KnoxBUG: PacBSD developer Adam Jimers...
If you are near Knoxville, Tennessee, PacBSD developer Adam Jimerson is presenting on package manager porting to the KnoxBUG user group tomorrow night.
Lazy Reading for 2017/09/24
Thinkpad theme, I guess.
More shell, less egg. (via)
Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming. (via)
What’s behind the Linux umask? Well, UNIX umask.
Another ThinkPad Retro sighting. No Thinklight? Well, maybe it’s backlit.
Thinkpad X62. (via)
“HTML email, was that your fault?”
Vim Hates You. (via)
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In Other BSDs for 2017/09/23
Thank goodness for overflow from last week, because I haven’t had time to read.
OpenBSD Daily Recap.
pfsense vs opnsense vs monowall vs smoothwall vs ?
*nix distros with default shells? Not actually sure what the author’s goal is.
X11 forwarding vs. Virtual Machine.
Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD. (via)
AMD RX 480 Support?
[NetBSD] [...]
FreeBSD 10.4-RC1 Available
The second RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
OpenBSD Errata: September 22nd, 2017 ...
Errata patches for perl have been released for OpenBSD 6.0 and 6.1.
A buffer over-read and heap overflow in perl\'s regexp may result in
a crash or memory leak.
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are available via the
syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/e [...]
BSDNow 212: The Solaris Eclipse
BSDNow episode 212 is out and I’m going to link it especially because I’ve been at work instead of posting like normal. Not surprisingly, it talks about the demise of Solaris and about vBSDCon and (links to videos from) BSDCan.
How to find disk I/O latency with iop...
How do I monitor disk I/O latency in real time on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS operating system?
Blind at a BUG
Brandon Werner, will be talking at the SEMIBUG meeting tomorrow night at 7 PM. He programs for a living and is blind, so it should be interesting even just to see his preferred tools.
(Mentioned previously for In Other BSDs but I want to make sure people catch this.)
Lazy Reading for 2017/09/17
I start a new job tomorrow!
Fixing up TS-440s rigs. An interesting hobby.
TODO Group Open Source Guides. (via)
What’s So Bad About Posix I/O? (via)
Xtermcontrol: change colors, title, font and geometry of a running xterm. (via)
ANES: emulate a classic Mac on a classic Amiga. (via)
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FreeBSD 10.4-RC1 Available
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 10.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
In Other BSDs for 2017/09/16
Not sure why, but there’s been a lot of BSD news the past few weeks. I am OK with that.
FreeBSD package management with Pkg (2/2).
[Semibug] next meeting: BSD accessibility.
I3 instances and NVMe: booya! Or how you can build FreeBSD from the source in under 11 minutes vs. 12+ hours on a desktop. Is there something (Read more...)
nyftp.netbsd.org down for datacenter ...
NetBSD users and developers,
NetBSD\'s New York build cluster and associated services will be offline
beginning Monday, September 18, 2017, for a period of about two weeks.
This means that, through early October 2017, our daily builds of NetBSD
and pkgsrc will not be available.
NetBSD\'s cluster runs in space generously made available by n [...]
BSDNow 211: It’s HAMMER2 Time!
BSDNow episode 211 is up – you can guess at least one of the topics, I’m sure. There’s also an interview of FreeBSD Foundation co-ops – which is neat, because I didn’t realize the Foundation had co-ops.
NetBSD buildbot in the binutils-gdb p...
The NetBSD Foundation supports projects that strive to ship the best possible support in developer-oriented software. This is not exclusive to LLVM, but also includes the more traditional GNU toolchain.
Traditionally, developers in distributions like NetBSD merge 3rd party sources upstream once in a while with major release bumps, like switc [...]
Booting, UEFI, and text consoles
I installed a DragonFly snapshot on a Lenovo x220 last night. I went for a EFI install, even though the x220 has a “Legacy” option. When I booted, it looked like this:
It successfully booted, but once it hit the kernel load, it started printing to the top of the screen in that lovely repeating pattern you see.
Matthew Dillon ( [...]
More ipfw work
In addition to the already-mentioned ipfw per-CPU state tracking, Sepherosa Ziehau has added per-CPU state tables to ipfw, and his commit documents the improvement in performance/latency. He’s also added ipfw support to sshlockout(8).
HAMMER2 in the installer
HAMMER2 is now available by default in DragonFly, and can be used in the installation process. (It was possible, but manual, before.) The next DragonFly release should be soon.
t2k17 Hackathon report: Ken Westerbac...
The next hackathon reports comes from Ken Westerback (krw@), who writes:
Take a university Computer Science department that thinks a room full of
OpenBSD hackers is a relaxing change from a room full of students, add
spartan residence accommodations to motivate said hackers to maximize time
in the hackroom, mix in a local host excite [...]
