DragonFly – Page 2 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2023/12/312023/12/27

Lazy Reading for 2023/12/31

Happy new year! More BSD content in this week’s summary than usual.

The Infinite 8-Bit Computer Game Character Archive. (via)
OSR Rules Families. (via)
How about not having platforms so large that their policy decisions carry this much weight? Having an alternative platform makes these problems go away.
Battle for Libraries. Seeing some of the authors signed up to support this made me decide “yes, this is good”.
A Murder at the End of the World: Are you Vi or Emacs? (via)
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 28 – Configuration – Corner Actions.
Making my own Bed Sensor. (via)
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter. Always check voltages / don’t trust written voltages. (via)
First bits of a Haiku compatibility layer for NetBSD. (via)
Default mail transport in FreeBSD 14.0 is DragonFly Mail Agent, neat.
The BSDCan 2024 Call For Papers is out.

Your unrelated music of the week: Don Leisure, Halal Cool J. Music’s good, title’s hilarious. (via)

2023/12/262023/12/25

New mirror added

Yao Ge has created a new DragonFly mirror in Nanjing, China. It’s on the mirrors page too.

2023/12/052023/11/29

urtwn(4) update

If you have a TP-Link TL-WN722N v2 wireless adapter, you are in luck.

2023/11/302023/11/23

dsynth in DragonFly

Elements of dsynth, the mass package builder for DragonFly, are now appearing in the base system. It looks like this is most helpful for building packages as part of the base install, but there might be other applications.

2023/11/282023/11/23

Mercusys MW150US support in DragonFly

This is mostly an ID change, but the Mercusys MW150US USB wifi adapter is now supported in DragonFly.

2023/11/09

devfs and procfs in jail

You can now run devfs(5) and procfs(5) in a jailed environment for DragonFly. As the commit message says, it’s for dsynth but I imagine this may be good for other applications.

2023/10/30

Kernel and world rebuild needed

If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly, this recent struct change will require a kernel and world rebuild. If you are running the release, it doesn’t affect you.

2023/10/20

Per-process capability-based restrictions

New to the DragonFly kernel: jail-like capability restrictions, that may not require a jail to use.

2023/10/092023/10/04

Recover option for HAMMER2

HAMMER2 has a new ‘recover’ option, committed in two parts. There’s of course further optimization.

2023/10/072023/10/04

Shutting up about headless systems

If you are running a headless DragonFly system, you may find this new ‘ifexists’ option for ttys helpful.

2023/10/062023/10/04

BSD hardening scripts

Hardening scripts for BSD. There should be a DragonFly-specific one eventually.

2023/10/052023/10/04

Mercusys MW150US support

I may have missed this if it’s been committed, but if you have a Mercusys MW150US, aka a RealTek USB wifi dongle, there’s a patch to support it in Dragonfly.

2023/07/14

Adding a disk in DragonFly

Here’s the notes, for future reference. It’s not hard, but it happens rarely enough I don’t remember the steps.

2023/06/222023/06/20

More offline HAMMER2 options

Tomohiro Kusumi’s offline HAMMER2 support continues, with ‘setcheck’ (check code) and ‘setcomp’ (compression type) support. See the hammer2(8) man page for what those options do.

2023/06/212023/06/15

More HAMMER2 offline support

You can now create, delete, and snapshot PFS on HAMMER2 even when the drive isn’t mounted; Tomohiro has added offline support.

2023/06/14

nvme(4) update you don’t want to see

the nvme(4) driver now prints a detailed message about I/O errors. It’s great that it does that, hope you never see it.

2023/06/09

HAMMER2 and offline actions

You can now clean up, grow, and destroy HAMMER2 volumes, even when they are not mounted. There’s also an emergency mode, though I’m not clear on when you’d invoke it.

2023/06/02

Making smbios visible

For some reason smbios device support always gave me trouble on every laptop I worked on for the 2000s. So, this support for smbios identification on EFI-only boots is good news to me.

2023/03/30

Silencing the console

If you absolutely, must shut up your console, kern.kprintf_logging=0.

2023/03/11

backlight in DragonFly

backlight, both the generic backlight driver and control tool, has been ported to DragonFly.