DragonFly developer Tuxillo has done something notable by its absence: cleaned up a lot of old bug reports. That’s usually an unseen and unthanked task, so here’s credit for it.
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.
An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out – and quickly – which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn’t be visible from a user perspective.
The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I’m preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
Mini-theme of hardware this week.
- Electronic Catan LCD Tiles. (via)
- Watchy, open hardware and software watch.
- Modal dialogs and other things that steal keyboard focus are dangerous. That makes me so mad.
- DuskOS. Linking cause “low impact computing” has turned into “postapocalyptic computing” for some people. (via)
- Catalogs and Context. (via)
- What happened to Perl 7? (via)
- Related: perl v5.36.0 has been released. (via)
- Access the Tesla API with Perl!
- BBQ20KBD. (via)
- Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 MK3. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games crowdfunded book launch teaser.
- XModem in 2022. (via)
- The Thompson MO5, I’ve never seen before. Plus free BASIC. (via)
A bit short cause I ran out of time.
- qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
- The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
- NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
- Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
- PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I’ve linked to other stories about this hardware.
Hopefully there’s a new ISO/img on the mirrors for DragonFly 6.2.2 by the time you read this – or you can just update your installation. The changelog is short, because this is a bugfix-level release. Also, don’t forget there’s a new set of binary packages out; update that too if you haven’t.
This week’s BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.
If you’re interested in having virtio_console on DragonFly, keep an eye on this bug report.
The St. Louis Unix Users Group monthly meeting is tonight at 6:30 Central time, talking about rsnapshot and LDAP. It’s online, so you can attend even if you are not near.
There’s a new dports build, and there’s been some updates so a new point release to 6.2.2 for DragonFly is a good idea. The new binary packages are available now with ‘pkg upgrade’, and I’ll work on 6.2.2 over the next few days.
This was done very early; I have been rigorous at cleaning up open tabs.
- Finger: the First Social Software. DOOM news was distributed that way. (via)
- Some things that make languages easy (or not) to embed in Unix shell scripts.
- My programming language odyssey.
- IntyOS – An Operating System for the Intellivision. Never went anywhere but that’s OK. (via)
- “The Canary in the Coal Mine…” A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge. (via)
- Round.
- Wizard Zines. (via)
- Recommend Me Books, Part 347.
- XScreenSaver 6.04 out now with 2 new hacks.
- Uncurled, 30 years of open source project experience summed up. People need to write more overarching summaries like this. (via tuxillo on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- arttime, ASCII art + terminal clock. (via)
- A tip: ctrl-A and ctrl-E move your cursor to the start or end of your command line, non-destructively. It’s taken me 3 years to learn to use that instead of erases-the-whole-line ctrl-U.
Your unrelated music for the week: KUTMAH – Original Production Beat Mix.
The Nixers link will keep you busy for a while if this isn’t enough here.
- FreeBSD on the Graviton 3.
- The UNIX-HATERS HANDBOOK is now available in the Kindle Store. (via)
- A quick look at console file managers.
- The Nixers Newsletter has been running again. I’ve been lax in linking to recent weekly issues, but they usually have some BSD content and the links are all gold.
- reversing an openbsd kernel syspatch.
- Adventures with Solaris 11.4 CBE, pkgsrc and NVMM. (via)
- Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark. (via)
- Time Machine like Backups on OpenBSD. (via)
- Installing pfSense 2.6 on ZimaBoard. (via)
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.
mlockall(2) in DragonFly has been revamped for compatibility with other implementations. This should have no obvious end user impact, other than a bit easier to port stuff. I want to mention it to note the work done.
You can now set a description for a network interface on DragonFly. Don’t use ETH0, please.
No mini-theme emerged this week.
- A Web Around the World, Part 9: A Network of Networks and Part 10: A Web of Associations.
- Book review: Practical File System Design with the Be File System.
- The Central Question. Touches on ARPANET.
- Net Losses. Count up how many of these you have used.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Animated Series. Realistically bad!
- The History of Computer Communications. (indirectly via)
- Roguelike Celebration 2022 Call for Proposals. Paid.
- VCR Virus warnings. (via)
- Glitcher – breakcore generator. (via)
- mdehling/sun-fb-logos: A collection of Sun framebuffer logos for your viewing pleasure . This will entertain at least one reader I am sure. (via)
- Rust: A Critical Retrospective.
- Duck Chess. Makes sense. (via)
- Rockbox, linked as a reminder after reading this accurate gripe on how iPhone music playing isn’t as good as dedicated music hardware.
I had a lot of links built up for this; finished early.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/23.
- deprecation of ${rcexec} in rc.d scripts.
- Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects. (NetBSD)
- Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants.
- Customizing NetBSD boot banners.
- experimental-13.1-RELEASE for helloSystem.
- NFS Server Inside FreeBSD VNET Jail.
- Using a game engine to write a graphical interface to the OpenBSD package manager.
- Blue Systems Farewell.
- LibreSSL updated to 3.5.3.
- Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console.
- Game Dev on (not for) BSD. Some good resource descriptions here.
If you are trying to use both NAT and IPv6 with pf on DragonFly, there was a bug (seen here with FreeBSD) with :0 where it would use link-local addresses. It’s now fixed.
This week’s BSD Now talks about the newest FreeBSD release, along with the upcoming NetBSD 10 series, among other things.