Justin Sherrill – Page 67 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2019/07/072019/07/06

Lazy Reading for 2019/07/07

No unplanned theme evolved this week, but that’s OK.

Inside the Race To (finally) Bring Pinball Into the Internet Age. (via)
A Fun Saturday Survey: UNIX Pronunciation.
Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer. (via)
Learning Synths. (via)
Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Sixteen – The Tide Turns.
Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Basement Of Curiosity Episode Seventeen – Ape Expectations.
XScreenSaver 5.43 is out.
evangelion UI. (via)
At one point, Nashville had two time zones, simultaneously, based on political affiliation. (read contents of patch)
More Wumpus history.
ROMchip, a journal of game histories. (via)
The Past, Present, and Future of AI Art. (lost the source, sorry)
[Full-time] Operations Engineer at Internet Archive. A worthwhile job.
How I dropped Dropbox. Worthwhile for thinking about pulling out of any service.
How NTP Works. (via)
Fractal drawing tools. Tools to draw fractals, not tools made of fractals.

Your listening link of the week: Kerrang’s 50 best metal bands of the last decade. You (may have) heard it here first on #1. (via)

2019/07/062019/07/06

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/06

I have a backlog of more BSD links to add, beyond this – it was a busy week!

ChiBUG meets this Tuesday.
Developers: How PINE64 is creating a community to compete with Raspberry Pi’s. Linked because of the apparently-decent BSD support on PINE64 stuff. (via)
And now for something completely different: NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof). (via)
FreeBSD turns 26. (via)
OpenBSD Is Now My Workstation. (via)
Without a GUI–How to Live Entirely in a Terminal. I didn’t double-check for availability, but it’s essentially a list of ports to install. (via)
GSoC 2019 Report: Adding NetBSD KNF to clang-format, Part 1.
Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report.
Porting NetBSD to HummingBoard Pulse, Part 1.
Write your own fuzzer for NetBSD kernel! [Part 1].
Forking code support in ptrace(2).
Let’s Play on OpenBSD: Diablo.
Linux LVM on Openbsd?
Valuable News – 2019/07/01.
BSD Kernel Question from A Linux User.

2019/07/05

BSD Now 305: Changing face of Unix

I’m late posting this because I was on an island in Lake Huron instead of near a computer, but here it is now: BSD Now 304 is titled “Changing face of Unix” – that link is the show notes and will tell you more.

2019/07/052019/07/04

Radeon kernel mod change in DragonFly

The module formerly known as ‘radeonkms’ is now just plain ‘radeon’. There have been changes in other commits, but this is the only usage change.

2019/07/052019/06/21

Japan NetBSD Users Group tomorrow

There’s a meeting of the NetBSD Japan user’s group, and an informal users session, tomorrow, in Tokyo. Go, if you are near. (via)

2019/07/042019/07/03

evdev in DragonFly by default

‘evdev‘, a driver for input device events, is now built by default in the DragonFly kernel. Update your custom config to match, if you have one.

2019/07/032019/07/02

Scheduler changes for DragonFly

Matthew Dillon has made some changes to DragonFly’s scheduling system His further tests show an improvement in basic forking.

2019/07/022019/07/01

Tip for multiple system emulation

In a larger users@ thread about multiple BSD development systems and how to set them up, I spied this tip on making multiple local virtual machines all reachable via SSH.

2019/07/012019/06/30

More updates

There’s several bug fixes that have gone into DragonFly over the past few days, in an attempt to track down an odd bug. They’ve been committed to 5.6, too, so you can pick them up if you update.

I imagine this will turn into a 5.6.2 release, but not until we find the cause of the error mentioned in that link.

2019/06/302019/06/29

Lazy Reading for 2019/06/30

I’m going to be very busy over the next week, so I am not sure how consistent my posting schedule will be, or how much I will be able to build up for next weekend. We’ll find out together.

Getting 2FA Right in 2019.
The TTY demystified. (via)
Ranger, a console file manager with VI keybindings. Linked to show how vi keybindings are another common item. (via)
Into the Personal Website-Verse. (via)
The Simple Genius of Checklists. (via)
A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans.
“Free with DRM is not the same thing as free.” Microsoft-purchased ebooks stop working next month. (via)
Adventures In Interactivity. Text adventures!
Some UNIX humor. Puns, not humor.
Seattle Mechanical Keyboard Meetup, later this month. (via)

2019/06/292019/06/29

In Other BSDs for 2019/06/29

Last minute, again.

2019/06/28

Shut up, ACPI

You’ll all be happy to know ACPI errors are less noisy now. (And it was updated to 20190509, before the 5.6 release.)

2019/06/27

BSD Now 304: Prospering with Vulkan

This week’s BSD Now talks about the normal assortment of news, including DragonFly’s release, and an explanation of the Vulkan framework in OpenBSD; something I hadn’t read about yet.

2019/06/26

TCP keepalive change in DragonFly kernel

Matthew Dillon’s made a change to the DragonFly kernel that could be disruptive, but will help make sure chromium runs. If you update after this point, make sure to update your dports, too, just to be sure everything is in sync. This applies to 5.6 and 5.7.

2019/06/25

Gaining memory back in DragonFly

Because of some changes Matthew Dillon made to maxvnodes calculation in DragonFly, you may find yourself using 5%-10% less RAM. If you’ve upgraded to 5.6, you already have this benefit.

2019/06/252019/06/25

retpoline, SMAP, SMEP in DragonFly

DragonFly now has retpoline turned on (stats included in that link) as a side effect of having gcc-8 as default, and SMAP/SMEP are also supported. I enjoy just saying these words out loud. SMEP SMEP SMEP SMEPSMEPSMEPSMEP.

2019/06/242019/06/25

MDS mitigation added, a while ago

I’m still backlogged, so here’s a May 14th mitigation in DragonFly for MDS attacks possible with Intel CPUs from 2011 onward. It’s in the current release.