BSDNow 269, along with convention reports and other items, covers something I never expected: System V daemons on BSD.
I like to repeat this from time to time: loading the appropriate sound driver on DragonFly consists of loading all the sound kernel modules and seeing which one sticks, in dmesg . Chances are good it’s snd_hda anyway.
The performance page on dragonflybsd.org has been updated with numbers on symmetric multiprocessing performance. (Scroll to the 2018 section.)
Still clearing…
- MINITEL ALL, opening November 6th in New York City. They’ll have running consoles!
- It is a badge and a fully functional computer: Supercon badges.
- “We are captives to our phones, they are having a deleterious effect on society, and no one is coming to help us. On the upside, this is a great phone.” (via)
- Pen mouse.
- Unix in East Germany (1990) (via)
- Arcan versus Xorg – Approaching Feature Parity. (via)
- The Bounty of the Public Library. I have found University level education is there, for free, as long as the format can work for you.
- Garbage collection and the underappreciated power of good enough.
- How Lisp Became God’s Own Programming Language. (via)
- Floppy in watch. Surely I’ve linked to this before.
- Freedesktop.org: its past and its future. (via)
- Legion of Lobotomized Unices. (via)
- Maybe the worst conference talk I’ve ever been to.
- What laptop are you using?
- Why you should be willing to believe that
ed(1)is a good editor. - High-res graphics on a text-only TRS-80. (via)
- Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years. And of course Webamp. (via)
Well, I cleared my tab backlog, but not my RSS backlog…
- NetBSD machines at Open Source Conference 2018 Kagawa. (via)
- OpenBSD’s unveil(). (via)
- OpenBSD on the Desktop: some thoughts. (via)
- Fuzzing the OpenBSD Kernel.
- vmm(4) gets support for qcow2.
- n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerback (krw@) on disklabel(8) work, dhclient(8) progress.
- New mandoc feature: -T html -O toc.
- Locking OpenBSD when it’s sleeping.
- SoloBSD 11.2-STABLE-1009.
- Tor on OpenBSD part 1 and part 2.
- PIC32-RETROBSD.
- Unveiling OpenBSD pflogd(8). (via)
- OpenBSD on the Lenovo A485. (via)
- Questions on building FreeBSD fileserver for video production.
- A Unix Shell poster from 1983. Might be BSD, might not. (via)
- Valuable News – 2018/10/13.
- The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code. (via)
- Slant, an OpenBSD system monitor. (via)
- OpenBSD 6.4 Released.
- “OpenBSD Foundation gets a second Iridium donation from Handshake!“
- BSD and home automation.
- OPNSense 18.7.5 released.
- Upgrading OpenBSD (on Vultr)
- Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible. (via)
If you were looking to install DragonFly into part of your already-in-use hard drive, here’s some conversation about the process.
This week’s BSDNow has a lot of “You will not regret knowing this” material – ZFS performance measurement, 2FA SSH, and using Netcat in various ways.
Matthew Dillon’s moved tty_token from a global to per-CPU token in most cases in DragonFly. This is good for performance as with any global->local shift, but I can’t tell you what aspect it improves.
Did you use the digi(4), rp(4) and si(4) serial device drivers in DragonFly? I don’t think so, but you definitely can’t now.
SemiBUG is having the monthly meeting tonight. The presenter is Nick Holland, talking about SPECTRE mitigations in OpenBSD, and similar mechanisms. If you are near, go.
If you are running DragonFly in a virtual environment, ‘ddegroot’ has put together a virtio_balloon driver for handling memory usage. (An explanation of the term) Try it if you can; he wants testers.
Here’s your reminder: MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. That’s the end of this week. Go, if you are near.
A good, oddball week.
- Happy #CIDRDay!
- Exploring OmniOS in a VM.
- Endless amounts of Commodore 64 games, in-browser. (via many places)
- Dangit, I missed posting about the Roguelike Celebration. (via)
- Software Heritage, archiving code. (thanks, Siju)
- Classic computers in Lego. Cuter than I thought possible. (via)
- Spleen – Monospaced bitmap fonts. A teeny terminal font, working down to 5×8. Designed on OpenBSD? I don’t know the tools used. (thanks, Frederic)
- Engineered Arts, a company that builds robots for interaction. What a fun job to have! (via)
- Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Toolkit. (via)
- 2018 IFComp entries. (via)
- everything you ever wanted to know about terminals (via)
- Oddness: the zoneinfo file on your computer right now could be affected by Earth speeding up.
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Draculagate, a book funded by Kickstarter. Watch the video.
Still playing catchup with links.
- FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
- One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
- Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
- Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Multiplayer.
- Port for endless sky submitted to ports@. I’ve linked this game once before; it resembles Escape Velocity, which resembles Taipan, my historic favorite game.
- MidnightBSD reaches 1.0. (via)
- pfSense and Google Cloud Identity.
- iXSystems and the Chinese hardware hack.
- Process title and missing memory space.
- Valuable News – 2018/10/07.
- Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve.
- AF3e ship date and next FreeBSD talk.
- FreeNAS 11.2-BETA2 is available!
- EuroBSDCon 2018 Recap.
- September 2018 FreeBSD Foundation Update. (via)
- GhostBSD tested on ThinkPad T410. (via)
- What is ZFS? Why are People Crazy About it? (via)
- Login_duress: A BSD authentication module for duress passwords. Password as command. (via)
- Porting Keybase to NetBSD. (via)
- pkgsrc on SmartOS by Jonathan Perkin. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 17 – Automount Removable Media.
- unixpackages.com – a commercial service for packaged software. It’s ports or pkg or pkgsrc, but just for Solaris 2.5+, and it costs money. Technically not a BSD, but the contrast with what we get for free is interesting.
- Installing Hugo and hosting website. On OpenBSD. (via)
In case it’s useful to you, here’s several laptop recommendations for DragonFly.
BSDNow 267 is posted a bit early this week, with an interview of Michael W. Lucas, about his upcoming Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition and local BUG.
I’m posting a day early cause of time zone difference: there’s a meeting of the Polish BSD User Group tomorrow.
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk at mug.org tonight; he may have physical copies of his new Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition available. Go, if you are near. Pro tip: If you are late but still want to catch up to Michael, look for the nearest gelato shop.
Matthew Dillon recently fixed a TRIM bug, where a TRIM command was being issued unconditionally, regardless of the mount flag, and duplicating the action if it was set normally. It’s fixed now. This would only have any significant slowdown on UFS, which means it would only affect installworld – the rest of your mounted volumes are HAMMER, right?
Old computer theme this week. That may be more of a constant.
- PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70. (via)
- Fonts on Unix. (via) The source comments mention Go Mono a number of times; new to me.
- Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work?? Of course the answer is eventually yes or why link to it? (via)
- Standard Notes, an open source alternative to other notes apps. (via)
- Two Bit History, computer history by decade. I’ve linked to some of the individual articles before.
- The Story of the Polysynth, video. (via)
- Colour Without Colour: Apple II Computer Graphics. (via)
- The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found. (via)
- STAR, an Arduino Robot Recreation. Creepy crawler.
- Full Table. Down the rabbit hole of images. (via)
- Rules for Online Sanity, a PDF. (via)
- SGI collectors.
- Bad relay: Fixing the card reader for a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe.
- Inform: Past, Present, Future. (via)