New limits for unix socket sysctls
As a fix for wpa_supplicant, the upper limit on socket datagrams has been increased. What else does this affect? We’ll find out the hard way, which is why I mention it here.
Lazy Reading for 2018/09/23
I still have a backlog. Geez. I’m starting to worry I’m posting too much for anyone to read through.
After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside. Important to read to see the mind-boggling scale of money flowing into Linux; it’s a corporate UNIX at this point, with priorities determined by a number o [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/22
Still running on extra links from previous weeks. Usually it takes a larger convention to cause this sort of backlog.
Exploring NomadBSD – Desktop FreeBSD on a thumb drive. (via)
Mac-like FreeBSD Laptop. Surprisingly similar, visually. (via) Also some comments here.
A FreeBSD 11 Desktop How-to. (via)
“How install a (Read m [...]
Hyper-V and DragonFly
I tried Hyper-V, and of course, I had to install a virtual DragonFly system. Sascha Wildner very helpfully pointed out that DragonFly on Hyper-V requires a legacy network adapter and a gen-1 image type; both changes you can make during initial setup. I’m noting it here for the benefit of future people walking down the same path.
Note: [...]
BSDNow 264: Optimized-out
BSDNow 264 is available now and has the usual roundup of news, including discussion of Threadripper performance that I’ve avoided.
OpenBSD Errata: September 21st, 2018 ...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.2.
On AMD CPUs, LDTR must be managed crossing between VMs.
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
Source code patches can be found on the respective errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata62.html
https://www.openbsd.org/er [...]
Chromium on BSD
Chromium, the open sourced base of the Chrome browser, builds on BSDs, including DragonFly. But not without some work.
SemiBUG meeting tonight
There’s a SemiBUG meeting at 7 PM tonight. Bring your troubleshooting lightning talks.
Ryzen buying advice
For anyone considering the purchase of a Ryzen system given the good benchmarks/power usage, here’s some discussion on users@ about which model is which.
Using acme.sh for Let’s Encrypt...
Peter Wemm\'s writeup about using acme.sh for FreeBSD.org served as inspiration, but I chose to do a few things different:
using DNS alias mode with sub-domains dedicated to ACME verification
delegating the sub-domains to the servers where the certificate will be needed
using bind on the servers where the certificate will be needed (wher [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/09/16
Unofficial history theme this week – but not UNIX-specific, for once.
Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape. Don’t tell the loaders at my workplace; they are crap. (via)
Making Ubuntu bug reports seems to be useless (or pointless).
Hex codes for all emoji. (via)
Mechanical keyboard / Cherry history (Read more [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/15
Built almost entirely with overflow from more than a week ago.
GSoC 2018 Reports: Configuration files versioning in pkgsrc, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. (via)
NextCloud on OpenBSD. (via)
Anon Games, BSD games available freely through ssh. Or telnet, but don’t do that. (via)
Let’s (Read more...)
n2k18 Hackathon report: Ken Westerbac...
Fresh from the just concluded n2k18 hackathon comes this report from Ken Westerback
(krw@),
who writes:
How to travel from Dresden to Usti nad Labem for free!
No drama flying to Dresen, from which a train would take me to n2k18\'s
home in Usti nad Labem. Other than being puzzled that it costs less to
fly YYZ -> (Read more...)
BSDNow 263: Encrypt That Pool
BSDNow manages to hit a majority of the BSDs this week, talking about Free/Open/Net in various ways. No interview, but lots to hear about.
autorehash now set for root
DragonFly’s root account defaults to tcsh, and that now defaults to autorehash being set on. Useful to remember if you reflexively type ‘rehash’ like I do, and also useful if you come from a shell where ‘rehash’ isn’t needed.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Not...
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FreeBSD-EN-18:08.lazyfpu Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: LazyFPU remediation causes potential data co [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security A...
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FreeBSD-SA-18:12.elf Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Improper ELF header parsing
Category: [...]
Contributing to Ravenports
Michael Neumann wrote up his first contribution to Ravenports, some time ago, but I just noticed it now. If you find it inspiring, your next step is Chapter 14: Port Creation Walk-though.
Mirror updates for DragonFly
There’s several new mirrors for DragonFly, all listed on the mirrors page thanks to Matthias Schmidt: Checkdomain GmbH, Philipps-University Marburg (both in Germany), and KoDDos (Japan).
