DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 135 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

2015/11/072015/11/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/11/07

Not even checking source commits this week; there’s already plenty of news.

Ken Westerback at u2k15.
OpenBSD also is getting a hypervisor.
Running BSDi BSD/OS on VirtualBox.
Faces of FreeBSD 2015 – Michael Dexter
OpenBSD vs. nVidia
nosh: Linux/BSD init, with systemd compat. (via)
MINIXCon, February 1st, 2016, in Amsterdam. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2015/11/02.
LibreSSL 2.3.1 is out. (via)
Cyrix 486 Booting OpenBSD 4.7 (via)
starting from scratch bugs.
OPNsense 15.7.18 Released
Detroit-area BSD user group, take 2. SEMIBUG is a good name.
OpenBSD has a fork of less.
pfSense 2.2.5 is out, and the pfSense project is 11 years old.
A new issue of BSD Magazine is out.
OpenBGPd and route filters.

2015/11/052015/11/06

BSDNow 114: BSD Schooling

“BSD Schooling” is the name of this week’s episode of BSDNow, and as you might guess from the title, Brian Callahan is the interview subject, talking about BSDs and education. It also points out interviews elsewhere, like Brian Acton of WhatsApp talking about how useful BSD is to work with, and another one where the CTO of HP appears to have the wrong idea of licensing. (also, an interesting but not surprising Stallman quote)

2015/11/052015/11/05

Update pile

John Marino’s made a number of updates to contributed software in DragonFly recently, and here’s the list: ~~libelf~~ (not contrib as John pointed out), libexecinfo, xz, libedit, binutils, grep, tcsh, libdialog, and (tn)ftp.

2015/11/042015/11/02

Getting rid of CPUHOT messages

If for some reason you are seeing messages about your CPU overheating – and you know it is not, there’s a solution. Disable coretemp messages.

Note that if your CPU is actually overheating, turning these messages off won’t help. Don’t want anyone to be surprised when their computer melts…

2015/11/032015/11/02

Optimization, again

Remember what I was saying about Sepherosa Ziehau and improving performance? Well, here he goes again, three times.

2015/11/022015/10/31

BSDTalk 258: Chris Henschen

Start the week with this brief interview of Chris Henschen, of fP Technologies, taken at the most recent vBSDCon. Their database product, filePro Plus, was recently ported to FreeBSD.

2015/11/012015/10/30

Lazy Reading for 2015/11/01

No themes evolved this week.

Git. You may have already seen this.
The Container Ecosystem Project. Use it as a term reference. (via)
How many bad ideas can be bundled together at once? (via)
The threat of telecom sabotage and Submarine Internet Cable Vulnerabilties. (both via).
Future Forms. For fans of Braun/Dieter Rams design, largely. (via)
cOS on commodore 64: Modern user interface with optional touchscreen. (via)
99 Bottles Of Beer – find(1) version. (via)
Classic Bug Reports. I like this one. (via)
Any One Else Using It? (via)
YOU WILL REGRET THIS! You will maybe get the joke if you played the original SimCity.
Popular Unix Text Editors & How to Exit Them. (via)

Your unrelated comics link of the week: Secret Coders. I have several other books by Gene Luen Yang; he’s good. (via)

2015/10/312015/10/30

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/31

Another week that quickly went from “Gee, I hope I have enough links” to “I have to set time aside just to process the backlog of possibilities.”

Buy an x220.
A week of pkgsrc #12.
20Gb of Internet traffic on OpenBSD won’t work.
Nouveau runs on NetBSD with hardware GL support.
English-only in OpenBSD.
Help! Can’t install NetBSD 7 – problem with .iso file
Steam on the BSDs (not wine)
mge/etherswitch support in FreeBSD, especially for some Marvell chips.
Bluetooth LE Security Management channel support in FreeBSD.
mpsutil in FreeBSD has been updated. (for LSI Fusion-MPT 2/3 controllers )
add BSD to OS options in the forum user profile.
NetBSD 5.x is reaching end-of-life.
The Tor Browser for OpenBSD has been updated.
The 3rd quarter FreeBSD status report is out.
OpenBSD interviews: Ted Unangst, Brandon Mercer, Antoine Jacoutot, joshua stein, Landry Breuil, Henning Brauer, and Stefan Sperling.
Or just look at Undeadly’s complete list.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/16.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.7 is released.
FreeNAS ‘what’s new’ issue 26. FreeNAS is 10 years old.
A new FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS review.

2015/10/29

BSDNow 113: What’s Next for BSD?

BSDNow 113 has the normal news roundup, plus an interview of Jordan Hubbard, talking about BSD, and specifically NextBSD.

2015/10/28

GPT and Hammer

Via EFNet #dragonflybsd, “Booting DragonFlyBSD with Hammer on a GPT drive“.

2015/10/272015/10/28

Another i915 update

For those of you with DragonFly and an Intel i915 chipset, Francois Tigeot has moved support up another notch, to match Linux 3.18. This will help Cherryview and Broadwell chipset users the most.

2015/10/26

Yet another network optimization

I think at this point, Sepherosa Ziehau is able to improve the DragonFly network stack by just standing near his computer and concentrating for a few minutes. For example, he’s unearthed another improvement to connect rate/reduction of CPU usage.

2015/10/252015/10/23

Lazy Reading for 2015/10/25

No themes this week.

Raiders of the Lost Web. (via)
The first chapter of “The Go Programming Language” (PDF).
The Cray Files. (via)
Turning a conference into a conference call. (via)
3 Envelopes for sysadmins.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Synth. (via)
The Little Printf. (via)
The Tech Model Railroad Club – Hackers at 30. See comments at via link about the IBM 407.
Guide to Deploying Diffie-Hellman for TLS. (via)
The real meaning of ‘systemd’.

Your unrelated food image of the week: Cheese Meets Bread: an International Love Story. I shall treat that as a sort of to-do list.

2015/10/242015/10/23

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/24

There’s a lot of developer interviews lately.

DragonFly BSD + FreeBSD (via)
truenas
Hubert Feyrer has a roundup of the recent NetBSD interviews.
OpenBSD 5.8 is released.
OpenBSD turns 20.
OpenBSD developers: Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (via)
OpenBSD developers: Vadim Zhukov (via)
OpenBSD developers: Marc Espie (via)
OpenBSD developers: Bryan Steele (via)
OpenBSD developers: Ingo Schwarze (via)
OpenBSD developers: Gilles Chehade (via)
OPNSense 15.7.17 released.
DiscoverBSD for 2015/10/19.
EuroBSDCon 2014 Videos Online. The date is not a typo.
GhostBSD’s graphical ZFS installer. (via)
Grace Hopper Convention 2015. (FreeBSD Foundation)
W^X enabled in OpenBSD Firefox port. (via)
Announcing NetBSD 7.0 for USB Flash Drives. (via)
pkgsrc-wip has finished the move to git. It should be easier to contribute.
FreeBSD on 96-core (dual socket) ThunderX system. (via)
Compilers in the BSD base system. (via)
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk on SSH on November 10th, in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Robert Bourne is returning to NYCBUG to talk on November 19th. Catch this if you can; it’s worth it.
I already scheduled reminder posts for both those events.

Your cross-platform software of the week: Syncthing. Runs on all the BSDs. (Via discussion on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

2015/10/22

BSDNow 112: Tracing the source

It’s been an oddly quiet week for news, plus I have been busier than usual at work due to snow hitting the northeast. But! It’s Thursday and there’s a new episode of BSDNow. There’s an interview of Adam Leventhal and the usual news roundup.

2015/10/182015/10/16

Lazy Reading for 2015/10/18

Accidental topic this week: very, very old computers.

Computer Show. Modern show, looks like it’s exactly from the mid 1980s. (via multiple places)
Computing Britain. From the BBC, freely downloadable computing history audiofiles, quite worth it. (via)
Phones for the People. I don’t think it’s as egalitarian as it is described, but it is interesting to see the variety. (via)
RTC Quickstart. RTC is an alternative to the not-private-and-not-open Skype. Why don’t more people use it?
More secure Wi-Fi routers. This would be the best Internet of Things approach. (via)
You Wouldn’t Base64 a Password. (via)
Blue screens of death, some of which you’ve surely seen before. (via)
The first Apple ][ viruses. (via)
Dark Castle and Macintosh System 6 Emulator. (via)
Vim and Composability (via)
A Simpler Vim Statusline. (via)
Vim: Convenient Code Navigation for Your Projects. (via)
Unix commands: The joy of curl
Ohmu. I like the visualization.
Wander (1974) — a lost mainframe game is found! (via)
Lost mainframe games (also via)
The lack of historic knowledge is so frustrating. AKA “learn from past mistakes”.
The SCELBI, rebuilt. (via)
CSIRAC, the oldest computer that’s still physically assembled – from 1949! (via)
Cardboard computers. (via)
Long long long term data storage. (via)
Google Code-In starts on my birthday, and Google Summer of Code 2016 has been announced.
INOC-DBA: dial an ASN, get the network operations center responsible for it. One of the ways people make the complex creature called the Internet continue to function. (via)
sandstorm.io, self-hosting which I’ve linked to before, and known, which I haven’t. More tools that people will eventually regret not using. (via)

Your comics link of the week: Cartozia Tales #1, with more added. I subscribed to this series long ago, and it’s a lot of fun.

2015/10/172015/10/16

In Other BSDs for 2015/10/17

Another good week for BSD releases and events.

Why do you love FreeBSD?
Announcing FreeNAS-10 ALPHA
tame(2) is now pledge(2), and Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current
The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief
OPNsense 15.7.16 Released
EuroBSDcon-2015 Recap
NetBSD-7.0 developer interviews: Pierre Pronchery, Antti Kantee, Christos Zoulas, Mateusz Kocielski
Tom’s Hardware Reviews the FreeNAS Mini
Call for testing: FreeBSD i915 driver (via)
bhyve gains a sysctl-like interface.
By chance, DMA in FreeBSD is newer than what’s in DragonFly.
A summary from the recent BSDCon Brasil.

2015/10/15

BSDNow 111: Xenocratic Oath

BSDNow episode 111 is up, with an interview of Brandon Mercer, talking about OpenBSD and healthcare. There’s the usual news, plus several ‘how-to-build-something’ articles up for discussion.

2015/10/132015/10/13

Wayland on DragonFly

Imre Vadász has put together an initial port of Wayland / Weston for DragonFly. You can look at his pull request for dports to see how to install, though I’d imagine this is only for people who like to experiment at this point. It’s still work in progress, as is Wayland itself.

2015/10/12

Slow your disk down

Tomohiro Kusumi has added a dm-delay target, which means you can simulate poor disk performance, without having to have poor disks. His commit message includes some benchmarks that shows it doing a good job creating a bad job.