DragonFly BSD Digest

2017/08/192017/08/18

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/19

I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.

2017/08/18

This happened a while ago, and I’m just catching up to it: the virtio_scsi(4) driver has been added to DragonFly; ported from FreeBSD and worked on by a number of people. ‘man virtio‘ if you want background.

2017/08/17

BSDNow 207: Bridge over the river Cam

This week’s BSDNow talks about the recent BSD convention in Cambridge (which I somehow did not know about until afterwards), plus lots of other talk, and a link to this entertaining terminal emulator.

2017/08/14

Over 9,000, times 100 (processes)

“gee, we have a 6-digit PID, might as well make it work to a million!”

Here’s the first of several commits to support this, and here’s the highest load averages I’ve ever seen.

2017/08/132017/08/13

Lazy Reading for 2017/08/13

Overflow!

Toward A More Useful X Keyboard. (via)
My $169 development Chromebook. (via)
Class Apples, an album made entirely on the Apple ][ – in 2017. (via)
CES, 1987. “2 new Betamax players hitting the market this summer…” etc. etc. (via)
Programming in the 1960s. A slide deck of personal experience. (via)
books chapter six, books chapter seven, books chapter eight.
Unix: dealing with signals.
How are users choosing their passwords on the internet?
Everything is an HTTPS interface. (via)
Better spelling with aspell. a reminder that a spell checker can always be available.
Let ‘localhost’ be localhost. I guess people need to be reminded. (via)
Text Editor Performance Comparison. (via)
The Return of the Hipster PDA. (via)

2017/08/122017/08/11

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/12

Questions are this week’s accidental theme.

Beta Update – Request for (more) Testing. (undeadly)
UMPC compatible with BSD’s?
Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (v2). (via)
Any BSD with Skylake and Gnome?
openbsd changes of note 626.
htop. Mentioned because there is at least a passing BSD reference.
BSDCam 2017 Trip Report: Michael Lucas. (via)
August SemiBUG meeting rescheduled to the 22nd.
From a comment here: discussion of the FreeBSD release process, from a heavy user.
upcoming hackathon proposal: NYC BSD Tor bridges. Those monoculture stats for Tor are not good for Tor.

2017/08/11

Fix for Ryzen users

If you are running DragonFly on a Ryzen CPU, this commit will fix (work around?) a hardware bug. I have not looked at how other operating systems may be addressing it, but it may be interesting to contrast.

2017/08/102017/08/10

BSDNow 206: To hier is UNIX

You all have seen the hier(archy) man page, correct? BSDNow 206 gets into things like the new Lumina and Plasma desktops.

2017/08/09

Two bugfixes: sticky dirs and procfs

Matthew Dillon has committed two bugfixes both to DragonFly-current and DragonFly 4.8. I don’t know the exact circumstances under which it would affect someone, but the commits are there to evaluate.

2017/08/08

kcollect description

I should have linked this yesterday: a description of kcollect and its uses from Matthew Dillon, complete with example graph of a very busy machine.

2017/08/07

New mechanism: kcollect

There’s a new facility in DragonFly: kcollect(8). It holds automatically-collected kernel data for about the last day, and can output to gnuplot. Note the automatic collection part; your system will always be able to tell you about weirdness – assuming that weirdness extends to one of the features kcollect tracks. Here’s some of the commits.

2017/08/062017/08/06

Lazy Reading for 2017/08/06

You may be able to detect a subtle bias based on my early design education, this week.

Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures. (via)
9 great mechanical keyboards for coders. Never thought I’d see a HP Enterprise site referencing Axe Cop… (via)
A Sublime-like minimap for console vim. (via)
“Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate”: A Cultural History of the Punch Card (1992) (via)
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game. (via)
Humanscale, reissued. For my money, Niels Diffrient was the best task chair designer. (His Freedom chair was much better than the Aeron chair so beloved of startups about to run out of cash.)
Fifth International Scientific Symposium on Tea & Human Health. A national Canadian tea site? Unexpected.
Malicious crossenv package on npm. (via)
Related, sorta: Random Stack Overflow code importer. (via)
Apollo Team Announces the (Amiga) Vampire V4. (via)
Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark. (via)
Why I’m Learning Perl 6.

2017/08/052017/08/04

In Other BSDs for 2017/08/05

Spot the sarcasm!

FreeBSD 11.1 released.
Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD)
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD)
mandoc-1.14.2 released.
OPNsense 17.7 released.
hurray we won
X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via)
LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via)
Red Hat deprecates btrfs in RHEL 7.4. I found this relevant to recent comments.
Hosts/BSD – for when you need to run your BSD inside a penguin.
Aeris details. It’s nice of them to target BSD machines, too. I feel included. (via)
Contributing to FreeBSD.

2017/08/04

Go and DragonFly: builder needed

The DragonFly Go builder needs a new maintainer, and an update to a newer builder. Are there any people out there interested in Go who want to do the work? I do not have time.

2017/08/03

BSDNow 205: FreeBSD turning it up to 11.1

No interview, but the latest BSDNow has talk about the newest FreeBSD release and the inevitable more.

If you don’t get the title reference, here’s a video clip.

2017/08/022017/08/02

DragonFly 4.8.1 released

DragonFly 4.8 has been updated to 4.8.1, bringing in a lot of small fixes. Improved Intel video support and the virtio_scsi driver will be of most interest, I think. The 4.8.1 tag commit has all the details. You can update the normal way, and if you need an install image, I’ve uploaded them and they should appear at your local mirror.

2017/08/01

The Internet of Things – A disaster for no good reason. Comparison of old smoke detectors vs. new. You may already have an inkling of the outcome.(via)
Powershell 6.0 Roadmap. Interesting because it’s both Microsoft admitting people want a shell, and it’s Microsoft committing to creating a cross-platform shell.
RFC8200: A revision of IPv6. (via)
50 days of postmarketOS. (via)
The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2017. Jetbrains-customer specific, probably, but: note how many developers don’t use version control or issue trackers. It seems like those would be the most elemental tools? (via)
DOS Game System Project. Real hardware, not emulated.
AmigaOne X5000 review: The beloved Amiga meets 2017. (via)
This 10-Pound Keyboard From The 1980s Is Making A Comeback. The urge for buckling-spring keyboards hits the mainstream. (via)
Linguistics and Programming Languages. (via)
Unix-like personal webpage. I like the scanline effect. (via)
moving to https.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to manage your life?
What is a fantasy map? A scholarly article at the British Library. (via)
Fantasy Cities, a Javascript city map generator. (also via)
Do people write insane code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face?
Kingsway, a mix of a Win95 desktop and a fantasy roguelike. (via)

Your unrelated animated GIF of the week: I find this … Inspirational? Hilarious?

2017/07/292017/07/21

In Other BSDs for 2017/07/29

I’ve been on the road, so this is a bit light.

What linux/BSD distros update Quicker? Yay graphs! (via)
Building a BSD home router (pt. 6): pfSense vs. OPNsense. (via)
SEMIBUG has a new website.
Building a BSD home router parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and possibly more since I wrote this link out. (via)

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