BSDNow 134 is out, with a news roundup and an interview of Mark Felder, talking about FreeBSD ports.
(Which may extend to DragonFly, indirectly, through dports; I haven’t listened yet.)
If you have a Radeon video card in your DragonFly system, and are running bleeding-edge, there’s an update for you. This is a partial sync with Radeon code for Linux 3.18, with no additional notes in the commit but you can always check elsewhere.
unzip has been added to DragonFly, making it present in every BSD but I think OpenBSD.
Imre Vadasz has added the ability to create a UEFI bootloader in DragonFly. Can you use it? I don’t know; I haven’t tried it yet and I can’t tell from the commit.
John Marino has added the starting framework to use clang as the alternate base compiler in DragonFly. Note that it’s not hooked into the build yet. This is the first non-GCC compiler added into DragonFly, so there’s some work yet before you can have an all-clang system. This should replace GCC 4.7, which is the current alternate compiler. GCC 5.0 is the default, if you didn’t know.
Note that clang is present in dports, so it’s already been available for general use, for some time. This framework is for building DragonFly itself.
I’m sort of proud of how wide a range of topics are covered this week.
- Domain Name Scams Are Alive And Well, Thank You. I’ve been seeing that scam since… 2007? Less disruptive than wire transfer spearphishing, which appears more common, recently.
- Frameworks don’t make much sense.
- The 7drl (7-day roguelike) Challenge just completed. (via)
- Universal Install Script.
- What was system administration like in the 1990s and earlier?
- EigenCoder: Programming Stereotypes. Beards vs. programming language. Really! (via)
- X11fs – X window virtual filesystem. (via)
- Let’s Read the AD&D 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual. Exactly what it sounds like. Fun and/or nostalgic. (via)
- Why Compatibility And Support Don’t Justify $1000 Optics. (via)
- glittering.blue. The source link has how it was constructed, and its life through reposting.
- Exhibit: The Entropy Archives. The “public randomness beacon” from NIST. (via)
- The Deep History of Your Apps. A good history of the Alto, NeXTSTEP, and so on up to the modern app store. (via)
This time, this was all last-minute.
- FreeBSD Full Disk Encryption, with an External Boot Drive, GELI, and UFS. (via)
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) on FreeBSD – Part 3. (via)
- There’s a new 10G pfSense appliance.
- The pkgsrc-2016Q1 freeze has started.
- Linux: turning into Windows. (via)
- A Bigger FreeNAS Mini?
- The Myth of Effective Storage Capacity
- AsiaBSDCon 2016 Recap (from iXSystems)
- AsiaBSDCon OpenBSD papers
- First review of “FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems”
- FreeBSD and pam_listfile
- Sponsoring “PAM Mastery”
- IPv6 errata for 5.7/5.8, pledge errata for 5.9 (OpenBSD)
- Call For Artists: New Icon Theme (for Lumina)
- OPNsense 16.1.7 released
- PlayOnBSD (run Windows software)
- Introducing a New Website and Logo for the Foundation. (FreeBSD)
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DiscoverBSD for 2016/03/14.
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OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update. PDF (via)
Garbage 18 is out, and talks about the hardware in the title – and also goes into tethering between Android and OpenBSD, which I am sure someone will find immediately useful.
If you somehow have a device with multiple SD/MMC card slots, you can now access all of them under DragonFly. (Apparently done to make a tablet run DragonFly better, going by IRC conversation)
BSDNow 133 is a recap of everything seen and done at the just-concluded AsiaBSDCon 2016. In addition, there’s a conversation with Brad Davis about packaging FreeBSD’s base system. (there’s been talks about this before.)
(I know AsiaBSDCon 2016 was streamed; was the video made available?)
If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau has made some networking changes that both reduce CPU usage in high-traffic situations and change some underlying network structures. This means a full buildworld is needed on your next update.
If you’re using DragonFly 4.4.x or older, you are unaffected.
I’m actually a few days late pointing at this, as it came out a few days ago. Anyway, the most-recent-at-this-point Garbage podcast is out, talking about VAX going away, and ends with a good note about donations, and how just giving your pocket change helps.
If you’re somewhere around Michigan tomorrow around 7 PM, Michael W. Lucas is presenting at the SEMIBUG meeting, on FreeBSD filesystems. See the group site for location.
I had too many links for this as early as Tuesday.
- A perspective on the state of the SSLiverse as of early 2016. (via the author on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- In defense of Unix. (via)
- The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science. (via)
- SIGGRAPH 2016 – Computer Animation Festival Submissions. (via)
- An interactive and audio history of interactive fiction. This can eat some hours. (via)
- A Configuration Management Rosetta Stone. 1 program, 4 systems. (via)
- An explanation of database indexes. Using PostgreSQL, but probably near-universal. (also via)
- I knew but I didn’t really know there were so many named maneuvers in chess, and here’s a whole lot of visualization of them. (via)
- Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors: “you take it for granted that someone, somewhere is breaking everything he possibly can” (via)
- Announcing SQL Server on Linux. It was this, or losing relevancy within 5 years. (via)
- A Robot That Has Fun at Telemarketers’ Expense. Similar to Lenny. (via)
- Is group chat making you sweat? A good point on attention as a limited resource. (via)
- @Play 84: The Rescue of Meta-Zelda. Randomized Roguelike Legend of Zelda is a somewhat crazy, exciting concept to me.
- There’s a third game in the Infinite Space series out – Sea of Stars. The first game is one of the best space-theme roguelikes out there.
Your unrelated video link of the week: Rotoscoped Horse. Taken from the old Muybridge photos. (via)
Has anyone been watching the AsiaBSDCon video? I have not been awake/unbusy at the right times.
- Installing Qemu on FreeBSD 10. (via)
- To SLOG or not to SLOG: How to best configure your ZFS Intent Log.
- *BSD Developers Have a New Hosting Option with RootBSD. (via)
- Proactive Security & (re)discovering OpenBSD. (via)
- Bitcoin Devs Could Learn a Lot from BSD.
- “Will lack of an easy to deploy container service like Docker push BSD distributions into irrelevance?” Lack of knowledge or trolling, can’t tell.
- DiscoverBSD for 2016/03/07.
- New Video Tutorial on the Pipelight Plugin and Netflix in PC-BSD.
- OPNsense 16.1.6 released
- OpenBSD 5.9 songs released.
- “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” in tech review. If you sponsored, you’d have it already. Michael W. Lucas has a new crime fiction book out, too.
- Xeon Developer Workstation. iXSystems builds BSD workstations, too.
- The VAX platform is no more, for OpenBSD. Aww.
- Building a Distributed Hypervisor on FreeBSD. (via)
If you find yourself using gpt and disklabel64 for a new disk, and aren’t quite sure what order to type everything in to create a disk slice, why not crib from Tim Darby’s notes? (note that the archive has added some line breaks to it.)
BSDNow 132 is up, titled “Scaling up with BSD“, with an interview of host Allan Jude about ScaleEngine, plus a bunch of news links. There isn’t the usual longer writing because they are currently at AsiaBSDCon, and I saw that there are streaming links for the events there. Look at the schedule, watch, and I hope there’s saved video too.
The ‘hammer show’ command can be used to dump the B-Tree structure of a Hammer volume, and CRC errors can be spotted. It’s rare that anyone would need it, but if you do, this dumped information will include file hierarchy information.
If that makes you a bit nervous to repost any of that information when talking about it in public, Tomohiro Kusumi has added an ‘obfuscate’ option to ‘hammer show’ that does just that – it hides path information from the debug output.
Sepherosa Ziehau has continued his quest of making large-scale data transmission on DragonFly effortless; his latest change has cut the kqueue contention rate by two-thirds when dealing with a connection rate of nearly 400,000 connections per second. Note that’s number of connections, without even tracking the bandwidth used by each.
John Marino rearranged how GCC5 handles CPUTYPE settings. If you are specifically setting the target CPU when compiling, his commit will give you an exact list of what to target.
Note that I am not saying another architecture – this is all x86_64. I also don’t recommend doing this unless you have a specific use for it – compiler overoptimizations often create more problems than they fix.