DragonFly BSD

SeMiBUG meets tonight, 7 PM, Altair Engineering.  Go, if you are near. (not sure about capitalization on semibug…)

Thanks to Erik Blomberg and the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, I now know the Digest has reached a whole new operating system: CP/M.  This entertains me. (It’s the Digest being browsed in text mode on a TeleVideo TS-803, if you can’t see the screen well enough.)

A mix of complaints, history, and odd technical items.  The usual! Unsung Beauty of Analog Devices Datasheets.  (via) Managing passwords using ed and gpg2.  Because: no tempfile. Adding redirection to the gopher protocol. How Long Will Unbreakable ... [More] Commercial Encryption Last?  Readers of a certain age will remember how PGP was briefly export controlled; also remember … Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2019/10/13" [Less]

I’m sure there’s some recent stuff I missed; I will catch it in next week’s roundup. SeMiBUG meets Tuesday the 15th. FreeNAS datasets and snapshots. Defense at Scale.  There’s a BSD system in there.  (via) History of UNIX Design and Interfaces.  BSD ... [More] history mixed in.  (via) 1 day / 1 game: solene@ playing Unexplored on … Continue reading "In Other BSDs for 2019/10/12" [Less]

Posting this now cause tomorrow’s too late: the 2019 Bay Area FreeBSD Vendor and Developer Summit is happening today and tomorrow.  Go, if you are near.

Tomohiro Kusumi has been bringing in a large number of fixes to the msdos filesystem, mostly from FreeBSD, but from other sources.  I’m not going to link to them all, cause there’s many over the last few weeks, but the good news is that there’s performance gains for this lowest-common-denominator filesystem.

This week’s BSD Now is up, with a nice general range of topics, including the perennial Lack Rack idea.

The BSD.nrw Dusseldorf-Wersten BSD user’s group is meeting tomorrow at 19:00 at The Schalander.  It probably helps if you speak German; I had to rely on Google Translate for this one.  Go, if you are near.

ChiBUG meets tomorrow, the 8th.  Go, if you are near Chicago.

Pre-posted in advance cause once again working through the weekend. BBSes: Partying Online Like It’s 1989.  (via) The 25th Interactive Fiction Competition is Open. After Dark has been ported to Twitter. Text Rendering Hates You.  (via) A computer ... [More] built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer.  Wonderful pictures, as always. Feast of Legends.  A … Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2019/10/06" [Less]