Still backlogged, which means one of these weekends I’ll catch up and you’ll have about a zillion links to click. vt100.net. (via vttest) Another post on open source civility. How thick is an hour? Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? ENIAC, 74 years old and printable in 3D. Yes, the whole room. …
No theme this week cause I think I hit everything. Dr. Paul Vixie is giving a talk on March 3rd at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, titled “Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes“. I’ll post a reminder. NetBSD 9.0 is out, in case you missed the late update last week. Related: NetBSD 2020 Fundraising Campaign. What started as …
tmpfs on DragonFly now clusters writes better, so performance is improved in high-activity environments… which is probably why you are using tmpfs anyway. The post says 2-4x improvement when paging out.
If you post about a problem and later solve it, you will help many people in the future if you summarize the problem and (very important) the fix. In this case, Nelson H. F. Beebe installing DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 on his Dell Precision 7920 workstation.
BSD Now 338 is up, which strangely is listed as the “100th episode” on the site, but I think that means it’s only indexed through #239. Anyway, it has the normal ingredients – a ZFS article, a convention note, and a link into a…
I tagged version 5.8 a few days ago. Release will be soon, but not before this weekend.
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Dear FreeBSD community,
As of February 29, 2020, FreeBSD 12.0 will reach end-of-life and will no longer
be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 12.0 are strongly
encouraged to upgra…
Ken Westerback [krw@ when wearing his OpenBSD hat]
wrote us with this update about the
OpenBSD Foundation’s work:
As the OpenBSD Foundation begins to prepare the 2020 fundraising
campaign we would like to thank all the contributors to our 2019
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Errata patches for vmm have been released for OpenBSD 6.6.
A missing range check in the vmm pvclock allows a guest to write
to host memory.
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch
utility. Source code patches can be found…
Partial overflow this week, which means probably even more next week. We all benefit! OUIGO – Let’s Play. Pinball in your browser. Good pinball. (via) shlide—a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash. (via) Under Armour Dumped Its App, and Consumers Feel the Heartbreak. As the article mentions, companies will dump cheap services – …
On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the
NetBSD 9.0 release.
This is the seventeenth major release of the NetBSD operating system
and brings significant improvements in terms of hardware support,
quality assurance, security,…
UNIX history as an accidental theme this week. Are there analogues to libxo out there? Unix Heritage Wiki. (via) Rigs of rods: physic vehicles simulator. (OpenBSD gaming) PF dynamic IP lists. I have the same question. Six FreeBSD terminal games. Probably other BSDs too. (via) UNIX Review Early 80’s Ad. Cycling / bike trips and …
I like seeing cross-pollination, as I’ve said before. I really like it turning into informal cross-BSD standards.
This week’s BSD Now covers user groups and convention talks and releases and really the full gamut.
ChiBUG is having their monthly meeting at the normal place, Giordano’s, tonight. Next month is a new location. Hamilton, Ontario, is having what I think is the inaugural meeting for their BUG, tonight. That’s I think the closest one to me so far. Also, the Polish BUG is meeting tonight. I say “tonight” for both …
Video recordings from
FOSDEM 2020
are now available.
The OpenBSD presentations were:
Giovanni Bechis (giovanni@) – OpenSMTPD over the clouds,
the story of an HA setup
Florian Obser (florian@) – unwind(8),
A privilege-separated, validating D…