Justin Sherrill – DragonFly BSD Digest

2018/08/192018/08/17

Lazy Reading for 2018/08/19

Done well ahead of time, knowing I’d be on the road this past week.

A little bump in the wire that makes your Internet faster.
A timesyncd total failure and systemd’s complete lack of debugability and Systemd’s DynamicUser feature is (currently) dangerous. Yeesh.
Pure Bash Bible: A collection of pure bash alternatives to external binaries. (via)
unabridged history of unix / linux? Lots of reading suggestions.
One simple general pattern for making sure things are alive.
As Michael W. Lucas points out in his site redesign, Let’s Encrypt is great.
Dislikes the Sea, but Will Venture Upon It If Necessary. An adult looking back on his D&D papers from childhood. (via)
Polyhedra Viewer. Sorta related, in a dice sort of way. (also via)
24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (part one). (via)
Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? New James Mickens! (via many places)

2018/08/182018/08/17

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/18

Overflow from two weeks running, cause of travel.

Next SemiBUG meeting is on the 21st. I’ll post a reminder.
Solene’s percent % : Easy encrypted backups on OpenBSD with base tools. (via)
installing Postgresql on NetBSD, need help.
Why do you use (or contribute to) BSD, rather than Linux?
The Battle of the Schedulers: FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS (USENIX).
EuroBSDCon 2018 registration is open. Early Bird until the 24th. (via)
And now your “bsd.network is a goldmine of BSD information links” section:
- VMware vs bhyve Performance Comparison. (via)
- BSD Pizza Night in Portland, Oregon, on the 30th. I’ll post a reminder. (via)
- BSD Users Stockholm Meetup #3, September 5th. I’ll post a reminder for that too.
- “Wrote a dynamic inventory provider for FreeBSD jails.“
- Divelog programs: subsurface, divecmd. Things I didn’t know existed, and they are ports.
- Also now in OpenBSD ports: spacetrader. My favorite game genre.
- Godeps support in pkgsrc.
- Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition, off to the publisher.
- MidnightBSD: an Introduction, available as a free ebook from Amazon.

2018/08/172018/08/10

ACPICA 20180810 update in DragonFly

Intel’s ACPICA 20180810 is now in DragonFly, thanks to Sascha Wildner. Nothing really user-affecting, but it does fix some memory leaks. You can tell it’s very new just by the version number.

2018/08/17

Not a BSD book reading, tonight

Michael W. Lucas is reading from his ‘git commit murder‘ book tonight at 7 PM, in Clawson, Michigan.

2018/08/16

BSDNow 259: Long Live UNIX

BSDNow 259 is out, and I happen to have just come off a 10-hour drive, so I will do nothing other than point you at the episode.

2018/08/162018/08/12

Interface groups now in DragonFly

Aaron LI has added interface group support in DragonFly, which is mostly to replace having to name individual interfaces in your pf config. There’s more work done than just that commit, incidentally, and he has a better explanation and writeup than my measly post.

2018/08/152018/08/10

HAMMER2: destroy-inum

If you have a mangled HAMMER2 disk, and you have inodes that are clearly mangled (the built-in CRCs don’t match), you can now remove them manually. This seems like Hole Hawg territory…

2018/08/142018/08/10

TRIM by default

The TRIM operation has been in DragonFly for some time, and it looks like most SSDs support it reliably, now – so it’s on by default.

2018/08/132018/08/09

GridGenerator on DragonFly

I have been meaning to post this for a while: gridgenerator.com, a painting web app, is running on DragonFly. I was told this on IRC and of course lost all details since then, but that’s fine – go draw something!

2018/08/122018/08/09

Lazy Reading for 2018/08/12

Nicely esoteric this week.

2018/08/112018/08/08

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/11

Overflow that I couldn’t catch up to before last weekend’s In Other BSD’s posting time. I try to always have these by 9 AM Eastern time Saturday. (Same for Lazy Reading on Sunday) I mentally imagine everyone sitting down with a drink and nothing else to do but click links, those mornings. At least, I hope that’s what it is.

Happening later today, at 2 PM Eastern: “OpenBSD ports: the basics” on twitch.tv.
Valuable News – 2018/08/04.
Jared McNeill has finished porting #NetBSD to ROCKPro64.
The third BSD Users Stockholm Meetup, September 5th. (via)
The Etsh Project. Enhanced Thompson Shell; an updated version of the V6 UNIX shell originally written by Ken Thompson in 1975. (via)
TrueOS test on ThinkPad T410 notebook.0
Implementing a clone of OpenBSD pledge into the Linux kernel. (video, via)
Where are the config for pkg_add and pgkin located?
Writing Business Cashflow. KPIs for your own business, which in this case is (partially) BSD books.
Speaking of which, Second Editions versus the Publishing Business.
OPNSense 18.7 released.
FreeBSD on ARM64. Hosted service, via.
Changes to NetBSD release support policy. (via)
Anyone use netbsd as a desktop, how is it?
looking for help with freebsd 11.2 install.
Ask Noah Show 77: Should You Ditch Linux for FreeBSD. (via)

2018/08/102018/08/09

Booting and i915, a reminder

A reminder: you need some loader.conf changes if you are booting with EFI/i915.

(Sort of a repost, but someone may need it.)

2018/08/092018/08/10

BSDNow 258: OS Foundations

BSDNow 258 showed up a bit early this week: Among the normal news articles about technology and BSD conventions are notes about how HardenedBSD is setting up their non-profit board. I like seeing that sort of governance documented as it’s happening; it’s the right way to inform people.

2018/08/08

More DRM updates

Francois Tigeot has been quietly updating DRM support in DragonFly, matching Linux kernel 4.7.10. I don’t think there’s any user-visible changes at this point, but I wanted to draw attention to the work.

2018/08/07

ed25519 support in pam_ssh

As part of a recent update to OpenPAM, you can now use ed25519 in pam_ssh. My perception is that ed25519 is one of the better options to pick.

2018/08/062018/08/04

Ravenports: Status update and the Dragonfly case

The eerielinux site has a followup on Ravenports, which digs into something I’ve covered a bit here: Ravenports is technically excellent and a better choice than dports in many ways – but Ravenports needs more ports. How many more? Probably not very many…

Speaking of which: Ravenports is kept vigorously up to date.

2018/08/052018/08/05

Lazy Reading for 2018/08/05

This is a straight dump of open browser tabs. You can tell what motivated me to set up the Mastodon account for the Digest this week, from some of the content.

Save RSS and Atom! The source link has mention of a number of resources.
The history of design systems at Clearleft.
Inside Out. View Source as an important tool.
The web’s transition from nomadism to feudalism.
Facebook killed the feed.
10 Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them. (via)
State Sponsored Trolling. (via)
The Cyberdeck: a homebrew, 3D printed cyberspace deck. (via)
Two-factor auth and SMS hijacking.
Amazon sells Bitcoins now! There’s two levels of joke in that link.
News for the tz database. (via)
DJ rig with two Amiga 1200 PCs. (via)
What OpenStreetMap can be. (via)
Commodore 64 SID replacement using a Teensy 3.6. (via)
A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future. I consciously avoid Sourceforge material now, it’s so toxic. (via)
Freeciv 2.6.0 released. And playable on the web. (via)
Friday Furnace.
A Mansion Filled With Hidden Worlds: When the Internet Was Young.
LambdaMoo. (via)
Life in System Administration.
Taskbook: Like Trello but for the Terminal. (via)

Your unrelated video of the week: LOCAL58 – Show for Children.

2018/08/042018/08/03

In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04

I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!

OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring and more, Ingo Schwarze on sed(1) bugfixing with Martijn van Duren, and about other small userland stuff.
Visualizing ZFS performance.
OSCON 2018. With Microsoft as a major participant; odd.
An Introduction to VerifiedExec in NetBSD. Video from 2012, but recently mentioned here.
Reflection on one-year usage of OpenBSD. (via)
Revamp of DiscoverBSD.com.
Howto: FEMP stack on Amazon EC2. (via)
ZFS Boot Environments at PBUG.
Valuable News – 2018/07/27.

2018/08/022018/08/02

BSDNow 257: Great NetBSD 8

BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.

2018/08/022018/07/31

The Digest, now on Mastodon @bsd.network

This is way overdue: I’m now posting Digest notes to bsd.network/@dragonflydigest, a BSD-specific Mastodon server.

It’s bothered me for a while that I’m autoposting Digest headlines to Twitter, which is useful for Twitter users but still supporting a walled garden. Mastodon is a better implementation of a similar idea, and bsd.network nicely groups all sorts of BSD people in one place. Right now I’m just posting the Digest headlines here into the Mastodon account there, but there’s added value from the additional BSD-specific conversation around it.

I haven’t (yet) found a way to translate the local timeline on bsd.network into a RSS feed, which would be super-handy…