Category: BSD

It’s a very short week this week.  I was on the road for work, so I didn’t see anywhere as much of the Internet as I may have liked.  Count my dports writeup yesterday as part of this and it averages out to a good amount of reading.

• Favorite Linux Commands.  Not all of them are Linux/bash specific.  (via)
• Advanced Vim Registers.  Or buffers, or clipboards, if you want to get messy with terms.  (via)
• “I hate BSD so much!”, he yelled at his spittle-flecked monitor.
• TOME, a roguelike.  Read through the comments for discussion of many other roguelike games.

Your unrelated link of the week: New Tokyo Ondo.  via Jesse Moynihan, whose Forming comic on that site is an epic read.  Epic, as in it’s actually telling a NSFW world creation story.

The Open Graphics Project, which is building a completely open video card, needs a wiki maintainer.  It’s a volunteer effort.  If you were perhaps thinking you wanted to step up to a more complex project but didn’t want to just be writing code, here is a perfect opportunity.

(Not too different from maintaining a project work blog, after all, and I know that’s rewarding.)

Whomever submitted this story to Slashdot really doesn’t like FreeBSD; they’re describing FreeBSD’s annual end-of-year fund drive as failed.  The month-long drive is only about a week old and has already picked up donations at a faster rate than any previous year’s donation drive, but apparently the poster – and Slashdot’s editors – can’t be bothered to do math.  While we’re on the topic, donate to the FreeBSD Foundation; they do good things.

(There’s DragonFly too, though we’re not as ambitious or officially 501(c)(3) non-profit.)

We (as in DragonFly) are not participating in Google Code-In this year, but I’m happy to see there’s another BSD in there – NetBSD.  (There’s only 10 participating organizations, so it’s not easy.)  Look at their page if you’re in the right age range to do projects.