I noted the last few things that should be committed before the DragonFly release. People have spoken up for most of them, but it wouldn’t hurt to try recent -master with the upmap/kpmap work that recently went in. Benchmarks wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.
Sascha Wildner brought in led(4) from FreeBSD. It’s a driver for flashing LEDs, as you might have guessed. I’d like to see someone make Blinkenlights, whether BeBox-style or just generally mysterious.
Writing this now, and hoping I’ll get the server apart and back together fast enough nobody notices.
- BlackBerry: The Endgame. Points out that QNX is/was a problem for the ecosystem.
- Breaking Madden: Edge of Tom-morrow. I love these despite being indifferent to football.
- Measure your open source community’s age to keep it healthy.
- The Bot of Mormon.
- Trouble at the Koolaid point. Rethink the “ignore it and move on” response. (via)
- How tilde.club came together. There’s a potential tilde.club on every BSD machine.
- Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js. That’s pretty much what I always envisioned the future to look like. (Youtube, via I forget)
- Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals. (via)
- The Imminent Decentralized Computing Revolution. (via)
- slfsrv, a GUI wrapper for command line programs. (via)
- NTK, the archive.
- The Shen of Programming. (via, via)
- TinyScreen, another Kickstarter project, with hardware so small it’s adorable. (via)
- My Philosophy on Alerting. (via) Linking for myself at some point.
The machine this site runs on just had a fan die, so somewhere in the next 24 hours, I’m going to be installing a new fan, and a new hard drive while I’m at it. Expect a few hours of downtime as I rebuild both hardware and software.
Done at the last minute, like always, but surprisingly extensive this week:
- DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/06.
- FreeBSD Cheatsheet.
- FreeBSD 10.1 RC2 is out.
- Question about the BSD community as a whole.
- mandoc now contains man.
- PC-BSD now has a new Linuxulator and AppCafe.
- GhostBSD 4.0 is out.
- Frequent BSD author Michael W. Lucas is now a fulltime tech author.
- Speaking of that, the first draft of his FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is up.
- Introducing sysupgrade for NetBSD.
- 37 year old bug, 22 year old fix, patched this month. (via)
- PC-BSD has branched 10.1.
- FreeBSD has netmap support in libpcap.
- FreeBSD’s ipfw has received some updates.
- A PC-BSD 10.0.3 review.
- Building packages at scale.
- MeetBSD 2014 is coming up in California.
- NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 are out.
- The third quarter 2014 FreeBSD Status Report is out.
- Send in your OpenBSD dmesg.
- Importing pkg to NetBSD – an idea I support.
Because I missed last week, there’s two BSDNow episodes to catch (assuming you are using me as notification for new ones.) Episode 58, Behind the Masq, has an interview with Matt Ranney and George Kolaand, and a tutorial that includes DNSMasq, for the title source. Episode 59, the title of which I can’t reprint accurately, has an interview with Hiroki Sato and the usual number of articles.
Francois Tigeot gave talks at EuroBSDCon and XDC 2014, and he’s posted slide and video links. He covers DragonFly and Postgres and video drivers, or at least I assume so cause I haven’t watched them yet. There’s other BSD-specific material available too, according to his post.
John Marino updated wpa_supplicant (in dports). He then suggested moving it out of base into dports, so that it could be updated independently of the base system. (this update, for instance, took years.) Since wpa_supplicant is necessary to get some systems online – and it can’t be installed if missing if you don’t have a network link – it may be too risky. I think other packages could be moved out, myself.
Robin Hahling volunteered to update OpenSSH in DragonFly, which is good news. It’s a jump from version 6.1 to 6.7, so there’s some feature changes. tcpwrappers support is gone, for instance. If you have a reason to object to this change, speak up now.
John Marino has upgraded gcc, libedit, xz, and grep in DragonFly. Also, tzdata has jumped from version 2014e to 2014h, thanks to Sascha Wildner.
Whee!
A talking car dashboard from the 1980s.
Argos Catalogs. Count how many of the pictured items have been absorbed by cell phones. (via)
King of click. More Model M stories.
Quiet for you, the reader, at least. My schedule is irregular because of work over the next few days – including the weekend – so regular posting may not resume until next week. Sorry!
For some reason, OpenSSL-using command line clients – but not any browsers – are choking on the RSS feed for this site when fetched via https. So, the site no longer defaults to https. It’s still available if you want to use it, and I’ll work on fixing the setup.
The way to see it is:
openssl s_client -connect www.dragonflydigest.com:443
You will notice an error in the output like this:
672060044:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake failure:/usr/src/secure/lib/libssl/../../../crypto/openssl/ssl/s23_lib.c:184:
There’s lots of references to errors like this out there – many different, some for bugs long fixed. I daresay it’s a configuration screwup I haven’t figured out yet; I’ve noticed that adding -tls1 or -no_tls1 or -ssl2 or -ssl3 to the above command makes the problem go away.
I spent a good chunk of this weekend at work for various reasons, so it’s a slightly less long list. On the plus side, I know a bit more about setting up fiber links now.
- On the Design of Editors for Small Computers. Pre-vi, pre-emacs. (via)
- Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems. Video. (via)
- Writing a Simple Operating System – From Scratch. PDF. (via)
- tilde.club, an effort to resurrect the ~/username web page. Wish I had got in. (via many places)
- The “Mark I“, (one of) the first programmable computers, designed in 1937.
- Cool-retro-term, another analog terminal simulator. (via)
- A progress update on the Novena computer, with significant manufacturing detail.
- An interesting paper on Alan Turing. (PDF)
- disk seeks are slow don’t do them. SQLite internals. (via)
- BadUSB, which naturally leads to USB Condom.
Your unrelated image of the week:
I’m getting a new pet tomorrow.
Whee!
- FreeBSD 10.1 beta 3 is out – though it may be superseded by the time this article is published.
- pkg is apparently supported in Salt and cdist. (via)
- DiscoverBSD’s September BSD release list.
- DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/09/29.
- The September BSD Magazine is out. (via)
- Undeadly has links to (all?) the EuroBSDCon 2014 OpenBSD papers.
- OpenBSD 5.6 is available for pre-order, and at a new store.
- Can’t tell if this is a joke or just dumb. No, it’s not a real problem.
- Here’s an OpenBSD conversation about routing table changes and flaky ISPs, though much of it could apply to any BSD.
- I daresay this counts as Shellshock fallout.
- pkgsrc-2014Q3 is out and announced.
- No more cvsup for FreeBSD.
Since the switch to https here, the RSS feed has been having trouble, as several people reported. I haven’t had time to look into it much so far. Though I suppose it’s only likely that you are reading this if you are unaffected by it.
This week’s BSDNow has an interview about mentoring with Steve Wills of FreeBSD, the usual array of news. This week has more small device news than normal – NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and pfSense on a mini-ITX system. And a mention of my desktop article! I’m relevant!
The powersaving page on dragonflybsd.org has seen a bunch of updates; this should be handy even if you aren’t on battery power that often.
BSDTalk 245 is up, with 7 minutes from Will Backman, the host. He’s setting up new storage for the (long!) history of BSDTalk podcasts, and he asks what people are using for ~ on the Internet.