DragonFly BSD Digest

2019/07/202019/07/20

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/20

And overflow continues! I am secretly pleased.

Nginx and acme-client on OpenBSD.
random ip id comments. Linked cause OpenBSD and DragonFly are specially noted for IP ID handling.
DTracing PostGres. (via).
What is the overarching philosophy of BSD that defines the OS family?
OpenBSD::Unveil(3p) added to -current. I like this sort of external support.
NeXT Software and Peripherals catalog Fall 1989. (via)
ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size. Will this affect ZFS on BSD? Dunno.
Valuable News – 2019/07/15.
A Tale of Two Spellcheckers. A PkgSrcCon 2019 talk. (via)
GUIX and FreeBSD(AnyBSD) ?
Want to learn more about BSD.
FreeBSD.org outgoing mail system changes.
FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD for Makers.
OPNsense 19.7 “Jazzy Jaguar” released.
Seattle Gelato Meetup, 1 August 2019.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” open for tech review.

2019/07/192019/07/19

st supported in DragonFly

Thanks to Aaron LI, st (“suckless terminal” I assume) is supported in termcap in DragonFly.

2019/07/18

BSDNow 307: Twitching with OpenBSD

BSD Now 307 accomplishes another trifecta week, mentioning Free, Net, and Open, and also mentioning that vBSDCon’s call for papers closes tomorrow – I’m mentioning it now cause it’ll be too late to mention for In Other BSDs this weekend.

2019/07/17

em, igb updates in DragonFly

If you are running an em(4) or igb(4) device in DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau has updated the drivers. This brings it to Intel driver versions em-7.7.4 and igb-2.5.6.

2019/07/162019/07/16

SEMIBUG tonight: OpenBSD on the desktop

Hopefully I am not too late posting this: SEMIBUG meets tonight, and the presentation is Eddie Thieda, talking about OpenBSD on the desktop.

2019/07/15

tcp keepalive and dports on DragonFly

DragonFly’s tcp keepalive was changed from milliseconds to seconds. This happened in both DragonFly-current and in the 5.6 release, and it changes the networking API, which means a dports rebuild is needed… or a pkg upgrade, for which happily all packages have been rebuilt. So, on your next update of the system, be sure to update packages too.

2019/07/142019/07/11

Lazy Reading for 2019/07/14

Who can recommend a dynamic DNS service? (I’d like to know from direct experience, not Googling.) I’ve been using Dyn for years, but they’ve been unintelligibly merged into the Oracle behemoth, and I need to change.

Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar. (via)
Trajectories for the future of software. (also via)
Chain Letter Evolution. (via)
The PDP-7 Where Unix Began. (via)
Decoded: Rogue. This is strangely … readable? (via)
fern: a curses-based mastodon client. (via)
ARPANET, Part 1: The Inception, ARPANET, Part 2: The Packet, and ARPANET, Part 3: The Subnet. Another very readable article. (via)
A generation of hip-hop was given away for free. Can it be archived? (via)
Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash. More important, that’s the only AGC in the world.
Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Eighteen – Drubbings In The Deep.

2019/07/132019/07/11

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/13

Done early, for once! I managed to complete this by Thursday night.

LLDB: watchpoints, XSTATE in ptrace() and core dumps.
OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
Streaming to Twitch using OpenBSD.
High quality / low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD.
OPNsense 19.1.10 released, and then OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released.
vBSDCon’s Call for Papers is out. (via)
What to try first, of Michael W. Lucas’s BSD and non-BSD books?
Project Trident 19.06 Available. (via)
FreeBSD 11.3 released.
July 10 Plugins Update.
fixing telnet fixes.
aggr(4) driver added to -current. I read it as aggro, can’t help it.
Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool. (via)
FreeBSD security issues in DragonflyBSD perspective.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q2 release. (via)
Valuable News – 2019/07/08.
Implementation of DRM ioctl Support for NetBSD kernel.
Incorporating the memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme into NetBSD.
Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd. (via)

2019/07/122019/07/09

Scriptable audio on BSD

This could be an In Other BSDs item, but it’s worth highlighting: saugns is a “Scriptable AUdio GeNeration System”; a utility for generating sounds – specifically FM modulation, in a way that will make you think “synthesizers!” There’s a whole language behind it, and the program, as the author, Joel K Pettersson, points out, compiles with no trouble on every BSD.

2019/07/112019/07/11

BSD Now 306: Comparing Hammers

BSD Now 306 is up, with the normal mix of stories about multiple BSDs… Except two separate ones are about DragonFly, so this week is extra good.

2019/07/102019/07/09

An easier upgrade on DragonFly

You’re probably used to the ‘make buildworld; make buildkernel; make installkernel; etc etc’ dance on each upgrade at this point. ‘Tse’ has created a script that rolls that all up into a single action.