A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/26
Mini-theme of old games.
The Nethack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists. (via)
I’ve played dopewars on Slack. Linked because dopewars is really a variant of unique-genre game Taipan.
Clarus returns home. (via)
3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text. I find Source Code Pro works very well.
I posted about arttime before; the author helpfully reminded me version 1.5 is out
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/25
Almost cleaned out the RSS feeds I had waiting.
Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD.
FreeBSD Quick Guide: Audio on FreeBSD.
Hotfix GhostBSD 22.06.18 ISO is now available.
Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking.
(NomadBSD) New team member: Mehmet Mert Gunduz.
Use a gamepad to control mpv video playback. Should work for any BSD?
Valuable News – 2022/06/20.
GhostBSD meetup tonight
It's on Jitsi, so anyone can reach it. Tonight, 7 PM eastern.
BSD Now 460: OpenBSD airport folklore
This week's BSD Now talks about a lot of stuff as always, but also notes a time-dependent item: a bhyve presentation coming up on July 12th.
rEFInd design for all the BSDs
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs - including DragonFly.
SEMIBUG: SSH and Michael W. Lucas
SEMIBUG's monthly meeting is tonight, and it's all about OpenSSH, with Michael W. Lucas presenting. He literally wrote the book on it.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/19
This is a week of fun links.
Cyberdeck Cafe. All custom terminals.
My PSU just won't do.
So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router. A good T-carrier explanation.
Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival? (via)
A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game.
Interactive Art Museum. Pleasing webgubbins. (via)
A Trail Tale. A very nice presentation o
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/18
More links this week to make up for last week's short haul.
Implementing non-stop protocol compatibility in LLDB.
OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport.
FreeBSD first status report 2022, talking about portconfig.
OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64. (via)
FreeBSD Foundation work in the 13.1 release.
Please read this before upgrading to 22.06.07. (GhostBSD)
HardenedBSD May 2022
Closing credit
DragonFly developer Tuxillo has done something notable by its absence: cleaned up a lot of old bug reports. That's usually an unseen and unthanked task, so here's credit for it.
BSD Now 459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark
This week's BSD Now is depressingly honest in the title; no puns. Along with the normal links, there's a Beastie Bit this week for Networks From Scratch.
Two versions, both right
An interesting thought: since HAMMER2 is intended to be a multi-master file system, it has to figure out - and quickly - which is the most up to date versions of any given file. That means you could have multiple versions of a file existing at the same time until that decision is made. That wouldn't be visible from a user perspective.
HAMBUG meeting tomorrow
The Hamilton (Canada) BSD user group will meet through Jitsi tomorrow, June 14th, 4:00 PM Eastern. I'm preposting this based on a SEMIBUG mention.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/12
Mini-theme of hardware this week.
Electronic Catan LCD Tiles. (via)
Watchy, open hardware and software watch.
Modal dialogs and other things that steal keyboard focus are dangerous. That makes me so mad.
DuskOS. Linking cause "low impact computing" has turned into "postapocalyptic computing" for some people. (via)
Catalogs and Context. (via)
What happened to Perl 7? (via)
In Other BSDs for 2022/06/11
Whee!
qorg’s experiences with OpenBSD. (via)
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system. (via)
Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset. (via)
NetBSD and Friends :MCH2022. (via)
Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?
PiDP-11: RECREATING THE PDP-11/70. Technically proto-BSD? I've linked to other stories about this hardware.
DragonFly 6.2.2 out
Hopefully there's a new ISO/img on the mirrors for DragonFly 6.2.2 by the time you read this - or you can just update your installation. The changelog is short, because this is a bugfix-level release. Also, don't forget there's a new set of binary packages out; update that too if you haven't.
BSD Now 458: Traceroute interpretation
This week's BSD Now has the usual news, plus a link I think everyone can use on interpreting traceroute / mtr output.
virtio_console bug report
If you're interested in having virtio_console on DragonFly, keep an eye on this bug report.
The St. Louis Unix Users Group monthly meeting is tonight at 6:30 Central time, talking about rsnapshot and LDAP. It's online, so you can attend even if you are not near.
New dports, new point release
There's a new dports build, and there's been some updates so a new point release to 6.2.2 for DragonFly is a good idea. The new binary packages are available now with 'pkg upgrade', and I'll work on 6.2.2 over the next few days.
Lazy Reading for 2022/06/05
This was done very early; I have been rigorous at cleaning up open tabs.
Finger: the First Social Software. DOOM news was distributed that way. (via)
Some things that make languages easy (or not) to embed in Unix shell scripts.
My programming language odyssey.
IntyOS - An Operating System for the Intellivision. Never went anywhere but that's OK. (via)
"The Canary in the Coal Mine