Start the week with this brief interview of Chris Henschen, of fP Technologies, taken at the most recent vBSDCon. Their database product, filePro Plus, was recently ported to FreeBSD.
No themes evolved this week.
- Git. You may have already seen this.
- The Container Ecosystem Project. Use it as a term reference. (via)
- How many bad ideas can be bundled together at once? (via)
- The threat of telecom sabotage and Submarine Internet Cable Vulnerabilties. (both via).
- Future Forms. For fans of Braun/Dieter Rams design, largely. (via)
- cOS on commodore 64: Modern user interface with optional touchscreen. (via)
- 99 Bottles Of Beer – find(1) version. (via)
- Classic Bug Reports. I like this one. (via)
- Any One Else Using It? (via)
- YOU WILL REGRET THIS! You will maybe get the joke if you played the original SimCity.
- Popular Unix Text Editors & How to Exit Them. (via)
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Secret Coders. I have several other books by Gene Luen Yang; he’s good. (via)
Another week that quickly went from “Gee, I hope I have enough links” to “I have to set time aside just to process the backlog of possibilities.”
- Buy an x220.
- A week of pkgsrc #12.
- 20Gb of Internet traffic on OpenBSD won’t work.
- Nouveau runs on NetBSD with hardware GL support.
- English-only in OpenBSD.
- Help! Can’t install NetBSD 7 – problem with .iso file
- Steam on the BSDs (not wine)
- mge/etherswitch support in FreeBSD, especially for some Marvell chips.
- Bluetooth LE Security Management channel support in FreeBSD.
- mpsutil in FreeBSD has been updated. (for LSI Fusion-MPT 2/3 controllers )
- add BSD to OS options in the forum user profile.
- NetBSD 5.x is reaching end-of-life.
- The Tor Browser for OpenBSD has been updated.
- The 3rd quarter FreeBSD status report is out.
- OpenBSD interviews: Ted Unangst, Brandon Mercer, Antoine Jacoutot, joshua stein, Landry Breuil, Henning Brauer, and Stefan Sperling.
- Or just look at Undeadly’s complete list.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/16.
- Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 is released.
- FreeNAS ‘what’s new’ issue 26. FreeNAS is 10 years old.
- A new FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS review.
BSDNow 113 has the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Jordan Hubbard, talking about BSD, and specifically NextBSD.
Via EFNet #dragonflybsd, “Booting DragonFlyBSD with Hammer on a GPT drive“.
For those of you with DragonFly and an Intel i915 chipset, Francois Tigeot has moved support up another notch, to match Linux 3.18. This will help Cherryview and Broadwell chipset users the most.
I think at this point, Sepherosa Ziehau is able to improve the DragonFly network stack by just standing near his computer and concentrating for a few minutes. For example, he’s unearthed another improvement to connect rate/reduction of CPU usage.
No themes this week.
- Raiders of the Lost Web. (via)
- The first chapter of “The Go Programming Language” (PDF).
- The Cray Files. (via)
- Turning a conference into a conference call. (via)
- 3 Envelopes for sysadmins.
- A Beginner’s Guide to the Synth. (via)
- The Little Printf. (via)
- The Tech Model Railroad Club – Hackers at 30. See comments at via link about the IBM 407.
- Guide to Deploying Diffie-Hellman for TLS. (via)
- The real meaning of ‘systemd’.
Your unrelated food image of the week: Cheese Meets Bread: an International Love Story. I shall treat that as a sort of to-do list.
There’s a lot of developer interviews lately.
- DragonFly BSD + FreeBSD (via)
- truenas
- Hubert Feyrer has a roundup of the recent NetBSD interviews.
- OpenBSD 5.8 is released.
- OpenBSD turns 20.
- OpenBSD developers: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (via)
- OpenBSD developers: Vadim Zhukov (via)
- OpenBSD developers: Marc Espie (via)
- OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele (via)
- OpenBSD developers: Ingo Schwarze (via)
- OpenBSD developers: Gilles Chehade (via)
- OPNSense 15.7.17 released.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/19.
- EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online. The date is not a typo.
- GhostBSD’s graphical ZFS installer. (via)
- Grace Hopper Convention 2015. (FreeBSD Foundation)
- W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port. (via)
- Announcing NetBSD 7.0 for USB Flash Drives. (via)
- pkgsrc-wip has finished the move to git. It should be easier to contribute.
- FreeBSD on 96-core (dual socket) ThunderX system. (via)
- Compilers in the BSD base system. (via)
- Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on SSH on November 10th, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
- Robert Bourne is returning to NYCBUG to talk on November 19th. Catch this if you can; it’s worth it.
- I already scheduled reminder posts for both those events.
Your cross-platform software of the week: Syncthing. Runs on all the BSDs. (Via discussion on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
It’s been an oddly quiet week for news, plus I have been busier than usual at work due to snow hitting the northeast. But! It’s Thursday and there’s a new episode of BSDNow. There’s an interview of Adam Leventhal and the usual news roundup.
Accidental topic this week: very, very old computers.
- Computer Show. Modern show, looks like it’s exactly from the mid 1980s. (via multiple places)
- Computing Britain. From the BBC, freely downloadable computing history audiofiles, quite worth it. (via)
- Phones for the People. I don’t think it’s as egalitarian as it is described, but it is interesting to see the variety. (via)
- RTC Quickstart. RTC is an alternative to the not-private-and-not-open Skype. Why don’t more people use it?
- More secure Wi-Fi routers. This would be the best Internet of Things approach. (via)
- You Wouldn’t Base64 a Password. (via)
- Blue screens of death, some of which you’ve surely seen before. (via)
- The first Apple ][ viruses. (via)
- Dark Castle and Macintosh System 6 Emulator. (via)
- Vim and Composability (via)
- A Simpler Vim Statusline. (via)
- Vim: Convenient Code Navigation for Your Projects. (via)
- Unix commands: The joy of curl
- Ohmu. I like the visualization.
- Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found! (via)
- Lost mainframe games (also via)
- The lack of historic knowledge is so frustrating. AKA “learn from past mistakes”.
- The SCELBI, rebuilt. (via)
- CSIRAC, the oldest computer that’s still physically assembled – from 1949! (via)
- Cardboard computers. (via)
- Long long long term data storage. (via)
- Google Code-In starts on my birthday, and Google Summer of Code 2016 has been announced.
- INOC-DBA: dial an ASN, get the network operations center responsible for it. One of the ways people make the complex creature called the Internet continue to function. (via)
- sandstorm.io, self-hosting which I’ve linked to before, and known, which I haven’t. More tools that people will eventually regret not using. (via)
Your comics link of the week: Cartozia Tales #1, with more added. I subscribed to this series long ago, and it’s a lot of fun.
Another good week for BSD releases and events.
- Why do you love FreeBSD?
- Announcing FreeNAS-10 ALPHA
- tame(2) is now pledge(2), and Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current
- The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief
- OPNsense 15.7.16 Released
- EuroBSDcon-2015 Recap
- NetBSD-7.0 developer interviews: Pierre Pronchery, Antti Kantee, Christos Zoulas, Mateusz Kocielski
- Tom’s Hardware Reviews the FreeNAS Mini
- Call for testing: FreeBSD i915 driver (via)
- bhyve gains a sysctl-like interface.
- By chance, DMA in FreeBSD is newer than what’s in DragonFly.
- A summary from the recent BSDCon Brasil.
BSDNow episode 111 is up, with an interview of Brandon Mercer, talking about OpenBSD and healthcare. There’s the usual news, plus several ‘how-to-build-something’ articles up for discussion.
Imre Vadász has put together an initial port of Wayland / Weston for DragonFly. You can look at his pull request for dports to see how to install, though I’d imagine this is only for people who like to experiment at this point. It’s still work in progress, as is Wayland itself.
Tomohiro Kusumi has added a dm-delay target, which means you can simulate poor disk performance, without having to have poor disks. His commit message includes some benchmarks that shows it doing a good job creating a bad job.
You will probably be able to guess some of my thinking processes this week based on these links.
- “If you work for Facebook, quit.“
- Related: Facebook “Shadow Profiles”. A DragonFlyBSD “fan group” spontaneously appeared on Facebook at one point, but didn’t actually exist – they auto-create Facebook pages for other people’s work, but don’t make it clear that the actual owner isn’t involved.
- Building an Analog Computer. (via)
- The Joy of Non-Smoking Breaks. Has anyone read “the Healthy Programmer”, mentioned in the text?
- Zipf’s Law, which I didn’t know existed.
- SP800-199, “Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6” from NIST. Very complete. (via)
- In defense of client certificates.
- Coding like it’s 1999. (via)
- Haunted by Data. More Maciej Ceglowski. (via)
Your unrelated tea link of the week: Health benefits of tea. Not the original title; I made it less clickbaity. (via)
I didn’t get to run through as much of the source commits as normal this week, but there’s still plenty to read.
- Why do you use *BSD?
- Service to read BSD 4.2 UNIX reel tape to file?
- vnStat, a network monitoring tool.
- Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion? (via)
- Assigning programs to specific video ports.
- Recent OpenSMTPD errata and you
- The Rise and Fall of the Operating System. Talks about rump kernels, developed on NetBSD, I think. (via)
- junk filled files.
- EuroBSDCon 2015 OpenBSD Presentations Online.
- An interview of Jeff Rizzo about NetBSD 7. (via)
- What to expect in NetBSD 7.
- NetBSD-7.0 developer interview: Leonardo Taccari (via)
- FreeBSD using radius for login (via)
- What does the OpenBSD crowd think of Intel SGX? (via)
- Closing a door, via many places, which had a link to this BSD-related note.
- Verisign youtube channel has vBSDcon videos (via)
The Tanzanian Digital Library Initiative is using DragonFly (and FreeBSD) as part of their library setup, and Michael Wilson, the project coordinator sent a note to users@ describing this. They are looking to spread through the continent, so get in contact if you want to be part of the project.
BSDNow 110 is now available. It’s back to the text summary format, so I can tell you easily that it includes an interview with Benno Rice, about Isilon and their interactions with FreeBSD.
There’s a new version of the Intel video driver in dports – xf86-video-intel-2.99.2015.09.09. If you update to this and you experience an xorg-server crash, Matthew Dillon found that changing the acceleration method from SNA to XAA fixes the problem. Don’t change it unless you actually see the problem, of course.