Thanks to Erik Blomberg and the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I now know the Digest has reached a whole new operating system: CP/M. This entertains me.
(It’s the Digest being browsed in text mode on a TeleVideo TS-803, if you can’t s…
A mix of complaints, history, and odd technical items. The usual! Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets. (via) Managing passwords using ed and gpg2. Because: no tempfile. Adding redirection to the gopher protocol. How Long Will Unbreakable Commercial Encryption Last? Readers of a certain age will remember how PGP was briefly export controlled; also remember …
I’m sure there’s some recent stuff I missed; I will catch it in next week’s roundup. SeMiBUG meets Tuesday the 15th. FreeNAS datasets and snapshots. Defense at Scale. There’s a BSD system in there. (via) History of UNIX Design and Interfaces. BSD history mixed in. (via) 1 day / 1 game: solene@ playing Unexplored on …
Posting this now cause tomorrow’s too late: the 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow. Go, if you are near.
Tomohiro Kusumi has been bringing in a large number of fixes to the msdos filesystem, mostly from FreeBSD, but from other sources. I’m not going to link to them all, cause there’s many over the last few weeks, but the good news is that the…
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Dear FreeBSD community,
As of October 31, 2019, FreeBSD 11.2 will reach end-of-life and will no longer
be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 11.2 are strongly
encouraged to upgrad…
FreeBSD Project Quarterly Status Report – 2nd Quarter 2019
This quarter our report includes some interesting topics easily
accessible to anyone, even if you are not a programmer: we report the
link to a presentation of the 2019 FreeBSD survey…
The October 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developers Summit is almost
here. Join us October 11-12, 2019 in Santa Clara, CA. The Summit will
consist of 2 days of talks and working groups including sessions on
– 13.0 planning sessions
– John Ba…
Hunting down Ken’s PDP-7: video footage foundIn my prior blog post, I traced Ken’s scrounged PDP-7 to SN 34. In this post I’ll show that we have actual video footage of that PDP-7 due to an old film from Bell Labs. this gives us almost a minute of foot…
This week’s BSD Now is up, with a nice general range of topics, including the perennial Lack Rack idea.
The BSD.nrw Dusseldorf-Wersten BSD user’s group is meeting tomorrow at 19:00 at The Schalander. It probably helps if you speak German; I had to rely on Google Translate for this one. Go, if you are near.
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
posted to tech@:
Sometime in the last week OpenBSD crossed 400,000 commits (*) upon all
our repositories since starting at 1995/10/18 08:37:01 Canada/Mountain.
That’s a lot of commits by a lot of amazing people.
(*) b…
Pre-posted in advance cause once again working through the weekend. BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989. (via) The 25th Interactive Fiction Competition is Open. After Dark has been ported to Twitter. Text Rendering Hates You. (via) A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer. Wonderful pictures, as always. Feast of Legends. A …
I have obtained a Dell R720 containing 10 x 400GB SSDs. The drives are connected to a RAID controller (H710P) which cannot do JBOD / IT mode. This means the drives are effectively hidden from ZFS, which is never good. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS Dell R720 SAS 9207-8i This post describes past work […]
There’s been a lot of BUG meetings lately; I think it’s time to form some more. Fixing up KA9Q-unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..” Packet radio! ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits. How To Set Up Buildbot on FreeBSD. (via) Next ChiBUG meeting: October 8th. I’ll post a …
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
This week’s BSDNow, number 318, “The TrueNAS Library“, covers some links I’ve picked up before but also has BSD and presidential library news, an uncommon combo.