There’s been a number of updates to dsynth(1), the DragonFly package-building tool. This won’t matter much unless you like building the entire ports collection at once, but it is interesting to see how resource-intensive chromium building …
No mini-theme this week. Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher. (via) The Tildeverse Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup server is fixed. There’s a tilde DCSS server? I Have No TV. Gobs of documentaries. (via) Concert Roulette. (also via) Building WireGate: A WireGuard front to detect compromised keys. (via) T700 Crowdfunding. More Thinkpad life extension. (via) Tiny Emus. …
Relatively quiet this week for BSD items, but it’s a holiday week in the US. Valuable News – 2021/11/22. Project Report: Add support for chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3). Why V7 Unix matters so much. Wired XBox 360 Controller minor issue. Torn between getting a used thinkpad vs a new Chromebook. OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Developer …
Linked here cause maybe it’ll help someone else with synproxy and pf in DragonFly: synproxy state doesn’t work in Packet Filter.
ifconfig(8) in DragonFly is gaining a description field, to ease porting of CBSD.
This is a good mix this week. Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image. I’ve linked to other stories about this image before. (lost the source link, sorry) A Close Look at a Spinlock. The Monstrosity Email Has Become. (via) FURBY MODULE – A Synthesizer Module That Houses A Furby. The synth itself is worth …
Some history, some games. tmpfs-13, an experimental hellosystem build. Latest iortcw [Return to Castle: Wolfenstein] on OpenBSD. What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter. (via) FreeBSD Quarterly Report, 2021Q3. Installing and Operating 4.3BSD-tahoe UNIX on the VAX (1988). (via) FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual-boot testbed using Desktop Hardware. (via) GhostBSD online …
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The second RC build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are FreeBSD…
SEMIBUG’s meeting is tonight, online, with Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation presenting.
The July to September 2021 Status Report is now available with 42 entries.
No minitheme this week. userland: a book about the command line for humans. Indirectly, a description of how flexible a shell really is. (via) More x220 hacking. It is of course less useful over time. (both via) Modifying my Gaggia Classic Espresso machine. Simple upgrades help too. (via) 50 Years of Text Games: 2012: Howling …
Note the upcoming SEMIBUG meeting. I’ll post a reminder. Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2. (via) Manage Kubernetes Cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl. (via) What if Internet stops? How to rebuild an offline federated infrastructure using OpenBSD. OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption. (via) SEMIBUG is meeting November 16th, with a presentation from …
This week’s BSD Now talks about some recent history articles, and links to CultBSD, a new based-on-FreeBSD… distribution? I’m not sure what to call these based-on-a-BSD products.
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are FreeBSD …
In Iran, of all places – Google decided this was spam so I am a few days late in posting it to the mirrors page.
The amdgpu driver, equivalent to Linux 4.19, has been committed along with supporting changes in ttm. Credit goes to Sergey Zigachev, Francois Tigeot, and Matthew Dillon for the work. The module is now built by default in bleeding edge DragonFly. N…
I need a D&D tag. The World of Outdoor Survival. A reconstruction of the original D&D environment. (via) Speaking of the original D&D… (via) How X Window Managers Work, And How To Write One (Part I). (via) Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator. (via) ClockWork DevTerm. For portable Dwarf Fortress. (via) PowerPC notebook Prototypes Updates and …