If you are using a DragonFly system with accelerated video, and you have noticed that you can’t return to a text console after exiting xorg – Sascha Wildner/Imre Vadasz have a branch for you to try. Please do so if you have time and are on master; this is the last big item to fix before the next release.
This week’s BSDNow has an interview with Matthew Holt about MidnightBSD, along with some new-to-me interesting items like Zocker and the testimony of yet another person interested in BSD because of systemd.
That’s Non Uniform Memory Architecture, and John Baldwin is talking about how it works on FreeBSD, tonight/now, in New York City for NYCBUG. There’s several more events this month with NYCBUG, so look at the announcement for tonight’s location and more dates.
You can now get temperature readings from your Radeon card under DragonFly.
If you’re using nginx on DragonFly, version 1.9.1 has specific DragonFly speedup options built in.
Emulation is this week’s accidental topic.
- MAME and the New Emulation Reality. (via)
- A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open. (via)
- Venture capital vs. community capital. An interesting view of history. (via)
- Introduction to Keyboard Programming. (via)
- #define __ENABEL_EPSPERAMENTLE_TAPDOLE_ORATORS (comment from this article.)
- Apple][ in Javascript. Also, Apple][ in Javascript. Two different presentation styles, both fun. (both via)
- Math Blaster Copy Protection. (via)
- Rogue in Space.
- Einstein, a NewtonOS emulator. (via)
- SSH client suggestions.
- Radio hams do battle with ‘Russian Woodpecker’ (1982). There’s a lot of analog ghosts out there. (via)
- An incomplete list of words that are now startups. (via)
- “If something isn’t on the web … I find it hard to get excited about it.” (also via)
- The SIGCIS Workshop 2015 call for papers is out.
Your comics link of the week: Behold! The Dinosaurs!
A short but more interesting list this week, I think.
- ZFS Mastery is out in print and electronic versions.
- BSD management with Puppet.
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/25.
- Dell Networking OS 9 powered by NetBSD.
- Lumina Desktop Status Update/FAQ.
- PC-BSD 10.1.2: an Interview with Kris Moore.
- A FreeBSD Foundation visit to the (a?) NYI datacenter.
- “Patrol Read” support in OpenBSD.
- syslog-ng and ELK on OpenBSD.
- Yay for compatibility!
- The Linuxulator on FreeBSD now does 1:1 threads and x86_64.
- See this “Low Cost 10G Router” post on NANOG? Follow the very long thread, and you’ll notice a reoccurring theme: set up a BSD machine.
- Bitrig at NYCBUG on 2015/05/06, video.
Your Not BSD link of the week: Never fix anything.
Hammer 2 now uses LZ4 compression by default. It also uses a new CRC algorithm that performs much better, and there’s numbers to prove it. It helps iSCSI too. When I say new, it appears to be from the 1980s? I may be looking at the wrong place.
There’s a new ‘ifconsole’ option for /etc/ttys on DragonFly that may help you if your serial output device is a bit strange.
I always try to guess the interview topic from the episode title, but I wasn’t able to predict the several mini-interviews in this week’s BSDNow episode.
Matthew Dillon has been doing a lot of Hammer 2 work lately. Well, he’s been doing it for quite some time, but the recent commits contain the sort of things that are easier to link to, like deletion speedups, freemap changes, and stats tracking/compression results.
If you were running a version of DragonFly 4.1 (i.e. the master version, not release) built between the 20th and 25th, rebuild. There’s a UFS bug introduced in that short timeframe.
If you are running 4.0.x release or built your version of DragonFly-master outside of that date range – you are unaffected.
I guess the accidental theme this week is Unix.
- The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid. From 1981, which says something. (via)
- Terminal: Beyond Ctrl + A and Ctrl + E. Linked because I needed to know what the nondestructive version of Ctrl-U was. (Ctrl-A)
- Tools don’t solve the web’s problems, they ARE the problem. I’ve been considering a static generator for this site, for similar reasons. (via)
- How to name things: the hardest problem in programming. A dry topic talked about in a very human way. (via)
- Floppy Drive Organ.
- Cold Weather, Gogol And The Rise Of The Russian Samovar. I don’t need one, but I’ve always thought samovars are interesting.
- Unix Shells: Bash, Fish, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh. (via)
- When Poll is Better than Interrupt. (PDF, via EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution (via)
- Backblaze hard drive stats for 2015Q1. (via)
- Crystals and computer viruses. (via)
- Inadvertent collection.
- Bash history format.
- Vim Tips For Intermediate Users. (via)
- Why isn’t our fax working? (Hint: a power issue.) (via)
- The Problem with the Roguelike Metagame. (via)
Your unrelated link of the week: svblm. Found via a link to Infinideer and Forest Ambassador.
A calmer week, probably because of the U.S. holiday.
- FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is out (eBook format).
- DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/18.
- PC-BSD 10.1.2 is out. (Update: hotfix)
- freebsd-wifi-build (via)
- bhyve on Pluribus, a platform I’m unfamiliar with. (via)
- pkgSrcCon is happening July 4-5 in Berlin.
- I like cross-pollination.
- Diagnosing softraid failures on OpenBSD.
- OpenBSD now has ntpd on by default.
- OpenSMTPD vs. Logjam.
- spamd/pf rule changes.
- Various OpenBSD remote update methods.
- FreeNAS status report.
- iXSystems is gaining a dev blog.
A recent commit from Matthew Dillon means users of Intel Haswell or later CPUs will see reduced power usage, if I’m reading this commit correctly.
This week’s BSDNow episode talks with Jed Reynolds about ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD, and includes other news bits including about DragonFly’s swap encryption, OpenBSD defaulting to having openntpd on by default, and plenty more.
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.