Whee! Ori Bernstein will be giving the October talk at NYCBUG. EuroBSDCon 2019 is happening right now. It might be streamed, though I haven’t yet found a link for that. (via) BSD Pizza Night: 2019/09/26, 7–9PM, Portland, Oregon, USA. Pinebook Pro, coming soon. Good for ARM development, but not a normal workstation. (via) The return …
This week’s BSD Now has lots of material to work with, but the part they talk about that’s new to me: Homura.
The headline is a little misleading; umtpx has been in DragonFly forever, but now utmp is really retired and programs adjusted to match. The change is not that user-affecting and utmp data is still accessible; this is part of the ABI change alluded to over the past week. If you are not familiar with utmp(5) …
I goofed and didn’t post about the SEMIBUG meeting tonight, so it is too late now… but this video was the topic of discussion.
If you are on DragonFly-current, the ABI changes of the past few days are complete and new dports packages are built, so now is a good time to do a complete build and install of world and kernel, and then a pkg update.
5.6 users can keep on keeping on;…
Way eclectic this week. Enjoy! I will be working, as I haven’t had a day off in 3 weeks – but don’t be too sorry for me, I chose this. The magic of pre-scheduling posts fixes it. A new version of Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music – you will find something new and interesting, guaranteed. …
Still a backlog, no matter how much I link. HAMBSD. (via) vBSDCon 2019 trip report from iXSystems. Sponsorships open for SNMP Mastery. A summary post, too. Agenda for the next SEMIBUG meeting on the 17th. Using FreeBSD with Ports (2/2): Tool-assisted updating. Cool, but obscure X11 tools. More suggestions in the source link. soso: A …
A little late linking this, but never mind: BSD Now 315 includes, among its other usual links, a recap of the vBSDCon experience, from the just-completed event.
ABI breakage continues, so continue the full buildworld/buildkernel cycle, if you are on DragonFly-current, and continue to ignore it, if you are on 5.6.
Mentioning it here because it’s timely: the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is happening this weekend, and if I wait until the normal day I would post this – Sunday in Lazy Reading – it will be too late. Go if you are anywhere near. (Credit goes to joshua stein on the ChiBUG mailing list – …
There’s commits being made in DragonFly that will break binary compatibility. If you are running DragonFly-master, that means you will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel when updating, and you will either have to rebuild packages or wait some days until a new set are built. If you are running the 5.6 release, you are …
Roy Marples has imported openresolv 3.9.2 to DragonFly. This is a replacement for the old-style /etc/resolv.conf file. The more complicated your network, the more you will appreciate this tool.
Tohiro Kusumi has been bringing in a whole lot of MSDOS filesystem updates; I can’t tell you the net effect but.I am sure they are useful if you are looking to share disk media; FAT is a sort of lowest common denominator.
Roy Marples has been making a bunch of changes to route(8) in DragonFly. It doesn’t change functionality, but it will, I think, make it more reliable in unreliable networks.
This week is a nice mix between useful and entertaining. Oregon Trail, the cabinet game. (via) Cover story: The curious case of a shared database. (via) The Art of Warez. (via) The humane way to take control of your phone. (via) A terminal user interface for Mastodon. (via) Write Fuzzable Code. At least one Vim …
I have an RSS backlog now. ChiBUG meets this Tuesday. FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transitioning from Subversion to Git. Part of the recent status report. (via) Related: Game of Trees. OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook 14″ v2. (via) How to configure a network dump in FreeBSD? 6.6-beta has been tagged. Package …
This week’s BSD Now is up, discussing a bunch of informational topics – including what’s happening with dsynth, how virtual memory works, streaming on NetBSD, and other links.