Rimvydas Jasinskas has been improving LTO – Link Time Optimization – support. It’s led to a lot of commits, and those are just a few examples.
COMPAT_43 is gone, but it hasn’t worked in a long time anyway. Note that this is 4.3BSD, pre-everything.
A reminder: KnoxBUG is having a meeting tomorrow at 6 PM, at the Blount County Public Library. The presenter is Adam Jimerson, and he’s talking about PacBSD.
I managed to clear some of my link backlog, finally.
- Windowing systems by example, part 9. (via)
- Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer. (via)
- Restoring YC’s Xerox Alto day 10: New boards, running programs, mouse problems. (via)
- Crypt Community. Linking it not for the game, but for the description of someone going from 0 to 60 in game design in a week.
- “The EastEnders Threshold”, and other tea-making issues. (via)
- “Is SPF Simply Too Hard For Application Developers?“
- “What on earth can a person do with four gigabytes of RAM?“
- cidrmath – script for adding and subtracting subnets. I could have really used this about 8 years ago.
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The Microscopic Alchemist. I’m growing two varieties (for bread production) right now.
- Eventually every company tries open source, even Comcast. (via)
- Restoring the first recording of computer music. 1951! The anecdotes about Alan Turing and the aural feedback he pulled from his programs is completely new to me. (via)
- Beloved, a sort of solo RPG. Odd, but it works. (via)
- export TERM=aaa-60.
Your unrelated link of the week: Retro Wave logo generator. (via)
Oddball links for BSD this week – but pay attention to the first one.
- Get a BSD person into ARIN. Useful.
- “Any experience with OPNsense?“
- Unknown Horizons: An open-source 2D realtime strategy game. Linked cause it exists as a FreeBSD port and in theory could as a dport.
- We Surprised The Register.
- Looking for a very part-time SysAdmin.
- “Adam Jimerson: Introduction to PacBSD” happening at KnoxBUG on the 25th.
- PCEngines APU question.
- Installing Windows 10 Under the bhyve Hypervisor. (via)
- Lumina Desktop 1.1.0 released.
BSDNow 164 has a whole lot of conversation about things that start with V, plus an interview with Josh Paetzel of iXsystems about the upcoming MeetBSD, FreeNAS and other things.
Remember I posted that LibreSSL is in base DragonFly, but not default? Well, it’s default now. You can have a system without OpenSSL at all, by rebuilding DragonFly-current and using up-to-date dports.
Update: see John’s comments for clarification: LibreSSL is default; the change is that OpenSSL isn’t even built any more. The result is still the same good news: you can have an OpenSSL-free DragonFly system now.
I should have posted this sooner: SemiBUG is having a meeting in about half an hour at Altair Engineering. Mike Wayne is presenting about monitoring. Run now if you are near.
I’ve uploaded ISO and IMG files for DragonFly 4.6.1, so they should be available for download at your local mirror. Note that there’s an uncompressed 4.6.1 ISO for those installing to a virtual server.
I don’t have it uploaded yet, but DragonFly 4.6.1 is tagged. Anyone with an existing 4.6.0 or earlier system can upgrade now. Use the 4.6 release instructions if you are unsure on how to upgrade. The 4.6.1 tag commit message has all the changes.
Little yesterday, lots today:
- Glean, a tiny bitmap font for programming. I don’t know about this specific font, but there’s a whole lot more fonts mentioned in the original source link.
- English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle. We’re building an Internet of crappy things, remember. (via, among other locations)
- Principles for Undefined Behavior in Programming Language Design.
- Undefined Behavior: Not Just for Programming Languages.
- Have You Played… Dope Wars? I played Taipan, which is almost the same thing.
- A Little Program to fix one particular type of mojibake. Mojibake is a new word to me.
- A Haunted Operating System: Archimedes.
- Carolo Cup finals – self-driving R/C vehicle racing. Yes, that’s a contradiction in terms. (via)
- Latency numbers every programmer should know. (also via)
- Solomon Golomb (1932–2016). Where shift register sequences come from. (via)
- XScreenSaver 5.36 is out with 5 new modules.
- Shipmap. It’s fantastic visualization. (via)
- 2.2MB.
Your unrelated extra lazy reading: IFComp 2016 games, a selection.
A somewhat short week this week, for BSD.
- FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is out. Related: Older version EoLs.
- EC2’s most dangerous feature.
- Ohio LinuxFest 2016 wrap-up.
- How to install LibertyBSD or OpenBSD on a libreboot system. (via)
- vmm enabled. Runs OpenBSD on OpenBSD – sorta vkernelish?
- OPNsense 16.7.6 released.
- A remote BSD development job.
- Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q3 release.
- web-bsd-hunt
- Vincent Delft’s site. Lots of OpenBSD notes.
OpenSSL in DragonFly 4.6 has been updated to 1.0.1u. It’s time for a DragonFly 4.6.1, to catch up on this and other updates since the 4.6.0 release. I plan to work on it this weekend.
That’s Bryan Cantrill, of Joyent, interviewed in BSDNow 163. Joyent has been a major supporter of pkgsrc, though I don’t know if many people realize that. There’s the regular news roundup too, of course.
It’s now possible to start up a vkernel(7) using a COW disk, meaning copy-on-write. One image can be used and reused for multiple vkernels without changing, and all disk activity goes to memory instead.
It looks like I summarized iwm(4) updates too early, cause Imre Vadasz added an actual powersave option. I’d like to see someone with a power meter do some before-and-after testing.
This week’s Lazy Reading came together in perhaps 10 minutes.
- Mouse cursor disappears when my refrigerator turns off. (via)
- Roll20.net. Role-playing game tools. (via)
- choose boring bugs.
- tilted abstractions. I feel this way about many web frameworks.
- You can register your child’s name in any language providing you use any Unicode character.
- Unix as IDE. (via)
- Cisco config -> HTML converter.
- Mapping colors. This could be very useful. (via)
- gruvbox. (also via)
- vim.sensible. (via)
- History of Xenix – Microsoft’s Forgotten Unix-Based Operating System. (via)
- Internet Security Exposure 2016. I like the map, of course.
Your unrelated music video of the week: Danny Brown – When It Rain. The music may not be what you are used to, but I like how “damaged VHS tape” is being used as a visual design choice. (via)
This was an easy week to put together; there’s a lot of links this week. Last week was slow – maybe it was because of EuroBSDCon?
- pfSense 2.3.2-p1 RELEASE Now Available!
- 386bsd/386bsd – Upgrade to 386BSD 2.0. (via)
- A new addition to FreeBSD.org.
- SNIA SDC 2016 Recap: Michael Dexter. Swordfish sounds interesting.
- Review of OpenBSD 6.0. (via)
- Steam on FreeBSD?
- Is anyone here using netflix on FreeBSD?
- New to BSD. Please help me choose a BSD.
- FreeBSD/EC2 11.0-RELEASE.
- Videos from OSHUG #46.
- “PAM Mastery” print sponsor books.
- process listing consistency.
- EuroBSDcon 2016 Recap.
- OpenZFS: Stronger Than Ever. Devsummit report.
- NYCBUG moved their cabinet without issue. It sounds like NYI is good people.
BSDNow 162 has an interview with Petra Zeidler of the NetBSD Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports NetBSD-the-operating-system. Plus the usual news, the highlight for me being a link to an explanation of what ^d really does.