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’s monthly (rescheduled) meeting is tonight. RSVP if you can attend, to make sure the restaurant has the seating.
Sandy River is the newest DragonFly mirror, with ISOs and dports packages.
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’s monthly meeting is in-person at the usual place tonight at 6.
UPDATE: It’s been rescheduled for the 15th.
It’s based off 2022Q1 from FreeBSD Ports, and it’s available now through pkg.
There’s a new page on the DragonFly site covering how to install DragonFly as a guest system under KVM.
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.
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’s meeting tonight has Susan Hurst presenting on database implementation, via Jitsi. 7 PM Michigan time.
This is pretty esoteric, but all of DragonFly’s syscalls can be found in the links Aaron LI provided in this post. There’s code in there that dates back to Berkley UNIX.
The NYCBUG lunch is today, 1-2 Eastern.
There’s a reported bug with NVMM and QEMU if you boot a guest using UEFI. Until it’s fixed, use BIOS.
NYCBUG is having another lunch meeting online, this Friday, 1-2 Eastern time. RSVP on the NYCBUG talk@ list if you are going.
SEMIBUG’s January talk is on ZFS with Allan Jude, and it’s tonight, 7 PM Detroit time. There’s some AV-on-OpenBSD notes that go with it.
If you have a newly installed Firefox on a newly installed DragonFly system, you might be unable to load your Firefox account on first load, like in this screenshot. A workaround is to load your profile on a different machine and copy it over. My guess is permissions for profile creation, but that’s just a guess.
But wait, you say, what about 6.2.0? I performed my biyearly tagging error and screwed up the 6.2.0 tag, so we’re releasing with 6.2.1. On the plus side, this last minute redo let two bug fixes creep in that would have been in a later 6.2.1 anyway. This will be your first chance to try NVMM/Qemu support if you follow releases and not bleeding edge.
The release notes have the details, including the new, improved build process, and a link to the surprisingly-large list of all the changes and closed bugs.
CBSD, the virtualization-management-on-FreeBSD tool could be made to support DragonFly and NVMM. Here’s a tracking issue for it.
Merry Christmas! I am probably opening presents or poking my children to wake up and open presents hurry hurry, as you read this.
- helloSystem 0.7 is out.
- FreeBSD, Jails and SYSV IPC. (via)
- FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Advocacy.
- FreeBSD: 2021 in Review: Infrastructure Support.
- FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2021 Status Update. Foundation, not Project.
- OpenVPN on OpenBSD in its own rdomain to prevent data leak.
- [talk] Linux Compat on FreeBSD. A tip for better compatibility.
- OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2.
- Persistency management of memory based filesystem on OpenBSD.
- Valuable News – 2021/12/20.
- SSH Agent Restriction.
- Clang upgraded to version 13. (OpenBSD)
Longtime readers won’t be surprised by any of the content, but there’s a DragonFly overview at MakeUseOf.