November 2015 – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2015/11/142015/11/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/14

This is the sort of BSD link week I like, with lots of range and depth.

Many many more u2k15 reports.
Slides about pledge(). There’s a very good point (and followup) in there.
Why I Chose FreeNAS When I Started My Own Landscape Architecture Firm.
Initial 802.11n wireless support for iwm(4).
noice, a file browser that works on all the BSDs.
New [OPNSense] images based on 15.7.18.
first semibug.org meeting next Tuesday. I’ll post a reminder.
Videos: BSD History.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/09.
The ZFS ZIL and SLOG Demystified.
SeaGL 2015 Recap. (via)
DesktopBSD 2.0 M1 released. (via)
xorg for NetBSD/amiga. This will make someone happy.
ConnectX-4 Mellanox network card support in FreeBSD. Does well under load.
Re-rooting on FreeBSD.

2015/11/12

Locales everywhere

John Marino sent a helpful link to show the cross-platform work he’s been involved in: He brought the locale work from Illumos into DragonFly over the summer (look for his name on commits), and now it has been brought from DragonFly into FreeBSD, with Baptiste Daroussin reporting on the process. If there’s any OpenBSD/NetBSD developers reading, with an interest in locales, this may be useful..

(someone correct me if that’s not the right Illumos link)

2015/11/12

BSDNow 115: Controlling the Transmissions

It’s Thursday and there’s a new BSDNow: Controlling the Transmissions. The interview this week is with Hiren Panchasara, about “improving TCP”, though I haven’t yet listened to it for details. There’s also the normal news roundup.

2015/11/11

i915 rename in DragonFly

If you are using bleeding-edge DragonFly (4.3) on a machine with Intel video, the i915 module has been renamed. This means you will probably need to rebuild xf86-video-intel from source to have it match. There should be a matching binary package soon.

If you are on DragonFly 4.2, this does not affect you.

2015/11/10

Realtek 8168H support in DragonFly

Sascha Wildner has brought over support for the Realtek 8168H. This may be useful because at least one low-cost server provider – Kimsufi, I think? – uses them by default in their product line.

2015/11/09

Running with clang

If you are using clang with DragonFly, and you want to always run the newest version, you can set options in compilers.conf, and use ‘clangnext‘.

2015/11/092015/10/23

SSH talk very soon

Reminder: Michael W. Lucas’s talk on SSH (based on his recent book) is happening on the 10th, at the Farmington Hills Public Library.

2015/11/082015/11/06

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/08

When I say the links are wide-ranging this week, I mean it.

Do one thing… An excellent reading of an overabused saying.
Saga, control over your work. (via)
Dungeon Robber. A Gary Gygax dungeon game from 1979, recreated. Flash, unfortunately. (via)
What do your photos know about you? JFIF data is always a surprise to people.
IF Comp 2015 Roundup. (via)
How do we see each other…? (via)
pinboard tips for web design.
Flying Toasters, again. (via)
What People Mean When They Talk About ‘The Cloud’. (via)
The Midnight Archive – Old Machines. (video, via)
Blue Lion, a new OS/2 distribution. (via)
3 films talking about pre-WW2 computer work. (via)
Telidon: Early 1980s Net Artists. I never heard of this and I wish I had. (via)
Measuring Network Throughput. (via)

2015/11/072015/11/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/07

Not even checking source commits this week; there’s already plenty of news.

Ken Westerback at u2k15.
OpenBSD also is getting a hypervisor.
Running BSDi BSD/OS on VirtualBox.
Faces of FreeBSD 2015 – Michael Dexter
OpenBSD vs. nVidia
nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat. (via)
MINIXCon, February 1st, 2016, in Amsterdam. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/02.
LibreSSL 2.3.1 is out. (via)
Cyrix 486 Booting OpenBSD 4.7 (via)
starting from scratch bugs.
OPNsense 15.7.18 Released
Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2. SEMIBUG is a good name.
OpenBSD has a fork of less.
pfSense 2.2.5 is out, and the pfSense project is 11 years old.
A new issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBGPd and route filters.

2015/11/052015/11/06

BSDNow 114: BSD Schooling

“BSD Schooling” is the name of this week’s episode of BSDNow, and as you might guess from the title, Brian Callahan is the interview subject, talking about BSDs and education. It also points out interviews elsewhere, like Brian Acton of WhatsApp talking about how useful BSD is to work with, and another one where the CTO of HP appears to have the wrong idea of licensing. (also, an interesting but not surprising Stallman quote)

2015/11/052015/11/05

Update pile

John Marino’s made a number of updates to contributed software in DragonFly recently, and here’s the list: ~~libelf~~ (not contrib as John pointed out), libexecinfo, xz, libedit, binutils, grep, tcsh, libdialog, and (tn)ftp.

2015/11/042015/11/02

Getting rid of CPUHOT messages

If for some reason you are seeing messages about your CPU overheating – and you know it is not, there’s a solution. Disable coretemp messages.

Note that if your CPU is actually overheating, turning these messages off won’t help. Don’t want anyone to be surprised when their computer melts…

2015/11/032015/11/02

Optimization, again

Remember what I was saying about Sepherosa Ziehau and improving performance? Well, here he goes again, three times.

2015/11/022015/10/31

BSDTalk 258: Chris Henschen

Start the week with this brief interview of Chris Henschen, of fP Technologies, taken at the most recent vBSDCon. Their database product, filePro Plus, was recently ported to FreeBSD.

2015/11/012015/10/30

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/01

No themes evolved this week.

Git. You may have already seen this.
The Container Ecosystem Project. Use it as a term reference. (via)
How many bad ideas can be bundled together at once? (via)
The threat of telecom sabotage and Submarine Internet Cable Vulnerabilties. (both via).
Future Forms. For fans of Braun/Dieter Rams design, largely. (via)
cOS on commodore 64: Modern user interface with optional touchscreen. (via)
99 Bottles Of Beer – find(1) version. (via)
Classic Bug Reports. I like this one. (via)
Any One Else Using It? (via)
YOU WILL REGRET THIS! You will maybe get the joke if you played the original SimCity.
Popular Unix Text Editors & How to Exit Them. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Secret Coders. I have several other books by Gene Luen Yang; he’s good. (via)