Adventure(6) the original and Colossal Cave the remake 50 years later.
The installer should always take care of this for you, but if for some reason you need it: formatting a disk with gpt.
Will Senn just started using DragonFly and he wrote up his experience.
Messing with boot0cfg(8) might shorten your boot time. Be careful.
If your X session hangs when exiting the window manager, here’s some suggestions.
Removing pkg detritus. Applies to any system with pkg, including DragonFly. (via)
HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD. (there’s been foreshadowing)
DragonFly now checks both /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.local.d during boot and shutdown, so you don’t have to mix system-installed and local rc scripts.
Based on a sample size of 1, a new DragonFly 6.4 install may have a version of pkg that is confused by config file syntax changes. If that happens to you, the same fix still works.
If you scramble your DragonFly system and can’t boot, here’s some immediate suggestions.
We all could see this coming, but still – most workstations have had serial support for the last… half century?
DragonFly now has support for 19h / Zen3 AMD temperature sensors.
If you are using urtwn(4) for your USB network connection, it now supports the Edimax EW-7811Un chipset? model?.
Yay, another week that overflowed with links!
- Creating a wireguard connection between my home and colo.
- How I configure dma for mail delivery in jails on my internet hosts.
- “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report.
- New FreeBSD Quick Guide: Video Playback on FreeBSD.
- Support for ‘kill -SIGNAME …’ was added in 4BSD.
- 3D printed FreeBSD desk toys.
- Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud.
- “Return of the Emperor” – text-based game.
- Best laptop for OpenBSD? From the comments: jcs.org’s list.
- Valuable News – 2022/09/05.
- g2k22 Hackathon Report: Martijn van Duren on
snmpd(8)improvements. - OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings.
If you’re moving your dsynth build to a different machine, there’s now a ‘list-system’ directive that lets you recreate the same setup in a new place.
It’s not possible right now, but there’s people looking to implement it.
Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space.