DragonFly BSD

Whee! A talking car dashboard from the 1980s. Argos Catalogs.  Count how many of the pictured items have been absorbed by cell phones.  (via) Features are Faults. King of click.  More Model M stories.

Quiet for you, the reader, at least.  My schedule is irregular because of work over the next few days – including the weekend – so regular posting may not resume until next week.  Sorry!

For some reason, OpenSSL-using command line clients – but not any browsers – are choking on the RSS feed for this site when fetched via https.  So, the site no longer defaults to https.  It’s still available if you want to use it, and I’ll work on fixing the setup. The way to see it is: […]

I spent a good chunk of this weekend at work for various reasons, so it’s a slightly less long list.  On the plus side, I know a bit more about setting up fiber links now. On the Design of Editors for Small Computers.  Pre-vi, pre-emacs.  (via) Rob Pike: Reflections on Window Systems.  Video.  (via) Writing […]

Whee! FreeBSD 10.1 beta 3 is out – though it may be superseded by the time this article is published. pkg is apparently supported in Salt and cdist.  (via) DiscoverBSD’s September BSD release list. DiscoverBSD’s news roundup for 2014/09/29. The ... [More] September BSD Magazine is out.  (via) Undeadly has links to (all?) the EuroBSDCon 2014 OpenBSD papers. […] [Less]

Since the switch to https here, the RSS feed has been having trouble, as several people reported.  I haven’t had time to look into it much so far.  Though I suppose it’s only likely that you are reading this if you are unaffected by it.

This week’s BSDNow has an interview about mentoring with Steve Wills of FreeBSD, the usual array of news.  This week has more small device news than normal – NetBSD on Raspberry Pi and pfSense on a mini-ITX system.  And a mention of my desktop article!  I’m relevant!

The powersaving page on dragonflybsd.org has seen a bunch of updates; this should be handy even if you aren’t on battery power that often.

BSDTalk 245 is up, with 7 minutes from Will Backman, the host.  He’s setting up new storage for the (long!) history of BSDTalk podcasts, and he asks what people are using for ~ on the Internet.

At least, I assume NYCBUG’s meeting is tonight.  It’s at BXL Cafe, and you can see the details in the announcement email.  No RSVP required this time, because it’s a bar, so perhaps all you need is a liver.