This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.
SLUUG, which has the best acronym, meets tonight at 6ish PM Central time on Zoom.
6.0.1 is tagged and available. The major reason for this update is an expired Let’s Encrypt certificate that would cause problems when downloading dpkg binaries. A list of 6.0.1 commits is available.
I recommend the usual rebuild process mentioned on the 6.0 release notes:
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
make installworld
make upgradeDon’t forget to update your packages with ‘pkg upgrade’.
I managed to miss it last week, but last week’s BSD Now talks about NetFlix’s usage of FreeBSD to serve a ridiculous amount of data, among other things.
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.
It is status report season!
- ChiBUG is meeting on the 12th, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD” is the presentation.
- OpenBSD’s pledge and unveil from Python.
- Notes on updating OpenBSD machines to current, supported versions.
- pkgsrc: how to use pkg_comp(8) to automate package builds in a sandbox. (via)
- What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD. Glosses over OpenBSD’s fork, but that’s probably OK.
- HelloDesktop being ported from helloSystem back to FreeBSD ports. (via)
- The OpenBSD Webzine. (via)
- Celeste on OpenBSD with Sound – Early Stage.
- Spelling Fixes — Some Advice.
- HardenedBSD September 2021 Status Report.
- GhostBSD 21.09.29 ISO Now Available.
- Toolchains adventures – Q3 2021.
- Valuable News – 2021/10/04.
If you have encountered that problem with Let’s Encrypt and dports, the fix is committed and a make world is needed.
If libvirt running with nvmm on DragonFly interests you, watch this bug report.
This is a good week for variety.
- The original Utah Teapot, which you’ve surely seen.
- Myst (2020). I forget that the original was Hypercard.
- A plenitude of alchemical domains. Linked for flowcharts.
- Log, a robotic abacus of life.
- Bespoke Synth. (via)
- Vintage Ad Browser and Cover Browser. (via)
- No one can be told what the cookie policy is. You have to see it for yourself.
- Ten Days of Steve Ditko. (via)
- Rewilding Your Attention. Of course I agree. (via)
- The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony.
- How to write a text editor for a 31 year old computer. (via)
- The code worked differently when the moon was full. (via)
- musikcube, a terminal music player and library manager. (via)
- 50 Years of Text Games: 2006: Dwarf Fortress. Yes.
Why yes I am trying to clear out my backlog of Solène links.
- pkgsrc-2021Q3 branched.
- SOLVED: FreeBSD nfsv4 client/server protocol prob err=10026.
- Porting GNOME to NetBSD by Dan Cirnat. (via)
- EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available.
- Initial impressions of Airyx – FreeBSD with a macOS style desktop. (via)
- Register multiples wifi networks on OpenBSD.
- Faster packages updates with OpenBSD.
- Workaround for an OpenBSD boot error on APU boards.
- RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block.
This week’s BSD Now is entirely an interview of Brian Callahan.
You may get some errors because of an expiring base Let’s Encrypt certificate when using pkg. It’s being worked on.
The not-official-but-still-used mirror-eu-1.dragonflybsd.org mirror is going away later next month. The main site probably has enough bandwidth to compensate.
Not huge news about mandoc, but I always like linking to updates with clear changelists.
SEMIBUG’s lightning talks event is tonight. No, wait, it’s tomorrow. It’s online with Jitsi so you can see it no matter what – possibly even on BSD?
Classic games as a mini-theme.
- The Instruction Set Edition. Starts at System/360 and goes on. (via)
- Reviving PalmOS. (It’s Pumpkin!) (via)
- Quake in 13kb. (via)
- Angband in WASM. (via)
- A Vim Guide For Experts. (via)
- Decoding Voyager 1. (via)
- Apple II Double High Resolution Graphics (DHGR) – Pushing Limits. (via)
- In Search of David Long’s 751-point “Adventure”. (via)
- Re-visiting Gopher on A/UX. (via)
- So what is the deal with A/UX anyways? (via)
- geoGopher 2.0: a gopher client for Commodore GEOS. Getting silly. (via)
- The Forgotten World of Teletype Computer Games. (via)
- NetHack Challenge. (via)
- Public Domain Operating System. (via)
- A different kind of keyboard. Arpeggio. (via)
- Generating weird files. (via)
I forgot to link to BSD Now 421: ZFS eats CPU on Thursday!
- Valuable News – 2021/09/20.
- Ghost in the Shell – Part 7 – ZSH Setup.
- GhostBSD build tool development visualization, 2014-2021.
- Migrating from Apache/WordPress to relayd/httpd/Hugo.
- Technology Roadmap. (FreeBSD) I support this idea of publishing plans.
- Improving GDB register model compatibility in LLDB.
- Cruelty Squad brings Executive Mindset to OpenBSD.
- OPNsense 21.7.3 released.
- php_mail() on FreeBSD and WordPress. (via)
- Automatically lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock.
- OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU.
- “DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd Edition” Cover Reveal. BSD front and center.
I installed new SSL certificates for this server over the weekend and I have to say, Let’s Encrypt and certbot are the easiest SSL setup process I’ve ever done. It worked exactly as expected on DragonFly.