A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Incidentally, my employer, REDCOM, uses FreeBSD as a base for its main product, is deployed in rough areas and in high-security government locations, and is one of the few electronics manufacturers still working entirely in the U.S.. REDCOM also has jobs to fill in New York, where I work. Please, apply if you see a …
I have a backlog of more BSD links to add, beyond this – it was a busy week! ChiBUG meets this Tuesday. Developers: How PINE64 is creating a community to compete with Raspberry Pi’s. Linked because of the apparently-decent BSD support on PINE64 stuff. (via) And now for something completely different: NetBSD on the last …
I didn’t even realize Summer of Code was upon us again. Hello world, no root. (NetBSD on Nintendo64). (via) Google Summer of Code 2019 participants: FreeBSD, NetBSD. Why OpenBSD rocks. (via) SecBSD: Unix-like operating system focused on computer security. (via) FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I’ve been lax in linking to …
Whee! ZFS and GPL terror: How much freedom is there in Linux? Setting the boot logo on a Thinkpad. Done on an OpenBSD install but should nominally work for anything on a Thinkpad. Also, how to make a boot logo. (via) FreeBSD Journal Column. Start reading issues now if you like, and you have some large …
Historic games is this week’s accidental theme. Zork I: Storm-Tossed Trees and Getting Out. Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages. A bit old but still entertaining. (via) Monitoring the Fermentation of Sourdough Starter with Computer Vision. I’ve done this with the low-tech approach of a dry-erase marker and a notepad.(via) Cool Retro Term. Emulates …
Losing power at home this week put a dent in my reading throughput, so to speak, but this will do. DragonFFI: FFI/JIT for the C language using Clang/LLVM. Not actually related to DragonFly or really BSD, but I like the synchronicity. (via) Simplifying Linux with … fish? Or BSD. New BSDMag issue – with a …
Assembled all on Thursday! No Plan Survives Contact with the Internet. pfSense 2.4.0 delay, related to recent dnsmasq discoveries. pfsense rant. Exploring BSD for my CDN. Ohio LinuxFest 2017 Recap. First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished! Related: Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon. OPNsense 17.7.5 released. autoconf/clang (No) Fun and Games. FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE …
Spot the sarcasm! FreeBSD 11.1 released. Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD) Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD) mandoc-1.14.2 released. OPNsense 17.7 released. hurray we won X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via) LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via) Red Hat deprecates btrfs in RHEL 7.4. …
Several “how to do this” items this week, which I like. OpenBSD 6.1 is not a CD release. (via) Netflix Serving 90Gb/s+ From Single Machines Using Tuned FreeBSD. (via) Forcing the password gropers through a smaller hole with OpenBSD’s PF queues. Creating an Apple Time Capsule using FreeBSD & ZFS. Related: Accessing your Time Capsule when …
Last minute again. Introducing the Netgate SG-1000 microFirewall (Pre-loaded with pfSense) (via) I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password. (via) OpenBSD: Use the space freed up by sparc and zaurus to import LLVM. (via) g2k16 hackathon: Undeadly has reports about ddb, vmm + vmd, package signing, ports + wifi, fuse, and a lot more. iXsystems to …
If you’re part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule. I’m able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I’m on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more. DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/30. Lumina 0.8.3 is released. Building PC-BSD Utilities From Source. (video) BSD Magazine for March. Directly building FreeBSD AMI images. …
Remembered to do this all at the last minute, after I got the new server up. LibertyBSD, an OpenBSD fork with no non-free firmware. OPNSense, a FreeBSD-based firewall that is new to me. OpenBSD projects that aren’t OpenBSD. Broken build tracker for pkgsrc. (via) pkgsrc-2014Q4 is out. pkgviews is gone from pkgsrc. NetBSD can now …
Thanks to John Marino and people I don’t know the name of in the gcc project, DragonFly is now part of the gcc test suite. “What about clang?” you say? We’re not picky; DragonFly works with either.
Running late putting this together… Back to bullets! The weekly PC-BSD digest for January 3rd. DiscoverBSD’s weekly roundup. PC-BSD’s weekly digest. Jailing FreeBSD 4 on FreeBSD 10. FreeBSD 4 has been a very long-lived release, so to speak. OpenBSD has a new auto-install feature that needs to be tested. Julio Merino has plans for his …
BSDTalk 233 plays David Chisnall’s hour of presentation from vBSDCon 2013 about moving from gcc to llvm/clang.
DragonFly has two included compilers – GCC 4.4, and GCC 4.7. Traditionally, we switch from one compiler to the other as default, and then replace the old one with a newer release, and so on. Until recently, dports built almost exclusively using GCC 4.4. John Marino’s switching to GCC 4.7, for a variety of reasons …
Barely getting this done in time for Saturday… FreeBSD can now download firmware for Samsung drives. FreeBSD has updated ipfilter to 5.1.2. FreeBSD has updated to OpenPAM Nummularia. On FreeBSD, clang means no gcc or libstdc++. (part of the switch) FreeBSD has new Hyper-V drivers. NetBSD has support for the ‘4G Systems XS Stick W14’. NetBSD …
There’s been a lot of commit activity across the BSDs, but my list doesn’t seem to reflect that. A lot of incremental work, I suppose. FreeBSD has imported the multiqueue VirtIO driver FreeBSD has added support for the BCM20702A0 chipset, for Bluetooth adapters. FreeBSD can now reach single user mode with Digi i.MX53 / Wi-i.MX53 boards …
A person labeled only as ‘wicked’ sent me a link to this conversation about BSD unification. I’ve seen the topic brought up before, and I’d argue that it’s already happening, slowly. DragonFly has code brought in from FreeBSD, pkgsrc from NetBSD, pf and dhclient from OpenBSD, etc. ‘bmake’ is used in NetBSD, FreeBSD, and DragonFly …
Whee! deadweight, “Find unused CSS selectors by scraping your HTML”. I’ve needed something like this for years. (via) The same sort of thing for pkgsrc: pkg_leaves. Worth running at least yearly, or at least before any significant pkgsrc upgrade. There’s no point in updating a package you don’t use or need. GNU Coreutils cheat sheet, …