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2016/10/292016/10/28

In Other BSDs for 2016/10/29

I get all the BSDs this week.

Infrastructure in a Post-Cloud Era. .ike presenting at NYCBUG on November 2nd. Go if you are near, vote if you can.
FreeNAS/ESXi – Link aggregation without a switch.
Dropping Linux and KVM in Favor of FreeBSD and Jails (2015). (via)
chromebook printing troubles
I used Virtualbox to install both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD… it said login incorrect upon reboot.
Internet Connection Problems
Continuous OpenBSD regress tests. (via)
*BSD on laptops
In this how-to we’ll set up an email server from scratch using NetBSD.
Allow reading of files but no copying on FreeNAS.
NetBSD 7.0.2 released.
OPNsense 16.7.7 released.
pkgsrcCon 2016 videos.

2016/10/282016/10/28

More security rewiring

The switch to from OpenSSL to LibreSSL in DragonFly’s base and in dports has led to more cleanup, including the removal of an old, strange munitions/crypto import restriction. Be careful upgrading if you’re on master, though!

2016/10/27

net.inet.carp.setroute and what it does

If your DragonFly machine is using CARP, and you don’t want CARP messing with your default routes, the sysctl net.inet.carp.setroute can keep them from being changed.

2016/10/262016/10/26

Better Fortran

Rimvydas Jasinskas has been improving LTO – Link Time Optimization – support. It’s led to a lot of commits, and those are just a few examples.

2016/10/25

Goodbye, COMPAT_43

COMPAT_43 is gone, but it hasn’t worked in a long time anyway. Note that this is 4.3BSD, pre-everything.

2016/10/20

em(4), re(4), and network issues

If you are using em(4) or re(4) devices for networking, you may want to turn on polling. MSI may or may not help for re(4), along with switching to the emx(4) driver.

2016/10/192016/10/20

LibreSSL not just available but default

Remember I posted that LibreSSL is in base DragonFly, but not default? Well, it’s default now. You can have a system without OpenSSL at all, by rebuilding DragonFly-current and using up-to-date dports.

Update: see John’s comments for clarification: LibreSSL is default; the change is that OpenSSL isn’t even built any more. The result is still the same good news: you can have an OpenSSL-free DragonFly system now.

2016/10/182016/10/17

DragonFly 4.6.1 images up

I’ve uploaded ISO and IMG files for DragonFly 4.6.1, so they should be available for download at your local mirror. Note that there’s an uncompressed 4.6.1 ISO for those installing to a virtual server.

2016/10/172016/10/17

DragonFly 4.6.1 tagged

I don’t have it uploaded yet, but DragonFly 4.6.1 is tagged. Anyone with an existing 4.6.0 or earlier system can upgrade now. Use the 4.6 release instructions if you are unsure on how to upgrade. The 4.6.1 tag commit message has all the changes.

2016/10/14

OpenSSL update, DragonFly update

OpenSSL in DragonFly 4.6 has been updated to 1.0.1u. It’s time for a DragonFly 4.6.1, to catch up on this and other updates since the 4.6.0 release. I plan to work on it this weekend.

2016/10/10

iwm(4) and power management

It looks like I summarized iwm(4) updates too early, cause Imre Vadasz added an actual powersave option. I’d like to see someone with a power meter do some before-and-after testing.

2016/10/06

Recent iwm(4) updates

It’s been a quiet week, but there’s some activity: Imre Vadasz has been committing many improvements to iwm(4). They haven’t been standalone enough for me to build a post around, but the most recent enables a low-power scan mode.

2016/09/30

Hammer helps again

I’ll just say I did this:

cpdup -VV -v /var/hammer/usr/snap-20160928-0301/local/pgsql/data /usr/local/pgsql/

And managed to bring back my last year or so of RSS feeds and the like. Phew!

2016/09/29

Synaptics improvements

If you had trouble getting your laptop’s touchpad to work under DragonFly, try again. (If you are running DragonFly-current)

2016/09/262016/09/26

LibreSSL, DragonFly, and dports

It’s now possible to build dports using LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL. Set SSL_DEFAULT in make.conf to the appropriate port name, and start building. Use synth for fastest results, of course.

LibreSSL will eventually become the default library. This is in addition to the previously-mentioned, already-completed in DragonFly 4.7, base system switch to LibreSSL.

2016/09/21

iwm(4) firmware updates, plus temperature?

For those running DragonFly 4.7, there’s new firmware for all iwm(4) devices. Also, you can get temperature readings off the iwm wireless device now, if I’m reading this correctly.

2016/09/20

Who wants FUSE on DragonFly?

Tomohiro Kusumi is thinking about porting it. Follow the whole thread for details.

2016/09/192016/09/15

3D printing on DragonFly

3D printing on DragonFly with a Fabrikator? Yep, it works. (from jh32 on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2016/09/172016/09/15

In Other BSDs for 2016/09/17

I’ve never had as many hackathon links as I did for g2k16 over this week and last.

“LiteBSD is variant of 4.4BSD operating system for microcontrollers“. (via)
More g2k16: Florian Obser, Vincent Gross, Antoine Jacoutot, Matthieu Herrb, Martin Pieuchot, and Patrick Wildt.
OpenBSD on HP Stream 7.
“PAM Mastery” print layout done.
Coincidentally, Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk about PAM at next week’s SemiBUG meeting. The 20th, I think.
The Raspberry PI Platform and The Challenges of Developing FreeBSD.
One Floppy NetBSD Distribution. (via)
Beastie tequila.
“I made a fanzine for fun in scribus, first issue is about DragonFly ! :)“
OpenBSD Planet.

2016/09/162016/09/15

Laptop on fire? Use powerd!

Matthew Dillon has added powerd, a utility that will automatically step down processor speed based on reported temperature. The range is configurable, and there’s some other nice-to-have features. This will save your CPU from melting, and probably also your thighs from being burned.