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Lazy Reading for 2025/01/19

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 13:22:07 +0000

Quirky, just like I want it.

Why is editing PDFs so prevalent?
A Suitably Bizarre Start of the Year 2025.
Naming Quarters. I think fortnights and sennights are underutilized timeframes, incidentally.
pkgsrc-2024Q4 is out.
Tellico, collection management software. (via)
Some of the original BeOS icons reimagined in Blender. (via)
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets. (via)
The next leap second is at least a year away.
Copyright-free images. A vast amount of images available.

Your unrelated music link of the week: Where to Start With Tempa, The Label That Invented Dubstep.

Lazy Reading for 2024/01/07

Justin Sherrill — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 13:07:56 +0000

Of course the first thing I did was type the wrong year into the title of this post.

OpenBSD printing and Avery labels.
pkgsrc-2023Q4 out.
Next NYC*BUG: Jan 10th.
DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s.
There’s a thread about disklabel on the TUHS list that went from interesting history to OpenFirmware discussion and then into the problem of bootstrapping/hardware monitors. Lots more I didn’t link. (iPhone-related)
‘Merchants of Complexity’: Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud. Recurring monthly payments for static goods are a goldmine – for the seller. (via)
Critical mass in the Goldilocks zone. (via)
Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. I don’t agree with it but it is interesting.
2024 FreeBSD community survey. Closes tomorrow.
Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate. I don’t know the products well enough to say this is the only analysis.
Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store. Counterintuitively, he’s charging less money but making more money.
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again. Read the article for the links inside it.

In Other BSDs for 2022/10/01

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 12:57:09 +0000

Next NYCBUG social gathering is this Wednesday.
Ultima Online’s 25th anniversary. Linked here cause it works on OpenBSD without Wine, according to the comment. (via)
Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch.
How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie.
A DMD 5620 Terminal Emulator. This is a terminal I’ve never seen before.
EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different).
EuroBSDCon 2022.
EuroBSDCon 2022.
The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather[sic] is like.
Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use.
Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails.
Toolchains Adventures Q3 2022.
Valuable News – 2022/09/26.
How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update.

In Other BSDs for 2022/07/09

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:53:55 +0000

Lots to read this week.

In Other BSDs for 2022/04/02

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 13:02:42 +0000

Mini-ZFS theme this week.

OpenBSD Webzine #8.
Heap Overflow in OpenBSD’s slaacd via Router Advertisement. (via several places)
pkgsrc-2022Q1 is out.
Nixxers is back!
Need Help installing favorite game Trek73. Followup.
Does swap still matter? A long thread.
Toolchains adventures – Q1 2022.
ZFS Compatibility.
Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?
Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS.
Meet my two heroes from Unix world: Marshal Kirk and Eric Allman! (via)
FreeBSD/EC2: What I’ve been up to.
Valuable News – 2022/03/21 and 2022/03/28.
Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd.
Add support for XBox One gamecontroller.
HardenedBSD March 2022 Status Report.
paprok gets CDE running on NetBSD. Chunky chunky.

In Other BSDs for 2022/02/19

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 13:51:00 +0000

No theme this week other than of course BSD.

Sensors Information on FreeBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q4 is out.
Valuable News – 2022/02/14.
New ‘Reckless guide to OpenBSD’ published. Weekly installments.
Charity Auction: DNSSEC Mastery proof for Black Girls Code. Note the daemon on the cover.
My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD. (via)
Debugging an Ioctl Problem on OpenBSD. (via)
pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available. (via)
Keeping old Unix/Linux up-to-date with pkgsrc. (via)
The complete idiot’s guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2022/01/15

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 13:51:05 +0000

Catching up on some items I missed last week.

Packet Scheduling with Dummnynet and FreeBSD.
The important Unix idea of the “virtual filesystem switch”.
A big PostgreSQL upgrade.
Some ways to implement /dev/fd in Unix kernels.
Video: Q&A. About all the mostly-BSD hacking joshua stein does.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2021Q4 branch. (via)
The BulkTracker Outage.
GhostBSD 0nline Meetup, January 21st.
Valuable News – 2022/01/10.
LLDB FreeBSD live kernel debugging support.
Minecraft 1.18.1 and latest MultiMC.

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/13

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 13:54:29 +0000

Note the upcoming SEMIBUG meeting. I’ll post a reminder.

Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2. (via)
Manage Kubernetes Cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl. (via)
What if Internet stops? How to rebuild an offline federated infrastructure using OpenBSD.
OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption. (via)
SEMIBUG is meeting November 16th, with a presentation from Deb Goodkin, head of the FreeBSD Foundation. It’s online.
How I ended liking GNOME. Also, using X with the loss of one hand.
Valuable News – 2021/11/08.
UNIX Mouse Shootout.
0ad several versions behind, cant play online because of this. Linking so I remember to play it.
FreeBSD Documentation: Papers We Love To Read.
go-modules.mk.
depotdownloader issues.
FreeBSD 12.3RC1 is out.
OPNsense 21.7.5 released.
OpenBSD Webzine #4.

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/09

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 12:51:19 +0000

It is status report season!

ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via)
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD. Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports. (via)
The OpenBSD Webzine. (via)
Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
Valuable News – 2021/10/04.

In Other BSDs for 2021/10/02

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 12:52:37 +0000

Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.

pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/10

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 12:54:27 +0000

I’m writing this on the road, so it’s a bit low on links. Sorry! I will have much more next week.

pkgsrc-2021Q2 is out.
Full OpenBSD Startup described on slide 48. (via)
A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer. (via)
CliFM, the non-curses file manager, was just ported to NetBSD and OpenBSD!
Chimera Linux, with a FreeBSD userland. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2021/06/05

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 12:51:11 +0000

Literally this is my open browser tabs pasted in order.

Jitsi on OpenBSD, specifically how to make it work.
NetBSD IRC channels are also moved to Libera.
Also KDE on FreeBSD — IRC channels.
Gaming on NomadBSD – Based on FreeBSD 13. (via)
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions. “Distributions”. (via)
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD. (via)
NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit, next week.
HardenedBSD May 2021 Status Report.
NetBSD 9.2’s new default package DB location.
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6. It is adorable.
What you can’t install with NetBSD’s pkgsrc.
Harsh resource limits on CGIs set for the MirBSD server.
aiomixer, X/Open Curses and ncurses, and other news.
FYI – Upcoming 1.17 release requires JDK 16 (and thus -current). For Minecraft on BSD users.
Updating my FreeBSD 12.2 host to FreeBSD 13.0.
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail.
Rumors of an OpenBSD game console?
Valuable News – 2021/05/31.
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years. Look at the first comment on the source.
You Can Watch Netflix on FreeBSD. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/22

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 22 May 2021 13:04:16 +0000

Done early, and I have more BSD-related tabs to get through.

In Other BSDs for 2021/04/03

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 12:58:48 +0000

Well, I made up for last week’s short list.

What tool you use to read IPMI sensor information can matter. Not directly BSD, but the tools described are in ports.
The origin of POSIX. The name, not the standard. TWAIN has the best pseudo-origin. (via)
Does the old Unix still exist, besides its descendants? Yes, and so does Theseus’s ship.
Related: Plan 9 is now open source, along with Inferno. Technically a later version of Unix – plus Inferno can run on BSD. (via)
NetBSD Bounties for xhci features scatter-gather, suspend/resume. (via)
HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report.
GSoC Reports: Make system(3), popen(3) and popenve(3) use posix_spawn(3) internally (Final report).
KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2.
Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020.
How to split a file into small parts.
UFS Boot Environments.
What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer?
Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay. On OpenBSD.
pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement.
FVWM(3) and the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop. (via)
Valuable News – 2021/03/29.
OPNsense 21.1.4 released.
Only Footnotes. But some of them are BSD footnotes!

Semi-BSD-related: One of my 3 workplaces needs a Software Team Lead. (scroll down) The main product is FreeBSD-based, though this team position does not directly work with it.

In Other BSDs for 2021/03/20

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:57:16 +0000

Solene is publishing faster than I can link!

EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open.
Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via)
FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via)
Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via)
Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via)
Wayland on FreeBSD.
Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD.
Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD.
Port of the week[s]: catgirl irc client and pmenu.
Valuable News – 2021/03/15.

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/09

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 13:58:17 +0000

This bulked up fast this week.

In Other BSDs for 2020/08/29

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:51:39 +0000

No theme, but plenty of variety.

A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel.
Valuable News – 2020/08/24.
“TLS Mastery” Covers Reveal, with T-shirts and Posters.
TrueNAS 12.0 beta out.
MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out.
pkgdb belongs in libdata, not var. Them’s fightin’ words!
rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc. Them too!
GhostBSD financial reports. I like seeing this out in the open. (via)
What is the oldest BSD? Not as short an answer as you may think. (via)
Tarsnap podcast episode with FreeBSD ex security officer Colin Percival. (via)
From 8′ to 4″: massive pkgsrc performance gain by replacing a shell script with awk.

In Other BSDs for 2020/07/25

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:07:54 +0000

Lots of old BSD this week.

Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via)
2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via)
Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195.
Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project.
How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable.
MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged.
Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on MidnightBSD. Useful for any BSD.
ZFS High Availability Filesystem With minio on FreeBSD. (via)
Valuable News – 2020/07/20.
April to June 2020 Status Report for FreeBSD.
I’m back into the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack and 802.11ac and Fixing up ath_rate_sample to actually work well with 11n.

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/29

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:55:07 +0000

Happy leap day!

RSVP to the ChiBUG mailing list if you are attending the March 10th meeting, in its new location.
The Vixie talk at NYCBUG is this week; this is worth making an extra trip for.
Critical OpenSMTPd update.
FreeBSD 12.0 EOL.
A Q&A with the FreeBSD Foundation.
Valuable News – 2020/02/10, 2020/02/17, and 2020/02/24. Clearly I am behind.
FreeBSD Enterprise Storage at PBUG.
dig(1), host(1) and nslookup(1) moved to /usr/bin.
a2k20 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on xhci(4),dhclient(8), and scsi.
OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup.
FOSDEM 2020 videos available.
OPNsense 20.1.1 released.
Warning! Active Directory Security Changes Require TrueNAS and FreeNAS Updates.
Full name of root account in BSD. A chunk of history I had never heard.
Managing a database of vulnerabilities for a package system: the pkgsrc study case. (PDF, via)
Low power BSD-based AP/router?
HashLink port for running Dead Cells. (via)

In Other BSDs for 2020/02/15

Justin Sherrill — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:55:15 +0000

UNIX history as an accidental theme this week.

Update: NetBSD 9.0 is released.

Are there analogues to libxo out there?
Unix Heritage Wiki. (via)
Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming)
PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question.
Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via)
UNIX Review Early 80’s Ad.
Cycling / bike trips and opensource.
Rob Landley about the /usr split. (via)
awesome cli apps: A curated list of command line apps. Look for them in ports. (via)
Using PKGSRC on Manjaro Linux aarch64 Pinebook-pro. (via)
FreeNAS versus Unraid – Grudge Match. (via)
Dependencies and maintainers. Tehcnically BSD related.