Different touchpad support in DragonFly
If you have an Elantech touchpad IC type 15 on your laptop (and you do if it’s a ThinkPad L480 or Huawei Magicbook), it’s now supported in DragonFly. Thanks to K Staring for the fix.
BSD Now 328: EPYC Netflix Stack
BSD Now 328 is out, and it’s covering various news items; the common thread seems to be “please test this new tech”, which is always exciting.
[FreeBSD-Announce] BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility
Hello.
I’d like to announce a new utility/library for FreeBSD base available for review.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16132
Preview HTML-formatted manuals:
https://fraubsd.org/doc/cmb.1.html
https://fraubsd.org/doc/cmb.3.html
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Combinatorics …
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 11.3-R image available on Azure marketplace
Hello,
The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD
Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE
on Azure.
https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/microsoftostc.freebsd-11-3?tab=Over…
OpenBSD Errata: December 11th, 2019 (ldso)
Errata patches for ld.so have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
ld.so may fail to remove the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for
set-user-ID and set-group-ID executables in low memory conditions.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm6…
i915 updates
The i915(4) driver now supports some newer models of Intel GPU, thanks to Francois Tigeot.
nullfs, tmpfs, going to jail
I didn’t realize this before, but you could not mount a nullfs(5) or tempfs(5) filesystem within a jail(8) on DragonFly… until now.
ChiBUG, Dusseldorf BUG, tomorrow
The next ChiBUG meeting is tomorrow night, December 10th. Go, if you are near, but also RSVP on the list.
The BSD user’s group in Dusseldorf is also meeting on the 10th. Go there instead, if you are on that side of the ocean.
attention please: host’s IP stack behavior got changed slightly
Alexandr Nedvedicky (sashan@)
wrote to tech@
regarding a recent significant
change:
Hello,
commit from today [1] makes IP stack more paranoid. Up to now OpenBSD
implemented so called ‘weak host model’ [2]. The today’s commit alters
that for…
OpenBSD Errata: December 8th, 2019 (suauth)
Errata patches for su have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
A user can log in with a different user’s login class.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found …
Lazy Reading for 2019/12/08
Accidental theme this week: terminals. Teletext’s creative legacy. (via) Related: Teletext, the font. (via) The Plain Text Project. (Thanks, Benn Collver.) TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers. IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display. An answer to the recently-linked-here “80×25” post, and perhaps the definitive answer on terminal size. …
In Other BSDs for 2019/12/07
Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra. NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out. Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending. Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th. Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th. ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. …
BSD Now 327: ZFS Rename Repo
This week’s BSD Now talks about, among other things, renaming of ZFS On Linux to OpenZFS, and a bonkers story about Sun.
e2k19 Hackathon Report: At e2k19 nobody can hear you scream (Claudio Jeker)
Fresh from the just concluded e2k19 hackathon, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) writes in:
After 2 years it was once again time to pack skis and snowshoes,
put a satellite dish onto a sledge and hike through the snowy rockies
to the Elk Lakes hut.
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NYCBUG: Holiday Hardware Swap today
The Holiday Hardware Swap is happening at NYCBUG’s monthly meeting today, at a new location. Go, if you are near.
OpenBSD Errata: December 4th, 2019 (xenodm)
Errata patches for xenodm have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
xenodm uses the libc authentication layer incorrectly.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be fo…
OpenBSD Errata: December 4th, 2019 (libcauth)
Errata patches for libc have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
libc’s authentication layer performed insufficient username validation.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code pa…
OpenBSD Errata: December 4th, 2019 (mesaxlock)
Errata patches for Mesa have been released for OpenBSD 6.5 and 6.6.
Environment-provided paths are used for dlopen() in mesa, resulting in
escalation to the auth group in xlock(1).
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available…
Where to find dports build results
Synth logs for dports are now located here on a new machine:
https://sting.dragonflybsd.org/dports/logs/Report/
If there’s only a short list, it’s because the most recent build was probably focused on retrying a broken-but-now-possibly-fixe…
Completing shutdown
If you’ve ever been left watching a “press any key…” line at shutdown of your DragonFly system, there’s now a fix. It’s committed to release, too, so it’s available now.
While you’re at it, there’s…