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In Other BSDs for 2017/06/10
I think I’ve finally caught up on my BSD link backlog.
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Ken Westerback on XS_NO_CCB removal and dhclient link detection.
d2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on USB audio, WiFi Progress.
NCIS: FreeBSD.
UbuntuBSD is now DEAD!
FreeBSD Core Team member: “[installer] might be the only part of OpenBSD that is [...]
Radeon R9 290 and acceleration on Dra...
Radeon hardware support in DragonFly has been moved up to match what’s in the Linux 4.7.10 kernel. If you have a R9 290 GPU, there’s some tweaks you may need.
(n.b. may be unnecessary now from later commits; I don’t have the hardware to check.)
BSDNow 197: Relaying the good news
Slightly earlier than normal because of the magic of prerecording, BSDNow 197 is up and has an interview with Michael W. Lucas about his books. (I’m hoping for interviews from BSDCan next week.)
DragonFly and OpenStack
Apparently there’s a missing dhclient feature in DragonFly needed to run on OpenStack. Matthew Dillon’s made a change to get it to work – though I can’t find the exact commit.
UHS-1 support in DragonFly
For some reason I am completely unfamiliar with this standard, but UHS-1 support for Secure Digital cards has been ported to DragonFly by Imre Vadasz, for a limited range of models. UHS stands for “Ultra High Speed”, so perhaps it’s clear what that standard does for you.
Lazy Reading for 2017/06/04
A lot of this was picked up during the previous long U.S. holiday weekend.
A Brief History of the ATM and As cash becomes quaint, are ATMs on path to obsolescence? (via)
The evolution of the laptop computer. Clickbaity and not comprehensive, but fun to look at the pictures. (also via)
A tip for catching process state changes (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/06/03
Even more overflow, pushing my pre-published posts forward.
“Relayd and Httpd Mastery,” both the good and the bad.
OpenBSD on the Xiaomi Mi Air 12.5″. (via)
iXsystems’ TrueNAS Receives Veeam Backup Certification.
What does this joke mean? Well, I get it.
experiments with prepledge.
pFSense / VLAN – Security.
EuroBSDcon 2017 Tal [...]
BSDNow 196: PostGreZFS
As BSDNow closes in on their double-century episode, this week does not have an interview but does dive into a number of topics.
nginx and CPU affinity on DragonFly
Version 1.13.1 of nginx now natively uses CPU affinity on DragonFly. This matches well with SO_REUSEPORT support; I suspect DragonFly is a fantastic place to run nginx at this point.
…And before you say, “It would be great if someone would put together benchmarks”, think instead, “I’m someone, and I could do it. [...]
Trying UEFI and DragonFly
Andrew MacIntyre manually installed DragonFly onto a UEFI system, and conveniently he posted his notes. It includes a GRUB menu entry, which will come in handy for someone
KnoxBUG: Sam Fourman and FreeNAS
Tomorrow night, KnoxBUG’s monthly meeting has Sam Fourman of iXSystems talking about FreeNAS. Show up if you’re near!
Lazy Reading for 2017/05/28
All these links came together at once, after I cleaned up a lot of browser tabs.
The Making of Freeciv WebGL 3D. (via)
For those times when downloading over the Internet is too slow.
Your choice of Telnet/SSH terminal client, and why? A perennial question.
A brief history of IPv4 address space exhaustion. ( (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/05/27
A good chunk of this is overflow from last week.
The iXSystems Kansas Linux Fest report. I’d like to see the slides they used.
PKGSRC at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. (via)
Best free alternative to pfSense?
OpenBSD laptop.
Is there a more clear PacBSD installation guide?
GhostBSD 11 ALPHA having issues with MATE Desktop.
(R [...]
garbage[40]: Reunion
Hey, there’s a new garbage!
Perturbing potential pkg problem pres...
There’s a bug with shared libraries in pkg(), which may bite you when upgrading. It’s present in version 1.10.1 at least, so you may want to wait for this fix to be applied before your next upgrade.
BSDNow 195: I don’t WannaCry
No interview in this week’s BSDNow, but lots of news topics including a note about how easy it is to mitigate WannaCry problems using BSD technologies. Also of potential interest, it links to an in-depth look at how traffic shaping in pfSense was able to significantly improve a home internet connection, from someone whose job is to thi [...]
Polling and how to try it
If your DragonFly system’s Intel network device doesn’t seem to pick up on DHCP, try turning on polling. This may already be a nonissue, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it.
Lazy Reading for 2017/05/21
The weather’s nice, so the links are light. Well, they were, then I got some reading done, and now we have a good-size list.
Rule #1: Interop is all that matters. This is what gave us the Internet, really. (via)
Nethogs, the tool.
SIGGRAPH 2017 : Technical Papers Preview Trailer. See what will appear in (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/05/20
There’s been enough this week I’ve already started next week’s BSD entry.
Installing OpenBSD 6.1 on your laptop is really hard (not). (via)
Switching to OpenBSD. (via)
FreeBSD on 11? MacBook Air 5,1 (mid-2012). 2012 is the hardware, not the post date. (via)
Falling in love with NixOS. Not on BSD, but (Read more...)
ADMA2 transfer support in DragonFly
Imre Vadasz added support for ADMA2 transfers in DragonFly. It doesn’t lead to a huge performance boost – yet. It can be turned on and off, but requires Intel chipsets.
