Remember the joke I and probably a zillion others made about OpenOpenSSL? It’s happening, except it’s called LibreSSL. (thanks, Tomáš Bodžár)
If you’re using DragonFly in qemu, virtualbox, whatever – but not VMWare – there’s a new virtio-net driver to try out.
This is another week where I find neat stuff at the start of the week, start the post, and by the time the post date rolls around, those links have been seen everywhere. Yes, I’m complaining I don’t get “First Post!” the way I want.
- UNIX: More ways to spin the top command.
- Leslie Lamport’s Thinking for Programmers talk. It’s the opposite of a TED talk; not glamorous, not made accessible, and not there to make you feel good about yourself – but quite useful. (via)
- A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross. This fascinates me in the same way Markov-chain generated text can be interesting. (via)
- How ‘DevOps’ is Killing the Developer. Not necessarily an accurate description of how DevOps works, but accurate for describing problems with poorly implemented DevOps. ‘Reaction-to-new-strategy-that-gets-implemented-poorly’ is not new – see Agile. (via)
- Here’s a conversational intro to Dwarf Fortress. Unlike every other article, it emphasizes how quickly you can get into the game. This is probably the better way to talk about it.
- A Secure C and C++ reference recommendation.
- @ around Europe. I can’t confirm this, but I’m sure many readers can. (via)
- According to this story about XENIX, Microsoft almost went with it as a successor to DOS. That certainly would have made things different. (via)
- UNIX ACTUAL. (via)
Your unrelated comics link of the week: Heads or Tails. Chris Ware’s comics are all about using the comic as a way of expressing the movement of time, in so many ways. (via)
I’ve got “coverage” of most every BSD this week.
- OpenBSD has brought in OpenSSL – and is modifying it severely. Instead of linking to the many commits as they tear it into little bits, I’ll just link to this Lobste.rs post. Will it be OpenOpenSSL? It looks like it’s for internal consumption only. Undeadly has a similar summation. Apparently there’s a running blog of the changes, or at least the snarky comments.
- Have you never been to BSDCan? Dan Langille asks the question. As he points out, BSD conventions are awesome, where you get to meet some smart people and put names to faces.
- “I have been given the option of Linux or BSD at work…” A discussion of BSD as a Java development platform.
- FreeBSD has added the if_nf10bmac(4) driver, for the “NetFPGA-10G Embedded CPU Ethernet Core”, which appears to be a programmable network card? I’m not sure how it all works together.
- Goodbye EISA on FreeBSD. (Gone long ago on DragonFly.)
- NetBSD src and pkgsrc changes are being twittered. (NetBSD link does not work just now when I tried it.)
- PC-BSD Digest 26 mentions the addition of a new desktop environment called Lumina, built just for PC-BSD.
As you can guess from the title, this week’s BSDNow talks about building OpenBSD packages in bulk among other things, and also interviews Jim Brown of bsdcertification.org.
The March issue of BSD Magazine is out, and this month has an article written by Siju George about how his company is using DragonFly and Hammer for backups.
Remember: If you have a particular port that’s not building in DragonFly, there may be a patch in pkgsrc that could be brought over, as John Marino points out.
Sascha Wildner’s updated ACPICA to a very recent version, which happens to fix a bug in an earlier ACPICA version.
Here’s the announcement from Francois Tigeot: DragonFly now uses dynamic binaries in the root filesystem. You will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel if on 3.7 and upgrading.
I am all over the map this week.
- UNIX Tutorial for Beginners. Also, UNIX Shell Scripting Tutorial. (via)
- Staticapps.org, a explanation of single-page web applications. The idea is good but the site itself is really just an ad for a service that does … single-page web application hosting. Comments on the original link source may be more useful.
- The Lazy Newb Pack for Dwarf Fortress. A good idea, but there’s actually a more recent Starter Pack. (via)
- I link to Cyriak videos from time to time; here’s a documentary about him and his work. (via scrubgenius)
- Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF’s. (via)
- Star Trek 1971 Text Game. Hey, I remember at least one of the variations of this! (via)
- Untrusted, a roguelike-in-appearance game where you use Javascript to get through puzzles. Warning: music. (via)
- Now even Microsoft Windows has a package manager. (via)
- Branching in code instead of in version control. I suspect this is one of those ideas that sounds good but turns out to eventually require reinventing the original setup, like NoSQL. (also via)
- “This is NOT real Git documentation!” Frighteningly real. (via)
- Heartbleed should bleed x.509 to death. (also via)
- Dudley Buck’s Forgotten Cryotron Computer. (via)
Your unrelated animated image of the week: a seal with hiccups.
Some out-of-the-ordinary things this week.
- BSDTV, a new YouTube channel. It has several videos from the recent NYCBSDCon.
- pfSense 2.1.1 is out. No, wait, it’s 2.1.2!
- Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository. Applies to DragonFly, too.
- DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/04/07.
- A partially tongue-in-cheek suggestion for an OpenOpenSSL.
- FreeBSDNews.net is now owned by? maintained by? iXSystems, which seems to be singlehandedly building as much FreeBSD ecosystem as possible – that’s good!
- Bitrig is dropping i386 support.
- FreeBSD Journal #2 is out.
- The OpenBSD Foundation reached their goal for the year.
- The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off their campaign.
- PC-BSD Digest 25 is out.
- Mount your NetBSD ISO directly from the file server.
- FreeBSD supports UDP-Lite, which appears to be the network protocol equivalent of turning over a bucket of ball bearings and saying “Grab what you can.”
- OpenBSD starts to bring back 4.4BSD more.
- Peter N. M. Hansteen wants to know what you do with OpenBSD in a conference-presentationish sort of way. Specifically, EuroBSDCon.
- Jordan Hubbard talks about compiler choices for FreeBSD, and points out that the processor choices these days are Intel or ARM, and that’s it.
DragonFly now has a ‘rescue’ system added in, which also functions as a way to mount encrypted filesystems. Does PAM work yet? I don’t know; I may be linking to this earlier than I need to.
I should have seen that pun coming a long time ago. BSDNow 032 is up with an interview of Dru Lavigne and the usual assortment of other recent BSD items.
Release 3.6.2 of DragonFly has been tagged, and ISO/img files are available. This includes an updated OpenSSL for Heartbleed problems. Here’s the changelog. You can, if you haven’t already, update your existing 3.6 systems the normal way.
All the dragonflybsd.org sites (www, bugs, gitweb, lists, leaf) should be available via https now, thanks to a wildcard certificate from InterNetX. Also, all the machines have an up-to-date version (1.0.1g) of OpenSSL installed to prevent the Heartbleed issue.
I’ve wanted more support for virtualized DragonFly systems. Sascha Wildner put together an experimental balloon memory driver to test out, and I ran it on two virtual machines separately, one with it loaded and one without, on the same host system. The problem is, I can’t tell what it does. The two machine reported almost the exact same RAM usage during a buildworld.
Any VMWare/virtualization experts out there able to tell me what needs to be tested to verify this?
Francois Tigeot’s rescue ramdisk work is ready for testing. You can pull it directly from his repo and try it out. It’s surprising how small the ramdisk can be crunched.
Note: he now has a newer branch than what is in that linked message.
You know what always makes me happy? When someone shows up out of the blue and says “Here; I did this cause I needed it; everyone can share.” The latest example of that is Imre Vadasz porting bwn(4), for the Broadcom BCM43xx wireless chipset over from FreeBSD to DragonFly.
Just to remind people: I’m hiring a system administrator.