Pirate Adventure.
- MacLynx beta 3 — really!
- The Plain Text Tools I Use (2021 Edition).
- Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program. Very much a transitional machine between early analog and modern.
- “Basic Computer Games“, an updated version of the book. (via)
Your unrelated to anything at all image of the week: Saskatchewan!
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/27
I’ll post reminders day-of for the BUG meetings.
- XScreenSaver version 6 beta 1. Still need BSD beta testers.
- The next FreeBSD Office Hours is March 17th.
- Related though not BSD: Open source projects should run office hours.
- FreeBSD wall display computer. Argh, no RSS feed at that site.
- ChiBUG, virtual meeting March 17th, with Paul Vixie.
- Port of the week: shapez.io – a libre factory game.
- Any MMOs I can play on openbsd?
- Upgrade FreeBSD with ZFS Boot Environments.
- Valuable News – 2021/02/22.
- Next NYC*Bug: March 3rd Gaming on OpenBSD: Pearls, Pitfalls, Paranoia.
- pfSense: Obscure Bugs and Code Wizards.
- From Clean & Green Mockup to OpenBSD cwm(1) desktop.
BSD Now 391: i386 tear shedding
This week’s BSD Now is a little sad about FreeBSD 13/i386 going to a less-supported platform, but there’s plenty of links to other stories.
LibreSSL update and a reminder
LibreSSL in DragonFly has had a minor update, from 3.2.3 to 3.2.4, thanks to Daniel Fojt. It’s a bugfix update, but I’m using it as a chance to remind everyone you can use LibreSSL for everything in dports, too.
bmake vs dports
If you’re running on DragonFly master, make sure you are on the right version of bmake. If you are on 5.8, it won’t affect you.
There can be only one (tmpfs mount)
Well, that’s not exactly correct: you can mount more than one tmpfs, and you can mount multiples at the same spot, but I can’t think of a reason to do so. In fact, it could happen by accident, but there’s a fix for that in DragonFly, thanks to Aaron LI. Not a major problem, but mentioning it in case you saw it and were confused.
Lazy Reading for 2021/02/21
Today’s date is slightly confusing.
- A point to consider before retr0brigting. Dirt as nostalgia.
- Ditherpunk 2 — beyond 1-bit. I like the layout, not just the content. (via)
- pineapple60, an ergonomic keyboard with trackpoint. Made to fit in a Thinkpad. (also via)
- Visiting Another World, about Gemini. (via)
- Wonders of extraction: Coffee (part 1).
- 16th century automata.
- Unwinnability and Wishbringer.
- Starting FORTH. (via)
- Of tea, cakes and computers, Georgina Ferry (Wuthering Bytes 2019). I think I linked to another telling of this story years ago; the first business app was for a British caterer. (via)
- Neopixel LED Skirt. The bouncing ball animation is neat.
- I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You.
- Make the BeBox great again: TLS 1.2, inetd and more for PowerPC BeOS R5. (via)
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/20
There’s a lot to catch up on!
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- FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6.
- fstab in FreeBSD jails.
- Using a custom boot logo on Lenovo ThinkPad T460s.
- POSIX locale tracking coming soon. (MirBSD)
- /dev/{drm,drmR} replaced by /dev/dri/{card,renderD}
- runescape on openbsd?
- LWJGL 3.x now in ports tree (makes Minecraft >1.13 run).
- XScreenSaver alpha testers sought. Needs non-Linux testers; you know what to do.
- Seeding a file server quickly.
- A Trip into FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/02/15.
- pfSense Plus 21.02-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.0-RELEASE Now Available.
- Full list of services offered by a default OpenBSD installation.
- Catchup 2021-02-13. (OpenBSD) Hey that’s my schtick!
- Project Status, happy 15th anniversary. (MidnightBSD)
- FreeBSD and I2C. (via)
- NetBSD Resources. (via)
One more building fix
Because there’s a newer version of sh(1) in DragonFly, you may need to update your 5.8 system to continue building ports from source. Binary installation through pkg still works as expected so this may not affect you.
BSD Now 390: Commercial Unix Killer
The menacing BSD Now for this week covers a bunch of stuff, not just post hoc arguments, but there’s a special request: old retail BSD software. If you have older commercial disks or images floating around, they want to know.
New dports packages
There’s a new build of DragonFly 5.8 binary packages available. There’s a sudo fix in there for the recent public cross-platform CVE it had, plus the linked announcement describes how to get around a pkg upgrade bug.
Lazy Reading for 2021/02/14
Another informal history theme, not uncommon.
- Amulets, cassette tape art? (via)
- Early warning signs of shitty software.
- Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science, by Knuth. (via)
- The History of Trackers. (via)
- The Second Coming of Star Wars. The video games.
- The quest for Wolfenstein 3D music on the Apple IIgs.
- Tomorrow is ENIAC Day. 75 years! (via)
- MIDICSV. Structured text and music, has potential. (via)
- How and why I stopped buying new laptops. (via)
- On Planetary in 2020.
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1976: Adventure.
- The Animation That Changed Cinema. 30 minutes of good animation.
- Free MWL novel.
Your unrelated music link of the week: Best electronic music on Bandcamp, January 2021.
In Other BSDs for 2021/02/13
I have a link backlog, yay!
- Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board. (via)
- The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer.
- Also a FreeBSD Open Source Project Coordinator.
- Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD. (via)
- Talkd and ‘mesg n’: a story from the old Unix days.
- The helloSystem 0.4.0 Now Available. (via)
- TrueNAS 12.0-U2 released.
- OpenBSD guest with bhyve – OmniOS. (via)
- OPNsense 21.1.1 Released.
- pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction.
- WireGuard in pfSense 2.5 Performance.
- We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test!
- Valuable News – 2021/02/08.
BSD Now 389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails
It’s been a quiet week, but at least we have the regular BSD Now episode to hear. They talk about Plan 9 this week, which I guess isn’t BSD but still entertains me.