DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 148 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

2015/02/212015/02/20

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/21

There’s some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It’s inextricable from the rest of the links.

Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
A Prediction: 2020 the year of (PC-)BSD on the desktop. (also)
“Has Linux lost its way?” (via) (also)
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/16.
Curious if FreeBSD or any other BSD district would work better on a MacBook pro?
Which
Am I taking a realistic route to learning more about internals? (hey, it’s DragonFly!)
Speaking of which: cross–pollination.
More cross-pollination, and surprise from me; I didn’t know USB video link worked on any BSD.
The m0n0wall project has ended.
The end of ‘games’ as a separate object on FreeBSD.
Tetris: still changing.
autonet – simple automatic wifi chooser on OpenBSD.
pkgsrc binaries as an exit strategy from systemd.
IPFW now the default firewall (and on) in PC-BSD.
The updated roadmap to 1.0.0 for Lumina, PC-BSD’s desktop environment, to go with the 0.8.2 release.
PC-BSD at SCALE.
s2k15 hackathon report.

2015/02/20

memtemp(4) update

I admit I never thought about it much, but I’ve also never had enough RAM to matter: there’s a memtemp(4) tool that monitors temperature sensors for your system’s memory. Sepherosa Ziehau has updated it on DragonFly to support some newer processor setups.

2015/02/19

Really turning off Sendmail

This bites many people sooner or later: you think you’ve turned sendmail off, but it still gets opened up on your system. The answer: sendmail_enable=”NONE”.

(It should support sendmail_enable=”NOPE”.)

2015/02/19

BSDNow 077: Noah’s L2ARC

The 77th episode of BSDNow is up, with a tutorial on making a patch in OpenBSD, an interview of Alex Reece and Matt Ahrens about OpenZFS, and the usual news roundup.

2015/02/18

SSDs and disk wear

Several of the DragonFly machines used for building packages and/or releases have SSDs, and have been vigorously exercising those disks for some time. SSDs are supposed to have a shorter lifetime than spindle-based hard drives. However, Matthew Dillon found that there’s surprisingly little wear on those SSDs. This empiric information was noticed in several places.

2015/02/172015/02/17

HEADS UP: pkg will eat itself

Well, might rather than will , but I had to make a music reference. There’s a bug in versions of pkg from 1.4.6(ish) to 1.4.11 that can make it accidentally delete itself while updating packages. If this happens to you, there’s an easy fix, as posted to users@:

# cd /usr && make pkg-bootstrap

Once you’re on version 1.4.12+, you’re fine.

2015/02/16

Video updates to test

Do you have a DragonFly system with a Radeon or i915 video card? There’s updates for the drivers associated with either; you can help out and test them.

2015/02/152015/02/14

Lazy Reading for 2015/02/15

Being home sick in the middle of the week gave me a head start on all these links.

Tea – Instead of Coffee. Some cheap purchasing links in the comments.
The Obfuscated Fibonacci; Or, a Curious Connection in Computation. (via)
BASIC Computer Games, 1978. I loved this book, and especially the illustrations. (via)
A comment link from the previous story led me to DiscoRunner.com, a “multi-dialect BASIC interpreter”.
Brands are not your friends.
The Classic Super Star Trek Game. (via)
Modern C, a PDF. (via)
Learning to love the command line. (via)
Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide. (via)
Stop Playing Monopoly With Your Kids.
The last twenty years building the web no-one asked for in two wireframes. (via)
The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale. (via)
osh, the V6 UNIX sh. (via)
Fractal Flowchart. (via)
Pterosaur, Vim within Firefox text fields. Not new, but I like the screencast example.
Has modern Linux lost its way? Another variation on the “Linux is a mess compared to any BSD” argument – not that I’m discounting it. (via)
Cosma.org’s computer preservation page. (via)

2015/02/142015/02/13

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/14

Happy Valentine’s Day!

The OpenBSD Foundation 2015 Fundraising Campaign. (via)
Anyone tried CloudByte before? (ZFS on FreeBSD).
DiscoverBSD news for 2015/02/09.
PC-BSD featured on itwire.com.
From the OpenBSD s2k15 hackathon: the stack overflow that wasn’t and Authenticated TLS ‘constraints’ in ntpd(8).
Jazz concert with OpenBSD synths.
“Help me add FreeBSD/amd64 build support to .NET CoreCLR“.
“Can you push a BSD OS through the wire/network?” The original poster has never heard of PXEbooting?
PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT Images Now Available!
Speaking of which, PC-BSD now uses OpenNTPD by default.
An old large-disk anecdote from OpenBSD.
“world’s first Canadian cross device driver“
pkgsrc-2014Q4 packages for OS X now available.
NTP over HTTPS.
Aww, freebsd/wii.

Your not-BSD BSD link of the week: Badass Space Dragon.

2015/02/13

New committer: Tomohiro Kusumi

Say hello to the newest DragonFly committer: Tomohiro Kusumi. He’s been contributing Hammer patches for some time and appearing on IRC, so it’s easier to just let him make changes directly. Welcome, Tomohiro.

2015/02/13

BSDNow 076: Time for a Change

BSDNow 076 interviews Henning Brauer about his work on OpenNTPD, which has recently been converted to a portable version, similar to OpenSSH. (Why? Amplification.) There’s also the normal array of other BSD stories, including DragonFly, yay!

2015/02/11

More gcc 5 details

It’s now possible to build world and kernel on DragonFly using gcc 5, and Matthew Dillon has posted an announcement that describes how. He also separately lists the (small considering the included C++) effect on build time.

Note that gcc 4.7 remains the default compiler.

2015/02/10

“Life with an OpenBSD Laptop” is tonight

If you’re in/near New York City, NYCBUG has a meeting tonight with Issac (.ike) Levy presenting “Life with an OpenBSD Laptop“.

2015/02/10

GCC 5 Arrives

John Marino has removed gcc 4.4 in DragonFly, and replaced it with gcc 5.0. Two things to note: gcc 5 does not yet successfully build world, and DragonFly is an officially supported platform for gcc with this release.

2015/02/09

em(4), emx(4) updates

If you have a em(4)/emx(4) card, AKA ‘Intel(R) PRO/1000’, Michael Neumann has an update for you. It’s from Intel’s 7.2.4 release of the code. This is to support the new I218 cards. Initial reports are positive.

2015/02/082015/02/06

Lazy Reading for 2015/02/08

I’m… not sure what happened this week. I read the same amount of material, went through my RSS feeds, and this is the only stuff that looked linkable. Sorry!

This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculous. (via)
Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix. (via)
.bashrc generator. (via)
The next Internet is TV. (via)
Robot Supercut. Kinda clickbaity, but I like the footage. (via)
GnuPG needed funding, got funding. (via)

2015/02/072015/02/06

In Other BSDs for 2015/02/07

This week is relatively quiet.

Raspberry Pi GPU acceleration in NetBSD 7. (via)
OpenBSD networking on Macbook Pro?
PC-BSD 10.1.1 is out.
Is there any RNDIS support in any BSD?
Ask HN: Laptop for FreeBSD?
Stuck between OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD (mostly Web and File Server)
devctl, a new device control utility in FreeBSD.
FreeBSD has gained a VCHI driver for the Broadcom “VideoCore IV GPU”.
Things you can remove from FreeBSD.
PC-BSD gains ‘personacrypt’, for encryption of home directories.
OpenBSD gained iwm(4), for Intel 7260 wifi.

2015/02/06

DragonFly and Git

DragonFly is the only BSD, I think, to switch fully to Git for version control, and Matthew Dillon wrote up how DragonFly uses Git.

2015/02/05

BSDNow 075: From the Foundation

BSDNow 075 has an interview with Ed Maste about what the FreeBSD Foundation has been up to, and I’m guessing from the “Part 1” in the title there’s going to be more information in a subsequent show. There’s also a roundup of various BSD news items — more than usual, I think.

2015/02/04

Many wireless updates

Matthew Dillon brought in some wireless networking updates – the ath(4), iwn(4), and wpi(4) drivers are updated. There’s porting notes if you need them, too. In related news, rum(4) is also improved. The updates apparently benefited DragonFly and FreeBSD at the same time.