UNIXish – DragonFly BSD Digest

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.

2022/02/042022/02/01

Syscalls, listed

This is pretty esoteric, but all of DragonFly’s syscalls can be found in the links Aaron LI provided in this post. There’s code in there that dates back to Berkley UNIX.

2022/01/27

BSD Now 439: Browser Tab Unix

There’s no pun in the title; this week’s BSD Now really links to a browser implementation of UNIX-ish resources. Is it POSIX? Not quite. Is it UNIX? No. Is it Linux? Probably using that as a reference, so it’s a copy of a copy. Still, interesting. There’s other articles too; don’t be distracted by my digression.

2022/01/222022/01/21

In Other BSDs for 2022/01/22

The UNIX compliance link is worth reading all the way through; it is a chunk of history I did not know at all.

What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? Answered by the guy that led it at Apple. Note the relatively short time needed to do the same for FreeBSD. (via)
The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 6 and Day 7.
LibBSDDialog.
GhostBSD 22.01.12 ISO is now available.
Valuable News – 2022/01/17.
Wine 7 is released. FreeBSD is the only BSD for it I think. (via)
Suyimazu – Wine-based Game Launcher for FreeBSD. (via)
FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails With ZFS and VNET. (via)
Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD.
LLDB FreeBSD kernel debugging support summary.
Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant.
OpenBSD on the PinePhone. (via)
BSD based solutions virtualisation/clustering of resources for VMs.
LibreSSL update.

2021/11/272021/11/25

In Other BSDs for 2021/11/27

Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US.

2021/10/102021/10/06

Lazy Reading for 2021/10/10

UNIX history for the mini-theme this week.

Keyboard hacks for microwave ovens. (via)
Raspberry Pi SDR Cyberdeck.
Pong from the inside. (via)
multizork. (via)
André Arko Uses This.
Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century. (via)
DOS Subsystem for Linux. Why why whywhywhywhy? (via)
Wizards and warriors, part five. (via)
Graphic Design History Resources. (via)
LAMP is dead! Long live (Perl) web frameworks. (via)
Stanley Kubrick liked UNIX. (via)
Our New Infrastructure.
Dali Clock on the TRS-80 CoCo.
50 Years of Text Games: 2007: El museo de las consciencias; Lieux communs.
Shiner ESB, an Apple Network Server prototype, and what it did at Netscape/MCom.

Your unrelated animation of the week: Cyriak Animator Pro.

2021/07/172021/07/14

In Other BSDs for 2021/07/17

More BUG meetings are happening, which is great.

Next ChiBUG meeting: in person, July 20th. I’ll post a reminder.
The slides from the most recent NYCBUG meeting.
The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 & VAX. The article itself is not about BSD, specifically, but some of the comments at the source link are.
A Glimpse of the Canon object.station 41. A NeXT iteration I didn’t know about. (via)
Meet the Summer 2021 [FreeBSD] Foundation Interns.
Status of Online Conference Software on FreeBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/07/05 and 2021/07/12.
Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD. Or any BSD, probably.
Repairing Akonadi on FreeBSD.
Filtering spam using Rspamd and OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD.
NetBSD/Desktop: Scalable Workstation Systems. Old but interesting. (via)
[Semibug] RAID 0 or 1 for OpenBSD. Follow the thread for more info.
Total Mastery, the bundle. Includes multiple FreeBSD Mastery books.

2021/05/012021/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2021/05/01

There’s some opinions mixed in this week!

NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.

2021/03/02

New games on DragonFly

New to DragonFly, but not new to games. Aarom LI has added several old–school BSD games back to DragonFly mostly via NetBSD. It’s ching(6), gomoku(6), monop(6), and cgram(6).

2021/01/312021/01/30

Lazy Reading for 2021/01/31

Accidental theme of UNIX-ish history this week.

Finally got my Emacs setup just how I like it, internationalization edition. But are they clacky?
mouSTer Is a Universal USB-Mouse Adapter for Retro Computers. (via)
Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986.
Folklore Generator. (via)
Things I’ve learned about A/UX. I think not a BSD so it goes here.
XTerm does graphics! (sort of). (via)
50 Years of Text Games: 1974: Super Star Trek.
Also from 1974: Moon Rocket Landing, for a calculator.
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is still developed and modern in 2021. Nostalgia for some readers. (via)
OpenVMS CDE Desktop Remote X session GUI. Linked cause it’s unexpected. (via)
Ben Zotto reconstructs a corrupted Apple II game he made in elementary school. Neat but multi-tweet stories on Twitter are just an easy way to lose information. (via)
The select command.
The Retro Mobile Gaming Database. (via)
The Subcreation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien. (via)

Your unrelated music of the week: The Most Noble Adventures of Erebor’s Finest Son, In His Quest To Butcher Orcs And Save The World. “Metal, minus those boring verses, choruses and solos, thus leaving only the most metal of song components; riffs and slams.” It’s bebop in metal form, and if you understand that joke you are a music nerd and it’s wonderful. (via)

2021/01/27

nanosleep and POSIX

POSIX is a sort of standard for UNIX maintained by the IEEE. Most UNIX-ish systems implement it to some extent, though I am not sure to what degree. There’s an open source version of the standard, and Aaron LI made nanosleep match up.

2021/01/232021/01/21

In Other BSDs for 2021/01/23

It’s the week of Very Long and Excited Page Titles that Give Me Long Link Lines.

FreeBSD Xfce4 on VMware Installation Guide. (via)
HardenedBSD 2020/12 Status Report. (via)
Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools. (via)
Just realized this… Dennis Ritchie is the true innovator! Posted for the single comment.
Unix time is in its fourth quarter.
BSD license violations. (read down)
Exploring Swap on FreeBSD. (via)
Tiny PDP11 – Intro. BSD 2.11, VT102, cutest ever. (via)
Heidi Stettner had a dog named Biff, and that’s why mail notification exists.
Star Wars PDP-11/45. Not sure if it’s BSD or not. (via)
Accented characters using a US keyboard layout on OpenBSD.
OpenRadiant (3D modeller) – Binary distribution advice.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 22 – Configuration – Aero Snap Extended.
Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD.
At a look at helloSystem 0.3.0 – Full on Mac-a-licious!
Minecraft ? 1.13 working on OpenBSD.
Valuable News – 2021/01/18.

2021/01/15

Chat without servers

I always thought IRC was pretty decentralized, but I didn’t realize talk(1) was designed to work machine-to-machine. That means in theory that if you have a talk(1) binary on your machine, you could chat directly to anyone else with the same binary, even on a different platform. Since 4.3BSD! Anyway, I only realized this because of this recent bugfix thanks to Dan Cross.