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2014/12/062014/12/05

In Other BSDs for 2014/12/06

I have been building up quite the variety this week.

Bitrig 1.0 has been released.
Writing NetBSD Sound Drivers in Haskell. (PDF, via)
ruBSD 2014, happening December 13th in Moscow. (via)
How to configure full disk encryption in PC-BSD 10.1. (via)
BSD Magazine for November 2014. (via) Why don’t they put new issue announcements in their RSS?
A week of pkgsrc #5.
FreeBSD Foundation’s 2014 year-end fundraising.
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials is hitting the printers. There’s a quiet mention of the next two books in that series, too.
Two new kernel errata for OpenBSD.
BSDCan 2015 (June 2015) has opened up its call for papers, now through Jan 19th, 2015. (via)
A conversation about UTF-8, Unicode, and file systems.
A conversation about random vs. phrase passwords.
New Directions in Operating Systems conference notes. Lots of BSD stuff in there. (via)
nih-0.13.0 is out for pkgsrc.
BSD presentations (including DragonFly) at the X Developers Conference. I mentioned the event itself before, but that link wasn’t open to non-subscribers until later, as pointed out to me.
Coreboot on the BSDs.
More talk about embedded OpenBSD on cheap machines, including thin client machines repurposed into routers.
Noticed in that previous link: <$100 Ubuquiti EdgeRouter-Lites can run OpenBSD? FreeBSD too, apparently.
Is it time to give BSDs a try?
Fixing PC-BSD upgrade issues.

2014/12/05

The Varialus page

This page, Varialus et Anisoptera, set up by… I’m not sure of the real name but it’s ‘varialus’ on IRC – has a detailed description of the DragonFly install process and installation of MATE, plus extra notes. I always find these sorts of cheatsheets entertaining.

2014/12/042014/12/05

Fred, in color

The DragonFly boot menu has been cleaned up a bit, and Fred, the dragonfly drawn on DragonFly, is now in better color. In fact, there’s even an option to turn him blue.

Update: I wanted to see what this looked like, and I realized screenshots might help everyone else.

redfred

bluefred

2014/12/03

A pile of DragonFly commits

In an effort to reduce my backlog of DragonFly things to post about, here’s quick notes:

The path to xauth is now configurable, though correct by default. (that’s bit me in the past)
There’s a new callout*() implementation.
cpuctl(4) has been imported to allow CPU microcode updates.
libm has been updated with math functions from FreeBSD and NetBSD, which because of library versioning support, won’t cause compatibility problems for older vs. newer DragonFly versions.
C++11 support is also now available.

2014/12/02

svc(8), service manager for DragonFly

I’m running behind so this is a bit old, but: Matthew Dillon commited svc(8), a service manager program. Take a look at its man page to see the potential uses.

2014/12/01

A rcrun(8) conversation

Robin Hahling wants feedback on where to go in DragonFly with rcrun(8), service(8), and similar commands. Follow the thread to see the various opinions.

2014/11/28

LDAP and DragonFly

Predrag Punosevac posted his writeup of using LDAP and DragonFly, which I’m noting here for the next person that needs LDAP authentication.

2014/11/262014/11/26

XHCI and installing DragonFly

With a recent commit from Sascha Wildner, DragonFly now loads XHCI (meaning USB3) by default. If you had previously tried to install DragonFly via USB stick, and it inexplicably refused to mou t the installer drive… It may work much better now.

2014/11/26

Release followups

There’s an extended article about the DragonFly 4.0 release on linuxfr.org. You need to be able to read French to enjoy it fully, or perhaps through translation, but it goes into some good depth.

2014/11/252014/11/25

DragonFly 4.0 released!

The 4.0 release of DragonFly is out! Quoting from the release page:

Version 4 of DragonFly brings Haswell graphics support, 3D acceleration, and improved performance in extremely high-traffic networks. DragonFly now supports up to 256 CPUs, Haswell graphics (i915), concurrent pf operation, and a variety of other devices.

The more eagle-eyed downloader will notice it’s version 4.0.1, not 4.0.0. That’s because ~~nobody trusts .0 releases~~ I tagged 4.0.0 just before a few useful commits went in, and it’s better to retag to make sure everyone got them. See also my message to kernel@/users@

2014/11/24

Several DragonFly updates

I’m working on the 4.0 release, but in the meantime, I wanted to point at a slew of updates from Sascha Wildner: ACPICA 20141107, pciconf(8), axge(4), and the kernel part of the netgraph7 Bluetooth stack.

2014/11/19

BSDTalk 248: Matthew Dillon and DragonFly

I hadn’t caught this yet cause I am working extra hours, but Matthias did: Matthew Dillon talks about DragonFly and the 4.0 release for a good 43 minutes on BSDTalk.

2014/11/19

IPFW…3? work

A fellow whom I’ve only seen named as Bill is working on what he calls ipfw2, though technically what’s already in DragonFly is ipfw2, since it’s the second version of ipfw. Either way, he has a project page up describing what he’s done so far, and what he plans.

2014/11/17

Old USB out, new USB in

Sascha Wildner has removed the old USB system from DragonFly; you’re getting USB4BSD no matter what now, after the 4.0 release. While we’re at it, xhci is now automatically loaded in the installer, so installer USB drives attached to USB3 ports will work.

2014/11/17

For USB debugging

Markus Pfeiffer has made usb_pf work on DragonFly, which means it’s possible to dump USB traffic and filter it, similar to tcpdump. This can be handy when debugging a USB device, and that’s like 90% of all devices anyway.

2014/11/142014/11/14

DragonFly 4.0.0RC3 images

If you look at your local DragonFly mirror, you’ll see ISO and IMG versions of DragonFly 4.0.0RC3. Please run, break, and report.

(Check the iso-images directory.)

2014/11/13

A DRM speedup

Imre Vadaz’s recent change to dev/drm, adding kqueue support, has (from anecdotal reports in IRC) made video performance much better. It’s committed to DragonFly 4.0, so it’ll be in the next release.

2014/11/12

No, wait, RC3

Matthew Dillon had some followup commits that went in just after I tagged RC2 of DragonFly 4.0 last night, so I’ve tagged RC3. Tagging’s cheap, anyway.

2014/11/11

DragonFly 4.0 RC2 tagged

I just tagged a second release candidate of DragonFly 4. Matthew Dillon’s recent reapctl() addtions – now called procctl() – just went in.

2014/11/10

reapctl() added to DragonFly

Matthew Dillon’s added the reapctl() call, which gives a process control over all sub-processes, even when detached. This is initally useful for bulk builds of dports, but can probably be extended farther…