The first report on LLD porting

Jan 18, 2019 ~ Written by Kamil Rytarowski

Prepared by Michał Górny (mgorny AT gentoo.org). LLD is the link editor (linker) component of Clang toolchain. Its main advantage over GNU ld is much lower memory footprint, and linking speed. It is of specific interest to me since currently 8 GiB of memory are insufficient to link LLVM statically (which is the upstream default). The first [...]

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BSD Now 281: EPYC Server Battle

Jan 18, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

This week’s BSD Now discusses scp vulnerabilities, GhostBSD, and the recent EPYC hardware benchmarks that I have not linked because I don’t think they are useful information.

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Cleanly adding sysctl entries on Drag...

Jan 16, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

If you’d like to set a particular sysctl(8), you enter it into /etc/sysctl.conf. A common mistake is to copy the command line and put “sysctl foo=bar” in sysctl.conf instead of “foo=bar”. This used to cause a warning, but it still bit people, as it would cause a long stream of error messages during boot – [...]

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SEMIBUG meeting tonight

Jan 15, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

The normal meeting space isn’t available this month or next, so tonight’s meeting is an informal get-together at 7 PM at Leo’s Coney Island. I assume if you are near, you know Leo’s. Go if that’s you.

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Power notes, booting notes

Jan 14, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

Two links I yoinked from conversation in EFNet #dragonflybsd: there’s a “powersave” power management page on dragonflybsd.org that for some reason wasn’t linked in the main documentation page. I fixed that, and you may want to look at it and change your mwait settings, or look at the corepower(4) module. (From iva [...]

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Lazy Reading for 2019/01/13

Jan 13, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

Unofficial theme this week: me commenting on almost every link. An odd MIME Content-Disposition or two. I like seeing the analysis of parts of traffic people never usually see.My one-liner Linux Dropbox client. Not saying to do this specifically, but the tool integration is nice. (via)Pathfinding for Tower Defense. That whole Red Blob (R [...]

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In Other BSDs for 2019/01/12

Jan 12, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week. pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via) Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via) People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded (Read more... [...]

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BSD Now: FOSS Clothing

Jan 11, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

This week’s BSD Now talks about merchandise! No, it’s really starting with a license discussion. A merchandise-finding episode would be a good idea, though.

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New console font Spleen made default

Jan 10, 2019 ~ Written by openbsd journal

Frederic Cambus (fcambus@) has just changed the default console font to Spleen, a font of his own creation: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: fcambus@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/09 04:23:32 Modified files: sys/dev/rasops : rasops.c sys/dev/wsfont : wsfont.c Log message: Enable Spleen in wsfont [...]

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Cross-pollination: odd edition

Jan 09, 2019 ~ Written by justin sherrill

I usually get all happy when I see sharing happen across BSDs, and note it here. Here’s an unexpected one: between DragonFly and Haiku.

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[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Not...