Here’s a detailed writeup from Aaron LI on how to get a DragonFly system onto an IPv6 network.
Update: He also supplied an example pf ruleset that solved some IPv6 throughput problems for his VPS.
Pulled from a longer thread: x.x.1 update instructions for DragonFly.
Probably old hat to most readers, but I like to see this documented, and the hw.ncpu ‘trick’ is nice.
I finally used up my overflow links.
- Dusty Decks: Preserving historic software. (via)
- Moore’s Law, from Rodney Brooks and from ACM. (via)
- All you need to know about Unix environment variables.
- A Unix Person’s Guide to PowerShell. (via)
- Nodes of Yesod: ZX Spectrum Next – developer blog episode 2.
- Steve Jackson’s Ogre rumbles onto PC in October. Linked solely because I found the original asymmetric board game fascinating. And never played it.
- Getting an Amiga 1000 Online. (via)
- How to Hand Letter Like an Architect. I took several technical drawing classes … 20 years ago? It still affects my handwriting.
- Debugging DNS. (via)
- Best option for modern X server on Windows?
- books chapter nine
- Carry a Little More to Waste a Little Less. Good advice, but get a folding utensil set; it’s much easier to deal with.
- The HERE IS key. (via)
Your odd video link of the week: what if the Doctor Who theme was composed by John Carpenter, Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, or Tangerine Dream? (via)
The new look on undeadly.org sure is nice.
- RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut.
- Can a BSD system replicate the performance of high-end router appliance? Benchmarking would A: show the answer and B: I bet show that the throughput needs of the poster were not as high as they thought.
- Which Unix had the first package manager?
- FreeBSD 10.4-BETA1 Available.
- subversion via ssh passphrase-less key. Really about capturing DNS changes.
- deraadt@ moves us to 6.2-beta!
- t2k17 Hackathon Reports: Daniel Jakots on updating ports, Nagios OpenBGPD plugin and…, Ian Sutton on ARM progress, My first time (Aaron Bieber), Philip Guenther: locking and libc, Andrew Hewus Fresh on Perl and Coffee, and No lock no cry… with CTF! (Martin Pieuchot).
- Kernel syspatches will soon be smaller thanks to KARL.
- PFsense <-> EdgeOS IPSec tunnels.
- Faster forwarding.
- AF3e status, 22 August 2017. That’s ‘Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition’.
- The Manifest – A podcast all about package management. I’m sure this will include BSD packaging systems at some point. (via)
- BSDCan 2017 videos have started being uploaded. (via)
No interview this week, but BSDNow 208 notes a certain recent software release and also links to something I’ve always wanted to see – a BSD games site. It’s OpenBSD oriented, but it probably applies pretty evenly across all the BSDs.
I was reminded of this thanks to the Google Calendar entry: SemiBUG is having their monthly meeting tomorrow night (the 22nd, in case that’s tonight by the time you read this), and it’s one of my favorite formats – a series of lightning talks with 2 slides, 5 minutes.
There will be a bootable, single-image version of HAMMER2 in the next DragonFly release. Matthew Dillon has a note about what will be in place at that point, and you can always look at the recent commits.
A new episode of garbage has heaved forth, with an interview of Patrick Wildt from the recent Toronto hackathon.
This is overflow from last week’s overflow.
- Can we please do useful things with software? (via)
- Morrow Micronix Operating System User’s Manual (1983) Section 1.1 is called “Confusion Relief” and it gets better from there. (via)
- Cultural items as clickbait. Pictures!
- Tilix: A tiling terminal emulator. Use with a tiling window manager for maximum tile level. Tile-ception! (via)
- HyperCard On The Archive. (via)
- a repo upon the deep
- The world in which IPv6 was a good design.
- Where TCL and TK went wrong. (via)
- The NOVA filesystem. (via)
- The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design. (via)
- The quitting economy. (also via)
- My 100 Favorite Programming, Math, Physics and Science Books: Part Seven. I have book 33 on this list and really like it.
Your web game of the week: Sword Shop. Unity, so not sure where it can run other than Windows, unfortunately. (via)
I think I managed to avoid any theme this week.
- Smartisan Makes Another Iridium Donation to the OpenBSD Foundation. A phone manufacturer I was not familiar with.
- Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum.
- “If you do all the work, you can perform magic. But if you are asking others to help, nope.” (via)
- How to BSD + Plasma 5?
- t2k17 Hackathon Report: Bob Beck on buffer cache tweaks, libressl and pledge progress.
- t2k17 Hackathon Report: Ted Unangst OpenBSD with more ptys.
- The history of *nix package management.
- Undeadly to be Upgraded Next Week. To this!
This happened a while ago, and I’m just catching up to it: the virtio_scsi(4) driver has been added to DragonFly; ported from FreeBSD and worked on by a number of people. ‘man virtio‘ if you want background.
This week’s BSDNow talks about the recent BSD convention in Cambridge (which I somehow did not know about until afterwards), plus lots of other talk, and a link to this entertaining terminal emulator.
“gee, we have a 6-digit PID, might as well make it work to a million!”
Here’s the first of several commits to support this, and here’s the highest load averages I’ve ever seen.
Overflow!
- Toward A More Useful X Keyboard. (via)
- My $169 development Chromebook. (via)
- Class Apples, an album made entirely on the Apple ][ – in 2017. (via)
- CES, 1987. “2 new Betamax players hitting the market this summer…” etc. etc. (via)
- Programming in the 1960s. A slide deck of personal experience. (via)
- books chapter six, books chapter seven, books chapter eight.
- Unix: dealing with signals.
- How are users choosing their passwords on the internet?
- Everything is an HTTPS interface. (via)
- Better spelling with aspell. a reminder that a spell checker can always be available.
- Let ‘localhost’ be localhost. I guess people need to be reminded. (via)
- Text Editor Performance Comparison. (via)
- The Return of the Hipster PDA. (via)
Questions are this week’s accidental theme.
- Beta Update – Request for (more) Testing. (undeadly)
- UMPC compatible with BSD’s?
- Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (v2). (via)
- Any BSD with Skylake and Gnome?
- openbsd changes of note 626.
- htop. Mentioned because there is at least a passing BSD reference.
- BSDCam 2017 Trip Report: Michael Lucas. (via)
- August SemiBUG meeting rescheduled to the 22nd.
- From a comment here: discussion of the FreeBSD release process, from a heavy user.
- upcoming hackathon proposal: NYC BSD Tor bridges. Those monoculture stats for Tor are not good for Tor.
If you are running DragonFly on a Ryzen CPU, this commit will fix (work around?) a hardware bug. I have not looked at how other operating systems may be addressing it, but it may be interesting to contrast.
You all have seen the hier(archy) man page, correct? BSDNow 206 gets into things like the new Lumina and Plasma desktops.
I should have linked this yesterday: a description of kcollect and its uses from Matthew Dillon, complete with example graph of a very busy machine.
There’s a new facility in DragonFly: kcollect(8). It holds automatically-collected kernel data for about the last day, and can output to gnuplot. Note the automatic collection part; your system will always be able to tell you about weirdness – assuming that weirdness extends to one of the features kcollect tracks. Here’s some of the commits.