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In Other BSDs for 2016/03/05
I hope you have some time for reading this week.
BSDCan: OpenBSD presentations.
Linux Emulation goes to the great bitbucket of the sky.
How do I find what is in the ports tree without installing?
OpenSSH 7.2 released Feb 29, 2016. (via)
Upcoming Features in GCC 6. Will this make it to a BSD (Read more...)
garbage[16]: You guys got it wrong, y...
Garbage 16 is out, with OpenBSD news and general tech talk. There’s apparently progress on Raspberry Pi 3 support.
(Podcasts tend to be timely, and time-dependent, so I’m not saving this for the weekend In Other BSDs)
i915, Baytrail, and C-states
Daniel Bilik has found there’s an issue with i915 acceleration, Baytrail CPUs, and some AUTODEEP low-power states. This will only affect you if you are using that specific hardware combo and setting certain low power modes. Interestingly, it affects other platforms, too, as it appears to be a symptom of how the video is addressed, no [...]
BSDNow 131: BSD Behind the Chalkboard
BSDNow 131 is out, and has an interview of Jamie McParland, on I assume the topic of BSD in school environments, guessing by the title and guest’s email address. It has the normal summary of news items, including explanations of load average I think many people would find useful.
NYCBUG tonight: BSD init(8) and rc(8)
I almost missed this: There’s a NYCBUG meeting tonight, at 6:45 PM, at the Stone Creek Bar and Lounge in New York City. The presentation will be from Raul Cuza, titled “BSD init(8) and rc(8): Room for Improvement?“. I imagine there will be an opportunity to complain about systemd’s very existence, at this meeting.
Lazy Reading for 2016/02/28
UNIX tools are this week’s unintentional theme.
The many load averages of Unix(es). (via)
So you want to write a package manager. (via)
Headshot: A visual history of first-person shooters. (via)
Tolkien Ipsum. (via)
Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions. ( (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2016/02/27
Look at the ZFS discussions if you want to feel smug as a BSD user.
Should I use BSD? If so, why?
Delphi development in FreeBSD.
OpenBSD and Comic Sans problems. (a sort of background to that?)
Garbage podcast 14, for February 19th, which I missed linking to before.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/02/22.
February 2016 status and (Read more...)
BSDNow 130 and Garbage 15 podcasts
Normally I’m just linking to BSDNow, but there’s even more BSD-themed media coming up today: BSDNow 130 is out, titled “Store all the Things“, with an extended summary of the recent Storage Summit.
Garbage episode 15 is out, titled “Compressing with Broccoli“. It notes a lack of activity for Bitrig – [...]
High-availability sync for ipfw3
Bill Yuan has added ‘ipfwsync’ to ipfw3 in DragonFly. As you may expect from the name, it’s a way to sync ipfw3 configurations across multiple devices.
Default shells and library changes
I see this bite people irregularly over the years: if your default shell on login can’t run, what do you do? I’ve seen it happen because of a missing /usr/lib, and it can happen with out-of-date library references, too. There’s several different ways to deal with it:
Run a shell that can’t have this problem, like / [...]
DragonFly i915 support: another upgra...
Francois Tigeot has again updated Intel i915 video support in DragonFly, bringing it even with what’s in Linux 4.2. This will be very useful for Broadwell and Skylake users, and even Broxton, apparently the newest Atom platform.
New DragonFly committer: Bill Yuan
Welcome the newest DragonFly committer: Bill Yuan. His ipfw3 work has been going on for a while.
Lazy Reading for 2016/02/21
I earn the roguelike tag this week.
“I built Space invaders into Dwarf Fortress.” Featuring the Almighty Dwarven Calculator. (via)
Free Lovecraft stories. (via)
Imagining your future projects is holding you back. Talking about fiction, but this applies to open source work too. (via)
Happy 25th, Webcam!
@Play (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2016/02/20
Keep an eye out for BSD user group meetings in your area – just because I didn’t note it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
“FreeBSD Filesystem Fun” at March 15th SEMIBUG. The next few months of SEMIBUG speakers are posted there, too.
Deploying NetBSD on the Cloud Using AWS EC2: Part 1.
NetBSD on Google’s Compute [...]
bsdtalk262 – LightZone with Tex Andre...
BSDTalk 262 is available, talking with Tex Andrews for 23 minutes about LightZone, “open source digital darkroom software”.
BSDNow 129: Synthesize all the Things...
BSDNow 129 is available. Along with the normal news summary, it has an interview with John Marino, the fellow behind DragonFly’s dports system, and author of recently-noted-here synth, which has reached version 1.0.
DragonFly 4.4.2 released
DragonFly 4.4.2, a bugfix release to 4.4.1, is out. This was mostly prompted by the recent OpenSSL update, but other little fixes have made it in, too. It’s available for download and is probably available at your nearest mirror by now, if you want an image. The release page is updated, and there’s always the Git tag summary fo [...]
Who still wants a shirt?
I have DragonFly shirts, helpfully printed up by Sepherosa Ziehau in China. I have a list of people that are interested in shirts, most of whom remembered to give a shirt size. I don’t have anyone’s email address or mailing address on that list.
If you are on that list, send me your mailing address.
The shirts are marked L/XL/XX [...]
Lazy Reading for 2016/02/14
Rapid topic shifts this week.
Planning for Disaster. Speed over correctness is all the rage, but also programming inconsequential websites is also all the rage.
The Lonely Dungeon. Markov-style classic RPG generation, it sounds like.
The book is out! “@Play: Exploring Roguelike Games”
The Museum of Endangered Sounds. (via)
Tod [...]
In Other BSDs for 2016/02/13
Several book links this week.
Openbsd router, can it run on arm? (via)
Lumina Desktop Getting Ready for FreeBSD 11.0.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” now available! Next two book titles are in there, too.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” Table of Contents.
Winter arrivals. (related to previous post)
Upcoming OpenBSD Se [...]
