Lazy Reading for 2018/11/18
Another cover-all-categories week.
The Valley Girl of Oz, Bjork Bjork Bjork.
Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now.
howto: create your own time zone. (via)
Guide to computing. (via)
Restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer, part 1, 2, 3, and 4. There’s more than what I (Read more...)
OpenBSD Errata: November 17th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.4.
A recent change to POSIX file locks could cause incorrect results during
lock acquisition.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the
respective errata page:
https://www.op [...]
OpenBSD Errata: November 17th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for libcrypto have been released for OpenBSD 6.4.
The portsmash vulnerability allows exfiltration of elliptic curve keys.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the errata
page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html
Users compilin [...]
OpenBSD Errata: November 17th, 2018 (...
Errata patches for libcrypto have been released for OpenBSD 6.3.
Timing side channels may leak information about DSA and ECDSA private keys.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the errata
page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata63.html
Users comp [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/17
Still lots of BSD stuff happening.
DWM on FreeBSD, monocle not showing up.
Play Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
Project Trident RC3 available. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 ? dmesg?????? / KOF2018-NetBSD. (via)
FreeBSD 12.0-b4 available.
Capsicum.
FreeNAS.
Polish BSD User Group OpenBSD Gaming talk (slides, PDF, Polish) (via)
(Read more...)
FreeBSD 12.0-RC1 Available
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.0 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.
Double shot of podcasts
BSD Now 272, “Detain the bhyve” is up now, as is “garbage[45]: New fixes for old laptops“. Hope you have time for listening tonight!
Backing up git repos on multiple mach...
Git Tree ManagementHere\'s a quick column about git. It\'s not a complete how-to or tutorial, but more an interesting way to manage multiple trees.The problem: I have a dozen trees on a half dozen machines. I\'d like at least backup all the branches in these trees to github. Trouble is, I don\'t want branch names to step on (Read more...)
Blog post by jcs@ on reverse engineer...
On his blog, joshua stein (jcs@) has a description of the hoops he jumped through to get stereo sound out of his Huawei Matebook X under OpenBSD (something that only worked under Windows with special drivers).
His approach involves logging all PCI device accesses by running Windows in QEMU under Linux with VFIO, parsing that, and making [...]
DragonFly and dhcpcd
Aaron LI has brought dhcpcd into DragonFly-current, as a replacement to dhclient(8) and rtsold(8). dhclient does support IPv6 but it’s bundled with server and BIND applications, so it’s harder to support.
Microsoft goes Gold for 2018!
Kenneth R. Westerback (krw@) writes to inform us:
Microsoft goes Gold for 2018!
The
OpenBSD Foundation
is happy to announce that
Microsoft
has increased its support level from Silver to Gold for 2018.
This is the
fourth consecutive year
that Microsoft has made a
contribution to the OpenBSD Foundation and we are grateful
for thei [...]
Another DragonFly laptop entry
There’s a section of the DragonFly website (a wiki) that records success with various laptops and DragonFly. The latest addition: Lenovo IdeaPad Y500.
Web browsers on DragonFly
For better or worse, there’s different browser options out there, especially for non-mainstream platforms. You know what I mean. DragonFly developer tuxillo has put together a helpful page listing options and how to get them to build.
Lazy Reading for 2018/11/10
The movies link should keep you busy.
1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. It’s divided into sections, each one alphabetical, so if the first group doesn’t interest you, there’s more. Be ready to scroll to find a section that’s all martial arts, or an interview of Benoit Mandelbrot, [...]
Most things in the VENIX emulator are...
SUCCESSSo I got tired of the terrible progress I was making chasing down issues. I thought if I could just create a simple program and get that working, I\'d have much better luck.So I wrote a simple K&R style C program:int a=123;int b;extern char *etext, *edata, *end;main() {int c;printf(\"CS: %x DS: %x (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/10
Aaaand I have a backlog again.
using smartd to automatically run tests on your drives.
FreeBSD Foundation Update, October 2018. (via)
OpenBSD on a Laptop. (via)
OpenVPN Setup Guide. (via)
FreeBSD 12 beta 3 out.
First Time on BSD: Installing FreeBSD.
OpenSMTPD 6.4.0 released and upcoming filters preview (Read more...)
FreeBSD 12.0-BETA4 Available
The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 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.
Hammer2 reminder: bulkfree makes some...
For future edification: If you have HAMMER2 installed, the bulkfree operation will create console/dmesg activity even when nothing is wrong, to show operations are happening.
BSD Now 271: Automatic Drive Tests
BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.
Fetching DragonFly src over https
If you happen to be using DragonFly from a network location that only allows http/https as outbound traffic, you won’t be able to update /usr/src using defaults. /usr/Makefile pulls DragonFly source using a git:// URL.
The fix is to use the read-only Github mirror. You can set origin manually or just change GITHOST in /usr/Makefile (o [...]
