August 2013 – Page 3 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2013/08/032013/07/31

In Other BSDs for 2013/08/03

How many tags can I fit on this post? I think I’ll aim for Saturday for these BSD catchup posts. In theory, I can prep this and the Sunday Lazy Reading posts ahead of time, since they tend to be all-week items, and have the whole weekend covered.

BeagleBone systems are getting popular.
Distributed chrooted pkgsrc bulk builds. Very necessary documentation.
…And a script to do all the setup for those builds.
The VBSDCon site has more details on the upcoming convention. (via)
The cxgbe(4) device has hardware dedicated to sniffing packets?
FreeBSD has switched to the BSD-licensed version of patch.
FreeBSD has an updated ACPI implementation.
FreeBSD is importing OpenBSD’s rsu(4) wireless Realtek driver. Needs firmware.
What’s new in pkgsrc-2013Q2. With screenshots!
NetBSD now supports 2 new Centrino Wireless-N devices.
NetBSD now has BIND 9.9.3-p2
PHP 5.5 has hit pkgsrc.

2013/08/022013/07/31

Power savings and Haswell chips

If you have a computer with one of the very-very-new Haswell processors from Intel, Matthew Dillon has made some changes that will interest you. They shave off (in the example given) about 20% of CPU power usage without much effect on performance.

2013/08/022013/07/31

Just kill everything

killall -T will now kill all processes associated with the current tty, except parents of the killall process itself. It’s a shortcut to “kill all these runaway items I started by accident”.

2013/08/012013/07/31

KMS and i915 support in DragonFly

Thanks to the effort of a number of people, DragonFly (-current) now supports KMS and accelerated video on Intel 915 chipsets. It’s 2D and x86_64 only for now, but it’s much, much better than just using the vesa driver.

2013/08/012013/08/06

Google Summer of Code Doc Camp

Every year, people ask “Why can’t writing documentation be part of Summer of Code?” (Not necessarily for DragonFly, but in general) Google has a “Doc Camp”, where a whole lot of documentation gets produced in sprints, and anyone can participate – not just Summer of Code students.

If this sounds interesting to you, your application has to be in by August ~~7th~~ 9th. (URL and date updated)