I can’t help but think of this as the 1# episode of BSD Now; tell me if you get why. Anyway, there’s lots of OpenBSD in this week’s BSD Now.
Headlines from this here Digest show up on dragonflybsd.org, and have for a long time. They are now joined with reports from the continuous integration builds of DragonFly (i.e. Jenkins) DragonFly is automatically rebuilt to test recent commits, and there’s a report for each build on the build machine.
I have a nice weird mix going on today.
- Rotary cellphone, now purchasable.
- HUDs + GUIs. (via)
- Inform 7 open-source release.
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, updated and a sequel and a ripoff.
- A Web Around the World, Part 8: The Intergalactic Computer Network.
- And Part 9: A Network of Networks.
- Nineteenth century videos. Back to life. (via)
- The “50 Years” Book is coming…
- Dirt: The Permadeath Drive.
- Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly. (via)
- Learning Synths. (also via)
- The InterLisp Restoration Project. (via)
Your unrelated video of the week: Frank & Beans – Hugo [official video]. I’ve linked to other shardcore stuff before, and thought I had previously linked to this video’s predecessor, but I can’t find it. It’s very good though also very Uncanny Valley. (also via)
My BSD RSS feeds are overflowing.
- PiKVM using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. I keep reading that as “pikmin”.
- switchd(8) removed from OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD 7.1: fan noise and high temperature solution.
- vuls – Agent-less vulnerability scanner. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC5 available.
- HardenedBSD April 2022 Status Report.
- Missing Steam Deck Functions. (Terraria, OpenBSD, Steam)
- Minecraft 1.16.5(and more) with microsoft accounts on openbsd 7.1.
- Video guide to install OpenBSD 7.1 with the GNOME desktop.
- Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot.
- Valuable News – 2022/05/02.
- syspatch71-001_wifi reissued. “May require manual intervention”
- Let’s Talk About [FreeBSD] Foundation Funding.
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD.
This week’s BSD Now, which I almost missed, covered one of the rarely-mentioned BSD Variants, TwinCat.
I think I know what Aaron Li might want to work on for DragonFly…
(I am only guessing; I have not asked.)
Whee!
- Snd: A library of free UX sounds. A nice interface too. (via)
- Vim Tada – a simple todo manager for vim. (via)
- Taskwarrior, a commandline todo app. (via comments on previous)
- Art Bits from HyperCard, meaning early Susan Kare art. (via)
- Area Ware, linked because they sell Susan Kare material.
- Patching an Embedded OS from 1996 with Ghidra. A synth! (via)
- Anonymous Animal. (via)
- Comptometer. What it actually does isn’t important.
- GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery. (via)
- Roguelike Celebration returns for 2022.
- Lost Women of Science, a podcast. (via)
- You don’t have to clap.
How-to week rather than updates week.
- Let’s install OpenBSD/riscv64 on QEMU. (via)
- How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD.
- iblock: block scanner TCP connections under OpenBSD. (via)
- I was able to build Overgrowth on NetBSD.
- KDE-FreeBSD CI.
- LibreSSL 3.5.2 released.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/25.
- OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse. (via)
- Playing the game Bottomless on OpenBSD. (via)
- I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD. (via)
- New Board Member Interview: Cat Allman. The last name should seem familiar.
- Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS: Part 2: Tuning Your FreeBSD Configuration for Your NAS.
This week’s BSD Now starts off talking about recently-deceased and somewhat legendary Bill Jolitz. He is to me the source of the term “flat food person“.
RSVP if you are near Chicago and can go.
If you want to run DragonFly as a bhyve guest using UEFI, here’s the recipe.
Old-school week, at least more than normal.
- Principia Apocrypha: Principles of Old School RPGs.
- Now that computers have more than 4MB of memory, can we get seconds on the taskbar?
- Obsidian.md. (via)
- waxy.org turns 20.
- MNT Reform, an ARM laptop with open hardware. (via)
- Those HTML Attributes You Never Use. (via)
- Minskytron Refurbished.
- Inside the Apple-1’s shift-register memory. Photos!
- “Let’s go find out!“
- Dreamhold, an introduction to interactive fiction. (via)
- The Early History of Smalltalk (1993). The corporate shell of Xerox, where Smalltalk and PARC came from, is just a few miles from me. (via)
A bunch of releases this week.
- OpenBGPD 7.3 released.
- tcsh vi mode cursor shapes.
- sometimes the knote comes early.
- The Zephyrus G14 is not a MacBook Pro 14, and Sundry Observations and Insights…
- two and a half bad bits.
- OpenBSD Gaming Updates Q2 2022.
- Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/19.
- MidnightBSD 2.1.7 RELEASE. (via)
- FreeBSD 13.1-RC4 is out.
- OpenBSD 7.1 released.
- OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out.
- Interacting with FreeBSD: Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell. FreeBSD 14 is switching default root shell, apparently.
It’s almost all ZFS tidbits this week for BSD Now.
I’m on at SEMIBUG’s meeting right now.
I hope to have a recording to post later. Nnnnope! A lesson for you and me both; test recording before an actual event starts.
I’m talking about DragonFly at SEMIBUG’s online meeting (using Jitsi) tomorrow.
UPDATE: https://meet.jit.si/SEMI-BUGDragonFlyBSD is the Jitsi link. It’ll be 7 PM Eastern time.
The music edge cases story is great.
- Revisiting the INMOS Transputer. (via)
- Replicate Filesystem with Rsync.
- Spammers in the Public Cloud, Protected by SPF.
- Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music. (via)
- Tonight we’re gonna log on like it’s 1979 (Telenet, Dialcom and The Source).
- Reverse-engineering a mysterious Univac computer board. Great photos.
- Six One Sentence Monsters and Six More One Sentence Monsters.
- A Web Around the World, Part 7: Computers On the Wire. I may have missed some recent parts of this.
- Puzzle dossiers and boxes, 2022.
- Old School Essentials, classic D&D revisited. (via)
- Tetrageddon. (via)
- Library of Short Stories. (also via)
- Storytelling. Early sequential art.
Note the upcoming presentations…
- Nixers #138.
- Writing a device driver for Unix V6. (via)
- ChiBUG’s meeting April 29th in person. RSVP if you are coming.
- SEMIBUG’s meeting April 19th online, and I’m the guest speaker.
- Valuable News – 2022/04/11.
- Penguicon 2022 Schedule and Books. Michael W. Lucas isn’t presenting on BSD but he’ll have some BSD-related books. Please buy Savaged by systemd from him. I just saw it in audiobook form through Google search and no I will not click on it.
- OpenSSH 9.0 released.
- switch to current or wait for 7.1? Really, a Minecraft question.
- Fundraising Update Q1 2022.
- FreeBSD 13.1 on ThinkPad W520.
- Q1 2022 Software Development Projects Update.
- Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation.
- OpenBSD 7.0 video overview.
This week’s BSD Now, which I remembered to link to on time, is about Unix tools as a concept.
A historical focus this week but then again that’s not uncommon.
- Great Moments in Taxonomy. Several links to follow.
- Team Tsathogga / City of Spires setting primer, for Severed Fane.
- Dungeons and Desktops, a history of computer RPGs. (via)
- The Elusive Shift, early D&D from wargaming to roleplay. (also via)
- Bent? is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box. (via)
- Infinite Mac, an instant-booting Quadra in your browser. I got system7.app to crash playing Marathon so that is accurate.
- Spacewar! is 60 Today!
- Why the fascination with retrocomputing? (via)
- The Tao of Acme. (via)
- Retro Lite CM4: a Compute Module 4 gaming console. (via)
- Webinar – Ethernet’s Emergence from Xerox PARC: 1975-1980. These are not historians, but the actual people who created and implemented it. (via)