Hammer will perform daily housekeeping tasks each night. If you’re up late enough, it may kick off while you are working. If you want to stop the process after it’s already started (since it’s disk-intensive), John Marino has added the ‘abort-cleanup‘ command.
Experimental automatic crypting of swap is now available in DragonFly-master. Recently added, though it may have been possible another way.
Get clicking!
- The Rise and Fall of Japan’s PC-98. I always wondered what PC-98 was. (pdf, via)
- Beyond the PDP-11: Processor support for a memory-safe C abstract machine. Written this year, despite the title. (pdf, via)
- Gonix – Unix tools written in Go. (via)
- Without Systemd (via several places)
- Your cyberpunk games are dangerous.
- Web Mandlebrot. (via)
- Which SSD should you buy?
- A Tmux crash course: tips and tweaks. Different from the last tmux crash course I posted. (via)
- Drinking Myself To Permadeath In Brogue.
- Eventually everyone hates computers. (via)
- wego, command-line based weather report – with ASCII graphics!
- The programming talent myth. (via)
- A Tiny Orchestra in the Living Room. I like the graphics. Also, I am nostalgic for the smell of audio equipment. (via)
- On the Taxonomy of Spaceships. (via)
Your unrelated comic link of the week: Finished page at the Toronto Comic Jam. I missed TCAF this year, dangit. It is awesome. (via)
This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week. I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here.
- Royal activity affecting your open source files.
- Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve.
- Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD. I’d be worried about keeping partially bad RAM in place, but this is probably being used on a larger scale.
- 25 year old col bug, fixed.
- The start of NUMA support in FreeBSD.
- Alpine POC and Routerboard support in FreeBSD.
- FreeBSD now supports more than 8 audio channels.
- NetBSD is starting to gain EdgeRouter support.
- NetBSD gains in-kernel splash screen support.
- Openresolv 3.7 is in both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
- EU study recommends OpenBSD. (Thanks, PCTF)
- Now, sshd in OpenBSD defaults to ‘PermitRootLogin=no‘ (like in DragonFly!)
- Device Developer’s Conference, happening in the UK over the next month or so. (via openbsd-misc)
- OpenBSD has released, shipped, and there’s some discs with errors being replaced, though there’s a workaround.
- From 0 to an OpenBSD install, with no hands and a custom disk layout. (via)
- Livingston County, Michigan has a BSD user group starting up.
- PC-BSD 10.2.1-RC1 comments.
- BSDCon Brazil 2015 has a call for papers out.
- New to BSD, Questions about Firewall configuration.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/11.
- A week of pkgsrc #10.
- PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENTMAY2015 images now available
- Yes, You Can Virtualize FreeNAS
- pfSense is now available as a “VMware Ready Virtual Firewall Appliance“.
- Michael W. Lucas’s Tarsnap talk is online.
- As is the cover to his upcoming FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.
- BSDTalk 253 has 30 minutes of conversation with George Neville-Neil about “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System”, 2nd edition.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where the DragonFly website is hosted, is temporarily down while a disk is replaced. Images and binary packages are still available.
This week’s BSDNow episode talks with Mike Larkin about memory protection in OpenBSD, along with the normal news summary.
This may not be a huge surprise, but the Minnowboard MAX can run DragonFly just fine, modulo some dmesg complaints.
Sepherosa Ziehau has introduced a new sysctl:
net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_creation_failure
Set this to zero and you won’t get endless ARP events from networks you aren’t on. For example, I’m hooked up to a cable modem. I only get a public routable IP address, but the network used for the cable modem network itself bleeds ARP packets out where my DragonFly machine can see it. Since it’s on a different network segment than the address I receive through DHCP, it always fails and the system logs it. For example:
May 11 05:20:52 www kernel: arplookup 100.68.112.145 failed: host is not on local network
I can’t do much about it since that layer 2 leakiness is going to happen, but I can shut it up with this sysctl – and thank goodness, cause I’ve been seeing these messages since first using a DOCSIS modem in… 2001 or so?
Accidentally very roguelike this week.
- It’s ALWAYS DNS!
- scroll, a console game that is also a pager. (via)
- Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust (PDF, via)
- Yet another Dwarf Fortress story.
- Rogue’s Item ID in Too Much Yet Not Enough Detail. Mentions the 1st Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide Appendix N, which despite having that book for most of my life, I hadn’t noticed. Time to read!
- And I accidentally found that tor.com has already gone through these books and written about them.
- One of the least well-known books on that Appendix N list is The Face In The Frost. Possibly my favorite book ever; look for it.
- Hipsterhammer, Warhammer 40k musings. I haven’t played a minatures game in years. Blame computers. (All three links via)
- The theme continues: phantasia(8), a Tolkien-influenced game I didn’t even realize came preinstalled on DragonFly and probably most other BSDs.
- 90’s electronics in animated GIF form. (via)
- Prochronisms. (via)
- FPS Toilet Museum. I love that the Internet can still enable single-minded things like this. (via)
- git push –force (linked for the image)
- 5 Unusual Unix Commands for Cinco De Mayo
- My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Two
- PathPicker – dump output containing filepaths into it, get a file selection dialog. It’s a command line utility. (via)
Whee!
- A week of pkgsrc #9.
- WordPress versus FreeBSD.
- OpenBSD now has disklabel templates.
- Application management made easy. (PC-BSD video, via)
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/04.
Francois Tigeot has committed his Broadwell work, which has a longer-than-I-realized list of benefits. Does anyone have a 4k screen to try?
BSDNow 088 has an interview of Ed Schouten about FreeBSD, and all the normal roundups. Also “DragonFlyBSD has officially won the race to get an Intel Broadwell graphics driver”.
Maybe I need to start doing In Other BSDs posts on Wednesdays, cause BSDNow often has the links I’m already saving for the weekend.
John Vernaleo is giving a talk for NYCBug about Bitrig, tonight at 6:45 in New York City. See the announcement for details on location and etc.
Jesse Wattenbarger wrote in with his success story of switching to DragonFly, both for server and desktop. Of note is his noticeable speedup with swapcache.
If you’re running DragonFly-master and you have an Intel video chipset, Francois Tigeot has an update for you. It brings accelerated Intel video up to match the Linux 3.14 version, adds Broadwell chipset support, and should generally improve performance. He lists how to test right in the message.
I started sparse because this was a busy week, but I’ve still got a pretty good amount of reading for you.
- Comparing code layout. Not the code, but the visual arrangement. This could certainly be explored further.
- Schemaverse, a space strategy game implemented entirely within PostgreSQL. (via)
- The Cray 2 Computer System. (pdf, via)
- How to Operate the Apple II Plus. (via)
- “Analog“. (via)
- noTCP. (via)
- My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part One
- distribution, for ASCII histograms. I can think of many times this would have been useful.
- Disinformation Visualisation: How to Lie with Datavis. (via)
- How to pronounce hexadecimal. Not the word itself, but the numbers derived. Don’t actually do this. (via)
- Penrose binning. (via)
- Also, Go by Example. Linked because I like the description for it at the source.
- The Words the Media Industry Prefers. The narrative made me laugh. (via)
I’ve already mentioned the Hammer2/OpenBSD Summer of Code project (one of several), but here’s more:
- The April issue of BSD Magazine is out.
- OpenBSD on an iBook G4
- Midnight BSD 0.6 is out.
- OpenBSD 5.7 is out.
- Lumina Desktop 0.8.4 is out.
- PC-BSD 10.1.2 RC1 is out.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/27.
- FreeBSD project report for 2015Q1.
- Hacking “/ on ZFS” and GELI Encrypted Drives, the Old-School Way
- Michael W. Lucas is giving a “Tarsnap talk” at mug.org on May 12 to match his book.
- vBSDCon is happening September 11-13 in Reston, VA.
(No mailing list links this week; I’m way behind in my reading because of work. Sorry!)
DragonFly committer Joris Giovannangeli has a Google Summer of Code project. He’s bringing Hammer2 to OpenBSD, in single-node form. It’s a very difficult project, but Joris is a very talented worker.
BSDNow 087 has an interview with Christos Zoulas, about NetBSD and blacklistd, along with the usual collection of news stories that I’m trying not to peek at because I’m behind on my usual reading and I want to get my own collection together for Saturday’s In Other BSDs.