Justin Sherrill – Page 74 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2019/03/092019/03/09

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/09

If these aren’t enough links, some of them are links to more links.

Using MRTG on OpenBSD.Amsterdam. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 14 – Configuration – Tint2.
LLDB from trunk is running on NetBSD once again!
Metasploit on OpenBSD. (via)
Looking at NetBSD from an OpenBSD user perspective. (via)
2019 AsiaBSDCon registration is open (plus some NetBSD event info).
GhostBSD: A Solid Linux-Like Open Source Alternative. A Linux site reviewing.
Site membership and mailing list subscriptions, managed through shell scripts on OpenBSD.
Sega Dreamcast running NetBSD, is it useful? (via)
Nixers Newsletter 116. I keep meaning to link to these, regularly.
Increasing coverage of signal semantics in regression tests.
Valuable News – 2019/03/04.
OPNSense 19.1.3 released.
a2k19 Hackathon Report: Antoine Jacoutot on ports, syspatch(8), and more.
Using a Yubikey as smartcard for SSH public key authentication.
The Joy in Csh & Vi. Indirectly BSD.

2019/03/08

vm_page_list_find2() fixes

A little thing: Matthew Dillon has made changes to vm_page_list_find2() which should improve performance in low-memory situations, though how much I don’t know. Mentioning it, cause every little bit helps – for knowledge and speed.

2019/03/07

BSD Now 288: Turing Complete Sed

This week’s BSD Now covers a range of topics that could match what I have in my weekend posts.

2019/03/07

Slides from NYCBUG / qmail

If you missed the qmail presentation from last night’s NYCBUG meeting, the slides are available now, and video will be coming soon. (I’ll link to it if I know about it.)

2019/03/062019/03/03

New dports build for 5.4 in place

As mentioned last week, there’s a new build of dports for 5.4, now available. No surprise, but a reminder to keep third-party software up to date is never wasted.

2019/03/052019/03/05

NYCBUG tomorrow: Maintaining qmail in 2019

NYCBUG’s having a meeting tomorrow night, with Amitai Schleier presenting on qmail. Go, if you are near, or at least read Amitai’s speaker bio.

2019/03/042019/03/03

Temporary smartctl breadkage in DragonFly master

Because someone decided years and years ago that the CAM structures should be passed through to userland, smartctl, camcontrol, cdrecord, and some other tools will be broken in DragonFly-master for a few days. If you are on -stable (5.4) this won’t affect you.

2019/03/032019/03/01

Lazy Reading for 2019/03/03

I’m going to break out the roguelike tag again even if it isn’t a perfect fit.

Vintage CGI.
The Gemini palmtop. (via)
From Vimperator to Tridactyl. (via)
A Kernel of Failure.
Drinking coffee with AWK. Accounting through text stream editing. (via)
Civilisational HTTP Error Codes. (via I lost it, sorry)
Leon: An open-source personal assistant. Comments at the source link led me to Mycroft again.
Ringen (1979). Second-oldest non-English text adventure known, preserved because it was brought into a MUD.
Using Vim to take time-stamped notes. (via)
How Fair Is My D20? (via)
Google-free Android Setup. (via)
Scientology and the Fellowship. I did not know about this Ultima link at all.
Pi-Hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements. (via)
Dwarf Fortress diary: The Basement of Curiosity episode seven – The Battle of Carambola Ridge.
How I’m still not using GUIs in 2019: A guide to the terminal. (via)
Rich’s sh (POSIX shell) tricks. (via)

2019/03/022019/03/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/03/02

I didn’t even realize Summer of Code was upon us again.

Hello world, no root. (NetBSD on Nintendo64). (via)
Google Summer of Code 2019 participants: FreeBSD, NetBSD.
Why OpenBSD rocks. (via)
SecBSD: Unix-like operating system focused on computer security. (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I’ve been lax in linking to the previous 12.
back of the napkin freebsd hardware?
OPNsense 19.1.2 released.
[packages] PostgreSQL major update. (OpenBSD)
The New iXsystems.com Experience.
ARM’d and dangerous: FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX (aarch64).
Improvements to X86FixupGadgets pass of clang(1). (OpenBSD)
New VPN FAQ.
[OpenBSD] 6.5-beta has been tagged.
BSD Link Roundup 2/21.
Valuable News – 2019/02/25.
FuguIta – based on OpenBSD. (via)

2019/03/01

re(4) for you and me

Sepherosa Ziehau’s improvements to re(4), bringing it to Realtek’s 1.95 release, have been committed.

(Does Realtek have a public repo for this? A few minutes of Googling did not turn one up for me.)

2019/02/28

BSD Now 287: rc.d in NetBSD

This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of NetBSD things including rc.d as you might guess, and covers Project Trident. Listen/read in if you are unfamiliar.

2019/02/27

New dports build on the way

Thanks to tuxillo and others, there’s a new build of dports on the way for DragonFly 5.4 that includes packages that weren’t building before – mongodb, kodi, mysql80, and I imagine more that I don’t know about. If the synth build is still running when you read this, you can look at its status page. If it isn’t running, the packages are of course in the normal place and you can use ‘pkg upgrade’ to get them.

2019/02/242019/02/22

Lazy Reading for 2019/02/24

Yay, got to use the roguelike tag!

ARPANET: Celebrating 50 Years Since “LO”. There’s a transcript farther down the page if you don’t want to watch the video; I am always grateful for transcripts. (via)
THROBAC, a computer using Roman numerals. I had no idea this could exist.(via)
Aspell to check spelling.
Drist release with persistent ssh.
Open protocols can evolve fast if they’re willing to break other people.
Why I like middle mouse button paste in xterm so much.
Using grep with /dev/null, an old Unix trick. Muscle memory.
Bad PC cases.
Cygwin 3.0.0-1. (via)
Level Design and Shaping a Roguelike Experience. I linked to Cogmind 4 years ago, and it has significantly grown since then. Note to self: play. (via)
Ask laarc: What apps do you love and/or use habitually?
Ultima VII. Deep dive into a deep game.
Dwarf Fortress diaries: 3, a gruesome winter, 4 – Messages from Zon, 5 – culture war, dingo war, and 6 – Through the Interesting Door.
Landley’s Computer History Page. There’s a lot of history there. Plus BSD history! (via)
Using gmail with mutt. (via)
Writing a Rust Roguelike for the Desktop and the Web. (via)
Restoring My 90’s Era 386 (Work in Progress). Back when heatsinks were much less necessary. (via)
Split keyboards, a five year experience and review. Source comments led me to Keyboardio, which is nice hardware… and can be reprogrammed by the end user! That’s the way it should be.

2019/02/232019/03/01

In Other BSDs for 2019/02/23

Built entirely from open tabs.

Porting Zig to NetBSD – a fun, speedy port. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2019 – 13th – 14th of July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (via)
HAXM in pkgsrc (hardware-assisted virtualization engine). (via)
QEMU HAXM on NetBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. Which is the same basic system across all BSDs I think. (via)
Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client. (via)
openrsync imported into the tree. In OpenBSD.
Hardware for a Linux/BSD Friendly Workstation.
Valuable News – 2019/02/15.
SoloBSD 19.02-STABLE.
Update pfSense packages to protect against NGINX, libzmq4, and curl vulnerabilities.
OpenBSD and iscsi, part 1 and part 2.
How to run Axiom Verge on OpenBSD (Epic Store version).
mupen64plus 2.5.9 (2.6 beta) call for testing. A N64 emulator on OpenBSD. (via)
Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS.
Faster vlan(4) forwarding? – blog post by mpi@.
FreeBSD ZFS AMIs Now Available.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” first draft complete and “Sudo Mastery, Second Edition” and Cover Art.

2019/02/22

brk() to sbrk()

The system call brk() in DragonFly has been replaced with sbrk(). It won’t affect you from an end-user perspective other than making sure you upgrade everything on the next release – but it is a system call change, so I’m noting it.

2019/02/21

BSD Now 286: Old Machine Revival

This week’s BSD Now, the satisfyingly-numbered 286, covers a number of topics – including 2 things I have always been entertained by: small X tools and Windowmaker.

2019/02/20

Fred models, found again

Tobias Florek had a soft model made of Fred, the DragonFly mascot, years ago. He is moving and found a few unsold units. If you are in Europe (for shipping), and are interested in them, contact Tobias at dragonfly@ibotty.net.

If you don’t remember them: here’s the pictures.

2019/02/192019/02/19

SemiBUG: informal meetup tomorrow

SemiBUG’s normal meeting place is not available this month, so there’s an informal get-together at Leo’s next door, like last month. It’s happening tonight at 7 PM.

Update: I put the wrong publish date on this – “tonight” is the 19th for this, not the 17th.

2019/02/18

Realtek NIC testing for DragonFly

Do you have Realtek hardware for your network link? Specifically, re(4)? Then Sepherosa Ziehau has a patch for you to try.

2019/02/172019/02/15

Lazy Reading for 2019/02/17

There’s some extended reading in these links; I hope you have some time on your hands for a deep dive today.

Warp: playing offline. Saving an architecture to play a game.
SET THE FLUX CAPACITOR FOR 12/30/1899. (via)
PC Speaker to Eleven. (also via)
Listening to the internet…
Quotes from 1992.
Wikimedia is hiring.
A touchpad is not a mouse, or at least not a good one.
Related: Making more use of keyboard control over window position and size.
The IBM PC. Harvard Business Review on open platforms.
Lighting up my DasKeyboard with Blood Sugar changes using my body’s REST API. (via)
bd, bn, bp, ls, w, e, & me. Buffers over files in Vim.
Emacs X Window Manager. I am losing track of what controls what. (via)
Previous: NeXT computer hardware emulator. (via)
MIT Hacker Tools. Generalized how-to-use UNIX tools. Much better than the usual overview articles you see, probably because it’s an actual course. (via)
Computer hardware notes. A collection of one person’s hardware anecdotes, stretching from Crays, decades ago, to modern events. (via)
Betamaxed, about version control systems. An even-handed appraisal, not just an anecdote. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: DOCTOR WHAT. (via)