My sadly neglected RSS reader is overflowing. Chesses 2. I posted about Chesses 1 some time ago; this is more. (via) Paper Models of Polyhedra. (via) Open Source Fonts Are Love Letters to the Design Community. The Original Internet Bottleneck. Gopherus – a DOS (and multi-platform, console-mode) gopher client. Getting pretty obscure here. (via) Curses …
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BUG meetings are canceled, but this can’t be surprising at this point. Installing FreeBSD for Raspberry Pi 1/2/3. (via) Tale of two hypervisor bugs – Escaping from FreeBSD bhyve. (via) SNMP Mastery is out. (related: The Print Book Trade, and Money) NYCBUG meetings are suspended for obvious meetings, but there’s online chat. BSDCan 2020 will …
BSD Now 345 has the usual batch of recent stories to cover, plus a treat – a number of community feedback items on switching to BSD.
Even if you run bash, zsh, or maybe fish, tcsh is the default root shell in DragonFly – and it just had an update. (all bugfixes according to the release notes)
We have released LibreSSL 3.1.0, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL
directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
The signify signing key has been rotated this time around, and the public key
for future releases should appear as follows, while the …
karu.pruun posted an answer on how to get DragonFly onto your GPT/EFI drive.
The ssh-copy-id utility is now included in DragonFly 5.8 and in -current. Useful for your next machine setup.
Errata patches for dhcpd have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
dhcpd could reference freed memory after releasing a lease with an
unusually long uid.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility…
No theme this week. New “Prohibition Orcs” today. Aggregate internet links with mlvpn. A USB Loader for the Cidco MailStation. “worst use of Thunderbolt”. riftty. Think about the name, and you can guess what it is. (via) My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable. This is the future we …
Last minute this week. Everyone is inside except me working two jobs again. Dumb, but I do enjoy the work. RISC OS and NetBSD running on same SoC. (via) MixerTUI 0.1. (via) Extending support for the NetBSD-7 branch. NetBSD 8.2 is available! The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 1). Update Lenovo X260 BIOS with …
Everything else is topsy-turvy, but BSD Now is a constant: it’s out like usual this week. There’s a feature about text processing, a subject I inexplicably enjoy, and a lot of things that start with Z.
The NetBSD project usually supports the latest release (currently 9.0)
plus the latest release of the previous release branch (currently 8.2).
Today would have been the day when the pre-previous release branch (netbsd-7)
had gone out of support.
This…
Typically, some time after releasing a new NetBSD major version (such as
NetBSD 9.0), we will announce the end-of-life of the N-2 branch, in this
case NetBSD-7.
We’ve decided to hold off on doing that to ensure our users don’t feel
rushed to perform a…
The third release in the NetBSD-8 is now available.
This release includes all the security fixes in NetBSD-8 up until this
point, and other fixes deemed important for stability.
Some highlights include:
x86: fixed regression in booting old CPUs
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This doesn’t really have any effect on you unless you are programming on DragonFly, but it’s interesting to read about a “spinlock trick” Matthew Dillon had implemented recently.