Say hello to the newest DragonFly committer: Tomohiro Kusumi. He’s been contributing Hammer patches for some time and appearing on IRC, so it’s easier to just let him make changes directly. Welcome, Tomohiro.
BSDNow 076 interviews Henning Brauer about his work on OpenNTPD, which has recently been converted to a portable version, similar to OpenSSH. (Why? Amplification.) There’s also the normal array of other BSD stories, including DragonFly, yay!
It’s now possible to build world and kernel on DragonFly using gcc 5, and Matthew Dillon has posted an announcement that describes how. He also separately lists the (small considering the included C++) effect on build time.
Note that gcc 4.7 remains the default compiler.
If you’re in/near New York City, NYCBUG has a meeting tonight with Issac (.ike) Levy presenting “Life with an OpenBSD Laptop“.
John Marino has removed gcc 4.4 in DragonFly, and replaced it with gcc 5.0. Two things to note: gcc 5 does not yet successfully build world, and DragonFly is an officially supported platform for gcc with this release.
If you have a em(4)/emx(4) card, AKA ‘Intel(R) PRO/1000’, Michael Neumann has an update for you. It’s from Intel’s 7.2.4 release of the code. This is to support the new I218 cards. Initial reports are positive.
I’m… not sure what happened this week. I read the same amount of material, went through my RSS feeds, and this is the only stuff that looked linkable. Sorry!
- This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculous. (via)
- Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix. (via)
- .bashrc generator. (via)
- The next Internet is TV. (via)
- Robot Supercut. Kinda clickbaity, but I like the footage. (via)
- GnuPG needed funding, got funding. (via)
This week is relatively quiet.
- Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7. (via)
- OpenBSD networking on Macbook Pro?
- PC-BSD 10.1.1 is out.
- Is there any RNDIS support in any BSD?
- Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
- Stuck between OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD (mostly Web and File Server)
- devctl, a new device control utility in FreeBSD.
- FreeBSD has gained a VCHI driver for the Broadcom “VideoCore IV GPU”.
- Things you can remove from FreeBSD.
- PC-BSD gains ‘personacrypt’, for encryption of home directories.
- OpenBSD gained iwm(4), for Intel 7260 wifi.
BSDNow 075 has an interview with Ed Maste about what the FreeBSD Foundation has been up to, and I’m guessing from the “Part 1” in the title there’s going to be more information in a subsequent show. There’s also a roundup of various BSD news items — more than usual, I think.
Matthew Dillon brought in some wireless networking updates – the ath(4), iwn(4), and wpi(4) drivers are updated. There’s porting notes if you need them, too. In related news, rum(4) is also improved. The updates apparently benefited DragonFly and FreeBSD at the same time.
Francois Tigeot has updated the i915 drivers in DragonFly (remember the call for testing) to match what’s in Linux 3.10, which means you should get excellent accelerated video performance on most any recent Intel video chipset, on DragonFly.
There’s two important numbers in this new, nearly-an-hour-long BSDTalk: Half a million billion, which are the number of people using FreeBSD via WhatsApp, and 250, which is the number of BSDTalk episodes so far. That’s a great milestone for BSDTalk. Oh, and the recording is from MeetBSD 2014, with Rick Reed talking.
Happy Groundhog Day!
- Early Copy Protection on the Apple ][. (via)
- If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It. I’ve linked to other stories on these computers before. (via)
- Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s job.
- A homebuilt MOS 6502 based microcomputer system. For those of you who thought the Hemingwrite link was interesting last week. Plus, is the 6502 the best chip ever for homebuilding? It sure crops up a lot. (via)
- The Untold Story Of The Invention Of The Game Cartridge. (via)
- “Pretty much everything AOL touches dies.” I link to it because I once worked for Time Warner.
- “Networking for Systems Administrators” is now available on Kindle.
- Long Live Grim Fandango. (via)
- The Queen of Code. (via)
- The Media Archaeology Lab. (via)
- Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk. I agree that there’s less tools available these days. (via)
- Do you like capacitors?
- tectur.io. Startup “inspiration”. (via)
Your unrelated video link of the week: The showreel of Nick Denboer, AKA Smearballs. (also via)
I’m not sure how I ended up with so much BSD material this week, but hey, we all benefit!
- A user’s experience with OpenBSD as a desktop. (via)
- FreeBSD Jail Management Tools.
- nanoBSD for servers – part 1. (via)
- Sonicwall to pfSense?
- My first OpenBSD port. (via)
- Two new LibreSSL shirts, with cash going back to the project.
- What did Sony do to make FreeBSD awesome graphics wise with Playstation 4?
- pkgng and manual steps.
- long term support considered harmful
- The practical result of OpenBSD’s support policy. Rebuttal to previous link. (via)
- PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC2 now available.
- OpenBSD popularity vs Linux when talking about servers security (via)
- Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split. (via)
- pfSense-2.2-RELEASE now available! I’ll be upgrading systems to that at work this weekend…
- SECURITY : OPENBSD VS FREEBSD. (via)
- Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD.
- Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015 and OpenBSD, a review.
- Initial Zynq (Xilinx) support in NetBSD.
- glass tty fonts in NetBSD, mentioned here, seen here.
- portable cwm 5.6 is out.
- Assistance for the “too much RAM” delay problem.
- Slides for “OpenBSD: Redundant & Transparent Firewalls” (thanks Siju)
- A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users. (via)
Your extended read: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, from the NANOG operators list. Follow the thread. It’s theoretically about Linux, but people name BSD solutions all through it. Hmm…
Here’s a number of DragonFly links to clear out my backlog:
- Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSH in DragonFly to version 6.7.
- He updated file, too.
- Bill Yuan’s ipfw branch has been updated.
- Matthew Dillon’s been making more Hammer2 commits; check the TODO for status.
- Michael Neumann has Rust working on DragonFly.
- Filesystem encryption on Hammer.
Episode 74 of BSDNow is up, with some interesting stories of Linux users switching to BSD, and an interview of Andrew Tanenbaum of MINIX fame.
If you have very recent alc(4) hardware, it may be supported now. If you are booting over NFS, it may be faster now. These changes are unrelated other than both being recent – NFS is improved for any chipset.
powerd now can be adjusted on DragonFly, for quicker returns to high CPU frequencies, or slower … slowdowns? It’s quickly quick or slowly slow. That’s not the best explanation, but I like rhymes. For a less stupid description, look at the man page, which now includes usage examples.
Francois Tigeot has updated the drm/i915 code again, matching Linux 3.10 for feature level… but it’s a big update. If you are
- Running DragonFly-master
- Using a i915 chipset
- (optional) On a chipset that is not Haswell or Ivy Bridge
… He could use your testing and feedback.