Periodicals – DragonFly BSD Digest

BSD Now 476: Warren Toomey interview

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:02:22 +0000

This special episode of BSD Now has an interview with Warren Toomey. I just happened to sign up for the TUHS mailing list and let me tell you, there’s some history being reported there by the people that lived it.

BSD Now: 475 Prompt Injection Attacks

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:34:12 +0000

The first link and the title for this week’s BSD Now doesn’t have anything to do with BSD as far as I know, but I think it’s funny.

BSD Now 474: EuroBSDcon 2022

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:04:29 +0000

BSD Now this week is titled ‘EuroBSDCon’, but as far as I know they weren’t there – haven’t listened to the episode yet. Any readers here go?

BSD Now 472: Consistent Exit Code

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 01:29:09 +0000

This week’s BSD Now is the normal roundup of stories. I won’t point you at anything specific; it’s all good.

BSD Now 472: Consistent Exit Code

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:40:11 +0000

This week’s BSD Now has two things I want to highlight – articles on Linux ABI and on dma. You’ll just have to click through.

BSD Now 471: De-Penguinization

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:41:44 +0000

This week’s BSD Now includes a link to depenguin.me, a way to install BSD using a rescue boot environment, which is going to come in handy for someone reading this. I know I’ve linked to it before.

BSD Now 470: 0mp interview

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:20:27 +0000

This is a different than usual episode of BSD Now: an interview of Mateusz Piotrowski.

BSD Now 469: Ctrl-C Reset

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:11:00 +0000

The highlight of this week’s BSD Now for me is the Ctrl-C / signal deep dive.

BSD Now 468: Apples and CHERI

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 01:56:27 +0000

I’m a bit late because of travel, but you still should see the latest BSD Now; the CHERI system is interesting and underappreciated.

BSD Now 467: Minecraft on NetBSD

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:08:41 +0000

This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of how-to-do-this links, as you might guess from the headline.

BSD Now 466: cat(1)’s efficiency

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:54:20 +0000

This week’s BSD Now takes its title from one of the links talking about how cat(1) works, which reminds me of this article about how the very original implementation of grep was crazy fast.

BSD Now 465: Deep Space Debugging

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 19:03:26 +0000

The lead link in this week’s BSD Now is the sort of thing I like to link to: debugging Lisp in space. There’s more than that.

BSD Now 464: Compiling with kefir

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:12:05 +0000

BSD Now 464 is out for the week, and has the normal roundup. Nothing unusual to point out, just good reading.

BSD Now 463: The 1.0 Legend

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:22:31 +0000

This week’s BSD Now gets into some history, as you can guess from the title.

BSD Now 462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:04:28 +0000

This week’s BSD Now has several links, though I’d want to point at the Yubikey/ssh/OpenBSD login one as the most interesting to me.

BSD Now 461: Persistent Memory Allocation

Justin Sherrill — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:57:20 +0000

No pun, but lots of links in this week’s BSD Now, including a link to EuroBSDCon 2022, happening in Austria.

BSD Now 460: OpenBSD airport folklore

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:08:50 +0000

This week’s BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.

BSD Now 459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:04:14 +0000

This week’s BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there’s a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.

BSD Now 458: Traceroute interpretation

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 19:16:44 +0000

This week’s BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.

BSD Now 457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow

Justin Sherrill — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:35:15 +0000

This week’s BSD Now talks about NetBSD and ZFS, among other things. I’ll point out an interesting link in the Beastie Bits, a way of exploring /usr/games.