SemiBUG meeting tonight
Tonight’s SemiBUG meeting is piggybacking on an Azure User’s Group meeting, same general location. (This is why) Go, if you are near.
g2k18 hackathon report: Matthieu Herr...
Next in from Ljubljana is Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@):
I spent the first day and a half chasing an issue that many people
have been experiencing: the first X start after an install or upgrade
from a snapshot was slow. The direct cause of this is well-known: it\'s
the fontconfig library (used by all applications that do font
rendering [...]
g2k18 hackathon report: Antoine Jacou...
Before winning the football world cup, the french were writing their hackathon reports. Here\'s the one from Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@):
g2k18 was my third General Hackathon in Ljubljana, Slovenia. I love it there,
it\'s a great place to host such an event: perfect location (city center),
beautiful city, cheap yet very nice food e [...]
g2k18 Hackathon Report: Marc Espie on...
The
g2k18
hackathon has just concluded, and already we have our first report.
Marc Espie (espie@) wrote in:
So I came into Ljublana running. Specifically, I\'ve been working on
a lot of ports infrastructure stuff recently.
update-plist at g2k18
the infamous cups bug fix a bit later
and now tags.
Read more…
Upgrade results, bonus for dragonflyb...
Remember the upgrade for dragonflybsd.org machines? It completed, and it’s interesting to see that SSDs have become so easily available that “spinning rust” hard disk drives are only still useful for bulk storage, and even then probably not for much longer.
Another neat side effect: disk usage on developer system leaf.drago [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/07/15
Oddball things week, this week.
My favorite apps on F-Droid. All open-source, reviewed.(via)
Commodore 64 BASIC inside your USB Connector. (via)
Slack client for Commodore 64 (2016) (via)
Bud Uglly Design. Goes with Smelvetica last week. (Thanks, Chuck Fry)
“Now you have ???????? problems” Somewhat evil.
n-gate Hackernews s [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/07/14
Some overflow, and thank goodness cause I don’t have a day without work this week.
Fixing bufferbloat on your home network with OpenBSD 6.2 or newer. (via)
Designing the software specification [for 386BSD] (via)
A question about BSD kernel syscalls/abi.
Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q2 release. (via)
pkgsrcCon 2018 in Berlin – (R [...]
Report from pkgsrcCon 2018
On July 7th and 8th there was
pkgsrcCon 2018
in Berlin,
Germany. It was my first
pkgsrcCon
and it was really really nice... So, let\'s share a report about it,
what we have done, the talk presented and everything else!
Friday (06/07): Social Event
I arrived by plane at
Berlin Tegel Airport
in the middle of the afternoon. (Read more...)
GSoC 2018 Reports: Integrate libFuzze...
Prepared by Yang Zheng (tomsun.0.7 AT Gmail DOT com) as part of GSoC 2018
This is the second part of the project
of integrating
libFuzzer for the userland applications, you can
learn about the first part of this project
in this
post.
After the preparation of the first part, I started to fuzz the
userland programs with the (Read more...)
BSDNow 254: Bare the OS
BSD 254 has no interview but covers lots, including mostly-new-to-me BareOS. Also fun, this washing machine tidbit in their Beastie Bits.
OpenBSD gains Wi-Fi “auto-join&...
In a change which is bound to be welcomed widely, -current has gained
"auto-join" for Wi-Fi networks.
Peter Hessler (phessler@) has been working on this for quite some time and he wrote about it in his p2k18 hackathon report. He has
committed
the work from the g2k18 hackathon in Ljubljana:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
C [...]
GSoC 2018 report: Kernel Address Sani...
Prepared by Siddharth Muralee (@Tr3x__) as a part of GSoC\'18
I have been working on porting the Kernel Address Sanitizer(KASAN) for the NetBSD kernel. This summarizes the work done until the second evaluation.
Refer here for the link to the first report.
What is a Kernel Address Sanitizer?
The Kernel Address Sanitizer or KASAN is a fast and [...]
More initrd additions
Aaron LI continues to add to initrd(7): it now has scp, grep, diff, telnet, and 70 (!) more tools, bringing the total to over 200. That’s a lot for a “minimal” rescue image.
dragonflybsd.org upgrades
Various machines in dragonflybsd.org are getting hardware upgrades this week. They aren’t time-consuming, so I daresay it won’t have much effect on uptime.
Lazy Reading for 2018/07/08
50% history, 50% new things that I love about the Internet.
WELCOME TO ARMAGEDDON! An in-depth exploration of Armageddon MUD, from one of my favorite magazines.
Gladys Project – Creating an open-source home assistant. (via)
Today in Computational Necromancy: MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM, redux.
1990, meet 2018: How far does 20MHz of Macintosh IIsi [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/07/07
Lots of NetBSD links this week relative to usual.
BSD firewalls pfSense vs OPNsense: technical comparison. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/06/30.
8x slower SCP uploads to OpenBSD (vs FreeBSD).
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 12 – Configuration – Openbox.
FreeBSD Desktop – Part 13 – Configuration – Dzen2. I didn’t know what Dzen was; a configurable [...]
BSDNow 253: Silence of the Fans
BSDNow 253: no interview, but it covers a range of topics I’d be proud to fit in an Other BSDs post. Of special interest (to me) this week: talking about fanless systems, cause it’s hot in North America, and Pinebooks, cause I still have a small computer fetish.
Some package statistics
The article I linked yesterday about Ravenports got me wondering about what package are most popular. avalon.dragonflybsd.org is the default binary package archive for pkg, and it has httpd logs back to 2013, so I collated some information.
I read out a list of packages, and weighed them according to how recently they were downloaded. I als [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] New FreeBSD Core T...
Dear FreeBSD Community,
Active committers to the project have elected your tenth FreeBSD Core
Team.
Allan Jude (allanjude)
Benedict Reuschling (bcr)
Brooks Davis (brooks)
Hiroki Sato (hrs)
Jeff Roberson (jeff)
John Baldwin (jhb)
Kris Moore (kmoore)
Sean Chittenden (seanc)
Warner Losh (imp)
Let\'s extend our gratitude to the outgoing Core T [...]
A deep dive into Ravenports
eerielinux has written an exploratory article about Ravenports. It’s worth a read; Ravenports has been growing actively. You can install it in parallel with dports on DragonFly, or on a number of other operating systems.
