Justin Sherrill – Page 52 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2020/05/092020/05/09

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/09

Good mix of history and current BSDs this week.

FreeNAS Spare Parts Build: Testing ZFS With Imbalanced VDEVs and Mismatched Drives. Everyone does this: “I have parts laying around that I am sure would work for a critical data storage machine!”
Bill Joy’s greatest gift to man – the vi editor (2003). BSD history. (via)
Unix and Adversarial Interoperability. More BSD history, or prehistory. (via)
You Can Influence the TrueNAS CORE Roadmap!
NetBSD Core Team Changes.
HamBSD Development Log 2020-05-07. (via)
The GNU GDB Debugger and NetBSD (Part 2).
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2020 projects. (NetBSD)
Enable firefox dark mode.
Valuable News – 2020/05/04.
Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD. I am intrigued by the “Let’s Note” laptops mentioned.
Logs grinding Netatalk on FreeBSD to a hault.
Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD. (via)
What OSes we use here (as of May 2020).
OpenBSD ksh port for macOS and Linux. (via)
Time on Unix. (via)
Munching Squares. PDP-7, so pre-BSD, pre-UNIX?
virtualization in windows.

2020/05/082020/05/07

De-dupe bug details

The recent 5.8.1 release of DragonFly includes, among other things, a fix for a de-duplication bug in HAMMER2. If you are curious, here’s the commit / details.

2020/05/07

BSD Now 349: Entropy Overhaul

This week’s BSD Now is all FreeBSD and NetBSD news items – go read/listen; I have no special items to pick out but it’s all enjoyable.

2020/05/06

DragonFly 5.8 1 released

DragonFly 5.8.1 is released, a bugfix update for 5.8.0. The release tag commit has the list of changes, or you can go right to the release page. My users@ post has upgrade instructions.

2020/05/05

More misc debug tools

There’s a couple more small test/debug tools in DragonFly; possibly only useful if you like to poke at internals, but who doesn’t, really?

2020/05/04

dsynth and ccache

You can now use ccache to speed up dsynth even more.

2020/05/032020/05/02

Lazy Reading for 2020/05/03

Apple ][ theme this week, barely.

Shell productivity tips and tricks. (via)
Drawn.ca, back again.
The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle. SMR sounds bad.
Read man pages with vim.
ARM-ed Mac: We Have An Answer.
What’s your favorite terminal command ?
More about Sir Thomas Urquhart.
SSH hacks | a little sanity for remote workers. (via)
Apple //c Scene From ’80s Bond Film “A View to a Kill” Perfectly Re-Created With Applesoft BASIC.
War Stories: How Prince of Persia slew the Apple II’s memory limitations. There’s more in that series. (via)
And here’s Prince of Persia for you to play. (via)
Ten Years of Open Source Hardware. (via)
When Parallel: Pull, Don’t Push.
Pandoc links.
Understanding the Internet vs. Telephony. Intertwined but very different.
A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained.

2020/05/022020/05/01

In Other BSDs for 2020/05/02

Even though this is BSD-themed, there’s some offbeat items in here.

2020/05/01

Multiboot installation on DragonFly

Here’s a work in progress: Multiboot installs on DragonFly. Follow the thread for updates.

2020/04/30

BSD Now 348: BSD Community Collections

This week’s BSD Now has the normal links, but also shows off a “Open Source Retail Box Collection”, which is always fun to see – open source that reaches the shelf. Also: install stories!

2020/04/29

dhcpcd 9.0.2 in DragonFly

dhcpcd in DragonFly is updated to 9.0.2. This is a bugfix release, so no new features.

2020/04/28

iwm(4) solutions, too

Another network fix: if you have an iwm(4) wireless Intel device, here’s how you get it to stop saying “no carrier”.

2020/04/27

urtwn0 altq_maxlen errors

If you’ve got an urtwn(4) device (RealTek USB wireless), and you are getting errors on altq_maxlen, take a look at this solution.

2020/04/262020/04/24

Lazy Reading for 2020/04/26

A little short, I’m a little tired.

Historical computer humor.
28mag, about Warhammer miniatures. (via)
Structuring and Formatting Your Plain Text Files (Without a Markup Language).
Setting up your own tilde club (unix).
All of the Online Family Games. (via)
I don’t quite understand this attack and Is this attack a case of “why not?”
edwood, a “Go version of Plan9 Acme Editor”. Entertained by the name. (via)
Two months with Powershell on a UNIX. (via)
98.css: A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs. (via)
The Era of Fragmentation, Part 2: Sowing the Wasteland. Videotex!

2020/04/252020/04/24

In Other BSDs for 2020/04/25

Tab cleanout time!

OpenBSD has a bunch of sound device changes. (Linking to one of several)
FuryBSD 2020-Q2 images are available for XFCE, and KDE.
Valuable News – 2020/04/20.
Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS.
How to install and configure ClamAv on FreeBSD.
How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel.
(lost the source links on those last few; sorry.)
‘“things to do” after you have FreeBSD installed‘.
There’s a whole bunch of new jobs posted on the NYCBUG jobs@ list.
Replacing existing Cisco ASA 5520 with pfSense HA Cluster.
HardenedBSD April 2020 Status Report.
EKCD – Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD.
TrueNAS 11.3-U2 is Generally Available.
Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops. Might have good news for general hardware support for other systems? (via)
Debugging freebsd.org Resolution Failure. (via)

2020/04/24

DragonFly, QEMU, NVMM, NetBSD/adm64 9

Charlotte Koch sent me this link some time ago and I’ve been remiss in not posting it: DragonFly through QEMU, using NVMM, on NetBSD.

2020/04/23

BSD Now 347: New Directions

BSD Now 347 is up with the usual mix of articles, with the highlight for me being “Making Unix a little more Plan9-like”. However, there’s also the news that BSD Now is breaking out on their own, away from Jupiter Broadcasting, which is exciting news! Make sure you are looking at the correct RSS feed to catch their move.

2020/04/222020/04/21

Chromium on DragonFly

This is I think not resolved yet, but here’s something I didn’t know: keeping Chromium from being tied into Google’s services is actually a build issue, not a settings issue. i.e. once it’s in binary form, you can’t opt out.

2020/04/212020/04/17

HAMMER2 and a quick start for DragonFly

The Environment Quickstart document for DragonFly now has a HAMMER2 section.

2020/04/202020/04/17

Remembering a command

Do you still reflexively type “shutdown -p now” to power down your computer? I haven’t been able to break that habit. A recent documentation commit reminded me that “poweroff” exists, even though I posted about it 7 years ago.