Some retrocomputing as a mini-theme this week. Download files listed in a http index with wget. Eventually you will need this. A Conversation With the Mysterious Dubstep Sensation Hannibal Rex. Stretching the c64 Palette. (via) Announcing Perl 7. (via) Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor. (also via) Bluetooth (sound) latency …
This should be prime convention season, darnit. Smallest device running BSD? Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via) The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via) BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results. BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP. Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process. Command Line Bug …
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This week’s BSD Now, by accident or design, covers booting different BSDs on different hardware – take a look.
Aaron LI has ported over a bunch of ifconfig updated from FreeBSD, and I’ll link here to a few.
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Active committers to the project have elected your eleventh FreeBSD Core Team. For details, refer to the official announcement.
Thanks to Daniel Fojt, awk(1) has jumped from the 2012 version in DragonFly, to the 2020 version. The commit message shows the highlights so you don’t have to read through the whole history. Given that DragonFly’s awk is the One True awk, that eight years are only a small percentage of the overall history.
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 67th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available
with more than 22,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available…
Hello Everyone,
On the 11th July 2020 from 1400-2100 UTC we will be running a coordinated
virtual Bug Squash. FreeBSD has a Problem Report (PR) database[1] where users
and developers are encouraged to file issues and regressions they find in both
the …
Did you know there’s a default size limit to pf’s routing table? I did not, but it makes sense that there is one. If for some reason you bump into this limit (difficult for home use, I’d think), here’s how you change it.
Earlier, the EOL date for NetBSD 7 was extended to June 30, 2020, to
accomodate people who could not update machines due to pandemic
restrictions. Thus as of July 1, 2020, there will be no further
maintenance to the NetBSD 7 branches (netbsd-7, netbs…
Dear all,
ftp.NetBSD.org aka rsync.NetBSD.org will be unavailable due to
maintenance next Saturday, starting at 7:00 UTC.
best regards,
spz
Minor computer history theme this week. Odeon theaters in LEGO. The guy who created the View-Master also was the first to figure out plastic trash cans. Home? ?Computer? ?Cultures? ?and? ?Society? ?Before? ?the? ?Internet? ?Age?. (via) roguelike celebration 2020 is happening virtually. The Gigatron, a no-microprocessor retrocomputer. Available as a solder-yourself kit. The Smithsonian’s Computer …
Chroot OriginsThis blog post will examine original artifacts to clear up some confusion about where chroot(2) and chroot(8) came from. The answer turns out to be simple, and the confusion was understandable. This shows the benefits of groups like …
Adding a Second Disk to a 2.11BSD system under SIMHI recently followed some instructions to get 2.11BSD running under SIMH. That topic is covered elsewhere adequately. I may write something up in the future.Before I started, my simh.init file looked li…
Overflow again, finally. BSD Resources, a list of BSD-based products. Missed one. (via) FreeBSD Day shifted. (via) Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With “pot” Within 5 Minutes. See also. (also via) WireGuard Merged Into OpenBSD. (via) Related: Trying out WireGuard’s kernel support in OpenBSD’s -current snapshots. (via) Getting Started with NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro. (via) …
Aaron LI has updated head(1) and tail(1) in DragonFly – new switches for head, a new switch for tail, and tac.
The most recent BSD Now covers a number of different topics, some of which you may have already seen linked. There’s some reader questions too, which I’m sure you have not seen.