This week’s BSD Now is more technical than usual, talking about a bunch of setup options. The title lead is an article about sandbox environments in different BSDs, though unfortunately vkernels are not covered.
The image should be at your nearest mirrors now.
The first RC for DragonFly 6.0 is branched. I don’t expect a need for a second one; this release has been a long time baking (look at the commit list!) and is pretty well refined.
I’ll be working on branching and releasing DragonFly 6.0 over the next while. We’re overdue for a release. Tentatively, I’ll branch tomorrow night, and start working on test images and release notes. The release will come in about a week, if there’s no surprises.
Some nice in-depth reading awaits you below.
- Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup. A filtered list rather than a Github document, finally. (via)
- The Magician’s Library. (via)
- The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme. Many of these links I’ve had previously – or wish I had. This will eat some hours. (via many places)
- IF talks at Flights of Foundry, happening now.
- The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike. (via)
- Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970. Linked for the lesson and for just looking at the equipment. (via)
- Related: The 40 greatest synth sounds of all time, No 40: Wendy Carlos – A Clockwork Orange. Kinda hard to see the rest of the series, but interesting to see what a synth lesson looks like now: screenshots. (via)
- The Overedge Catalog: New Types of Research Organizations.
- Mac Chimes of Death. The car crash was a crowd-pleaser. (via)
- Everything VPN Is New Again. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1985: A Mind Forever Voyaging.
I linked to a story about Xenix, which might be a step too far.
- Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8.
- Filtering TCP connections by operating system on OpenBSD.
- UFS Boot Environments for ARM.
- OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). Note date, but there are real issues too. (via)
- Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator. Pre-BSD, I guess. (via)
- A bit of XENIX history (2014). (via)
- LLDB support for fork(2) and vfork(2), part 3.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/11.
- FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE is out.
- My Dog’s Garage Runs OpenBSD. Nicely in-depth.
- pfSense Plus 21.02.2-RELEASE and pfSense CE 2.5.1-RELEASE Now Available.
- TrueNAS 12.0-U3 released; replaces the FreeNAS series.
- Michael Wl Lucas’s Penguicon 2021 schedule.
Along with the normal news summaries, the latest BSD Now offers a bounty to the first person implementing Coordinated Mars Time; a worthy idea.
There’s a new build of binary packages available, for both 5.8 and DragonFly-current.
ChiBUG will be meeting today at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. Go, even if you aren’t near.
Some looks backward to prior links, but in a good way.
- Beatportal’s Definitive Guide to Techno. (via)
- Which reminds me of eternal favorite Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music.
- Your E-Mail Validation Logic is Wrong. There’s a whole chapter about this in the most in-depth regex book I ever read.
- ifconfig.co. Fetch that site for your plain text IP, plus other features. (via)
- How does Go know time.Now? (via)
- When Hackers Were Heroes. A worthwhile history read / book review. (via)
- Map ruler overlays in Cogmind. Linked for the quality demonstration animations.
- AFFINITIES, public domain images bound.
- Gossamer Network, an exploration of very specific data visualizations through a website. (via)
- Generative Unfoldings, computer art. (also via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 1983: Suspended and 1984: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- Even the footnotes have footnotes.
- research!rsc: Unix Viruses. Linked for the history. (via)
- Picking an operating based on feel.
I’m hitting all the unixes.
- Atari Heavy Sixer. Not BSD, System V, but also note the post date.
- Knuth is still working on TeX. (via)
- Managing Multiple PostgreSQL Instances on FreeBSD. (via)
- XScreenSaver 6.00 out now. Haven’t seen it in dports yet.
- I got the GNU Modula-2 compiler working on OpenBSD.
- ChiBUG will be meeting on April 13th at 6:30PM CST via Zoom. I’ll post a reminder, of course.
- The pubnix history project. (via–via)
- Teach yourself Plan9 via SDF boot camp! Also why not get a mug? (via)
- i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2, a reminder and look back.
- FreeBSD’s ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD.
- Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi.
- Steam on FreeBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/04/05.
- Interview with Abhinav Upadhyay, NetBSD contributor and machine learning software developer. (via)
- The state of toolchains in NetBSD.
I thought I had done this before, but apparently not: the site is switched to https by default. Tell me if you notice problems from that.
This week’s BSD Now covers the usual mix of articles – I see some Gemini sneaking in! – and mentions something I should have; the revamp of FreshBSD.
HardenedBSD 2021 “State of the Hardened Union”, presented by Shawn Webb, happening at NYCBUG at 6:45 tonight. See the announcement for how to get the invite.
zstd(1) is now in dsynth, in DragonFly as a library, multi-threaded when you specify, and available as a decompression method for reading files.
I lost the origin of some of these links this week; too many tabs open. Sorry!
- Moog System 55, so many analog controls! (via)
- Mike Beauchamp Projects. I like the clock. (via)
- Shrink, Reduce, and Implode: The Legacy Zip Compression Methods. (via)
- The complete guide for open sourcing video games.
- A Gemini (and Atom and RSS) feed reader.
- Golem and My Other Seven Computer-Generated Books in Print.
- Don’t End The Week With Nothing.
- Anarchism in Practice Is Often Radically Boring Democracy.
- Equa! by James Chip. Tabletop RPG as a set of equations. This will scratch someone’s very particular itch. (via)
- Recognizing and rectifying your mistakes as an engineering leader. If you aren’t too sick of talking heads.
- Designing calculator apps.
- Internet routing can now vary based on things you wouldn’t expect, or ports matter for routing, not just destination.
- Different views of what are basic and advanced Vim features. A questions for every time I link a Vim tutorial.
- Is the Psion 5 still usable in 2017? (video, via)
- Turn your iPhone into a 90s pocket organiser. (also via)
- Hacker Simulator.
Your unrelated music of the week: The Best Beat Tapes on Bandcamp: March 2021.
Well, I made up for last week’s short list.
- What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
- The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
- Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
- Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
- NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
- HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
- GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
- KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
- Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
- How to split a file into small parts.
- UFS Boot Environments.
- What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
- Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
- pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
- FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
- Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
- OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
- Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!
Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news; FreeBSD-heavy, including some of the future planning for the project.
If you’re running an em(4)/emx(4) network card on DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau’s updated to the 7.7.8 release of the driver from Intel, and added a few more chipsets too.
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I’ve mentioned it before but it came up again, so it’s worth repeating: your 5.8 install of DragonFly may need an update of the pkg tool.