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DragonFly on AWS
This timer fix enables booting DragonFly on AWS. Well, that and the ena(4) driver. I haven’t tried it yet.
Rehash reminder
If, like me, you’ve been running DragonFly for a long time, and you haven’t switched away from tcsh for your account or for root, you may not have ‘set autorehash’ in your .cshrc. Newer installs have it.
Put that into .cshrc if you don’t have it, and it’ll save 15 seconds of the rest of your life not typin [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/05/05
I’m really loading up with links this weekend; make some time to read today.
The Unitech UNIX posters. (via)
Floating point precision as physical control. I linked to the underlying story before, but I like the idea that compilers should have Winamp-style skins.
Illustrations of Imaginary Cyberpunk Gadgets. (via)
Mythological Monste [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/05/04
I’m still not making through all the stuff I need to link to, but this is enough to keep you busy for today.
The FreeBSD 2019 Community Survey.
Some useful features of (GNU) date for things like time conversion. Compares to the FreeBSD version.
ZFS on Linux on FreeBSD for testing. Argh.
Informal CDBUG session this week – (Read [...]
Two significant bugfixes
Matthew Dillon has committed two changes, both to DragonFly 5.4 and to DragonFly-current. His note to users@ explains the details. I don’t have a date for 5.4.2 being rolled out, but I expect soon.
Initial FUSE support in DragonFly
This is the commit I should have linked to yesterday, and was reminded by an anonymous commenter: git: sys/vfs/fuse: Add initial FUSE support. It’s not complete, and so isn’t built by default; check the commit for details.
More terminal fun
Remember my Wyse terminal experiment with a DragonFly VM? I mentioned an odd output pause where the screen would stop updating until there was keyboard activity – or occasionally just die. That was an artifact of Virtualbox; running this now in Qemu has no such problem.
I now have a very overcomplicated clock! I’m running GRDC [...]
More FUSE work in DragonFly
Tomohiro Kusumi has committed more work on FUSE support in DragonFly. I am not sure if this is more foundational work or if it makes a user-level difference. At least the commit notes are nice.
em(4)/igb(4) update for testing in Dr...
Sepherosa Ziehau has an update for em(4)/igb(4) network cards, for you to test if you have the matching hardware. It looks like this is an update from the vendor, Intel, going by the version numbers.
NYCBUG: Lookup Data Structures in the...
The May NYCBUG meeting is tomorrow night, at 6:30 PM at Suspenders. The presentation is “Lookup Data Structures in the FreeBSD Kernel“. Go, if you are near.
KnoxBUG meeting canceled tonight
Tonight’s KnoxBUG meeting is canceled at the last minute due to a family emergency. Don’t go, if you are near.
Lazy Reading for 2019/04/28
A little short this week to balance last week’s mega-Lazy.
The Problem with SSH Agent Forwarding. (via)
rePalm, PalmOS reimplemented. (via)
vim.wasm. (via)
WatchMe, for monitoring sections of web pages. (via)
You might as well get an x86 CPU now, despite Meltdown and its friends.
Text News, (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/27
I have cleared out my backlog of general BSD stuff but am still a month behind on DragonFly news, which is the opposite of usual.
OpenBSD 6.5 released.
Michael W. Lucas’s FreeBSD Mastery: Jails is out.
FreeBSD Mastery: Jails – Bail Bond Denied Edition.
Related: Lucas is presenting for something like 24 hours straight at Penguincon 2019 [...]
Impromptu SEMIBUG-area get-together t...
Michael W. Lucas is meeting one of his book sponsors tonight at the New Parthenon in Greektown – that’s in Detroit – and issued a general call for a get-together. If you attend SEMIBUG meetings, you’re probably close enough, but you don’t have to be an attendee to show up and have a good time.
BSD Now 295: Fun with funlinkat()
This week’s BSD Now has traditional conversations: OpenBSD as a network device, NetBSD on different hardware, and something about ZFS encryption coming to FreeBSD after Linux. The show notes have details.
Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks
DragonFly now has ministat(1), imported from FreeBSD thanks to Aaron LI. Use it on the output from your next run of benchmarking tools.
Polish BUG meeting coming up
See the page for details, and go if you are near. I’m saying “coming up” because there’s a big time zone difference between here and there.
9 million years of DragonFly
time_t in DragonFly is now 48-bit. This won’t affect anything you do day-to-day, probably, but it’s neat to see the 9 million year timeframe.
DragonFly 5.4.2 out
DragonFly 5.4.2 is out. My users@ post describes upgrading, as do the 5.4 release notes. This release has the HAMMER2 fix mentioned here recently. There’s a number of additional small changes listed in the tag commit.
Images are available for download at various mirrors, too. If you’ve recently upgraded to 5.4, it’s the normal build [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/04/21
It’s bizarre links week this week. Well, more than usual, I mean.
The Infocom dump, via multiple places.
Related: What is ZIL anyway?
Techbros ruin eating, again.
The Very Mathematical History of a Perfect Color Combination. I’ve mentioned Solarized before. (via)
A fully reversible USB cable. (via)
Brix System, life (Read mo [...]
