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2009/11/192009/11/20

More links again

I like linkblogging, especially because there’s been a lot of good stuff floating about:

Matthew Dillon detailed some of the problems he had using hardlinks to create backups – problems Hammer solves.
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell: pretty good, though it says Unix “influenced” Linux and FreeBSD. Influenced is right for Linux, but there’s parts of the different BSDs that are from UNIX directly.
From O’Reilly: The War for the Web. The walled garden that failed in the long run for Compuserve and AOL and so on is being resurrected. (via)
Along the same lines: The Death of the URL.

2009/11/19

Accessing Hammer config via NFS

Thomas Nikolajsen came up with some ideas for making the configuration files for a given Hammer volume accessible, even when that volume is being presented over NFS. He’s looking for more ideas.

2009/11/162009/11/16

Default SSH change

SSH, on DragonFly, now defaults to allowing root logins, but does not allow plaintext password logins. This is on new installs only, so any existing installations won’t be affected, even after upgrades. Plaintext passwords are under constant brute-force attack for some years now, so this is probably safer.

2009/11/152009/11/14

Notes on unprivileged building

YONETANI Tomokazu wrote up a nice bit of explanation about compiling src and pkgsrc as non-root. He even explicitly names some useful variables to set.

2009/11/152009/11/14

Progress with clang

Several people have been working on having DragonFly compile with clang. Alex Hornung’s updated the clang page on the DragonFly site for details; if this interests you, a conversation on EFNet #dragonflybsd may be in order.

2009/11/14

pkgin, in

Sascha Wildner has added pkgin to the base DragonFly system. It’s still present as a pkgsrc package, so it’s manageable and upgradeable with the normal pkg_* tools. See prior discussion here for the history.

2009/11/14

More less

Did I already make that joke? Oh well. less has been updated to version 4.3.6 from a patch by Jan Lentfer.

2009/11/12

BIND updated

I mentioned it for testing, and now it’s ready: BIND 9.5.2 is in DragonFly.

2009/11/112009/11/11

Socket changes

Matthew Dillon is making some changes to sockets; these should make the code significantly more simple. Look at the first patch, for instance.

2009/11/11

New 2.5/i386 packages

There’s a new set of pkgsrc packages for DragonFly 2.5.x, i386, built using pkgsrc-2009Q3. Using pkg_radd will get them for you.

2009/11/10

Small undo fix

If anyone wants a project, there’s apparently a small undo bug that I’ve encountered. It is a small fix in terms of changes, for any takers.

2009/11/10

Hammer version 4 status

There’s a status report from Matthew Dillon about his work on version 4 of Hammer, including the always enjoyable stories of tests that involve yanking the SATA cable from the drive.

2009/11/10

BIND update for testing

Jan Lentfer has put together a test upgrade of BIND in the base system from 9.3 to 9.5.2. Give it a test run, especially if you are on 64-bit DragonFly.

2009/11/092009/11/08

Tips for git

Saifi Khan asked some questions about using git; I link to two sets of answers, because these little things are useful when you are starting with git. Or, in my case, don’t use it frequently enough to remember.

2009/11/092009/11/08

OpenSSL updated

OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8l by Aggelos Economopoulos; this fixes a security vulnerability. The update is available for 2.4.1 and 2.5 – update to get it.

2009/11/082009/11/07

Messylaneous for 2009/11/07

Where I get more linkbloggy than usual:

According to the 5th slide in this presentation, Android’s libc, “Bionic”, is BSD-derived. Anyone know which BSD? It looks like “whatever” is the answer.
There’s a video out about BSD Certification.
Hubert Feyrer has a note about NetBSD’s not-necessarily-intended moves towards a microkernel architecture. Other “move things to userland” steps have happened in DragonFly; it seems a trend.
Giorgos Keramidas talks about font substitution in Firefox. This should work on any platform.
Vim plugins: a.vim lets you switch between .c and .h files with a single command.
I should have linked to this yesterday: Epitome, a “deduplication engine” for OpenBSD, was mentioned a bit in the most recent BSDTalk. (via)
Gopher: not dead yet. (also via)

2009/11/07

Using NVIDIA on DragonFly

This has been around for a while, but I’m re-mentioning it because it’s not really linked anywhere: Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a version of the FreeBSD NVIDIA video driver that should work on DragonFly: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~corecode/nvidia.git. It should be possible to clone from that link, build the code, and use it. (Untested by me – if you’ve done it, some explicit instructions would be helpful to others.)

2009/11/06

It’s x86_64 now, not amd64

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has changed 64-bit DragonFly to be tagged “x86_64” instead of “amd64”. It seems most other operating systems use that for 64-bit system architechure names. So does pkgsrc, which may fix some recent builds on amd64 x86_64

2009/11/05

ACPI update soon

Alexander Polakov has a further update for his new ACPI code. He now even provides a DragonFly ISO image and USB image so that a new system can be installed for testing. There’s already one positive report. It will probably go in this weekend.

2009/11/05

More parallelism tests: NCPUs + 1 still

Saifi Khan ran Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s make parallelism test on a dual-cpu system, and the theory holds up: ‘make -j N’ where N == the number of CPUs, plus 1, will give the fastest build time. (graphed again!)