Matthew Dillon’s made some changes to the scheduler, with the result that nice(1) is really vigorous now about enforcing priority.
Here’s something that doesn’t have an immediate impact now, but will be useful down the road: Francois Tigeot has been working on DRM support in DragonFly, and has been quite successful with Intel video support. His strategy has been to adopt Linux methods where possible, to reduce the amount of support work. The payoff has been excellent, and prompt, accelerated video support in DragonFly. The most recent work is “git: drm: Implement parts of the Linux irq subsystem“, which is going to come in handy for someone, I’m sure.
NYCBUG is having a social (i.e. no presenter) meeting this month – tonight, in fact. Go, talk BSD, drink.
Sascha Wildner has ported FreeBSD’s driver, for LSI Fusion-MPT 3/3.5 SAS controllers. It includes mpr(4), mps(4), and the mpsutil(8)/mprutil(8) management program. It’s in the kernel by default, in fact.
There’s a social meeting for KnoxBUG tonight – go, if you are near.
No accidental theme this week.
- Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text. (via)
- Quarterstaff: The Infamous Puzzle and Quarterstaff: “Deathbots” vs. “Ordinary living things”.
- Early days: the VIC-20 Programmer’s Reference Guide. (via)
- Encrypted Gopher. (via)
- SSH Client Configuration Tricks. (via)
- Computer historian job opening at the National Museum of American History. (via)
- The Game of Everything, Part 7: Civilization and Government I (Despotism, Monarchy, and the Republic).
- Flickr Commons, hopefully surviving the smugmug acquisition. (via)
- Xenographics: Weird but (sometimes) useful charts. (via)
Some nice tech explanations this week.
- OpenBSD on my fanless desktop computer. Read to find out more about the RUNBSD stickers. (via)
- OpenBSD Community Goes Gold for 2018!
- Hardware accelerated AES/HMAC-SHA on octeons.
- Caddy Web Server on FreeBSD.
- free command for OpenBSD. I’d love to see a deep dive into the various BSD *stat commands. (via)
- Call for Papers | EuroBSDcon 2018. (via)
- Towards Secure System Graphics: Arcan and OpenBSD. (via)
- NetBSD 8.0RC1 is out.
- Running my own git server. On OpenBSD. (via)
- Perl @INC – customizing it for FreeBSD.
BSDNow episode 243 has no interview but a bunch of release news. I like seeing a note from Dag-Erling Smørgrav about 2 decades as a committer. I also consider aarch64 support in NetBSD interesting.
The short answer: if you have an Areca card (in this case, a model 1222) and multi-terabyte drives, they will work on DragonFly.
IPSEC hasn’t been maintained in basically forever in DragonFly, so it’s been removed. It was only still mentioned in the VKERNEL configs, so if you have a custom VKERNEL config file, remove any mention of IPSEC, IPSEC_ESP, or IPSEC_DEBUG. Otherwise, nothing to worry about.
Reduce, the “second oldest computer algebra system”, has been ported to DragonFly (and there’s work on other BSDs). The post about this has lots of links to more information; if you’re a Maple or Mathematica user, this will definitely interest you.
Accidental theme this week… video games, though not strongly.
- Eaten by a Grue, the Infocom podcast. There’s a lot to listen to here. (thanks, swildner)
- Urbigenous Library. There’s a lot to read here.
- Modern-Day BBSing on an Epson CP/M-based Laptop from 1984. (via)
- Jengo, a new point-and-click game.
- Dwarf Fortress dwarves to be given memories, dev shows no remorse.
- Home automation notes, not really BSD-related.
- The Game of Everything, Part 6: Civilization and Religion.
- “Why is the kernel community replacing iptables with BPF?” On Linux, where reinventing wheels in the system is a constant. (via)
- Pinebook: An Affordable 64-bit ARM based Open Source Notebook. Linked for the source link commentary, not for the selling page.
- Weekly Command: going over Git history with tig. (via)
- Zulip, an open source team chat. (i.e. Slack and Teams category) (via)
- What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Data Visualization. (via)
Opinion time: The Reddit / Hacker News forums have reached the anything/everything point where there’s no longer a focus. Lobste.rs is worth visiting, though, for BSD content and in general.
MAP_STACKStack Register Checking Committed to -current.- Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD. (via)
- Run OpenBSD on your web server. (via)
- Introduction to HardenedBSD World. (via)
- MirBSD Korn Shell on Jehanne. (via)
- Distributed Object Storage with Minio on FreeBSD. (via)
- Open vSwitch Overview.
- How to do math on the Linux command line. Or BSD.
- IKEV2 EAP User name/Password client on *BSD.
- Taylor Campbell, new to netbsd-core.
- [on sale] Bioware, FTL, System Shock, and more. (OpenBSD Gaming, though it may extend to other BSDs.)
- BSD Magazine wants article feedback.
- OpenBSD router/firewall?
BSDNow 242 has no interview and the normal wide range of topics: TrueOS, F-Stack, jails, SmartOS, and most interesting to me, open source business model development with iXSystems.
I like code that travels through multiple BSDs.
There’s a plugin for pkg, called pkg-provides, which will tell you what package(s) contain the filename you provide – installed or not. I didn’t even know pkg had a plugin system. Anyway, it works on DragonFly, as the author notes.
No theme grew this week.
- Conserve the Sound, “vanishing and endangered sounds”. (via)
- Why does Twitter allow third-party clients? Another walled garden approach winding to its end stage.
- z, a tool for navigating by regex. Odd, but powerful. (via)
- Ikea-style instructions for programming algorithms. Not sure if this makes them clearer, or not. (via)
- Seashells, piping CLI output to the web in realtime. (via)
- Why does”=” mean assignment? (via)
- The Game of Everything, Part 5: Civilization and War.
- Why SQLite Does Not Use Git. (via)
- XScreenSaver 5.39 is out. New hacks!
- The NES homebrew scene.
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Belfry WebComics Index. Very 90s. (via I lost it, sorry)
Totally last-minute summary, but I’m hitting every BSD category.
- Godot running on OpenBSD, though I didn’t know what Godot was.
- Finding what you’re looking for on Linux. BSD too. I link it because I always forget arguments to find(1).
- OPNsense 18.1.6 released.
- New M-Series storage devices from iXSystems.
- How to write ATF tests for NetBSD. (via)
- FreeBSD Desktop – Part 2 – Install. (via)
- Using FreeBSD Text Dumps. (via)
- Transparent network audio with mpd & sndiod. (via)
- Michael W. Lucas’s Penguicon 2018 Schedule. Several BSD presentations.
- pkg vs. underlying OS upgrades.
- The BSDCan 2018 schedule is posted.