I guess history is a micro-theme? Think Twice Dice. (via) Happy Birthday, Ethernet. Still interoperable, 40 years later. (via) How we ran a Unix-like OS (Xv6), on our home-built CPU with our home-built C compiler. Sorta UNIX. (via) “Myst” demake for Apple II. (via) Ars Electronic 2017. Follow the art links. Spamtoberfest. Related, Hacktoberfest needs …
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT. OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via) duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via) Old School Disk Partitioning. (via) Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of), How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching …
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 68th 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…
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This week’s BSD Now talks about ZFS, TrueNAS, IPC, wildcards, and the UNIX family tree, for a mix of the old and new.
If you delete all your installed packages, you will also lose the certificate used by pkg to verify the connection to download new ones. There’s several workarounds for this problem.
Recovering From BIOS UpgradeRecently, I booted Windows on my laptop for the first time in a while to play Portal 2 with my son. It asked me to upgrade, and I said ‘sure, upgrade the BIOS.’And then I couldn’t boot FreeBSD… The BIOS upgrade delet…
A complete set of new dports binaries have been built, for 5.8 and for -current, so now is a good time to upgrade. Update to 5.8.3 if you haven’t yet, while you are at it.
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.7.
mmap can exhaust kernel memory for PROT_NONE MAP_SHARED mappings.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches ca…
Roy Marples helped out with the news drought (for me) by committing dhcpcd 9.3.0 to DragonFly. There’s a few user-affecting changes in there.
Hardware is the mini-theme this week, I think. Open source job with a cool title: Director Of Product, Disinformation at Wikimedia. Boring title but huge impact: Software engineer for BIND 9. Elite – the annotated source. Quite readable, even if you don’t know assembly. (via) Glitch techniques. (via) Hacking a gopher client into the Alpha Micro. …
No theme, but lots to read. Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via) OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via) FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via) FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available. “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also …
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
This week’s BSD Now has FuryBSD, FreeBSD, and LDAP as topics, and I’m describing it that way because I feel like writing as many capital letters as possible.
FreeBSD git Primer for Users Today’s blog is actually a preview of a git primer I’m writing for the FreeBSD project. It covers what a typical user will need, including those relatively rare users that may have some changes to the base. Please let me k…
I have nothing to post about, for the first time in a while, so here is a treat I have been saving: Request for biographies. (follow the whole thread) It’s a long thread from the SIGCIS mailing list for biographies of various people important to computing/mathematics, and there are some real gems in there. Your …
On behalf of the FreeBSD Core Team and the Vendor Summit Planning
Committee, I’d like to invite you to attend the online 2020 FreeBSD Vendor
Summit. The event will consist of virtual, half day sessions, taking place
November 11-13, 2020. Some of the ve…