A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
I’m finally cleaning out some things I never got to post when new: last October, the DragonFly installer gained the ability to ask for terminal type, when used over a serial cable. Thanks to Diederik de Groot for that one.
(A rare combination… but when you need it, you won’t have an alternative.)
The binary package repository for DragonFly-current has been updated with the latest build of all packages, thanks to tuxillo and others on EFNet #dragonflybsd doing a lot of work.
Tuxillo noted: there’s new rust, thunderbird, firefox, nginx, several llvm versions, and a new chrome (version 72). freerdp is temporarily broken; use remmina with the rdp plugin instead. openvpn isn’t upgraded yet cause the build was with libressl, which is a broken combination – it’ll all be built with openssl in a future run.
Another good mix of deep dives / unique links this week. Enjoy!
Final link of the week: The story that was made for me: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL.
If these aren’t enough links, some of them are links to more links.
A little thing: Matthew Dillon has made changes to vm_page_list_find2() which should improve performance in low-memory situations, though how much I don’t know. Mentioning it, cause every little bit helps – for knowledge and speed.
This week’s BSD Now covers a range of topics that could match what I have in my weekend posts.
If you missed the qmail presentation from last night’s NYCBUG meeting, the slides are available now, and video will be coming soon. (I’ll link to it if I know about it.)
As mentioned last week, there’s a new build of dports for 5.4, now available. No surprise, but a reminder to keep third-party software up to date is never wasted.
NYCBUG’s having a meeting tomorrow night, with Amitai Schleier presenting on qmail. Go, if you are near, or at least read Amitai’s speaker bio.
Because someone decided years and years ago that the CAM structures should be passed through to userland, smartctl, camcontrol, cdrecord, and some other tools will be broken in DragonFly-master for a few days. If you are on -stable (5.4) this won’t affect you.
I’m going to break out the roguelike tag again even if it isn’t a perfect fit.
I didn’t even realize Summer of Code was upon us again.
Sepherosa Ziehau’s improvements to re(4), bringing it to Realtek’s 1.95 release, have been committed.
(Does Realtek have a public repo for this? A few minutes of Googling did not turn one up for me.)
This week’s BSD Now talks about a number of NetBSD things including rc.d as you might guess, and covers Project Trident. Listen/read in if you are unfamiliar.
Thanks to tuxillo and others, there’s a new build of dports on the way for DragonFly 5.4 that includes packages that weren’t building before – mongodb, kodi, mysql80, and I imagine more that I don’t know about. If the synth build is still running when you read this, you can look at its status page. If it isn’t running, the packages are of course in the normal place and you can use ‘pkg upgrade’ to get them.
Yay, got to use the roguelike tag!
grep with /dev/null, an old Unix trick. Muscle memory.Built entirely from open tabs.
This week’s BSD Now, the satisfyingly-numbered 286, covers a number of topics – including 2 things I have always been entertained by: small X tools and Windowmaker.
Tobias Florek had a soft model made of Fred, the DragonFly mascot, years ago. He is moving and found a few unsold units. If you are in Europe (for shipping), and are interested in them, contact Tobias at dragonfly@ibotty.net.
If you don’t remember them: here’s the pictures.
