3.0 Release Candidate images

Posted on January 27th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

They are located in the normal place, in .img (USB) and .iso (CD/DVD) formats.  I haven’t made the desktop DVD yet; let’s see how these untested versions do…

http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/

October-December, 2011 Status Report

Posted on January 27th, 2012 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"

The October-December, 2011 Status Report is now available with 32 entries.

Libpcap, tcpdump updated

Posted on January 27th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

Peter Avalos updated libpcap and tcpdump.  This is on master, not the 3.0 branch.

FreeBSD 9.0 Press Release

Posted on January 26th, 2012 by "dru lavigne" from "FreeBSD Foundation"

The Foundation has written a press release for the release of FreeBSD 9.0. From PRWeb:

Release of FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve

Today, the FreeBSD Foundation announced the recent release of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE raises the bar for open source operating systems in terms of file system reliability, IPv6-readiness, networking capabilities, compiler and toolchain technologies, and

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Old ATA also out

Posted on January 26th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

A bit of symmetry in that title, there.  Old ATA, which was replaced years ago, is finally gone.  This should affect nobody…

Do you use ISDN?

Posted on January 26th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

If you need to use ISDN with DragonFly, speak up now.  I think it may get tossed otherwise.

FreeBSD – Running Puppet on FreeBSD

Posted on January 25th, 2012 by "PsyberMonkey" from "Scratching My Needs"

The latest issue of BSD Magazine is out and guess what? It has an article that I've wrote on running Puppet on FreeBSD!

BSD Magazine is a free to download magazine that focus on BSD, be it FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD and others. From BSDMag.org website :

"We decided to create a magazine for BSD users, enthusiasts and

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Book review: The Linux Command Line

Posted on January 24th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

I received an email from No Starch Press about reviewing this book, and my first reaction was to say no.  I assumed this was essentially a book about using Bash, and therefore probably not useful to people reading the Digest.

I read it despite my knee-jerk reaction, and I didn’t need to reject it so suddenly.  Almost all of

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DragonFly 3.0 branched

Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

Note that it’s branched, not released.   I’m building and uploading binary pkgsrc packages for it now, and hope to have a ‘release candidate’ very soon.  This is the prep work before the release, really.  There’s a catchall ticket for tracking remaining work.

Want to support newer Intel GPUs?

Posted on January 23rd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

There’s a whopping 250 euro bounty up now on the DragonFly Code Bounties page.  It’s for supporting the newer Intel video chipsets, and there’s already examples in FreeBSD to start with.

(David Shao, where are you?  If you’re reading this, hop into #dragonflybsd and tell us how things are going with your GEM/KMS work)

Lazy Reading for 2012/01/22

Posted on January 22nd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

I even have some comedy in here this week.

SSH Mastery: A Very Welcome Addition to Any Unix User’s Bookshelf

Posted on January 22nd, 2012 by "openbsd journal" from "OpenBSD Journal"

The first paragraph of this book's afterword reads:

"You now know more about SSH, OpenSSH and Putty than the vast majority of IT professionals! Congratulations".

That claim will be true for any reader of SSH Mastery who has read the book up to that point and has incorporated at least some of the elements of the configurations it

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New book review tag

Posted on January 22nd, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

I’m going to have at least 1 book review up next week, 2 if I can make it.  I’ve done this several times now, so I’ve added a ‘Book review’ category so that they all can be found together.

Live deduplication marked experimental

Posted on January 21st, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

‘Live dedup’, where a DragonFly system makes a deduplicative reference to copied data instead of actually copying the data, is now off by default.  There’s no definite issue linked to it yet that I know of, but it never hurts to be careful just before a release.

OpenSSL updated

Posted on January 21st, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL to version 1.0.0g.  It’s so new I can’t find anything in the OpenSSL changelog to describe why there was an update, but I suspect it was this.

RELRO in a BSD

Posted on January 20th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

John Marino has added support for RELRO in DragonFly, which makes it the first BSD to have it.  That’s great news!  What is it?  Apparently a guard against memory corruption or overflow in the linker.  His commit message gives better details.

Security problem and a fix

Posted on January 20th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

Matthias Schmidt found a discussion about DragonFly’s password encryption.  The result, if I am reading it correctly, is that brute-forcing the password from available hashes is quicker than it should be.  Matthias also found a contributed fix.  Samuel Greear updated to match the reference SHA implementation also in Linux, with this very pertinent warning.


If you liked KDE3, you’ll like this

Posted on January 19th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

If you liked KDE3, you may like Trinity.  Matthias Drochner would like you to help get it in pkgsrc.

How low can you go? (with RAM and Hammer)

Posted on January 19th, 2012 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"

Matthew Dillon has a very detailed commit message with changes to make sure Hammer will run overnight cleanups in situations as low as 256M of RAM.  I think you can find that much RAM in breakfast cereal boxes these days.

PC-BSD Kid’s Activity Pamphlet

Posted on January 19th, 2012 by "dru" from "Official PC-BSD Blog"

This year, the Southern California Linux Expo is presenting SCALE: The Next Generation. This event is designed to introduce youth to open source and to invite children to attend and participate in an open source conference.

In addition to the usual cool booth swag, we created a kid’s colouring and activity pamphlet designed for the younger set. This is

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