All over the place this week. Arthur-PC – a HD64180 based computer. Hardcore. ADOBE SUCKS (SCROTUM). Adobe product alternatives. Bookmark it cause you won’t remember the URL and searching for the phrase… Well, guess. (via) 8BIT, a documentary. (via) Useful Unknown Websites, Reddit, and Useful Unknown Websites, MetaFilter. (partially via) SheepFilms. (via) L0phtCrack. A name …
Live in-person meetings are happening, slowly, finally. Register Today for the November 2021 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. How BSD Authentication Works. (via) Valuable News – 2021/10/19. Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment. Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD. Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System. Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. Software and hardware. FreeBSD switches the default …
This has been a good week for BSD releases, hasn’t it? This week’s BSDNow gets into RISC-V, too.
SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting is online, and it’s tomorrow the 19th, at 1900 hours (-0400, Eastern) via Jitsi. It’s going to be about “the advantages of Emacs”, given by a group member. Go, see, even if it’s just to sh…
Mini-theme: old hardware or new terminals, you pick. Tim Van Damme Uses This. More detail on keyboard setup than I expected. The 100 MHz 6502. (via) Mac SE/30 odyssey. (via) XScreenSaver 6.02 out now. Writing a simple arcade game in Lisp. (via) Warp Terminal Emulator Review. Linked mostly to show how the shell/terminal is still …
Somewhat short this week, but there’s several releases. Automatic Let’s Encrypt certificates in Apache with mod_md. FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user. (via) FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup. NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen. MATE 1.26.0 upgrade ready. (GhostBSD) pfSense Software is 15 Today! Valuable News – 2021/10/11. OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released. OpenBSD 7.0 …
This week’s BSD Now is 50% OpenBSD, 50% FreeBSD, plus a whole lot of Beastie Bits.
The OpenBSD project
has released
OpenBSD 7.0,
the project’s 51st release.
As usual, the release page
offers highlights, installation and upgrade instructions, as well as links to
other resources such as the
detailed changelog.
Notable improvem…
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 upgrade Don’t …
It’s not on their web page but it’s on Jitsi, so you can join now. (alerted via)
ChiBUG is meeting tonight, virtually, at 6:30 PM Central. “The Writing Scholar’s Guide to *BSD“.
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. …
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 …
In the run-up to the OpenBSD 7.0 release, we note several recent interesting
things previously unreported:
The 7.0 release song
is available.
The loongson hardware platform
has been
retired.
The upcoming
OpenBSD 7.0
will be the last release…
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.
As a result of a licence change by
Realtek,
that company’s wireless firmware images are now included in the tree.
The following
commit
by Kevin Lo (kevlo@)
explains the details:
Read more…
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 …