Cached cash reminder
If you have been enjoying the Digest for many years, and you’d like to buy me a nice sandwich, you most certainly can.
Lazy Reading for 2019/05/26
Accidental theme of the week: old-school non-UNIX operating systems.
John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician. You may know his name from Conway’s Game of Life. (via)
I will probably never give my shell dotfiles the major reform they could use.
Tarn Adams Uses This. Dwarf Fortress.
Dwarf Fortress Diary: The Ba [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/05/25
Watch for post-BSDCan slides and material and ideas to show up in the next few weeks.
NetBSD 8.1-RC1 is out.
BSDCan 2019 papers are showing up, plus this iXsystems recap.
pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 now available.
WANT TO PLAY A GAME? Ooh, look at the simulated phosphor! (via)
Valuable News – 2019/05/20.
How does (Read more...)
AWS sample file for DragonFly
Here’s something that might be useful: an example cleaning file for creating an AWS DragonFly image. Here’s the blob if you want to see what’s in it. I assume you will want to install awscli to use.
FreeBSD 11.3-BETA1 Available
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 11.3 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSD Now 299: The NAS Fleet
BSD Now’s pre-milestone episode has a nice range of topics, along with a note that they are going to an audio-only format – except for the livestream.
Major kernel VM pmap work in master
I’m jumping ahead in my very full queue of DragonFly items to post to something new: Matthew Dillon has committed extensive work to the virtual memory system in DragonFly. He has a message to users@ that sums it up.
If that’s not enough reading for you, I’ll point at commits where he reports speed improvements, changes to [...]
g2k19 hackathon report from Claudio J...
With the latest hackathon finished, the subsequent BSDCan completed and its attendees having returned home, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) writes in with the first report from g2k19:
Travelling to the hackathon was a bit of an adventure this year.
The software troubles with the 737 MAX caused frequent scheduling
changes. At Montreal airport [...]
DragonFly 5.4.3 is out
DragonFly 5.4.3 is out. My users@ post describes upgrading, as do the 5.4 release notes. This release has a fix for an Intel floating-point bug.
Images are available for download at various mirrors, too. If you’ve recently upgraded to 5.4, it’s the normal build process. There’s a brand new complete build of all packages uploaded, to [...]
LibreSSL 2.9.2 Released
We have released LibreSSL 2.9.2, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL
directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
It includes the following changes:
* Fixed portable builds with older versions of MacOS,
Android targets < API 21, and Solaris 10.
* Fixed SRTP profile advertisement for DTLS servers.
The LibreSSL project continu [...]
First release candidate for NetBSD 8....
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.1 RC1, the first
(and hopefully final) release candidate for the upcoming NetBSD 8.1
release.
Over the last year, many changes have been made to the NetBSD 8 stable
branch. As a stable branch the release engineering team and the NetBSD
developers are conservative with changes to this branch [...]
Demo of vmm tomorrow at SEMIBUG
There’s a vmm demo from Josh Greene tomorrow, at SEMIBUG’s monthly meeting. Go, if you are near.
hacking on iocage
Today is the day after BSDCan 2019. The power cables and extension cords from the hacking lounge have been laid to rest in an Ottawa basement until next year.
Sitting in my parents garden, I noticed some Nagios cert warnings:
WARNING - Certificate x8dtu.unixathome.org expires in 21 day(s) (2019-06-10 17:18 +0000/UTC).
I logged into my certif [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/05/19
Cobbled together early cause I have an unexpectedly busy weekend, so you are getting a straight dump of everything pending I had in RSS, Thursday night.
How to Shop for a Mechanical Keyboard. (via)
Coding is for everyone as long as you speak English. (via)
Oddly shaped notebooks. (via)
How to Hack an (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/05/18
I have more links than I expected.
Brief netbsd.org outages tomorrow.
SEMIBUG vmm hypervisor demo on the 21st.
WireGuard on OpenBSD. (via)
No itch to scratch.
Simple shared folder with Samba on OpenBSD 6.5.
Confusion with used/free disk space in ZFS.
Valuable News – 2019/05/09.
BSDCan 2019 Auction Items, and next (Read more...)
Disk type for DragonFly: 108
This may never ever matter if you manage to avoid fdisk your whole life. But if you don’t pull that off, here’s the reminder: label your DragonFly slices with 108.
(Yes, I do in fact have a backlog of two months with DragonFly material. It’s been that constant.)
BSD On The Road | BSD Now 298
I am confused because it seems like we had two BSD Now episodes in a week, but I am not complaining. Episode 298 is up (show notes) and has a goat.
OpenBSD Errata: May 16th, 2019 (srtp)
Errata patches for LibreSSL have been released for OpenBSD 6.4 and 6.5.
LibreSSL servers did not provide an SRTP profile, so DTLS negotiation failed.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the
respective errata page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errat [...]
