This week’s BSD Now is a special treat: an interview with author Michael W. Lucas, author of a bunch of BSD and non-BSD books. If you’re looking for presents, he’s selling extra books originally intended for convention sales…
If you have a Realtek network card supported by the re(4) driver, Sepherosa Ziehau has a new driver for you to test.
Because of this commit that makes some changes to lib/stdio, you might get more reinstalls than you expect on your next pkg upgrade because of the __DragonFly_version change. This only applies to -current (5.9) users.
(I might be wrong)
Literally most of the tabs I have open right now, in front of you.
- The Definitive Guide to the Doctor Who Theme Music. (via, via)
- Sinister Sounds of the Solar System. (also via)
- Well There’s Your Problem Podcast. Actually stills and audio about engineering disasters. (via)
- Woodpecker dubstep.
- Softbody Tetris, Fuzzy Edition.
- A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations. (via)
- The JavaScript Ecosystem.
- Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator. (video, via)
- Why I Teach vim. (via)
- Vimcal. Not totally sure why Vim is in the name but what the heck. (via)
- My Obsession with Chess. Incidentally, McCloud’s Understanding Comics has an excellent explanation of closure that goes far beyond comics. (via)
- Pinafore, for Mastodon instances.
- What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and Why Do We Care if They are Open Source?
- The Backbone: Conclusion. Story of the Internet.
Right outta RSS.
- Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64. (via)
- hello: Let’s make a FreeBSD for “mere mortals”. (via)
- Recommend me a small laptop/netbook for NetBSD?
- Why I use OpenBSD.
- FuguITA: OpenBSD live-cd.
- BSD statistics for October 2020. Not a good place to post this; it’ll get lost.(via)
- How to Set Up and Install TrueNAS CORE.
- Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD with the Creative BT-W3.
- Unbound DNS Blacklist. On BSD of course.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/16.
I am posting it a bit late, but this week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-tos and history; a good mix.
If you want to build a kernel with no options, stripped down, here you go. I don’t know how useful it would be…
Matthew Dillon has made significant changes to the callout API in DragonFly. Interesting to look at, but I think no changes from a user point of view.
Surely some of these are repeats?
- CSVs: The good, the bad, and the ugly. (via)
- This seems like a good form factor.
- present: ‘a terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects’. (via)
- A book about books bound in human skin. (via)
- Rare Alphonse Mucha illustrations. I saw some of his work close up recently.
- 20 double-edged potions for the ingenious adventurer.
- Miscellany ? 89: 2020, year of the asterisk.
- The Video Game Source Project. (via)
- Exploding Whale, remastered in 4K. (via)
- computecuter.com. Exactly what it sounds like.
- Return to Plan 9. (via)
- Computer Unit 1979. (via)
- Text Editors III: Emacs.
- Thinking out loud about Vim. Equal time.
- Efficient text editing on a PDP-10. I link, others get into it: I’m so happy!
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week.
- Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System.
- Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it).
- Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/11/09.
- OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update.
- Mktemp started on OpenBSD.
- Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential. WSL 2 may be a dead end.
- OpenBSD Router Guide. (via)
The newest BSD Now is up with the usual suspects for topics: a FreeBSD release, a ZFS item, and something OpenBSD.
I’ve seen this multiple times over the years: if ifconfig suddenly stops working, especially after an upgrade. your kernel and world are out of sync. Rebuild and make sure you get both updated.
DragonFly has a new version of libressl, noting cause it has a newer TLS1.3 implementation – something that may be necessary for you.
There’s some good reading/projects linked in here, so if you have free time, this can keep you busy.
- Psion Series 3 palmtop EReader. That’s 25 year old hardware?
- BBC’s In Our Time podcast on Alan Turing. (via)
- 808303.studio. Surely I’ve linked this already? (via)
- The Museum of Obsolete Media. (thanks, swildner)
- The 100 best fantasy books of all time. I thought it was another corny listicle, but on the other hand I’ve loved every book I’ve read on that list, and there’s a lot more I didn’t know about. (via)
- 15 Sci-Fi Books That Forever Shaped The Genre. Ditto. (also via)
- The Web Key Directory, based on this. I need to use it. My source link for this works as a sort of how-to.
- Unraveling the JPEG. (via)
- New Nixie tube manufacturing.
- dimensions.com – reference drawings for everything. (via)
- Configuring Windows for key-based SSH access. For reference.
- A curated non-violent games list.
Your unrelated music of the week: KUTMAH: Isolation Tapes v.006. There’s a lot more good music from this person.
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time…
- CDBUG meetings going virtual.
- FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure.
- November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th.
- What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games?
- HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report.
- A list of games to try that probably all run on BSD.
- Performance tip(s) for those playing Minecraft on OpenBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
- OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD.
- Join the peer to peer social network Scuttlebutt using OpenBSD and Oasis.
- Argument processing in Unix and Windows.
- Video: C Programming on System 6 – Adding a GUI to diff(1). Sorta BSD?
- FreeBSD July-September status report.
- My first FreeBSD port: Castor.
- Valuable News – 2020/11/02.
I’m a bit late noting it, but BSD Now 375 is almost all virtualization topics.
If you’ve got a Zen 2 / Ryzen 4000 APU, the amdsmn(4)/amdtemp(4) drivers in DragonFly now support it.
There’s a minor update to dhcpcd in DragonFly, which may be of specific interest if you’re on an IPv4/IPv6 network – there’s a Preferred option added for that.
binutils and ld in DragonFly have been set to binutils234 and ld.bfd temporarily, for what appears to be work with the EFI bootloader. This should not make a difference for normal use; rebuilding binaries will give you different results but they’ll run.
Change your clocks, depending on what time zone you are in.
- Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User.
- I did not realize org mode has its own website. (via)
- a truly naked, brutalist html quine. (via)
- Bookmark alignment chart. (scroll to end)
- What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It? (via)
- List of Generative Art and Live Coding Tools. (via)
- Results from 20 years of experiments summarized. Food experiments, done by a scientist. (via)
- Writing a Book with Unix. (via)
- Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers.
- Telemelt, group console playing simulator. (via)
- I Solved British Square.
- Internet Ascendant, Part 2: Going Private and Going Public.
- Stereoscopic computing: converting Quake and Doom.