April 2017 – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2017/04/082017/04/07

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/08

Why why why…

2017/04/07

randread on DragonFly

Did you know there’s a randread utility on DragonFly that will report on disk performance? Well, you do now. The very terse comment in the source code will tell you how to compile it and the arguments.

2017/04/06

BSDNow 188: And then the murders began

It really does work, that lead-in, and it’s on BSDNow episode 188.

2017/04/052017/04/04

DragonFly 4.6.2 released

Yes, I know we just released 4.8. This is a rollup release, capturing everything that was committed to the 4.6 branch after 4.6.1 and before 4.8 came out. If you are going to upgrade, it’s worth it to go to 4.8, but this way there’s a clean final version in the 4.6 branch.

(Hat tip to Sascha Wildner for reminding me to do this.)

2017/04/042017/04/02

Getting to yes.c with NYCBUG

It’s happening tomorrow night at the NYCBUG meeting: a yes.c code reading. (more details) Go, if you are close.

2017/04/04

New ‘efisetup’ script in DragonFly

I am late in mentioning this, because it was added just before the DragonFly 4.8 branch: there’s a new ‘efisetup(8)‘ script added to DragonFly. Use to to perform a complete a UEFI-bootable installation to a given disk.

2017/04/022017/03/30

Lazy Reading for 2017/04/02

I’m very UNIXy this week.

Have You Played… Event[0]? Sounds like a simulation of IRC.
TERRIBLE, AWFUL, NO GOOD, REALLY BAD HEAVY METAL ALBUM COVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. (via)
The Best Metal on Bandcamp: March 2017. A palate cleanser from the last link.
Google Open Source Docs. Everyone releases their code, but not their methodology, which is arguably as important. (via)
Windows disk-loading/code-swapping. I remember this from Apple ][ days; there is no modern equivalent that I can think of.
The creator of Dwarf Fortress doesn’t really like to play games like Dwarf Fortress. (via)
Research UNIX V8, V9 and V10 made public by Alcatel-Lucent. (via)
Related: What’s the earliest UNIX (or unix-like) OS that is both easily available and can run on x86?
How to learn Unix/Linux and Lesser known but still handy Linux commands. Essentially command line tool education.
Zero Terminal. Another item for my teeny computer fetish. (via)

Your useful tip of the week: Setting the root login’s ‘full name’ to identify the machine that sent email. This makes so much sense. (via)

2017/04/012017/03/31

In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01

Odd batch of links this week.

Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBSD phone link from BSDNow, earlier this week, led me to these two other projects: FreeBSD Robot + Teensy 3.1 and MiniBSD laptop computer.
*BSD for Dell XPS 13 (9350)
OPNsense 17.1.4 released.
vmm(4)/vmd(8) support for seabios and linux guests.
“Httpd and Relayd Mastery” off to copyedit.
NetBSD and Summer of Code, FreeBSD and Summer of Code. Deadline is in a few days!
Upcoming NYCBUG events – next meeting is this Wednesday.

Your BSD-related fiction book of the week (year? decade?) :’git commit murder‘ is out, set at a (fictional) BSD convention.