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Posted on 2020/05/05
More misc debug tools

There’s a couple more small test/debug tools in DragonFly; possibly only useful if you like to poke at internals, but who doesn’t, really?

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/05/04
dsynth and ccache

You can now use ccache to speed up dsynth even more.

0 Comments - Categories: DPorts, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/05/01
Multiboot installation on DragonFly

Here’s a work in progress: Multiboot installs on DragonFly.  Follow the thread for updates.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2020/04/29
dhcpcd 9.0.2 in DragonFly

dhcpcd in DragonFly is updated to 9.0.2.  This is a bugfix release, so no new features.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/28
iwm(4) solutions, too

Another network fix: if you have an iwm(4) wireless Intel device, here’s how you get it to stop saying “no carrier”.

1 Comment - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/27
urtwn0 altq_maxlen errors

If you’ve got an urtwn(4) device (RealTek USB wireless), and you are getting errors on altq_maxlen, take a look at this solution.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/24
DragonFly, QEMU, NVMM, NetBSD/adm64 9

Charlotte Koch sent me this link some time ago and I’ve been remiss in not posting it: DragonFly through QEMU, using NVMM, on NetBSD.

1 Comment - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on, NetBSD
Posted on 2020/04/222020/04/21
Chromium on DragonFly

This is I think not resolved yet, but here’s something I didn’t know: keeping Chromium from being tied into Google’s services is actually a build issue, not a settings issue.  i.e. once it’s in binary form, you can’t opt out.

2 Comments - Categories: DPorts, DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2020/04/212020/04/17
HAMMER2 and a quick start for DragonFly

The Environment Quickstart document for DragonFly now has a HAMMER2 section.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2020/04/202020/04/17
Remembering a command

Do you still reflexively type “shutdown -p now” to power down your computer?  I haven’t been able to break that habit.  A recent documentation commit reminded me that “poweroff” exists, even though I posted about it 7 years ago.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2020/04/17
Bluetooth bounty bumped

If you want to work on Bluetooth on DragonFly, there’s more people adding to the bounty.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/15
sysmouse and evdev

sysmouse, the one mouse driver for X that always works for me, now has evdev support.

Related: why is there no evdev man page in DragonFly?

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/14
dhcpcd-9.0.0 in DragonFly

Imported directly by the author, DragonFly now has dhcpcd 9.  The commit message lists changes.

(and there’s a 9.0.1)

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/08
New tcsh in DragonFly

Even if you run bash, zsh, or maybe fish, tcsh is the default root shell in DragonFly – and it just had an update.  (all bugfixes according to the release notes)

2 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/04/07
A tip for UEFI installs

karu.pruun posted an answer on how to get DragonFly onto your GPT/EFI drive.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly, Someday you will need this
Posted on 2020/04/062020/04/07
ssh-copy-id now included

The ssh-copy-id utility is now included in DragonFly 5.8 and in -current.  Useful for your next machine setup.

2 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly, Someday you will need this
Posted on 2020/04/01
Spinlock tricks

This doesn’t really have any effect on you unless you are programming on DragonFly, but it’s interesting to read about a “spinlock trick” Matthew Dillon had implemented recently.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/03/31
New steps for vendor import

Aaron LI’s updated the development(7) man page to account for new steps in vendor import.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2020/03/30
Full history of DragonFly, documented

Aaron LI managed to graft FreeBSD code history onto the DragonFly BSD git repository, and he’s documented how he did it.  So, you can follow DragonFly code all the way back to 2003, and then FreeBSD code all the way back to… I’m not sure how far back it goes, but it’s in his merged copy.

0 Comments - Categories: BSD, Committed Code, DragonFly, FreeBSD
Posted on 2020/03/272020/03/25
Flame graphs on DragonFly

Flame graphs are a way to see what code paths are most used in a stack trace.  DragonFly now has a flame_graph utility.

2 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly

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