Aaron LI has made a whole lot of POSIXy updates to timeout(1), of which I think these two are the most informational, but there’s a bunch more if you look at the month. I’m also linking to it cause I didn’t know timeout(1) existed; never used it.
I’ve mentioned it before, but custom live images are possible. Related: mkisofs(8) is no longer needed to build.
This is going to seem minor, but it’s been annoying for a zillion years, and now it’s fixed: mail(1) now reflows text properly after a screen resize.
If you use TrueCrypt / tcplay, dm-crypt, or /dev/crypto on DragonFly, Michael Neumann wants to know.
I don’t have a good link for the SDF item; their mailing list doesn’t appear to have a public archive, or I haven’t found it. SSH will get you there faster anyway.
- DragonFly: git: rtld – do not allow both dynamic DTV index and static TLS offset. Useful if p5-DBD-mysql is failing for you.
- inetd and daemons, a 4 part series.
- Moving my FreeBSD laptop to a Thinkpad X1 Carbon G6. Linked cause I just handled a newer X1 recently; might replace my ancient x220. More links in article.
- You can now play WUMPUS and OREGON TRAIL on the sigma-9 instance at sdf.org.
- Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments. (via)
- Next NYC*BUG: 2024-11-06 @ 17:45 EST “Life with a FreeBSD Laptop” by Brian Reynolds. RSVP if you are going, so you can get in the facility.
- What Are The Civilian Applications?
- Building a game with the Real Engine. A heck of a lot of work but the results will be unique. (via)
- revealing the fediverse’s gifts. (via)
- Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts.
- Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old.
- Broughlike.
Dan Cross is looking to set up a hardware time service on DragonFly. It worked out, and there’s a patch coming to support this.
A ‘first try’ document for DragonFly.
If you’ve had trouble with the touchpad on your laptop, this recent update may help. Note that the commit lists some config changes needed to take advantage of the new features.
iwm(4) on DragonFly has been updated, mostly with patches from the FreeBSD version of the network driver.
/proc/self/exe now exists on DragonFly. This is probably most useful if you are porting software.
The mini-theme this week is all DragonFly. There’s been some commits lately to well-known tools so I’m going to gather them here.
- A bugfix for FUSE led to it being re-enabled.
- However, FUSE was designed in Linux-specific ways, so it does not translate well to BSD.
- So, Matthew Dillon went to town.
- Also, interfaces now automatically get a loopback route. This means wg(4) (i.e. WireGuard) devices can ping themselves.
- vn(4) devices can now be detached.
- mount_cd9660(8) (ISO mounting) gained a number of features.
- And TeX Live 2024 for DragonFly is out.
- DragonflyBSD on Acer Nitro AN515-51/58-XXX Laptops. (via)
It took almost 3 decades, but it’s much harder to shoot yourself in the foot with ping now.
The Realtek E2600 – “Killer Ethernet Adapter” – is now supported in DragonFly. Or it’s an Intel product? I’m not sure.
Aaron LI’s written up a nice summary of what’s been added to support WireGuard on DragonFly and how to get started. You need to be on -master to use it, but if you want to read about it there’s always the man page.
There’s a huge amount of commits for this, but I’ll point at the first with FreeBSD code; one of several incorporating OpenBSD changes, and of course it rolls out to tools.
The DragonFly release process now includes an automatic build of supporting packages.
Aaron Li has committed different crypto implementations for support.
Of course the first thing I did was type the wrong year into the title of this post.
- OpenBSD printing and Avery labels.
- pkgsrc-2023Q4 out.
- Next NYC*BUG: Jan 10th.
- DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s.
- There’s a thread about disklabel on the TUHS list that went from interesting history to OpenFirmware discussion and then into the problem of bootstrapping/hardware monitors. Lots more I didn’t link. (iPhone-related)
- ‘Merchants of Complexity’: Why 37Signals Abandoned the Cloud. Recurring monthly payments for static goods are a goldmine – for the seller. (via)
- Critical mass in the Goldilocks zone. (via)
- Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD. I don’t agree with it but it is interesting.
- 2024 FreeBSD community survey. Closes tomorrow.
- Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate. I don’t know the products well enough to say this is the only analysis.
- Why My Short Fiction Is Exclusively In My Store. Counterintuitively, he’s charging less money but making more money.
- The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again. Read the article for the links inside it.