Justin Sherrill – Page 112 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Your unrelated link of the week: Bandcamp Daily. Curated daily presentations about a band or type of music, where the enthusiasm for any given esoteric sonic whatsit oozes through the writing and samples are there to back it up. Of course I would like it. Recent highlights from just the past few days: a history of doom metal; Kid Koala’s new album, and whatever this is.

2017/02/042017/02/02

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/04

Note the end this week of pc98, the most focused of niche platforms.

2017/02/03

Many vkernel changes

The vkernel(7) code has been going through a lot of changes, and instead of linking to the many smaller commits, I’ll point at Matthew Dillon’s latest change since it’s detailed. What’s the performance difference? I don’t know yet if this is for performance or for stability.

2017/02/02

BSDNow 179: The Wayland Machine

The title for BSDNow 179 is probably a takeoff on the same reference as archive.org. There’s some interesting notes about Wayland, of course, and POSIX, and also CyberChef which probably isn’t what you think from the name.

2017/01/312017/01/27

NYCBSD talk tomorrow night

Reminder: “OS : The underlying overhead of computation“is happening tomorrow night with NYCBSD. Go if you can.

2017/01/292017/01/27

KnoxBUG Pizza Pi installfest

There will be pizza pie, and Raspberry Pi, for installing BSD, at the next KnoxBUG meeting, tomorrow, for those near Tennessee.

Note that it was originally scheduled for Tuesday and had to be moved up a night because of a conflict – so your schedule has changed even if you were already planning to go.

2017/01/292017/01/27

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/29

Not as many reading links as usual this week, but lots of BSD news yesterday. It ebbs and it flows.

OpenSSH Keys: A Walkthrough (via)
Incompatible Timesharing System on Github! I always thought of it as Unix’s original competitor. (via)
Sleep Mode: The Art of the Screensaver
Editing wars at London Bridge Street. I don’t know why I enjoy syntax language discussion so much, but I do. (via)
Cheap Truth, an archive of Bruce Sterling’s sci-fi reviews from the last century. A good way to find yourself some new reading. (via)

Your unrelated comic of the week: “Your comment here“. Also “presentation“.

2017/01/282017/01/27

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/28

Done all at the last minute.

Courses 6 to 9 of DevOps with Chef and FreeBSD are out.
Ansible and pfSense. (via)
“OS : The underlying overhead of computation“, an upcoming talk at NYCBSD. Note that it’s on Feb 1, not March 1 as originally posted. I’ll post a reminder.
a2k17 hackathon reports: Martin Pieuchot, Kenneth Westerback, Bob Beck.
“Noob user – want to install a UNIX OS. Help a bit?“
Michael W. Lucas will be talking at Kansas LinuxFest 2017 – in May.
NetBSD Making Progress On LLDB Debugger Support (via)
“I want to jump in, but would love some hardware advice.“
OPNsense 16.7.14 released – last in the 16.* series, I think.
TrueNAS now has a (BSD) Cinder driver for OpenStack.
IPv6 on FreeBSD/EC2.
Improving TrueOS: OpenRC. (via)
“Where is your tech passion?” If you never complete the exercise, that tells you something too.

2017/01/27

Ricoh cameras, memory cards, and DragonFly

Apparently there’s a quirk to the way Ricoh cameras format memory cards that made them unreadable on DragonFly. They’re readable now. I link this not because I think it affects many people, but because it’s such a strangely specific problem.

2017/01/262017/01/27

BSDNow 178: Enjoy the Silence

This week’s BSDNow episode is all over the map this week, talking about Unix philosophy (that’s where the silence part comes in), tmux, and even Minecraft.

2017/01/24

Frequency tips

A note from Sepherosa Ziehau explains how you can check for Intel Turbo Boost effect on DragonFly, or at least see your current frequency if you’re using AMD.

2017/01/23

Vkernels: when to use them

The question of using vkernels(7) in a manner similar to jails pops up time and again, and the answer is, unsurprisingly, “it depends“. It looks like when you want to isolate greedy programs, vkernels are the way to go.

2017/01/222017/01/20

Lazy Reading for 2017/01/22

Thinkpieces, this week.

The Magic Arrow: A talk about the SIP2 protocol and the purpose of REST.
Testing LLVM
git apply --palimpsest=3 --rewind-sprocket
25 useful web developer tools. Not clickbait as you’d expect.
FAP80, A retro computer without the retro baggage. (via)
Modern propaganda is distraction, not argument. (PDF, via)
Ransomware takes a nasty turn
Lock-Free Bugs
Related: The compendium of database ransomware. A scientific approach to measuring a disaster.
“…the open source developer tools market is one of the worst markets one could possibly end up in…” RethinkDB post-mortem. (via)
Maintainers Don’t Scale. Applies to far more than the Linux kernel. (via)
Introduction to Precision Farming. I have seen this up close, so to speak, as there’s a company that does this around the corner from my workplace.

Your tea link of the week: Scary photo of an Indian tea plantation

2017/01/212017/01/20

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/21

Accidental theme this week: books.

11n support for athn(4) (via)
Relayd auction results
As a Nefarious Media Agent…
Sponsorships on “Httpd and Relayd Mastery” available
Understanding the modernization of the OpenBSD network stack, part 2: A story of if_get(9)
Thinking about switching from Linux to BSD for my everyday computer, and have a few questions.
Errata SECURITY FIX: January 5, 2017 (for LibreSSL)
FreeBSD UEFI Root on ZFS and Windows Dual Boot
Differences in pf between OpenBSD and FreeBSD?
BSDCan 2017 is in June – the Call for Papers is up, along with submission guidelines. (via)
OPNsense 17.1-RC1 released
pkgsrc-2016Q4 released
OpenBSD on Vultr. I’ve mentioned it being possible before, but this is an official announcement – it’s a supported platform. Spend your dollars there to encourage this. (thanks, Jeremiah Ford)
“Any good recent books?” You all know about these, right? I’ve mentioned them enough?

2017/01/19

BSDNow 177: Getting Pi in my Wifi

BSDNow’s episode of the week has a number of Raspberry Pi-specific items, plus a discussion of iocage which I was not familiar with.

2017/01/17

UEFI booting in installer

The DragonFly installer now supports UEFI directly. There’s a uefi(8) man page now, and there’s even rconfig support, though not enough people realize how awesome rconfig(8) can be.