October 2018 – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk at mug.org tonight; he may have physical copies of his new Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition available. Go, if you are near. Pro tip: If you are late but still want to catch up to Michael, look for the nearest gelato shop.

2018/10/08

OverTRIMmed

Matthew Dillon recently fixed a TRIM bug, where a TRIM command was being issued unconditionally, regardless of the mount flag, and duplicating the action if it was set normally. It’s fixed now. This would only have any significant slowdown on UFS, which means it would only affect installworld – the rest of your mounted volumes are HAMMER, right?

2018/10/072018/10/05

Lazy Reading for 2018/10/07

Old computer theme this week. That may be more of a constant.

PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70. (via)
Fonts on Unix. (via) The source comments mention Go Mono a number of times; new to me.
Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work?? Of course the answer is eventually yes or why link to it? (via)
Standard Notes, an open source alternative to other notes apps. (via)
Two Bit History, computer history by decade. I’ve linked to some of the individual articles before.
The Story of the Polysynth, video. (via)
Colour Without Colour: Apple II Computer Graphics. (via)
The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found. (via)
STAR, an Arduino Robot Recreation. Creepy crawler.
Full Table. Down the rabbit hole of images. (via)
Rules for Online Sanity, a PDF. (via)
SGI collectors.
Bad relay: Fixing the card reader for a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe.
Inform: Past, Present, Future. (via)

2018/10/062018/10/05

In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06

Still catching up on links.

garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server. (via)
NetBSD8.0 on UEFI Bootloader and Windows Tablet. (via)
NetBSD/arm64 on QEMU. (via)
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem. (via)
Old xcb libraries removed in OpenBSD.
EuroBSDCon 2018 report.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release. (via)
Debian on OpenBSD vmd (without qemu or another debian system) (via)
Installing Gophernicus in OpenBSD. I just like the name. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/09/29.
Polish BSD User Group, a summary. There’s a meeting soon, too.
Manage ”nice” priority of daemons on OpenBSD.

2018/10/05

virtio_random in DragonFly

Something I didn’t know existed but makes sense now that I do: a virtualized randomness device, added to DragonFly. Entropy is usually provided through hardware, so of course you’d need something for it in a VM.

2018/10/04

BSDNow 266: File Type History

BSDNow 266 is up, and while the title is “File Type History”, there’s a number of “this is how I use BSD” stories on there, which I always find interesting.

2018/10/03

NYCBUG tonight

6:30 tonight: NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, with the topic of Subdo. I don’t know what that is, but we all can find out: tonight’s meeting will be streamed.

2018/10/02

DragonFly, Cygwin, and PuTTY

To add to my ongoing slow fiddle with DragonFly: I’ve noted how to install in Hyper-V, and how to use Cygwin to connect to run X. Here’s another step: if you are using PuTTY/Pageant, as I am, and want to connect, Cygwin/X needs to be told to listen on TCP. Find your /usr/bin/startxwin file in Cygwin and change serverargs to:

serverargs=”-listen tcp”

And then in PuTTY, under Connection -> Session -> X11, check “Enable X11 forwarding”, set X display location to “:0.0”, and locate your .Xauthority file. It will be in your user’s Cygwin home directory. (tips found here)

plink can be used to create shortcuts – open an xterm directly into your DragonFly VM from your Windows desktop, for instance, with a shortcut that runs ‘plink <sessionname> xterm’.

If you are running a slightly newer version of Windows and aren’t trying to accommodate a ‘legacy’ PuTTY install, using Windows Subsystem for Linux may work better; I have not yet tried.

2018/10/012018/09/30

KnoxBUG, tonight

There’s a KnoxBUG BSD user group meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the topic of “Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe: A Case Study with OpenZFS“, presented by Nick Principe. It’s happening at 6 PM, tonight. They have the prettiest logo of any BUG that I’ve seen.