Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space.
Where the (dports) action is
I mentioned a new committer for DragonFly, Sergey Zigachev, recently. He hasn’t shown in the commit logs for DragonFly directly – cause he’s fixing up dports. I’m mentioning that because the amount of work that goes into dports to keep all those ports working on DragonFly is separate and unseen – but necessary.
rEFInd design for all the BSDs
Ian Grindley has created a BSD theme for rEFInd that covers all the BSDs – including DragonFly.
Closing credit
DragonFly 6.2.2 out
Hopefully there’s a new ISO/img on the mirrors for DragonFly 6.2.2 by the time you read this – or you can just update your installation. The changelog is short, because this is a bugfix-level release. Also, don’t forget there’s a new set of binary packages out; update that too if you haven’t.
virtio_console bug report
If you’re interested in having virtio_console on DragonFly, keep an eye on this bug report.
New dports, new point release
There’s a new dports build, and there’s been some updates so a new point release to 6.2.2 for DragonFly is a good idea. The new binary packages are available now with ‘pkg upgrade’, and I’ll work on 6.2.2 over the next few days.
SEMIBUG tonight: KDE/XFCE on FreeBSD
It rhymes if you say it out loud. Jason Tubnor will present at 7 PM tonight (Detroit local time) on installing and configuring Xfce and KDE on FreeBSD.
CI feed on DragonFly site
Headlines from this here Digest show up on dragonflybsd.org, and have for a long time. They are now joined with reports from the continuous integration builds of DragonFly (i.e. Jenkins) DragonFly is automatically rebuilt to test recent commits, and there’s a report for each build on the build machine.
DragonFly and bhyve
If you want to run DragonFly as a bhyve guest using UEFI, here’s the recipe.
Me, talking now
I’m on at SEMIBUG’s meeting right now.
I hope to have a recording to post later. Nnnnope! A lesson for you and me both; test recording before an actual event starts.
ChiBUG meets tonight
ChiBUG’s monthly (rescheduled) meeting is tonight. RSVP if you can attend, to make sure the restaurant has the seating.
New US mirror for DragonFly
Sandy River is the newest DragonFly mirror, with ISOs and dports packages.
SLUUG meeting, FreeBSD presentation
SLUUG (St. Louis Unix Users Group) is meeting tonight and Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation is presenting, among others. It’s available through Zoom.
ChiBUG meeting tonight
CHIBUG’s monthly meeting is in-person at the usual place tonight at 6.
UPDATE: It’s been rescheduled for the 15th.
New binary packages for DragonFly
It’s based off 2022Q1 from FreeBSD Ports, and it’s available now through pkg.
DragonFly as a KVM guest
There’s a new page on the DragonFly site covering how to install DragonFly as a guest system under KVM.
pkg and Meta v1 support
If you run pkg on DragonFly and get a warning about “Meta v1 support ending”, it’s only a warning. It will go away on its own.
A reminder on X
I know I’ll need this again, so I am making a post out of it. If you are running a DragonFly system through NVMM using the excellent site instructions, and you want X apps to display on a local Windows workstation, you need to:
- Install VcXsrv (or your X server of choice) on Windows and start it up.
- Install xauth and xterm on the DragonFly host.
- On the DragonFly host, set these three options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. They are already there but commented out with different arguments.
X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 0 X11UseLocalhost yes
- Reload sshd: ‘service sshd reload’.
- ‘Enable X11 Forwarding’ under Connection -> SSH -> X11 in the puTTY setup dialog.
Connect to the DragonFly host with puTTY, type ‘xterm’, and a terminal window should appear on your Windows desktop within a few seconds. This could be turned into a shortcut with puTTY to avoid having redundant terminals, but I’m not writing that out yet.
SEMIBUG, databases, tonight
SEMIBUG’s meeting tonight has Susan Hurst presenting on database implementation, via Jitsi. 7 PM Michigan time.