Francois Tigeot has updated the i915 drivers in DragonFly (remember the call for testing) to match what’s in Linux 3.10, which means you should get excellent accelerated video performance on most any recent Intel video chipset, on DragonFly.
There’s two important numbers in this new, nearly-an-hour-long BSDTalk: Half a million billion, which are the number of people using FreeBSD via WhatsApp, and 250, which is the number of BSDTalk episodes so far. That’s a great milestone for BSDTalk. Oh, and the recording is from MeetBSD 2014, with Rick Reed talking.
Happy Groundhog Day!
- Early Copy Protection on the Apple ][. (via)
- If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It. I’ve linked to other stories on these computers before. (via)
- Never Trust a Corporation to do a Library’s job.
- A homebuilt MOS 6502 based microcomputer system. For those of you who thought the Hemingwrite link was interesting last week. Plus, is the 6502 the best chip ever for homebuilding? It sure crops up a lot. (via)
- The Untold Story Of The Invention Of The Game Cartridge. (via)
- “Pretty much everything AOL touches dies.” I link to it because I once worked for Time Warner.
- “Networking for Systems Administrators” is now available on Kindle.
- Long Live Grim Fandango. (via)
- The Queen of Code. (via)
- The Media Archaeology Lab. (via)
- Duckspeak Vs Smalltalk. I agree that there’s less tools available these days. (via)
- Do you like capacitors?
- tectur.io. Startup “inspiration”. (via)
Your unrelated video link of the week: The showreel of Nick Denboer, AKA Smearballs. (also via)
I’m not sure how I ended up with so much BSD material this week, but hey, we all benefit!
- A user’s experience with OpenBSD as a desktop. (via)
- FreeBSD Jail Management Tools.
- nanoBSD for servers – part 1. (via)
- Sonicwall to pfSense?
- My first OpenBSD port. (via)
- Two new LibreSSL shirts, with cash going back to the project.
- What did Sony do to make FreeBSD awesome graphics wise with Playstation 4?
- pkgng and manual steps.
- long term support considered harmful
- The practical result of OpenBSD’s support policy. Rebuttal to previous link. (via)
- PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC2 now available.
- OpenBSD popularity vs Linux when talking about servers security (via)
- Concise, opinionated history of the BSD/SystemV split. (via)
- pfSense-2.2-RELEASE now available! I’ll be upgrading systems to that at work this weekend…
- SECURITY : OPENBSD VS FREEBSD. (via)
- Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD.
- Thinkpad Carbon X1 2015 and OpenBSD, a review.
- Initial Zynq (Xilinx) support in NetBSD.
- glass tty fonts in NetBSD, mentioned here, seen here.
- portable cwm 5.6 is out.
- Assistance for the “too much RAM” delay problem.
- Slides for “OpenBSD: Redundant & Transparent Firewalls” (thanks Siju)
- A Comparative Introduction to FreeBSD for Linux Users. (via)
Your extended read: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations, from the NANOG operators list. Follow the thread. It’s theoretically about Linux, but people name BSD solutions all through it. Hmm…
Here’s a number of DragonFly links to clear out my backlog:
- Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSH in DragonFly to version 6.7.
- He updated file, too.
- Bill Yuan’s ipfw branch has been updated.
- Matthew Dillon’s been making more Hammer2 commits; check the TODO for status.
- Michael Neumann has Rust working on DragonFly.
- Filesystem encryption on Hammer.
Episode 74 of BSDNow is up, with some interesting stories of Linux users switching to BSD, and an interview of Andrew Tanenbaum of MINIX fame.
If you have very recent alc(4) hardware, it may be supported now. If you are booting over NFS, it may be faster now. These changes are unrelated other than both being recent – NFS is improved for any chipset.
powerd now can be adjusted on DragonFly, for quicker returns to high CPU frequencies, or slower … slowdowns? It’s quickly quick or slowly slow. That’s not the best explanation, but I like rhymes. For a less stupid description, look at the man page, which now includes usage examples.
Francois Tigeot has updated the drm/i915 code again, matching Linux 3.10 for feature level… but it’s a big update. If you are
- Running DragonFly-master
- Using a i915 chipset
- (optional) On a chipset that is not Haswell or Ivy Bridge
… He could use your testing and feedback.
I’m saving up for one of those Acer c720p Chromebooks that people seem to be enjoying. If you have enjoyed the Digest for a long time and want to help, please do. Of course it’s to run DragonFly.
Thanks to the generosity of a bunch of people, I’ll get a C720 and an SSD too. Thank you all very much, people I have never met but would like to shake the hands of.
All over the spectrum this week.
- The Story of the Intel 4004. (via)
- Why Perl Didn’t Win. Some methods that could be useful for the BSDs here. (via)
- uBlock, a less-resource-intensive version of AdBlock. (via joris on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Emacs user at work. (via alexh on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- Librem 15, “A Free/Libre Software Laptop”. Blobless. (via Mike)
- How to cheat at the future. Something I need to address for this very Digest. (via)
- What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? (via)
- Your entire PC in a mouse. (via)
- So I bought a mechanical keyboard.
- Emacs is my new window manager. (via)
- m-x start-them-early.
- Slackbot bot. (via)
- List of Good Free Programming and Data Resources. (via)
- Open Hardware Random Number Generator. (via EFNet #dragonflybsd)
- The Hemingwrite. Looks like a TRS-80. (via)
- The Emularity.
Your unrelated link of the week: Skymall, 2007.
Short week this week, mostly due to a lack of interesting source changes.
- Learn Unix the Hard Way. Actually OpenBSD and nothing except a table of contents yet. (via)
- How not to upgrade your systems.
- Linux vs. BSD: which should you use? Nothing new discovered here. (via)
- PC-BSD 10.1.1-RC1 Now Available.
- Some upcoming BSD-related books from Michael Lucas.
- NYCBUG events for January and February.
- Extracting pkgsrc packages without packages. (saves time with NFS)
- FreeBSD and Vagrant. (via nycbug-talk mailing list)
- Make PC-BSD work like Windows.
- Lumina 0.8.1 is out.
- urndis(4) is how you tether OpenBSD to a phone; or use it as a hotspot.
- There’s a BSD meetup happening February 19th in Hannover, Germany.
Matthew Dillon purchased some Haswell-based motherboards, and documented his hardware setup, for anyone who is looking to build a decent, new DragonFly system.
ISO/IMG files for DragonFly 4.0.3 have been uploaded and by now should be available on your favorite mirror. You should update for the OpenSSL upgrade. If you already have DragonFly 4.0.x installed, the normal ‘make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel && make installworld && make upgrade’ cycle should work just fine.
It’s Thursday, and that means a new BSDNow episode. The interview is with David Maxwell, who gave a talk about Unix pipelines at MeetBSD 2014. There’s the usual amount of discussion of recent topics, too, and I see they have a new sponsor.
DragonFly 4.0.3 has been tagged; you can look at the tagging message for details, but the major reason for doing so is to include OpenSSL-1.0.1l. I will have images up soon.
John Marino has written up an extensive how-to for slider, the history tool for Hammer filesystems, including screenshots.
Thanks to Sascha Wildner porting from FreeBSD, mixer(8) now remembers state. This is something I’ve wanted for a long time.
For whatever reason, I’ve seen several people in the last week or so have mouse problems on install, and they were often solved by running moused. So, there’s your little reminder.
Normally I’d hold this off until the In Other BSDs item on Saturday, but by then it will be too late: There’s a “Building redundant and transparent firewalls with OpenBSD” presentation happening at the Scottish Linux User’s Group meeting, Thursday night in Glasgow, Scotland.