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Realtek NIC testing for DragonFly
Do you have Realtek hardware for your network link? Specifically, re(4)? Then Sepherosa Ziehau has a patch for you to try.
SemiBUG: informal meetup tomorrow
SemiBUG’s normal meeting place is not available this month, so there’s an informal get-together at Leo’s next door, like last month. It’s happening tonight at 7 PM.
Update: I put the wrong publish date on this – “tonight” is the 19th for this, not the 17th.
Lazy Reading for 2019/02/17
There’s some extended reading in these links; I hope you have some time on your hands for a deep dive today.
Warp: playing offline. Saving an architecture to play a game.
SET THE FLUX CAPACITOR FOR 12/30/1899. (via)
PC Speaker to Eleven. (also via)
Listening to the internet…
Quotes from 1992.
Wikimedia (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/16
This is all backlogged links; I have even more tabs open.
awesome-bsd, a list. (via)
OpenBSD’s KSH.
Revised KSH.
Anyone using pfsense or similar for a medium size company?
MirBSD errors “Device not configured” during installation on VirtualBox?
Pull-based Backups using OpenBSD base. I like the ‘using native tools̵ [...]
For the mount_smbfs users on DragonFl...
Two minor things that were keeping me from mounting Windows shares on boot of my DragonFly system: the right location for nsmb.conf and using proper capitalization. I’m writing it here to save someone else 10 minutes of search.
BSD Now 285: BSD Strategy
This week’s BSD Now (video) gets into a recent article about FreeBSD planning, plus a note about a famous book, plus of course more.
Firmware in DragonFly userland
Some time back, Ján Su?an fixed up some firmware issues on DragonFly. He’s published a first stab at attaching firmware information to files; it’s up for review now and he’d like feedback. Please tell him what you think, if you’re interested in this topic.
A necessary protocol change
‘mazocomp’ has updated the DragonFly mirrors list to include HTTPS links where appropriate, which would be most everywhere. An excellent idea.
While I’m talking about mirrors, there’s some new DPorts pkg mirrors too.
makefs makes a trip
Sascha Wildner has added makefs(8) to DragonFly, with changes of course. This chunk of code has already traveled around two other BSDs.
Lazy Reading for 2019/02/10
No theme this week!
Forget privacy: you’re terrible at targeting anyway.
Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld. (Part 1, if you want making-of.
The new Kermit Project. (via)
Transfer your files with Kermit. Maybe should be an ‘In Other BSDs’ item.
Modern LZ Compression. (via)
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In Other BSDs for 2019/02/09
Whee!
ZFS and GPL terror: How much freedom is there in Linux?
Setting the boot logo on a Thinkpad. Done on an OpenBSD install but should nominally work for anything on a Thinkpad. Also, how to make a boot logo. (via)
FreeBSD Journal Column. Start reading issues now if you like, and you have some large (Read more...)
BSD Now 284: FOSDEM 2019
As I had hoped, BSD Now was at FOSDEM 2019 and they provide a recap, along with links to some BSD events there, and of course other news.
NYCBUG: Shell as deployment tool
NYCBUG is meeting tomorrow night, and the presentation is “Shell as a deployment tool“. Go, if you are near.
Text mode cleanup
I suppose if the Digest is going to be looked at with a text-mode browser, I had better make sure it’s readable. I’ll work on that.
Lazy Reading for 2019/02/03
There’s got to be something here that will interest you; I’ve gone full eclectic.
Proof of concept, if not execution, of the Bloomberg-reported hardware hack, from 35c3. (via)Sort of related: Factors in authentication. U2F will become widespread, or at least I hope it will.Killing Technology. Metal band patches. (via)On using [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/02/02
Inadvertent theme: release news.
Our Software Dependency Problem. Hard thinking about something many, many people don’t think hard enough about. This talks about software, but it’s directly analogous to ports/dports/pkgsrc. I’m leading with this even though it’s not directly about BSD, cause it affects anyone using [...]
Additional USB3 chipset support in Dr...
If you were having trouble booting a DragonFly installer – or rather, you could boot but never find a disk to install on, this commit adding support for Sunrise Point, Lewisburg, Union Point, and Cavium ThunderX chipsets may fix your issue.
BSD Now 283: Graphical Interface-View
The hosts of BSD Now are off to FOSDEM 2019, but they stayed on schedule by recording an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team, available now. He’s speaking at FOSDEM, too, along with a bunch of other BSD Devroom stuff.
A quiet week, so thank you
It’s been a quiet week and I’ve finally caught up on my backlog of things to post, so I’ll take this moment to say: thank you, for reading. Especially, thank you to the Patreon supporters who have thrown in a few dollars; it’s actually paid forward to others I support on Patreon and bought me a nice coffee drink.
Garbage out
(Not waiting for In Other BSDs for this) The semi-OpenBSD-themed podcast garbage has ended. Take some time now to catch up on back episodes since I can’t imagine it’ll be hosted forever – there’s 40+ to listen to.
