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Serial drivers out
Did you use the digi(4), rp(4) and si(4) serial device drivers in DragonFly? I don’t think so, but you definitely can’t now.
SemiBUG meeting, tonight
SemiBUG is having the monthly meeting tonight. The presenter is Nick Holland, talking about SPECTRE mitigations in OpenBSD, and similar mechanisms. If you are near, go.
Virtual DragonFly: memory balloon
If you are running DragonFly in a virtual environment, ‘ddegroot’ has put together a virtio_balloon driver for handling memory usage. (An explanation of the term) Try it if you can; he wants testers.
MeetBSD happening soon
Here’s your reminder: MeetBSD is happening October 19-20 in Santa Clara, CA. That’s the end of this week. Go, if you are near.
Lazy Reading for 2018/10/14
A good, oddball week.
Happy #CIDRDay!
Exploring OmniOS in a VM.
Endless amounts of Commodore 64 games, in-browser. (via many places)
Dangit, I missed posting about the Roguelike Celebration. (via)
Software Heritage, archiving code. (thanks, Siju)
Classic computers in Lego. Cuter than I thought possible. (via)
Spleen – Monospaced b [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/13
Still playing catchup with links.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD fundraisers from Michael W. Lucas.
One-liners for submitting your dmesg to NYCBUG. There’s other versions in that thread; I linked to the last described.
Configuration of OpenSMTPD to relay mails to outbound smtp server.
Let’s Try on OpenBSD: CrossCode and Stardew Valley Mult [...]
Laptop recommendations for DragonFly
In case it’s useful to you, here’s several laptop recommendations for DragonFly.
BSDNow 267: Absolute FreeBSD
BSDNow 267 is posted a bit early this week, with an interview of Michael W. Lucas, about his upcoming Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition and local BUG.
Polish BSD User Group meeting tomorro...
I’m posting a day early cause of time zone difference: there’s a meeting of the Polish BSD User Group tomorrow.
Michael W. Lucas talks at mug
Michael W. Lucas is giving a talk at mug.org tonight; he may have physical copies of his new Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd edition available. Go, if you are near. Pro tip: If you are late but still want to catch up to Michael, look for the nearest gelato shop.
OverTRIMmed
Matthew Dillon recently fixed a TRIM bug, where a TRIM command was being issued unconditionally, regardless of the mount flag, and duplicating the action if it was set normally. It’s fixed now. This would only have any significant slowdown on UFS, which means it would only affect installworld – the rest of your mounted volumes a [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/10/07
Old computer theme this week. That may be more of a constant.
PiDP-11: Recreating the PDP-11/70. (via)
Fonts on Unix. (via) The source comments mention Go Mono a number of times; new to me.
Commodore 64 left outside for over a decade! Could it still work?? Of course the answer is eventually yes (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/10/06
Still catching up on links.
garbage 43. The RSS feed may have changed? I should have seen this directly. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 and NetBSD sanitizers. (via)
EuroBSDCon 2018 travel report and obligatory pics. (via)
NetBSD curses ripoffline improvements. (via)
Installing Hugo and publishing Hugo web-pages on OpenBSD server (Read more...)
virtio_random in DragonFly
Something I didn’t know existed but makes sense now that I do: a virtualized randomness device, added to DragonFly. Entropy is usually provided through hardware, so of course you’d need something for it in a VM.
BSDNow 266: File Type History
BSDNow 266 is up, and while the title is “File Type History”, there’s a number of “this is how I use BSD” stories on there, which I always find interesting.
NYCBUG tonight
6:30 tonight: NYCBUG’s monthly meeting, with the topic of Subdo. I don’t know what that is, but we all can find out: tonight’s meeting will be streamed.
DragonFly, Cygwin, and PuTTY
To add to my ongoing slow fiddle with DragonFly: I’ve noted how to install in Hyper-V, and how to use Cygwin to connect to run X. Here’s another step: if you are using PuTTY/Pageant, as I am, and want to connect, Cygwin/X needs to be told to listen on TCP. Find your /usr/bin/startxwin file in Cygwin and change (Read more...)
KnoxBUG, tonight
There’s a KnoxBUG BSD user group meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, with the topic of “Real-world Performance Advantages of NVDIMM and NVMe: A Case Study with OpenZFS“, presented by Nick Principe. It’s happening at 6 PM, tonight. They have the prettiest logo of any BUG that I’ve seen.
Lazy Reading for 2018/09/30
I cleared my tab backlog, but I still have a RSS backlog to work through here. Please be patient as I post a crapton of links and still don’t make it to the end.
Close Your Open Tabs. Linked because I didn’t know about tab pinning, and it’s super handy.
BINAC: A Brief Look Back. (video) Mercury delay (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/09/29
EuroBSDCon 2018 unfortunately had no video, but the presentations are showing up online.
FreeBSD bhyve live migration coming soon. (thanks, subbsd)
Removing ROP Gadgets from OpenBSD. (via)
OpenBSD netcat demystified. (via)
OpenBSD and Diving. The SCUBA kind. (via)
Spoiler alert for BSD packet filter profiling.
r/openbsd_gaming’s G [...]
