BSDNow 129 is available. Along with the normal news summary, it has an interview with John Marino, the fellow behind DragonFly’s dports system, and author of recently-noted-here synth, which has reached version 1.0.
DragonFly 4.4.2, a bugfix release to 4.4.1, is out. This was mostly prompted by the recent OpenSSL update, but other little fixes have made it in, too. It’s available for download and is probably available at your nearest mirror by now, if you want an image. The release page is updated, and there’s always the Git tag summary for 4.4.2 for the most exact details.
I have DragonFly shirts, helpfully printed up by Sepherosa Ziehau in China. I have a list of people that are interested in shirts, most of whom remembered to give a shirt size. I don’t have anyone’s email address or mailing address on that list.
If you are on that list, send me your mailing address.
The shirts are marked L/XL/XXL/XXXL, but they run smaller than U.S. versions of those sizes. I usually find a U.S. XL shirt baggy, but “XXXL” is the one that fit me, for instance. I’ll do my best to place the appropriate one. This is just an advance apology, since it’s too late to change anything if it turns out tight.
I’ll mail these out as I have the spare cash and time on hand. (I hope most of you live in the continental U.S.)
Rapid topic shifts this week.
- Planning for Disaster. Speed over correctness is all the rage, but also programming inconsequential websites is also all the rage.
- The Lonely Dungeon. Markov-style classic RPG generation, it sounds like.
- The book is out! “@Play: Exploring Roguelike Games”
- The Museum of Endangered Sounds. (via)
- Today in Dialup Visualization News.
- Sound Blaster history.
- Systemd and Where We Want to Take the Basic Linux Userspace in 2016. (via)
- Usborne 1980s computer programming books for kids become free downloads. (via)
- Internet Archive Does Windows. With many options. (via)
- Filter all ICMP and watch the world burn. (via)
- Old British Pathé industrial production films. (via)
Your unrelated tea link of the week: Cuppa Thugs.
Several book links this week.
- Openbsd router, can it run on arm? (via)
- Lumina Desktop Getting Ready for FreeBSD 11.0.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” now available! Next two book titles are in there, too.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” Table of Contents.
- Winter arrivals. (related to previous post)
- Upcoming OpenBSD Security Router/Firewall/Load Balancer Release: Feature Requests Wanted (via)
- Noob gonna install some BSD later today.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/02/08.
- PC-BSD Devs Release Lumina Desktop 0.8.8 Environment […]
- Kali Vs BSD
- January #MissionComplete Best Story
Thing I should link more regularly: Garbage, a podcast that isn’t specifically about BSD but happens to cover it a lot. I linked to it when it was starting, but didn’t catch new episodes (fixed by finding the RSS feed). There’s been a bunch since then, so you have plenty of listening material now.
If you have a Broadwell system, the drm.i915.enable_execlists tunable added by Imre Vadász may keep your system stable. (thanks, zach on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
BSDNow 128 has an interview of Nick Wolff, the usual roundup of news items, and I’m sure something that matches the title of the episode, but I haven’t listened to it yet.
Rimvydas Jasinskas has consolidated/restored/updated a large number of papers into share/doc on DragonFly. I’m not going to link to his large number of commits, but instead point you at the directory where they all went. There’s a number of design documents in there that date back to 4.4BSD and beyond (and some much newer), which may interest or educate you. Of special note: The Guide to the Dungeons of Doom, for rogue, or the KAME IPv6 implementation notes.
If you’re building from dports, and you want to include debugging information, you’ll want to put ‘WITH_DEBUG=yes’ in /etc/make.conf. Note that this affects anything you build at that point, including world, which you’d want to rebuild anyway.
These probably apply cross-BSD, but in this case, it’s DragonFly tips for printing with CUPS.
A bit nostalgic this week.
- Pardon My French, But This Code Is C.R.A.P., parts one and two. (via)
- dungeoncrawlers.org, a comprehensive list of exactly that. (via)
- Showrunner: the Game. Scroll down about halfway. A roguelike!
- Why so much Internet video is viral but no longer weird. For those who remember Portal of Evil or Stile Project or eBaum’s World, etc. (via)
- Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest. (via)
- The Malware Museum. (via)
- Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous. (via)
- Getting a Job After Coding Bootcamp. Good advice.
- My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours. (via multiple places)
- Digital Technology – Past and Present. (large PDF, via)
- Shmoocon 2016 Videos. (via)
- Old-School PC Fonts. (via)
Your unrelated video link of the week: Aircraft Crash Tests Composite Data Film. (via)
Lots and lots this week!
- SCaLE 14x Recap.
- On ZFS in Debian. BSD is still a better place for ZFS. (via)
- Anyone using FreeBSD or another BSD in production? How do you like it?
- NetBSD/amd64 7.0 on kvm. (via)
- VIMAGE Coming Soon to FreeBSD.
- Initial FreeBSD RISC-V Architecture Port Committed.
- Has Anyone Tried to Put Dark Souls on BSD?
- LibertyBSD 5.8 is out. (related)
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/02/01.
- FreeBSD TACACS+ GNS3 and Cisco 3700 Router.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2015.
- OPNSense 16.1.1 and 16.1.2 out.
- Fighting fraudulent networks using secure connections (SSL) with OPNsense.
- Tor Browser 5.5 for OpenBSD.
- Sponsorships for “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”.
- Sponsorships and Hot Water. Sponsor! It has a direct effect.
- The Korn Shell anecdote. (via)
If you have a Core2 processor in a DragonFly system, it may not work with accelerated video. If that happens to you with this (admittedly old) processor, switch to VESA for now.
Once again, I’m a bit late posting about BSDNow; blame my classes. BSDNow episode 127 is up, with Willem Toorop as the interview subject, talking about getdns, with a link to his vBSDCon presentation.
The slides from yesterday’s shell-fu presentation at NYCBUG have been posted.
NYCBUG is having a presentation tomorrow, February 3rd, 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge at 140 E 27th St. in New York City. The presenter will be Isaac Levy and the title is “shell-fu”. .ike is an energetic speaker and it’s worth your time if you are near enough.
BSDTalk 261 is up, and it’s a half-hour conversation with Kris Moore about jails, system management, and other I assume PC-BSD features.
AsiaBSDCon 2016 is happening in Tokyo, March 10-13. Registration for it opens today. The registration page isn’t up as I post this, but I assume very soon. (via)
I am proud of finding some of these links this week; they are not the usual “here’s what everyone else linked to” that you see.
- Evolution of Ethernet Speeds: What’s New and What’s Next. I did not know about 2.5G/5G speeds over existing cat5. (via)
- Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government” (via)
- #screensaverjam.
- Most off-putting introduction to a new technology.
- Sanos PDP-11 Simulator with UNIX V7e. Boot SanOS which runs a PDP-11 simulator, which then runs UNIX v7. (via)
- best idea ever
- ***** – Five star cron job. Will run again. (via)
- The Amiga Graphics Archive. (via)
- The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 Game, Part 1. (via)
- The anatomy of an ssh session. (via)
- Go 1.7 planning. I like peeking into other open source groups’ release planning.
- The New Sound Of Music 1979 (Part 1) The fun part of computer history, and it talks about the Radiophonics Workshop! (via)
- Your Development Environment is Probably an Eldritch Horror. (via)
Your unrelated graph link of the week: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015. (via)