In Other BSDs for 2015/02/28
Well, this week just sort of took off for BSD links.
FreeBSD on the POWER8: It’s alive! (via)
Freenas and ESXI-Vmware snapshots
PHP 5.3 and Ruby 1.8.7 appear to be on the way out of pkgsrc.
PC-BSD gains a sort of automatic TOR-mode.
OpenBSD Foundation 2014/2015 newsletter.
OpenBSD 5.7 on Minnowboard Max.
Aww, no more (Read more...)
Got Nagios? Got Hammer?
If you’re monitoring your DragonFly systems with Nagios, here’s a way to check the health of your Hammer mirror-streams. Thanks, Mike!
BSDNow 078: From the Foundation (Part...
BSDNow 078 is up with more BSD Foundation interviews. It’s not a sequel, but a switch: the last one was with a FreeBSD Foundation member, and this week’s episode is with Ken Westerback of the OpenBSD Foundation. There’s the normal added news, too, with a description of what’s coming at BSDCan 2015.
FreeBSD From the Trenches: ZFS, and H...
This month\'s story comes to us from Glen Barber, UNIX Systems Administrator.The ZFS filesystem is regarded for its robustness and extensive feature set.Its robustness can be haunting, however, if a mistake is made. I learned this the hard way through a seemingly innocent typo, a mistake I certainly will not soon repeat.We use ZFS almos [...]
Did you upgrade DragonFly on the 25th...
If you are on DragonFly-master and you upgraded during select hours on the 25th of February, you may have been bit by a makefile error. The fix, as listed in that link, is simple:
cp /usr/src/share/mk/sys.mk /usr/share/mk
If you are not on -master or you did not upgrade in that timeframe: never mind.
OpenBSD Foundation 2014/2015 News &am...
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DragonFly GUI resurrected
Michael Neumann has switched out pkgsrc packages for dpkg packages for building DragonFly with a GUI. There’s no built image to download right now, but I’m optimistic the next release will have it. You can build it now on a DragonFly system using src/nrelease. With all this video work going in lately, it will give us something [...]
SCALE 13x Trip Report: Michael Dexter
The Foundation recently sponsored Michael Dexter to attend SCALE 13x. Michael provides the following trip report:SCALE 13x was the 13th Southern California Linux Expo and took place February 19th through 20th in Los Angeles, California. Despite its name, this year\'s event demonstrated sincere outreach to the BSD community as demonstrated by [...]
Radeon updates, too
If you’ve been sitting with a Radeon-based video card and wishing you had all the nice updates i915 users are getting, today is your lucky day. Michael Neumann has brought Radeon support equivalent to Linux 3.9 into DragonFly, and he has a 3.10 branch for testing if you feel adventurous.
Lazy Reading for 2015/02/22
Lots of in-depth reading this week. Put on something warm/drink something warm (especially if you are in the northeast US) and start reading.
Making a C64/C65 compatible computer in an FPGA. (via)
Joe Chip’s problem was never his door. (via)
A Whole New World. (via, via)
CORE 2015, the (Read more...)
s2k15 Hackathon Report: krw@ on impro...
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In Other BSDs for 2015/02/21
There’s some DragonFly material in here, though I normally confine that to the rest of the week. It’s inextricable from the rest of the links.
Setting up an OpenBSD mail server. (via)
FreeBSD-current users, regenerate your keys. (fixed)
Using OpenBSD and vxlan to overlay remote lans. (via)
A Prediction: 2020 the (Read more.. [...]
memtemp(4) update
I admit I never thought about it much, but I’ve also never had enough RAM to matter: there’s a memtemp(4) tool that monitors temperature sensors for your system’s memory. Sepherosa Ziehau has updated it on DragonFly to support some newer processor setups.
Regular test runs down to zero unexpe...
For quite some time now regular test results have been hovering in the 20-30 failures range, with some variance due to race conditions not always hitting. In the last few weeks the numbers have constantly improved and on both the netbsd-7 branch (heading, hopefully soon, to the release of NetBSD 7.0) and -current, are down to zero unexpected [...]
Really turning off Sendmail
This bites many people sooner or later: you think you’ve turned sendmail off, but it still gets opened up on your system. The answer: sendmail_enable=”NONE”.
(It should support sendmail_enable=”NOPE”.)
BSDNow 077: Noah’s L2ARC
The 77th episode of BSDNow is up, with a tutorial on making a patch in OpenBSD, an interview of Alex Reece and Matt Ahrens about OpenZFS, and the usual news roundup.
Lumina Desktop 0.8.2 Released!
The next version of the Lumina desktop environment has just been released! Version 0.8.2 is mainly a “spit-and-polish” release: focusing on bugfixes, overall appearances, and interface layout/design. The FreeBSD port has already been updated to the new version, and the PC-BSD “Edge” repository will be making the new version available within t [...]
SSDs and disk wear
Several of the DragonFly machines used for building packages and/or releases have SSDs, and have been vigorously exercising those disks for some time. SSDs are supposed to have a shorter lifetime than spindle-based hard drives. However, Matthew Dillon found that there’s surprisingly little wear on those SSDs. This empiric information [...]
tallboy
This is tallboy, the server I have at RootBSD. I like to store away this type of documentation, in case I need it later. This server was originally on UFS with gmirror. The partitions: The ada0 drive details: And ada1 drive details: And finally, dmesg:
PC-BSD at SCALE
There will be a FreeBSD booth during SCALE, to be held at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles from Friday, February 19 to Sunday, February 22. This event has a small entrance fee and registration is required. The FreeBSD booth will be next to the OpenBSD booth. As usual, we’ll be giving away cool swag, PC-BSD DVDs, FreeNAS CDs, and (Read more...)
