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In Other BSDs for 2015/09/12

This was a quieter-than-normal week, probably because of the North American holiday at the start of it, but I found enough articles by the end.

 

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libc no longer in executable memory

John Marino is working on versioning libc, and as part of that process, libc is no longer loaded into executable memory.  Here is I think an explanation of lib versioning that may apply, and of course moving things that aren’t supposed to execute, out of executable memory areas, is good for security.  There’s more on that topic, too – W^X may be a similar example.

This is a complicated topic that I’m not part of, so suggest better descriptions in the comments, please.

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Lazy Reading for 2015/09/06

Somehow I managed to find mostly articles with long headlines this week.

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In Other BSDs for 2015/09/05

Will I need to add a NextBSD tag?  Time will tell.

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HAMMER2 root mounts and live dedup too

HAMMER2 recently gained the ability to be used as the root mount for your DragonFly system.  Live deduplication of data is also now possible, which means fast copy operations, less space used, and no need to wait for an overnight batch process to do it.  If you want to try it, you need a bleeding edge DragonFly system and the WANT_HAMMER2 option.  It’s still not ready for production use, so don’t try it with any data you want to keep.

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Lazy Reading for 2015/08/30

Historical platforms week, quite by accident.

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Jack Kirby would have been 98 today.

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In Other BSDs for 2015/08/29

Put together at the last minute.

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Static site generator recommendations

I’ve gradually been leaning towards two opinions:

1: Having the Digest load as fast as possible is a benefit for everyone, and

2: I want to get off the PHP/Wordpress vulnerability merry-go-round.

Does anyone have specific experience with static site generators?  Ideally there’s something out there as polished/unfiddly as WordPress, but I don’t know what.  The Digest started using the Movable Type product, and I’m tempted to return.

Update: People have been recommending Hugo, Pelican, and Jekyll.  It looks like comments would end up going into Disqus, which is an external not-under-my-control application.  There are other plugins for comments, but none of them as straightforward.  What are people’s thoughts on using an outside service?

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Many Hammer 1 updates, and credit

I don’t note it enough, but Tomohiro Kusumi has been making constant updates to HAMMER, the version we have now.  Often they are the sort of update that makes the code more readable, or fixes possible problems, and so on.  Very essential, but hard to post about it.  In any case, I’m using his recent improvements to hammer volume-del to note his contributions, of which there are much more than the day’s worth I link here.

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Lazy Reading for 2015/08/23

This is the week for entertainment, not deep thought.

 

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In Other BSDs for 2015/08/22

Some catchup here from stuff I missed last week: