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2016/02/132016/02/12

In Other BSDs for 2016/02/13

Several book links this week.

Openbsd router, can it run on arm? (via)
Lumina Desktop Getting Ready for FreeBSD 11.0.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems” now available! Next two book titles are in there, too.
“FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS” Table of Contents.
Winter arrivals. (related to previous post)
Upcoming OpenBSD Security Router/Firewall/Load Balancer Release: Feature Requests Wanted (via)
Noob gonna install some BSD later today.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/02/08.
PC-BSD Devs Release Lumina Desktop 0.8.8 Environment […]
Kali Vs BSD
January #MissionComplete Best Story

Thing I should link more regularly: Garbage, a podcast that isn’t specifically about BSD but happens to cover it a lot. I linked to it when it was starting, but didn’t catch new episodes (fixed by finding the RSS feed). There’s been a bunch since then, so you have plenty of listening material now.

2016/02/12

A tip for Broadwell users

If you have a Broadwell system, the drm.i915.enable_execlists tunable added by Imre Vadász may keep your system stable. (thanks, zach on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2016/02/12

Anyone want to add some extattr functions?

It would help with Burp, which is being ported to a number of BSDs.

2016/02/11

BSDNow 128: The State of BSD

BSDNow 128 has an interview of Nick Wolff, the usual roundup of news items, and I’m sure something that matches the title of the episode, but I haven’t listened to it yet.

2016/02/10

Whole lotta reading

Rimvydas Jasinskas has consolidated/restored/updated a large number of papers into share/doc on DragonFly. I’m not going to link to his large number of commits, but instead point you at the directory where they all went. There’s a number of design documents in there that date back to 4.4BSD and beyond (and some much newer), which may interest or educate you. Of special note: The Guide to the Dungeons of Doom, for rogue, or the KAME IPv6 implementation notes.

2016/02/09

Debugging tips

If you’re building from dports, and you want to include debugging information, you’ll want to put ‘WITH_DEBUG=yes’ in /etc/make.conf. Note that this affects anything you build at that point, including world, which you’d want to rebuild anyway.

2016/02/08

Printing tips

These probably apply cross-BSD, but in this case, it’s DragonFly tips for printing with CUPS.

2016/02/072016/02/05

Lazy Reading for 2016/02/07

A bit nostalgic this week.

Pardon My French, But This Code Is C.R.A.P., parts one and two. (via)
dungeoncrawlers.org, a comprehensive list of exactly that. (via)
Showrunner: the Game. Scroll down about halfway. A roguelike!
Why so much Internet video is viral but no longer weird. For those who remember Portal of Evil or Stile Project or eBaum’s World, etc. (via)
Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest. (via)
The Malware Museum. (via)
Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous. (via)
Getting a Job After Coding Bootcamp. Good advice.
My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours. (via multiple places)
Digital Technology – Past and Present. (large PDF, via)
Shmoocon 2016 Videos. (via)
Old-School PC Fonts. (via)

Your unrelated video link of the week: Aircraft Crash Tests Composite Data Film. (via)

2016/02/062016/02/05

In Other BSDs for 2016/02/06

Lots and lots this week!

SCaLE 14x Recap.
On ZFS in Debian. BSD is still a better place for ZFS. (via)
Anyone using FreeBSD or another BSD in production? How do you like it?
NetBSD/amd64 7.0 on kvm. (via)
VIMAGE Coming Soon to FreeBSD.
Initial FreeBSD RISC-V Architecture Port Committed.
Has Anyone Tried to Put Dark Souls on BSD?
LibertyBSD 5.8 is out. (related)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/02/01.
FreeBSD TACACS+ GNS3 and Cisco 3700 Router.
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report – Fourth Quarter 2015.
OPNSense 16.1.1 and 16.1.2 out.
Fighting fraudulent networks using secure connections (SSL) with OPNsense.
Tor Browser 5.5 for OpenBSD.
Sponsorships for “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS”.
Sponsorships and Hot Water. Sponsor! It has a direct effect.
The Korn Shell anecdote. (via)

2016/02/05

Core2 Intel graphics users, take note

If you have a Core2 processor in a DragonFly system, it may not work with accelerated video. If that happens to you with this (admittedly old) processor, switch to VESA for now.

2016/02/05

BSDNow 127: DNS, Black Holes & Willem

Once again, I’m a bit late posting about BSDNow; blame my classes. BSDNow episode 127 is up, with Willem Toorop as the interview subject, talking about getdns, with a link to his vBSDCon presentation.

2016/02/04

NYCBUG yesterday: shell-fu

The slides from yesterday’s shell-fu presentation at NYCBUG have been posted.

2016/02/02

NYCBUG tomorrow: shell-fu

NYCBUG is having a presentation tomorrow, February 3rd, 18:45, Stone Creek Bar & Lounge at 140 E 27th St. in New York City. The presenter will be Isaac Levy and the title is “shell-fu”. .ike is an energetic speaker and it’s worth your time if you are near enough.

2016/02/012016/01/31

BSDTalk261 – Jails and System Management

BSDTalk 261 is up, and it’s a half-hour conversation with Kris Moore about jails, system management, and other I assume PC-BSD features.

2016/02/01

AsiaBSDCon 2016 registration open

AsiaBSDCon 2016 is happening in Tokyo, March 10-13. Registration for it opens today. The registration page isn’t up as I post this, but I assume very soon. (via)

2016/01/312016/01/29

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/31

I am proud of finding some of these links this week; they are not the usual “here’s what everyone else linked to” that you see.

Evolution of Ethernet Speeds: What’s New and What’s Next. I did not know about 2.5G/5G speeds over existing cat5. (via)
Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government” (via)
#screensaverjam.
Most off-putting introduction to a new technology.
Sanos PDP-11 Simulator with UNIX V7e. Boot SanOS which runs a PDP-11 simulator, which then runs UNIX v7. (via)
best idea ever
***** – Five star cron job. Will run again. (via)
The Amiga Graphics Archive. (via)
The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 Game, Part 1. (via)
The anatomy of an ssh session. (via)
Go 1.7 planning. I like peeking into other open source groups’ release planning.
The New Sound Of Music 1979 (Part 1) The fun part of computer history, and it talks about the Radiophonics Workshop! (via)
Your Development Environment is Probably an Eldritch Horror. (via)

Your unrelated graph link of the week: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015. (via)

2016/01/302016/01/29

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/30

Another week with plenty of links.

FreeBSD x64 OpenVPN AD authentication with crypt. (via)
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to. (via)
FreeBSD Virtual Machine: Installing VMware tools. A basic explanation for a frequent activity. (via)
“why attention to detail matters when you’re a kernel developer.”
Call for testing: Concurrent malloc(3) calls (to speed up firefox)
Writing Assembly on OpenBSD (x86) (via)
I’m going back to the future….
OpenFire Active Directory integration. (via)
Net ring-buffers are essential to an OS. (via) Check comments on the source link.
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot. From 2006 so may not be accurate. (via)
How has NetBSD changed since 2006? A followup on that previous link.
Interested in BSD ports or are we all wasting time here? (via)
Faces of FreeBSD 2016: Sean Bruno.
BSD at SCALE 14x. Goat sighting! They are looking for BSD talks for next year.
Doc like an Egyptian: Managing project documentation with Sphinx. Sphinx is used for documentation on several BSD projects. (via)
OPNsense 16.1 Released.
FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems now escaping.

2016/01/29

More on privatization

For those of you running DragonFly-current, the already-mentioned library privatization going on means that ports have to be rebuilt. You will want to do it yourself, or wait a little bit before upgrading if you want to install binaries.

2016/01/28

BSDNow 126: Illuminating the future on PC-BSD

BSDNow 126 has an interview with Ken Moore and Kris Moore of PC-BSD, along with the usual news roundup. There’s a DragonFly mention in the “open source work helps your career” news item that I did not know about but am happy to see.

2016/01/27

Privatization means rebuilds

That’s a pretty cryptic headline, isn’t it? John Marino has ‘privatized’ several libraries in DragonFly, so that they can’t get included involuntarily as part of a port build. That may mean you will need to perform a full rebuild of your system if you are tracking DragonFly-current.

(This is the way to fix ‘system’ languages like Perl was in FreeBSD 4.x – keep them clearly separate from the port version. It’s about a decade too late for that idea to work out, though.)