January 2016 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2016/01/312016/01/29

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/31

I am proud of finding some of these links this week; they are not the usual “here’s what everyone else linked to” that you see.

Evolution of Ethernet Speeds: What’s New and What’s Next. I did not know about 2.5G/5G speeds over existing cat5. (via)
Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government” (via)
#screensaverjam.
Most off-putting introduction to a new technology.
Sanos PDP-11 Simulator with UNIX V7e. Boot SanOS which runs a PDP-11 simulator, which then runs UNIX v7. (via)
best idea ever
***** – Five star cron job. Will run again. (via)
The Amiga Graphics Archive. (via)
The Bear Essentials: Developing a Commodore 64 Game, Part 1. (via)
The anatomy of an ssh session. (via)
Go 1.7 planning. I like peeking into other open source groups’ release planning.
The New Sound Of Music 1979 (Part 1) The fun part of computer history, and it talks about the Radiophonics Workshop! (via)
Your Development Environment is Probably an Eldritch Horror. (via)

Your unrelated graph link of the week: Visualizing HipHop trends from 1989 – 2015. (via)

2016/01/302016/01/29

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/30

Another week with plenty of links.

FreeBSD x64 OpenVPN AD authentication with crypt. (via)
A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-to. (via)
FreeBSD Virtual Machine: Installing VMware tools. A basic explanation for a frequent activity. (via)
“why attention to detail matters when you’re a kernel developer.”
Call for testing: Concurrent malloc(3) calls (to speed up firefox)
Writing Assembly on OpenBSD (x86) (via)
I’m going back to the future….
OpenFire Active Directory integration. (via)
Net ring-buffers are essential to an OS. (via) Check comments on the source link.
Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot. From 2006 so may not be accurate. (via)
How has NetBSD changed since 2006? A followup on that previous link.
Interested in BSD ports or are we all wasting time here? (via)
Faces of FreeBSD 2016: Sean Bruno.
BSD at SCALE 14x. Goat sighting! They are looking for BSD talks for next year.
Doc like an Egyptian: Managing project documentation with Sphinx. Sphinx is used for documentation on several BSD projects. (via)
OPNsense 16.1 Released.
FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems now escaping.

2016/01/29

More on privatization

For those of you running DragonFly-current, the already-mentioned library privatization going on means that ports have to be rebuilt. You will want to do it yourself, or wait a little bit before upgrading if you want to install binaries.

2016/01/28

BSDNow 126: Illuminating the future on PC-BSD

BSDNow 126 has an interview with Ken Moore and Kris Moore of PC-BSD, along with the usual news roundup. There’s a DragonFly mention in the “open source work helps your career” news item that I did not know about but am happy to see.

2016/01/27

Privatization means rebuilds

That’s a pretty cryptic headline, isn’t it? John Marino has ‘privatized’ several libraries in DragonFly, so that they can’t get included involuntarily as part of a port build. That may mean you will need to perform a full rebuild of your system if you are tracking DragonFly-current.

(This is the way to fix ‘system’ languages like Perl was in FreeBSD 4.x – keep them clearly separate from the port version. It’s about a decade too late for that idea to work out, though.)

2016/01/26

License corrections for DragonFly

This has no effect on the actual operation of DragonFly, but it makes me feel better that it’s done: Rimvydas Jasinskas has gone through DragonFly source and removed the unnecessary 3rd BSD license clause, which is no longer needed.

2016/01/252016/01/23

i915 update: ValleyView, Skylake support

For those of you with i915 video on your DragonFly system, there’s another update bringing DragonFly support to match what’s in the Linux 4.1 kernel. ValleyView and Skylake processor owners will benefit, along with a slew of other bugfixes and improvements.

2016/01/242016/01/22

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/24

The links get weird this week; get ready!

IN THE THEATER OF LITERATE DISASSEMBLY, PASTOR MANUL LAPHROAIG AND HIS MERRY BAND OF REVERSE ENGINEERS LIFT THE WELDED HOOD FROM THE ENGINE THAT RUNS THE WORLD! Note the Apple ][ section. (via)
The World’s Worst Spam Support ISPs. (via)
SSH – A brief analysis of the internet. (via profmakx on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
FOSDEM 2016 is coming up in a week. (via)
Fractal fun on the web.
A Quarter Century of UNIX. available as a PDF, too. (via)
Novena on the Ben Heck Show.
when preloads go sideways.
The Art of the Command Line. Scroll down. Linux/bash-specific in many places, but potentially useful. (also via)
The Original Mobile App Was Made of Paper. Volvelles! (via)
The Creepy Beauty of VCR Errors. (via)
DNS Censorship (DNS Lies) As Seen By RIPE Atlas. (via)

2016/01/232016/01/22

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/23

I’m always happy when I can compile news for at least 4+ different BSDs at once.

How Three BSD Operating Systems Compare To Ten Linux Distributions. (via)
[OpenBSD] Tracking -current, am I doing this correctly? (…and other questions)
Group Test: Bsd Distros. (via)
Basis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment. Have I linked this before elsewhere?
NetBSD support for psutil. (via)
BSD based core router on 10Gbps network.
Sailor, a native and portable container system for NetBSD and Mac OS X. (via)
Things I learned from OpenSSH about reading very sensitive files. Leads to some OpenBSD discussion. (via)
FreeBSD nGinx FFmpeg camera recording and live streaming. (via)
DiscoverBSD for 2016/01/18.
FreeNAS Home Server Build. (via)
OPNsense 15.7.25 Released.

2016/01/22

Checking HAMMER volumes for health

If you are looking to validate the data on your HAMMER volume, there’s several ways to do so, with one common-sense caveat.

2016/01/212016/01/21

BSDNow 125: DevSummits, Core and the Baldwin

This week’s BSDNow has an interview of John Baldwin, with a focus on running a DevSummit.

(linking to the Jupiter Broadcasting page cause the bsdnow.tv site isn’t updated as of this typing.)

2016/01/20

i915 DisplayPort users take note

Are you using a i915 video chipset? Are you using the DisplayPort? Imre Vadasz has added a tunable that may make it work better.

2016/01/18

DMA spreads

DMA, the DragonFly Mail Agent, is available in dports and FreeBSD ports, and is now available for NetBSD through pkgsrc-wip. (Thanks, Christian Koch)

2016/01/172016/01/16

Lazy Reading for 2016/01/17

I’m taking an online course and don’t have as much clicking-about time, unfortunately.

Vimer – Convenience wrapper for gvim/mvim –remote(-tab)-silent. (via)
Compilation-bookmarks for emacs. In the interest of equal time. (via)
Vim Galore. Unequal again. (via)
Freeciv-Earth play anywhere on earth. (via)
My payphone runs Linux now. More a hardware hacking story.
Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop. More hardware. (via)
NANOG 66, February 7-10, San Diego, CA.
FOSSAsia 2016, March 18-20, Singapore.
The Axe Attack on the Early GPS Navigation System. (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Golem Arcana. For the miniatures gamer with a handheld.

2016/01/162016/01/15

In Other BSDs for 2016/01/16

There’s a lot of convention links this week, which is mostly an accident. If any of them are near you, go! BSD conventions are always fun, in my experience.

FreeBSD on EdgeRouter Lite – no serial port required.
Nearly 19 years of FreeBSD 2.2.1. (via)
CharmBUG, a BSD user group in Baltimore, Maryland, has a new mailing list. See also the Meetup page. (via)
AsiaBSDCon 2016 is coming up in Tokyo, March 11-13. (also via)
You have only a few days left to meet the BSDCan Call for Papers deadline. (also via)
The HOPE convention is July 22-24. (also plundered via)
And if you haven’t clicked on it yet, here’s NYCBUG’s upcoming schedule.
outrageous roaming fees, about the recent CVE-2016-777|8.
OpenBSD laptops.
Xen Support Enabled in [openbsd]-current.
The Penguicon Lucas Tech Track.
OPNSense 15.7.24 Released.
BSD Is Ready for SCALE 14X.
DiscoverBSD for 2016/01/11. (says 2015 but it’s a typo.)
Best of 2015 in BSD Magazine.

2016/01/15

BSDNow 124: Get your engine(x) started!

I almost missed it again! BSDNow 124 is up, with an interview of Igor Sysoev about nginx, plus the normal roundup.

2016/01/152016/01/14

em/emx(4) users, please test

Sepherosa Ziehau has an update to the em/emx(4) (or other Intel NICs) driver, for testing. Hey, remember what I said the other day about Skylake support?

2016/01/142016/01/14

CVE-2016-0777 and CVE-2016-0778 in DragonFly

There’s two important security updates for SSH. DragonFly release and development have been updated for it, and you can correct for it on your running system using the one-liner at Undeadly.

Note: keep in mind this is a client bug – it’s an information leak when you as a client connect out to somewhere else. A server, as an endpoint, is not affected.

2016/01/132016/01/12

Skylake processors next

New CPU support in DragonFly is continuing, and Matthew Dillon will be testing one of the newer Intel ‘Skylake‘ processors soon. That may mean even more accelerated graphics support at some point, too.

2016/01/12

McCabe complexity and DragonFly

I’ve never heard of ‘McCabe Complexity‘ before now. It’s a description of how complicated software can be, measured by the number of possible paths through it. Pierre Abbat used that measure on Hammer code and not surprisingly, got a high number.