UNIXish – DragonFly BSD Digest

2018/04/212018/04/20

In Other BSDs for 2018/04/21

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_STACK Stack 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?

2018/04/012018/03/30

Lazy Reading for 2018/04/01

Accidental theme this week: games.

AI Anecdotes, with highlights. (via)
The history of documented Unix facilities. (via)
Web OS, open sourced. Originally what ran on Palm handhelds. I got to try an unreleased Palm phone just before they folded – it was slick. (via)
The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice. He can literally speak from beyond the grave, if you think about it. (via)
A Look Back at PLATO. (via)
Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix. (via)
The Handheld History Collection. (via)
The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization and Part 2: Playing Civilization and Part 3: Civilization and the Narrative of Progress.
The making of Dark Castle. That game fascinated me. (via)
Edible Dice. Yep, can buy them. (via)
Stop cherry-picking, start merging: Index.
groups.io. Way, way better than dealing with Yahoo or Google ‘free’ group products, which is an unavoidable feature of many non-tech groups. (via)

Your unrelated cookbook link of the week: “Texture – A hydrocolloid recipe collection”.

2018/03/242018/03/23

In Other BSDs for 2018/03/24

One of these links is a warning, but you won’t know until it’s too late.

OPNSense 18.1.5 released.
Happy 25th birthday NetBSD!
NetBSD 7.1.2 out.
Gaming on DFly.
ed(1) is Turing-Complete. (via)
Email Configuration for plan9 Acme on OpenBSD. (via)
Dolch PAC 64.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd ed” in hardcover.
An Introduction to Jails and Jail Networking. (via)
SCaLE 16x: Open is Still the Answer.
BSDCan 2018 – selected talks. needs more DragonFly

2018/03/042018/03/03

Lazy Reading for 2018/03/04

Overflow that started 2 weeks ago. Maybe I should go intraweekly for Lazy Reading?

The Multics history of Unix. I link it for the Dennis Richie anecdote. (via)
Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch. (PDF, via)
A Life Lesson in Mishandling SMTP Sender Verification. Outlook.com is huge and poorly configured – it’s the AOL email of the 2010s!
Whatever Happened to the Desktop Computer? (via)
bhgv/Inferno-OS_Android – an Android port of Inferno OS. Phones seem a natural location for this. (via)
What is Debian all about, really? Or: friction, packaging complex applications. Uses Debian, but applies to any packaging system. I like the “strong guarantee” language. (via)
Analysis of SSHFS performance for large builds.
Keyboard notebook – sized to fit under your keyboard, a good/simple idea. Kikkerland is like the U.S. version of Atypk.
The Remarkable Number 1/89. (via)
VF-1, a commandline Gopher client. (also via)
Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums. A Rolling Stone article from 1972 that ends with code. (via)

2018/02/172018/02/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/17

Reached overflow again! That secretly makes me happy.

Discord channels for BSD’s?
SemiBUG’s speaker schedule for the next few months is published. Note next meeting is on the 20th.
SVS to mitigate meltdown. (NetBSD)
Unix Architecture Evolution from the 1970 PDP-7 to the 2018 FreeBSD. Another FOSDEM video, which I note because it shows code history imported back for multiple decades.
Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative. (via)
FreeBSD/EC2 history.
Under which circumstances is NetBSD a better option than the other BSDs?
Citrix ICA Receiver Support in BSDs.
SSH Mastery 2/e out. Technically not a BSD-specific book, but you know the author was using BSD as the base, and includes it in the material.
Which BSD distro is suitable as a Linux QEMU host if someone is curious about BSD?
Trying iocage to get an old version of FreeBSD.
Google Summer of Code and FreeBSD, NetBSD.

2018/02/102018/02/09

In Other BSDs for 2018/02/10

Very much last-minute; compiled 20 minutes before bed Friday night.

a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF. (via)
An Empirical Study on the Reliability of UNIX Utilities (1989). Some of it is early BSD. How much still applies? (via)
The Origin of the word Daemon. (via)
“SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back. BSD-based.
Sponsoring a Scam. New BSD book on the way, I think, and you can sponsor it.
OPNsense 18.1.1 released. No, wait, 18.1.2.
Overriding pkgrsc’s default Framework path (on macOS).
BSD from scratch – from source to OS with ease on NetBSD. Also as video. (via)
AT&T copyrighting 3 blank lines. Sorta relevant to the BSD split. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2018/02/05.
Remi Locherer’s EuroBSDcon 2017 Talk.
NetBSD – A modern operating system for your retro battlestation. Video. In fact, all the FOSDEM 2018 videos are up, I think.

2018/01/282018/01/26

Lazy Reading for 2018/01/28

I’m already filling in next week’s Lazy Reading links, there’s so much.

An Open Letter to the Perl Community. Getting from Perl 5 to Perl 6. (via)
chart.business. (via)
Teaching an Almost 40-year Old UNIX about Backspace. (via)
khal, a terminal calendar. (via kerma on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
10 PRINT, a book about a single-line Commodore 64 program. (via swildner)
Wireguard, a possible IPSec/OpenVPN replacement. (via)
ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation. “decentralized social network protocol”, and a first step out of the walled garden. A very pleasant-to-read specification, too! (via)
My favorite games of 2017. This will eat some hours of your time.
This week in references: echoes, breakbeats, the new sound of music. The “Breakbeat Deconstruction” video is pleasant auditory history.
Drummer From Another Mother, a Moog Music product. Listen, it’s the sound of analog! (via)
USB Killer, now with pyrotechnic payload.
The Screenless Office. (via)
System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware. (via)
Meanwhile is now available on Steam! Plus extra DLC comic! Meanwhile is a physical comic built as a maze, or perhaps nonlinear book, and here it is in software.

2018/01/212018/01/19

Lazy Reading for 2018/01/21

Almost all of this was done within 24 hours of the last Lazy Reading. No idea why there were so many good candidates for reading, but I’m happy about it.