rdist has been removed. Does anyone mind? I don’t think so.
This is one of the more historical episodes of Lazy Reading.
- More links about TAOS, the odd operating system from last week, including its modern version.
- ZeroPhone, an open source cell phone you can assemble. Not off-the-shelf easy, but certainly a good idea.
- Turning vim into an IDE through vim plugins. (via)
- Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983. (via)
- books chapter sixteen.
- A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition. Continued from last week’s links.
- Encoded, Decoded. A history of USENET.
- Experiences from a Decade of TinyOS Development. (PDF, via)
- The underground story of Cobra, the 1980s’ illicit handmade computer. (via)
A good variety this week.
- Building software with Ravenports.
- “SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover.
- LISA 2017 Conference Recap.
- LibreSSL 2.6.3 released. (via)
- First Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition preorders available.
- GhostBSD 11.1 RC1 is ready! (via)
- p2k17 Hackathon reports: 1 2 3 4 5.
- Why did we build our solution on top of FreeBSD?
- Nearly Online Zpool Switching Between Two FreeBSD Machines.
- Upcoming SemiBUG workshop suggestion.
- Open source Visio-ish network diagramming. (From a BSD list, so I’m linking it here.)
- pfSense – Cisco Aironet AP’s (only 1 works, all identical).
- NAT through pfSense question.
- Ilja van Sprundel – Are all BSDs are created equally? Video, unfortunately picking “winners”. (via)
- 4.2BSD on SIMH vax with networking. (via)
- NetBSD on Allwinner SoCs Update. (via)
sys_pipe has been modified to avoid contention on DragonFly, which means better performance as tasks get handed between processors. See the commit message for details.
Matthew Dillon has added KVABIO, an API for avoiding the need to sync the TLB across all CPUs before continuing. What’s this mean? The more CPUs you are dealing with, the longer it takes to make sure all of them have the same cached view of the virtual memory. There’s a tradeoff – caching that view speeds up memory access, but the time cost of the synchronization can erase those benefits.
This API is now supported for NVMe and swap, HAMMER2, and tmpfs. Note that those last two links show a huge drop in IPI messaging. In the real world, this showed about a 5% improvement in performance for CPU-intensive work like complete synth builds. (Based on IRC conversations.)
This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but goes into in-depth explanations of ZFS caching, man page reading, and more – so there’s lots to keep you busy, just in the show description.
The ppp kernel module has been removed. It’s still possible to run ppp(8) in userland, with tun(4), so it’s only a change in strategy, not result.
Sepherosa Ziehau has an update for the Realtek re(4) network driver. Try it if you have the hardware, whether older or newer.
This is a bugfix release, adding HAMMER2 support in initrd, among other cleanup commits. The tag message lists the changes. There’s no huge changes, but it’s only a bugfix release.
All over the map again, but that’s what Lazy Reading is for.
- OpenVMS: State of the Port to x86_64 – October 2017 Update. PDF. (via)
- The Roguelike Celebration – a festival about roguelike game design. (via)
- More Taste: Less Greed? or: Sending UNIX to the Fat Farm. (via)
- books chapter fifteen.
- A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue.
- A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community.
- TAOS Operating System. (via)
- The Physics of Bread. I am not sure what to think of Modernist Bread. (via)
- An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor. (via)
- The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons. (via)
“tag: eyes, computers”, very much so. - miniwebproxy. A good idea.
- Tiny Wearable 8-bit VT100 Console. This I would want to make. (via)
This was an easy week for finding links.
- API provisioning for BCHS web apps. Looks like there’s a new near-monthly article about using BCHS near-monthly, which I did not know. For example: kwebapp. (via)
- Next planned NYCBUG meeting: January 3rd.
- FOSDEM 2018 will have a BSD Devroom; the call for papers is out now – due the 26th.
- os-test. Lots of BSD results. (via)
- Windows 10, VirtualBox 5.2.0 w/ FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT Guest.
- OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Report.
- OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Recap.
- PFSense for PCI compliant network?
- Two-factor authentication for SSH on FreeBSD 11 – Part 1 – SSH Key+Account Password. (via)
- How to use bta2dpd(8) with Bluetooth headphone under NetBSD-current. (via)
- ZFS Feature Flags.
A writeup that may help someone in the future: if you decide you want to encrypt your /home directory, on DragonFly, this is how you do it.
This week’s BSDNow talks about the Krack Attack, new releases for a number of BSDs, recent conventions, and really just everything.
NYCBUG doesn’t have a technical presentation scheduled for November, they are having an untechnical social meeting at Suspenders, tonight. Go, if you are near NYC.
I’ve got a long backlog of things to link to, so here’s the start: ifconfig now has an ‘lscan’ option, to show long SSIDs. “Long” means 14+ characters, in this case.
(Can you use emoji to create a SSID? That breaks character count and it’s just plain hard to read. Hmm.)
Tonight, KnoxBUG has Ken Moore presenting on Lumina, at iX Systems. Go, if you are near Tennessee. (It’s a day early because of Halloween.)
This is another one of those ‘wide variety’ weeks, so settle in; I am confident at least one of these links will grab you.
- ASCII: A Love Letter. (via)
- Leveling Up. There’s a book offer there.
- The Inside Story of Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor. Written by one of the people involved. (via)
- A survey of CPU caches. (via)
- Home Assistant, an open-source home automation platform. (via)
- Vim after 15 Years. (via)
- MNT Reform: DIY portable computer. (via)
- Show HN: Vixl44 – Create pixel art inside your terminal using vim movements. (via)
- Mastodon 2.0. (via)
- F-Droid 1.0 released. (via)
- Screen Savers. Screen savers are arguably unnecessary at this point, so they have become a sort of art form, separated from their original utility. I like that. (via)
- A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986. (via)
- The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI. Read the comments. (via)
- Alan Kay Demos the Original, PARC GUI from Rescued Disc. (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: Lynda Barry is the funk queen of the galaxy, a fantastic cartoonist, and now the best ever advice columnist.
For once, I was able to work ahead and get this done early!
- Using the Linux find command with caution. It says “Linux” but most platforms have find(1).
- What are BSD’s nonfree firmware blobs?
- Linux to bsd.
- Are BSD binaries portable across the different BSD flavors?
- What’s the current state of optimus support for the BSDs?
- (Video) FreeBSD 11.1 – Configuring And Installing A Custom Kernel
- Playing with the pine64. (via)
- FreeBSD/EC2: Community vs. Marketplace AMIs.
- pfSense as Edge firewall/router with DMZ, Sophos SG UTM as internal firewall/router.
- Kernel ASLR support in NetBSD. (via)
- The BSDCan 2018 site is up.
- OPNsense 17.7.6 released.
- OpenBSD gives a hint on forgetting unlock mutex. (via)
- Issues the BSD license does not have.
This week’s BSDNow turns the tables, and the interviewer is you. Well, viewer questions for the staff, specifically. There’s also the usual news summaries.
You can make them, but you can’t mount them. Tomohiro Kusumi’s note that mkfs_hammer2 works on Linux is of little wide practical use, but it’s a sign of progress to a larger goal.