DragonFly BSD Digest

2017/05/282017/05/26

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/28

All these links came together at once, after I cleaned up a lot of browser tabs.

The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D. (via)
For those times when downloading over the Internet is too slow.
Your choice of Telnet/SSH terminal client, and why? A perennial question.
A brief history of IPv4 address space exhaustion. (via)
Little Things I Like to Do with Git. (via)
AmigaOS 4: Google Cloud Print driver released. (via)
Tracking down a segfault in grep. The sequel: Digging deeper. (via)
How Your Data Is Stored. Eventual consistency, explained. (via)
Urban Exploration Resources. You’ll want to search or just dig.
Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D. (via)

2017/05/272017/05/25

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/27

A good chunk of this is overflow from last week.

The iXSystems Kansas Linux Fest report. I’d like to see the slides they used.
PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (via)
Best free alternative to pfSense?
OpenBSD laptop.
Is there a more clear PacBSD installation guide?
GhostBSD 11 ALPHA having issues with MATE Desktop.
documentation is thoroughly hard.
Logical Domains on SunFire T2000 with OpenBSD/sparc64. (via)
Are there are BSD projects similar to Googles Fuchsia OS?
Any interest in porting TFS (the new ZFS clone in Rust) to BSDs? The most fun response.
Can’t get Thinkpad t450s trackpoint working on OpenBSD.
openbsd changes of note 622.
Devuan Jessie 1.0 released. It’s Linux, but important here because it’s without systemd. (via)
Support for Controller Area Networks (CAN) in NetBSD.
KnoxBUG meeting on May 30th. Sam Fourman talking about FreeNAS.

2017/05/25

Perturbing potential pkg problem present

There’s a bug with shared libraries in pkg(), which may bite you when upgrading. It’s present in version 1.10.1 at least, so you may want to wait for this fix to be applied before your next upgrade.

2017/05/25

No interview in this week’s BSDNow, but lots of news topics including a note about how easy it is to mitigate WannaCry problems using BSD technologies. Also of potential interest, it links to an in-depth look at how traffic shaping in pfSense was able to significantly improve a home internet connection, from someone whose job is to think about that sort of thing.

2017/05/222017/05/24

Polling and how to try it

If your DragonFly system’s Intel network device doesn’t seem to pick up on DHCP, try turning on polling. This may already be a nonissue, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it.

Update: fixed.

2017/05/212017/05/20

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/21

The weather’s nice, so the links are light. Well, they were, then I got some reading done, and now we have a good-size list.

Rule #1: Interop is all that matters. This is what gave us the Internet, really. (via)
Nethogs, the tool.
SIGGRAPH 2017 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer. See what will appear in movies and triple-A games a year from now. (via)
The Restoration of Early Unix Artifacts. (via)
The Computer Cook Book. (via)
Internet Histories, a n in-depth examination of exactly that. First issue. The introduction has a great Tim Berners-Lee quote. (via)
Please insert next floppy.
Many pet rabbits will die in Second Life on Saturday. As the source link says, “At least nobody will ever make real food depend on the cloud, right?”
Modern OS/2 released. (via)
The Unix Webserver. Interesting to see as a concept, but not necessarily a good idea as implemented. (via)
A list of “highly-specific one-person’s-passion” websites. One of my favorite things to see on the Internet. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Roads & Kingdoms Breakfast. Food and a story every weekday.

2017/05/202017/05/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/20

There’s been enough this week I’ve already started next week’s BSD entry.

Installing OpenBSD 6.1 on your laptop is really hard (not). (via)
Switching to OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012). 2012 is the hardware, not the post date. (via)
Falling in love with NixOS. Not on BSD, but linked because the source has comments contrasting it with BSD packaging systems.
openbsd changes of note 621.
2017Q1 FreeBSD status report.
No sound with NetBSD in VMware.
Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat. (via)
A recap of the April KnoxBUG meeting.
Promoting FreeBSD at Events. (via)
NetBSD maintainer in the QEMU project. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.7 released.

2017/05/19

ADMA2 transfer support in DragonFly

Imre Vadasz added support for ADMA2 transfers in DragonFly. It doesn’t lead to a huge performance boost – yet. It can be turned on and off, but requires Intel chipsets.

2017/05/18

BSDNow 194: Daemonic Plans

This week’s BSDNow covers different topics, with a specific link about a centrally managed Bhyve – a new feature to me. No interview this week, but don’t let that stop you from the full range of discussion.

2017/05/17

Skylake, i915, and power management

Mobile Skylake CPUs appear to have issues with power management and direct video rendering. There’s potential fixes on the horizon, but until then, be aware if you have that specific hardware and software mix.

2017/05/15

DRM from Linux to DragonFly to Haiku

Summer of Code project spotted via random search: “port Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Driver for i915, from the Linux kernel to Haiku with the help of DragonflyBSD’s Linux Compatibility layer…” Seen here, via this.

2017/05/142017/05/12

Lazy Reading for 2017/05/14

Reader suggestions always make me happy.

Is stockpiling AMD Bulldozer-based hardware from 2012 a good idea for those that care about privacy and security, since those CPUs don’t have PSP/Intel ME?
ECC Memory & AMD’s Ryzen – A Deep Dive. (thanks kerma on #dragonflybsd for this and the previous link)
Scrum makes you dumb. I don’t know if he’s setting up the right enemy, but it’s a good analysis of organizational silos. (via)
Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member. Seriously homebrew, from that story. (via)
New D&D magic spells, designed by neural network. (via)
Related: same but for heavy metal band names.
Sexy Emacs. Sexy Vim. (via)
The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth. (via)
U.S. frequency allocations, with detail. (PDFs, via)
Zomg lots more anagram stuff. Lots.
The early Windows phone devices were liquid-cooled, sort of.
Zip Files All The Way Down. Oh, so that’s what a quine is? (via)

2017/05/132017/05/12

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/13

A good topic range this week.

Why I love OpenBSD. (via)
A plan for open source software maintainers. (via)
Unix Architecture Evolution Diagrams. 1972 Research Unix and FreeBSD, compared. (via)
Getting Michael W. Lucas to speak at your (possibly BSD) event.
4 Things About TrueNAS Replication Your Boss Wants To Know. Sounds clickbaity, but does actually describe TrueNAS usage.
OPNsense 17.1.6 released.
Health Tips for Unix Systems.
OpenBSD and You, the slides. (via)
gqrx on freebsd.
I did not know there was a Samba conference.
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold.

2017/05/11

BSDNow 193: Fire up the 802.11 AC

This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but it hops through a banquet of different operating system activities – wireless, routing, changing systems, etc. You will surely find something to pique your interest.

2017/05/11

Bad network vs. pkg

A tip that might be useful for some readers: Mohammad BadieZadegan posted that he had a poor network connection, and so was having a hard time installing packages. If that bites you too, there are some pkg.conf options – starting with FETCH_TIMEOUT and FETCH_RETRY – that may help.

2017/05/10

PuTTY 0.69 has been released. (via)
Made by the same author: Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection. Like Minesweeper times one thousand. (via)
Random ASCII spaceship generator.
Telnet MapSCII.
terminal emulators’ processing of escape sequences. I’ve Ctrl-S’d myself a few times, I’ll admit. (via)
ZX Spectrum Next. Actually contains a ZX chip. (via)
BSD author Michael W. Lucas is having a flash sale on his fiction. It may be over by the time you read this.
The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software. A podcast episode, with some speakers I really like. (via)
Securing Telnet with SSL. (via)
Apple ][ clone and lawsuit history, some of which is new to me.

Your unrelated video of the week: DOUBLE KING. (via multiple places)

2017/05/062017/05/05

In Other BSDs for 2017/05/06

All the text in the links lined up this week, which is mysteriously satisfying.

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