Nelson H. F. Beebe posted links to two ACM articles; one about SSDs and the other about filesystem resilience. Matthew Dillon chimed in with his thoughts specifically on HAMMER2.
I’m actually some days late in reporting this, but there’s a new full build of packages for DragonFly 6.0; it’s following the quarterly release schedule for ports, so 2021Q2 is the base.
This goes with the recent merges from -current into 6.0. Now is a good time to update your system completely, if you have not already.
You may run into a setup issue with Wireguard when trying to set it up on DragonFly. Keep an eye on this Go bug report if so.
Update: here’s a solution in the works.
This query had karu.pruun write a short note on how to contribute (device driver) development work to DragonFly. Don’t forget grok.
James Cook continues to work on zalloc, and he’s published a small report on his progress.
James Cook is interested in working on zalloc in DragonFly, taken from the projects page. Follow his questions and the answers if this interests you.
If you are upgrading an older 5.8.x system to DragonFly 6, and get a lua error when updating pkg: manually copy over a config file, and you’ll be set.
DragoFly 6.0 is tagged and ready for download. There’s ISO images and of course you can upgrade using the notes on the release page. One of the improvements in this release cycle is improved dsynth support, so of course there are many prebuilt packages available; don’t forget to update those too.
There’s only been one issue found in the release candidate so far. It’s fixed, so I’ll tag and build 6.0 within the next few days.
Brian Callahan presents for NYCBUG on compiler support in the BSDs, tonight. Send an email for a Zoom invite.
There’s some opinions mixed in this week!
- NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS). (via)
- FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop. (via)
- OPNsense switches back to vanilla FreeBSD. (via)
- Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail. (via)
- Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot Dot Right. (PDF, via)
- FVWM 3 and Quest for Comfortable NetBSD Desktop. (via)
- It’s time to say goodbye to the GPL. (via)
- Hunt the Wumpus on the AskHistorians Podcast. Pre-BSD.
- FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop.
- OpenBSD 6.9 is out, with this perk.
- From Linux to BSD. (video, via)
- FreeBSD 13.0 on Raspberry Pi 400 – Quick Look. (video, via)
- Interview with Michael Lucas FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Unix, IT and other books author. (via)
- FreeBSD Best Practices virtual panel discussion, 2 sessions. Related to WireGuard, I think.
With good timing, 6.x packages are now available for those of you who need them.
The image should be at your nearest mirrors now.
The first RC for DragonFly 6.0 is branched. I don’t expect a need for a second one; this release has been a long time baking (look at the commit list!) and is pretty well refined.
I’ll be working on branching and releasing DragonFly 6.0 over the next while. We’re overdue for a release. Tentatively, I’ll branch tomorrow night, and start working on test images and release notes. The release will come in about a week, if there’s no surprises.
There’s a new build of binary packages available, for both 5.8 and DragonFly-current.
I’ve mentioned it before but it came up again, so it’s worth repeating: your 5.8 install of DragonFly may need an update of the pkg tool.
Prompted by this email, I’ll say if there’s a DragonFly code bounty that interests you, put your name on it. Payment is on completion.
I was sure I had posted a link to this before, but apparently not: “How to install DragonFly BSD 5.6.1 plus MATE and some aplications” (Youtube, via)