January-March, 2014 Status Report
The January-March, 2014 Status Report is now available with 41 entries.
One weird trick for dports
Remember: If you have a particular port that’s not building in DragonFly, there may be a patch in pkgsrc that could be brought over, as John Marino points out.
ACPICA updated to 20140325
Sascha Wildner’s updated ACPICA to a very recent version, which happens to fix a bug in an earlier ACPICA version.
OpenBSD has started a massive strip-d...
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Dynamic binaries arrive
Here’s the announcement from Francois Tigeot: DragonFly now uses dynamic binaries in the root filesystem. You will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel if on 3.7 and upgrading.
Lazy Reading for 2014/04/13
I am all over the map this week.
UNIX Tutorial for Beginners. Also, UNIX Shell Scripting Tutorial. (via)
Staticapps.org, a explanation of single-page web applications. The idea is good but the site itself is really just an ad for a service that does … single-page web application hosting. Comments on the original link source (Read [...]
In Other BSDs for 2014/04/12
Some out-of-the-ordinary things this week.
BSDTV, a new YouTube channel. It has several videos from the recent NYCBSDCon.
pfSense 2.1.1 is out. No, wait, it’s 2.1.2!
Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository. Applies to DragonFly, too.
DiscoverBSD’s news summary for 2014/04/07.
A partially tongue-in-cheek suggestion [...]
Rescue initrd added
DragonFly now has a ‘rescue’ system added in, which also functions as a way to mount encrypted filesystems. Does PAM work yet? I don’t know; I may be linking to this earlier than I need to.
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 25
Most of you have already heard of the Heartbleed vulnerability, the flaw in OpenSSL encryption. For any of you that may not be aware (which is probably precious few), the Heartbleed vulnerability is basically a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to information that is supposed to be kept safe through OpenSSL. The good news [...]
BSDNow 032: PXE Dust
I should have seen that pun coming a long time ago. BSDNow 032 is up with an interview of Dru Lavigne and the usual assortment of other recent BSD items.
FreeBSD Foundation Spring Fundraising...
We\'re kicking off our Spring Fundraising Campaign! Our goal this year is to raise $1,000,000 with a spending budget of $900,000.As we embark on our 15th year of serving the FreeBSD Project and community, we are proud of how we\'ve helped FreeBSD become the most innovative, realiable, and high-performance operating system. We are doing this b [...]
DragonFly 3.6.2 released
Release 3.6.2 of DragonFly has been tagged, and ISO/img files are available. This includes an updated OpenSSL for Heartbleed problems. Here’s the changelog. You can, if you haven’t already, update your existing 3.6 systems the normal way.
FreeBSD Journal Issue #2 is Now Avail...
The FreeBSD Journal Issue #2 is now available! You can get it on Google Play, iTunes, and Amazon. In this issue you will find captivating articles on pkg(8), Poudriere, PBI Format, plus great pieces on hwpmc(4) and Journaled Soft-updates. If you haven\'t already subscribed, now is the time!The positive feedback from both the FreeBSD and [...]
OpenBSD Foundation Funding Goals Reac...
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Getting RabbitMQ running: FreeBSD 9.2
I’m starting to play with RabbitMQ as part of a new project. The first goal: get it installed and running. I’m going to do this in a jail running FreeBSD 9.2, but this should be the same if you running a non-jail. I installed via: pkg install rabbitmq In /usr/local/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf I have the following: NODENAME=bunn [...]
heartbleed vs malloc.conf (updated)
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Did your system tell you about securi...
With all of the activity surrounding the Heartbleed Bug, it was great to see so many people helping out to keep things secure. Of note was the actions of the FreeBSD team in getting out bug fixes. I have three recommendations for you: Follow a release branch (as opposed to stable). Run freebsd-update in cron [...]
HTTPS, OpenSSL, and dragonflybsd.org
All the dragonflybsd.org sites (www, bugs, gitweb, lists, leaf) should be available via https now, thanks to a wildcard certificate from InterNetX. Also, all the machines have an up-to-date version (1.0.1g) of OpenSSL installed to prevent the Heartbleed issue.
How do you test a balloon memory driv...
I’ve wanted more support for virtualized DragonFly systems. Sascha Wildner put together an experimental balloon memory driver to test out, and I ran it on two virtual machines separately, one with it loaded and one without, on the same host system. The problem is, I can’t tell what it does. The two machine reported almost the e [...]
OpenSSL Security Update
Many users have asked us about the recent OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. This only applies to users of PC-BSD 10.0, users of 9.x and earlier will not be effected.
A patch has gone out this morning to correct the issue, which includes the following FreeBSD security advisories:
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:06.openssl.asc
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