DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 66 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

2019/09/142019/09/13

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/14

Still a backlog, no matter how much I link.

HAMBSD. (via)
vBSDCon 2019 trip report from iXSystems.
Sponsorships open for SNMP Mastery. A summary post, too.
Agenda for the next SEMIBUG meeting on the 17th.
Using FreeBSD with Ports (2/2): Tool-assisted updating.
Cool, but obscure X11 tools. More suggestions in the source link.
soso: A Simple Unix-like Operating System. For comparison. (via)
More on FreeBSD Refcount Overflows. (via)
Rumpkernel assisted fuzzing of the NetBSD file system kernel code in userland. (via)
Why (and how) we use OpenBSD at VidiGuard. (via)
TrueNAS 11.2 and FreeNAS 11.2-U5 now available.
scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeBSD jails.
Valuable News – 2019/09/09.
OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (7th Gen).
[ports] rss2email update, save config before updating.
DoH disabled by default in Firefox. You should do this everywhere.

2019/09/13

BSD Now 315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

A little late linking this, but never mind: BSD Now 315 includes, among its other usual links, a recap of the vBSDCon experience, from the just-completed event.

2019/09/132019/09/13

Keep rebuilding

ABI breakage continues, so continue the full buildworld/buildkernel cycle, if you are on DragonFly-current, and continue to ignore it, if you are on 5.6.

Update: yeah aim for next week.

2019/09/13

Vintage Computer Festival this weekend

Mentioning it here because it’s timely: the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is happening this weekend, and if I wait until the normal day I would post this – Sunday in Lazy Reading – it will be too late. Go if you are anywhere near. (Credit goes to joshua stein on the ChiBUG mailing list – don’t forget their meeting next Tuesday.)

2019/09/11

ABI breakage in DragonFly master

There’s commits being made in DragonFly that will break binary compatibility. If you are running DragonFly-master, that means you will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel when updating, and you will either have to rebuild packages or wait some days until a new set are built.

If you are running the 5.6 release, you are unaffected.

2019/09/11

openresolv now in DragonFly

Roy Marples has imported openresolv 3.9.2 to DragonFly. This is a replacement for the old-style /etc/resolv.conf file. The more complicated your network, the more you will appreciate this tool.

2019/09/102019/09/10

msdosfs updates

Tohiro Kusumi has been bringing in a whole lot of MSDOS filesystem updates; I can’t tell you the net effect but.I am sure they are useful if you are looking to share disk media; FAT is a sort of lowest common denominator.

2019/09/092019/09/09

route updates in DragonFly

Roy Marples has been making a bunch of changes to route(8) in DragonFly. It doesn’t change functionality, but it will, I think, make it more reliable in unreliable networks.

2019/09/082019/09/06

Lazy Reading for 2019/09/08

This week is a nice mix between useful and entertaining.

2019/09/072019/09/06

In Other BSDs for 2019/09/07

I have an RSS backlog now.

ChiBUG meets this Tuesday.
FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transitioning from Subversion to Git. Part of the recent status report. (via)
Related: Game of Trees.
OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook 14″ v2. (via)
How to configure a network dump in FreeBSD?
6.6-beta has been tagged.
Package updates for -stable branch now available for amd64, i386 soon, and arm64.
Valuable News – 2019/09/02.
The fate of MirOS Linux, and a birthday post.
snmp(1) added to -current.
Project Trident 12-U5 now available.
BitreichCON 2019 talks available.
The Dark Mod, imported. (via)
LLVM santizers and GDB regression test suite.
“Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition” now out! mwl has a non-BSD fiction release too.
Related: he has shirts now too. Read the backs.

2019/09/062019/09/06

BSD Now 314: Swap that Space

This week’s BSD Now is up, discussing a bunch of informational topics – including what’s happening with dsynth, how virtual memory works, streaming on NetBSD, and other links.

2019/09/052019/08/28

vBSDCon 2019, tonight

vBSDCon 2019 starts tonight and runs for 2 days – go if you are near.

2019/09/042019/09/04

NYCBUG meeting, streaming

I don’t know if it’s going to be streamed, but if tonight’s NYCBUG meeting and presentation is streamed, it’ll be visible here. (Preposting so I don’t miss it.)

2019/09/04

New dhcpcd for DragonFly

Roy Marples has brought in version 8.0.4 of dhcpcd(8); it’s definitely up to date since he’s the author. It does DHCP, DHCPv6, and IPv4LL/ZeroConf, the last of which I’ve only seen on Apple machines before. Someone want to try Network Configurator with it?

2019/09/032019/08/27

NYCBUG: Setting up a convenient working environment

Tomorrow’s NYCBUG meeting is “Setting up a convenient working environment“, with Ivan Ivanov. Go, if you are near. It will be streamed but I don’t have a link for that at the time I’m writing this.

2019/09/02

Scrolling in X

I’ve seen a similar config other places, but it never hurts to note: scrolling in X requires just a few xorg config lines.

2019/09/012019/08/30

Lazy Reading for 2019/09/01

I am starting to think I need an Apple ][ tag.

COLOR vs COLOUR in the Acorn.
World’s oldest orrery. Source has pictures in the attachments.
Vintage Tech, a series of Believer columns about older technology like ballpoint pens, and fortune cookies; enjoyable reads.
John Cleese, advertising for Compaq. (via)
Purposeful noise in 3D rendering.
Black Box Record Club, Vinyl Me, and Vinyl Moon, all record delivery services. (via)
Secretly Public Domain: Update. Further details on a significant change in knowledge.
Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide. (via)
Juiced.GS, a quarterly Apple II journal.
Chaos Communication Camp 2019 video. (via)
No CLI Ads. (via)
Ola Bini’s Letters from Detention. The reason I link to the commentary is the pull quote; the idea that “[C]ode and architecture are more important than laws.” Laws are public; code often isn’t. Which is an argument for open source, certainly.
Many ways to pop balloons. Not sure if that’s the actual intent.
ASCII-Mapper. (via)
Bookhunter, the comic. (via)
The Sound of D&D.
Transporting a portable system: Unix to an IBM minicomputer (1983) [pdf]. (via)
Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers. Like Rocky’s Boots, but physical. (via)
Obscure plugin game consoles. (via)
The Hathi Trust, another source for out-of-copyright books comparable to Gutenberg. (via)
GNOME Terminal Cursor Blinking Saga. (via)

2019/08/312019/08/30

In Other BSDs for 2019/08/31

I have a number of BSD user group notifications here – please tell me if you have a group and I’m not regularly posting about it.

NYCBUG meeting on the 4th: Setting up a convenient working environment, with Ivan Ivanov. I’ll post a reminder.
ChiBUG is meeting on the 17th. RSVP on the mailing list if you are going. I’ll post a reminder.
vBSDCon 2019 is happening next weekend, on September 5-7, in Reston, VA. Go if you are near; every report I read about last year’s event said it was a rollicking good time. The schedule is up.
FreeBSD on RISC-V as a voting machine test. BSD is common for embedded, high-security hardware – and people tend to not know because it’s embedded, high-security hardware. (via)
What happened to Bitrig? I haven’t heard anything in some years.
‘Cube 2: Sauerbraten‘ on FreeBSD.
Checking your pf.conf file without leaving the editor.
The Sudo Mastery hardcover.
Gcc 4.2.1 to be removed before FreeBSD 13, a firm timeline. (via)
Add [FreeBSD] kernel-side support for in-kernel TLS. (via)
Project Trident 12-U4 now available.
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Final.
GSoC 2019 Report: Implementation of compat_netbsd32 DRM ioctl/Getting DRM applications running under compat-linux.
Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Part 3.
Enchancing [sic] Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, Part 3.
Making sense of OpenBSD ‘pfctl -ss‘ output for firewall state tables.
Valuable News – 2019/08/26.
OPNsense® partners with Sunny Valley Networks.
OPNsense 19.7.3 released.
[ports] Datadir added to default postgres flags.
link-local address change.
Using FreeBSD with Ports (1/2): Classic way with tools.

2019/08/302019/08/29

Synaptics touchpad notes

For anyone who might need it in the future: some notes on getting Synaptics touchpads and trackpoints working.

2019/08/29

Jails, individualized

Jails on DragonFly now have their own sysctl tree, inherited from defaults. And are no longer MPLOCKed.