This can’t wait for the In Other BSDs weekend: ChiBUG is meeting at Giordano’s, in Oak Park, 6 PM on the 11th. Go if you are anywhere near Chicago.
I started this last Sunday.
- IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude.
- We’re a long way from the halcyon days of ASCII-only text.
- The 48 Laws of PowerPoint.
- Putting some extra ‘obvious’ information into our temperature alerts.
- Conventions for Command Line Options. Does not mention that short options were classic Unix, while GNU went long.
- 25 Years of OU – 2000: Open Source Teaching Project. (via)
- Critical Digital Infrastructure Research. Something people don’t think about… and then you get OpenSSL and Heartbleed, etc. (also via)
- Perfect Edition: A lightweight, responsive web e-book template. (via)
- ZSA Moonlander: A next-generation ergonomic keyboard. I like the thumb switches. (via)
- Similar: Sinc Split Mechanical Keyboard Build Log. (via)
- Trademarking Infocom, again, part one and part two. A followup to the reverse-engineering job post I linked last week.
- The SQL Murder Mystery. (via)
- RIPscrip, something I never encountered before.
- 10 year long Civ II game, from 8 years ago. (via)
- Helicopter crash tests. (via)
- Play the history of Microsoft Flight Simulator. (via)
Fun variety this week.
- FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- 2.11BSD Missing Patches.
- Ultra Hat Dimension – PlayOnBSD. Mostly linking because of the name.
- Valuable News – 2020/08/03.
- BSD Gaming is Improving – Proton on FreeBSD. (via)
- A BSD phone lives! Sorta.
- BSD Router Project 1.97. (via)
- FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included FreeBSD.
- Bootstrapping 2.11BSD (no patches) from 2.11BSD pl 195.
- GSoC Reports: Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 2.
- GSoC Reports: Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, Part 2.
- The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 3).
If you have an Intel-based system and it has trouble reading some USB ports, or odd behavior with some virtual machines, this recent bugfix in DragonFly-current may help you. I know, my description is vague, but I haven’t encountered this directly.
This week’s BSD Now leads with an interview of Warner Losh and his work with reviving 2.11BSD. Everyone’s been linking to his posts about it, so now you can hear his plans.
It’s odd to think this, but the process of swapping out something entirely from RAM perhaps doesn’t really apply any more (except for compatibility).
A note for the future: if pkg itself isn’t working, you can use pkg-static.
Preposted early; I’m traveling during the week so I have to throw all my extra tabs in quick.
- Computer graphic history at the Pixar Online Library. Goes back to the 80s. (via)
- thecookie.website.
- Cigarettes, Space Invaders and the birth of the game watch. (via)
- Synergy, multicomputer mouse and keyboard. (via)
- Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship.
- Essays on programming I think about a lot.
- The evolution of a Scheme programmer. (via)
- On Liberating My Smartwatch From Cloud Services.
- A Better Cheatsheet.
- A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I’m sorry. (via)
That last link is around the corner from me.
- Audio Subsystem on Single Board Computers.
- Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD.
- nvi2 in FreeBSD ports.
- First screen shot of 2.11BSD as released.
- When Unix learned to reboot(2).
- Valuable News – 2020/07/27.
- OPNsense® 20.7 “Legendary Lion” released.
- Software inventory with Salt on FreeBSD. (via)
- My FreeBSD Laptop Build by Cyberdyne. (via)
- Installing Debian Under FreeBSD Bhyve. (via)
- Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C. (PDF, via)
This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of different releases, and also Emulex.
In Daniel Fojt’s ongoing series of third-party software upgrades, he’s moved libreSSL in DragonFly up a major version, from 2.9.1 to 3.1.3. This includes TLS 1.3, among other features.
Well, it’s really the meltdown fix for Intel. You now will see it noted if the fix is present, during the DragonFly boot process.
Tomohiro Kusumi has imported a new version of ext2 filesystem support into DragonFly.
Accidental topic: old-school games.
- Assignment 45, A Harry Flynn Adventure (1981). Interesting cause it’s a magazine article with the program source, something you don’t see much past the mid-80s.
- Advanced Vim Workflows. (via)
- Historical Games. (via)
- PunyInform, Inform 6 for 8-bit computers. (also via)
- Specification Writer job at Infocom LLC. “part of a clean room reverse engineering project”
- Modern Board Game Research. (via)
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator. I linked to an earlier version years ago. (via)
- IoDT The Internet of Dead Things Institute. (via)
- Laura Michet Uses This. Look at her custom SABER68 keyboard.
- March 2nd, 1943. A reminder: accurate dates in the past are bonkers hard.
- Running servers and Fred Brooks on transforming programs to products. Linked cause The Mythical Man-Month was right.
- AI Dungeon: Dragon mode. (via)
Lots of old BSD this week.
- Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
- 2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
- Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
- Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
- How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
- MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
- Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
- ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
- Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
- April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
- I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.
This week’s BSD Now is making reference to the episode count, I think. Of note this week: lots of how-to-do-this sorts of links.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, ldns in DragonFly is updated to 1.7.1. This time, I do have a changelog link.
It’s a minor update, but I have to point it out because my muscle memory still won’t let go of nslookup,
Francois Tigeot has updated the DRM driver in DragonFly to match what’s in Linux kernel 4.10.17. What’s that change? A few minutes of poking about doesn’t find a granular enough changelog.
I was a bit low on links last week; I made up for it this week.
- Mega Tiny Time Watch. (via)
- Commander 16. (via)
- Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40,000 disc writer (1987). (via)
- study tip: quiz yourself in vim.
- Netpbm Animation Showcase. You’ve probably used netpbm without knowing it.
- Don’t use food delivery apps; call restaurants direct.
- The Frink Is Good, the Unit Is Evil.
- Stephen Strowes Uses This. “Network Measurement Researcher”.
- A Near-Ultrasound (NUS) Data Link.
- Should the Monster Play Fair?: Reception of Artificial Intelligence in Alien: Isolation. (via)
- jklp: a 36-key ergonomic keyboard. (via)
- Grinding Coffee with a TinyFPGA Board. Last sentence is the most important. (via)
- Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub.
- Perpetual motion machine compilation. (via)
- The Open Book; build your own e-reader. (via)
There’s a separate Summer of Code section this week.
- The Homura Project.
- First powerpc64 snapshots available. (OpenBSD)
- Timecounters available to userland in -current.
- Sponsor NetBSD (and pkgsrc) on Github. (via)
- Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI.
- Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and NVRAM. Semisure this is still BSD. (via)
- HardenedBSD July 2020 Status Report. (via)
- Focker is FreeBSD Image Orchestration Tool in Vein of Docker . (via)
- NetBSD Summer of Code reports:
- Benchmarking NetBSD, first evaluation report.
- Extending the functionality of NetPGP, Part 1.
- Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, Part 1.
- Curses Library Automated Testing, Part 1.
- Fuzzing the NetBSD Network Stack in a Rumpkernel Environment, Part 1.
- Make system(3) and popen(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally, Part 1.
- Fuzzing Rumpkernel Syscalls, Part 1.
- FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
- FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2020Q2. “Picked with the roll of a d100”.
- TrueNAS 12.0 beta available.
- Valuable News – 2020/07/13.