It’s been a relatively calm week, for once.
- New Delhi has a BSD user group. (via)
- PC-BSD and 4K — Oh my!
- Is nvidia the best option for gaming on FreeBSD?
- EuroBSDCon 2015 has extended the time for paper submission, cause they have so much to work through.
- Hipster keyboard layout on NetBSD
- The pkgsrc-security GPG key has changed.
- Binary packages of pkgsrc-2015Q1 for illumos and OS X are available.
- I like cross–pollination.
- PC-BSD can now restore encrypted volumes over iSCSI.
- Two more mentions of OpenBSD (though any should work) on Vultr.
- Better OpenBSD performance on KVM via x2apic mode.
- OpenBSD rolls their own file(1).
- OpenBSD has W^X support for i386 userland now.
- 2-factor authorization on FreeBSD. (via)
- My switch to OpenBSD, first impressions (via)
- Microsoft .NET Running on FreeBSD 10.1/amd64 (via)
We have no nvidia support though.
It would be nice if NVIDIA made open source drivers or published more information, so that (in theory) more open source developers could work on it.
It could be licensing rules prevent it, or some other aspect we’re totally unaware of.
OpenBSD had W^X on i386 before using segmentation, but now there’s a new PAE pmap which will allow finer grained protection using the hardware NX (..or XD) bit.
OpenBSD on amd64, and other architectures with similar MMU features, already use the “No eXecute” bit.
What about wrapper for nVidia binary blob for FreeBSD?
There was a such project some time ago: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~corecode/nvidia.git
Porting nouveau is waste of time IMHO.