Lazy Reading for 2014/03/09
This week blew up with links fast.
An 8-bit integer overflow turns Mahatma Gandhi into “255 points of pure nuclear rage“. That’s one of the more entertaining sentences I’ve ever typed here.
“DevOps” is one of the new buzzwords lately. The most shallow approaches seem to equate it with automated deploymen [...]
In Other BSDs for 2014/03/08
Links everywhere this week!
ZFS 101. This might be the same material presented at NYCBSDCon; I’m not sure.
Installing FreeBSD 10 to ZFS with a script.
The DiscoverBSD summary for 2014/03/03.
PC-BSD Weekly Digest 20.
Theo De Raadt questions for a Slashdot interview.
OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 is released.
Introduction to FreeNAS development.
Ghos [...]
Backing up Hammer to non-Hammer volum...
Hammer’s ability to stream to remote disks is great, but what if you have storage that uses some other file system? Antonio Huete Jimenez put together a shell script that will dump out the contents of a Hammer PFS, for upload to whatever. Read the README for the details.
Note for docbook and upgrading
If you are upgrading packages on your DragonFly 3.6 system, and you have docbook installed, there’s an extra step needed because of the moving around of several docbook packages. If you don’t have docbook installed – nothing to see here.
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 20
New Sound Management
Work has began to fully port pulse audio into PC-BSD for 10.1, and we are quite pleased so far with the results. Kris has been making headway this week getting pulse audio and it’s related utilities working. In the meantime Ken has been working on an all new utility pc-mixer. pc-mixer is a complete front-end to the ( [...]
BSDNow vs. BSDTalk
Episode 27 of BSDNow is an interview with Will Backman of BSDTalk. It is unfortunately a straight-ahead interview, and not an Epic Rap Battle.
From the trenches: espie@ reports on ...
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Open source classes at RIT
Normally I’d save this for Lazy Reading, but I’m indirectly involved: the Rochester Institute of Technology now has a minor in Open Source and Free Culture. Here’s the press release. I taught one of the precursor classes, Humanitarian Free/Open Source Development (essentially open source development methods) last spring. [...]
First ports switched to gcc 4.8
After several months of preparation, the first ports (hppa, sparc and sparc64) have switched their compiler to gcc version 4.8 today. Amd64 and i386 should follow soon.
Work is ongoing to bring this modern toolchain to all other ports too (most of them already work, but some more testing will be done). If you want to try it, just add (Read [...]
First ports switched to gcc 4.8
After several months of preparation, the first ports (hppa, sparc and sparc64) have switched their compiler to gcc version 4.8 today. Amd64 and i386 should follow soon.
Work is ongoing to bring this modern toolchain to all other ports too (most of them already work, but some more testing will be done). If you want to try it, just add (Read [...]
Summer of Code 2014 followup
I followed up with Google on why DragonFly isn’t in Summer of Code this year. It is exactly as I suspected: they want to get new organizations in. DragonFly’s been doing it for 6 years, so they are picking new orgs over returning ones. This is apparently the same reason NetBSD isn’t in this year, either.
(Honestly, I can [...]
arcmsr(4) update
Sascha Wildner has updated arcmsr(4), which brings in support for the Areca ARC1214, ARC1224, ARC1264, ARC1284, and ARC1883 models, from FreeBSD. Please test if you have the appropriate hardware.
Slashdot Taking Questions for Intervi...
Slashdot is soliciting questions for an interview with Theo de Raadt (deraadt@). So if you\'ve some question you\'d like to see the man at the top of the dogpile answer, head on over and drop it in the box.
OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 Released
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BSDCan 2014 Registrations Open
Registration for the 2014 version of the main and longest running North American BSD conference, BSDCan, is now open. The conference takes place in Ottawa, Canada, on the University of Ottawa campus May 14-15 (tutorials) and May 16-17 (talks). You can register for the conference here.
On the program we have OpenBSD developers
Paul I [...]
Bugs site now supports OpenID
bugs.dragonflybsd.org, the bug reporting site for DragonFly, uses Redmine. It’s been updated and now can take OpenID for your login.
coretemp available on DragonFly by de...
Coretemp is now in the default kernel configs for DragonFly, so you can use coretemp to see your Intel CPU temperature.
BSD News 03/03/14
Last week in BSDReleases: DragonFly BSD, FreeNASOther: EuroBSDCon, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, NYCBSDCon, OpenBSD, DMA, DragonFly BSD, Google Summer of Code, BSDnow, GhostBSD ReleasesDragonFly 3.6.1 releasedMore info here. FreeNAS 9.2.1.2-RC is now available FreeNAS 9.2.1.2-RELEASE is now available From a high [...]
BSD Magazine for 02/2014
BSD Magazine for February is out. I’m a bit late posting this since it’s now March; I assume it’s been out for a while. (via)
