BSDCan 2014 CFP
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Holiday shopping guide 2013
For those of you doing last-minute holiday shopping – like me: see previous years of gift links. There’s also a number of comics lists, book lists, and game guides. And of course, donations.
Go APE for bge and bnx
The bnx(4) and bge(4) network drivers now have APE support, thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau. What’s that mean? Other than an opportunity for punning jokes, I don’t know.
A pkg fix for 3.4 upgraders
If you have a DragonFly 3.4 system that has already been switched over to dports, and you upgrade it to DragonFly 3.6, you might see an odd problem. Rebuild pkg, and it will work.
I’ve only seen a few reports, so I don’t know if this is even likely to happen to most upgraders.
ISA support is really gone
ISA device support is really gone. Well, except for keyboard and some spots where it can’t be be removed. I don’t think I’ve even seen an ISA card in some years…
Binutils update to 2.24
John Marino has moved DragonFly from binutils 2.22 to 2.24. I think this may require a full buildworld when upgrading… not sure. Anyway, binutils has a changelog if you are curious.
BSDNow 14: Zettabytes for days
BSDNow episode 14 is up – and actually has been for a few days; I’ve been on the road. There’s an interview with George Wilson about OpenZFS and a bunch more stuff I haven’t had a chance to watch yet. (see previous note about being on the road.)
BSD News 09/12/13
Last week in BSDReleases: FreeBSD, PC-BSDOther news: BSDnow, DragonFly BSD, AsiaBSDCon, OpenBSD, portmgr@, codeReleasesPC-BSD Next 10.0 Image Available Kris has announced the availability of the next 10.0 image: The next PC-BSD 10-STABLE image is now available for download!New Features: Includes FreeBSD 10-STABLE / 10.0-BETA3 f [...]
FuguIta – An OpenBSD 5.4 + Patc...
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A BSD plan: license summaries
I had a sometimes-great, sometimes-difficult trip to New York City over the past few days, and while I was there, I met the ball of energy that is George Rosamond of NYCBUG (which is having a huge party right now.) He and I talked for a bit about various aspects of the BSD ecosystem, and one thing he noted (Read more...)
Exciting project ahead
I have an exciting project ahead of me. I will soon be configuring a new server. It will be ZFSROOT running a pair of mirrored 500GB disks. I plan to use a configuration tool for management of this server. The final choice of tools is yet to be decided. The services provided by this server [...]
FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 Now Available
The first RC build of the FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE cycle is now available.Please refer to the announcement email for the image checksums.Please see the change list for an important note regarding the bsdinstall(8) ZFS on GELI option.ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here.If you notice problem [...]
Faces of FreeBSD – Brooks Davis
FACES OF FREEBSDEach week we are sharing a story from someone involved in FreeBSD. This is our Faces of FreeBSD series. It may be a story from someone who’s received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, or advocate for FreeBSD. Or, it may be from someone who gives back to FreeBSD financially [...]
EuroBSDcon 2013 Developer Summit Repo...
A special status report on the EuroBSDcon 2013 FreeBSD Developer Summit is now available with 13 entries.
FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 Available
The first RC build for the FreeBSD-10.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Lazy Reading for 2013/12/08
Links are a bit rushed this week cause I’ve been on the road, but here you go.
explainshell – help for arbitrary shell commands. It’s a really good idea, implemented in a pretty way. (via)
True X-Mouse Gizmo for Windows. I’m also saving this for later, just like the person who found this link.
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Fixing FreeBSD/arm in stable/9…
Just a quick note. I recently tried to create a FreeBSD-stable 9 image for an Atmel AT91SAM9G20 board I have. It didn\'t work. So, I tracked down the problems. It turns out that when the unmapped BIO changes went into stable/9 in revision r251874 a single revision (r246881) was missed. This left the ARM busdma API effectively non-functional. [...]
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/07
Happy birthday to me!
Is Your Stack Protector Working? On Undeadly, so it’s OpenBSD.
ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH. (via)
The next PC-BSD 10.0 image is available.
Reid Linnemann is the latest in the Faces of FreeBSD series.
NetBSD has updated file.
FreeBSD’s iwn(4) driver has some updates (also in DragonFly).
FreeBSD now ( [...]
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 12/6/13
It’s finally here!! Earlier this week the PC-BSD team released a new test image for version 10.0. Some of the exciting highlights were the addition of mate / gnome3/ cinnamon into the installer and package manager. The linux compatibility layer has also been upgraded to the Linux Centos 6 compatibility layer which will be fantastic for th [...]
Book Review: Perl One-Liners
No Starch Press noticed that I keep talking about Michael W. Lucas’s BSD-related books, and I’ve linked to Peteris Krumins’s catonmat site before, so they sent a copy of Krumins’s new “Perl One-Liners” book to me.
Here’s the hook for me: Perl was the first language I wrote a program of any rea [...]
