[Ukfreebsd] Notes from last nights meeting

[Sevan Janiyan]

GPD Pocket/PSION 5/Toshiba Libretto
Mac SE/30 running NetBSD as a router
Creative use of the one user controlled GPIO pin on a PI to blink an LED
Bringing up more Lua modules in NetBSD
m00nbsd
Maxime Villard's security audit
Status of fixes from Ilja van Sprundel's audit in the BSDs
Palemoon branding https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
C++ drama - toolchain upgrades defaulting to C++11
Fallout from clang 6 & GCC 6 in FreeBSD & NetBSD
-Wmisleading-indentation
Regression in difficulty of Rogue
https://twitter.com/jangray/status/946160201731751942
Ethics in IT and a frequent call to reject work and organisations
Anything more soulless in tech than working for a defence contractor?
"**** BAE"
"my favourite game is fortune(1)"
Revisiting the work to add G5 support to NetBSD/macppc to fish out PCI-X
support
NetBSD/acorn26 is gone
Talos II manual
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/w/images/e/e3/T2P9D01_users_guide_version_1_0.pdf
Hardware vendors at FOSDEM (Talos? Turris...)
Running PostgreSQL on a VAX talk from FOSDEM 2016
https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/postgresql_on_vax/
Budget SuperH hardware
SH-5 history in NetBSD
Adding a serial port to your SuperH based appliance
https://www.openbsd.org/landisk.html
Frankenstein PowerBook fished out from a recycling bin and the cost of
replacement parts to bring it back to shape (a £1 for a screw?)
Avoiding the use of the of the word infinite in product titles to
 avoid difficulties with naming subsequent models e.g. Infinite Reality
FreeBSD/ports/games has some interesting games
Supporting a traditional CISC architecture (VAX) in GCC in a RISC world
How to write your own NIC device driver (and why) Our experience writing
10G/100G drivers for Snabb in Lua (without NDAs)
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/lua_snabb/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwt7SmvVWA
Mellanox Adapter Programmer's Reference Manual
http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/user_manuals/Ethernet_Adapters_Programming_Manual.pdf
State of dotnetclr, is it possible to run any closed source applications
yet?

Not discussed last night but, A Declaration of the Independence of
Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
https://vimeo.com/111576518


Sevan