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BSDNow 206: To hier is UNIX
You all have seen the hier(archy) man page, correct? BSDNow 206 gets into things like the new Lumina and Plasma desktops.
Two bugfixes: sticky dirs and procfs
Matthew Dillon has committed two bugfixes both to DragonFly-current and DragonFly 4.8. I don’t know the exact circumstances under which it would affect someone, but the commits are there to evaluate.
kcollect description
I should have linked this yesterday: a description of kcollect and its uses from Matthew Dillon, complete with example graph of a very busy machine.
New mechanism: kcollect
There’s a new facility in DragonFly: kcollect(8). It holds automatically-collected kernel data for about the last day, and can output to gnuplot. Note the automatic collection part; your system will always be able to tell you about weirdness – assuming that weirdness extends to one of the features kcollect tracks. Here’s [...]
Lazy Reading for 2017/08/06
You may be able to detect a subtle bias based on my early design education, this week.
Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures. (via)
9 great mechanical keyboards for coders. Never thought I’d see a HP Enterprise site referencing Axe Cop… (via)
A Sublime-like minimap for console vim. (via)
“Do Not (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/08/05
Spot the sarcasm!
FreeBSD 11.1 released.
Default compiler switched to clang on amd64 and i386. (OpenBSD)
Large Batch of Kernel Errata Patches Released. (also OpenBSD)
mandoc-1.14.2 released.
OPNsense 17.7 released.
hurray we won
X11: How does “the” clipboard work? (via)
LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements. (NetBSD) (via)
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Go and DragonFly: builder needed
The DragonFly Go builder needs a new maintainer, and an update to a newer builder. Are there any people out there interested in Go who want to do the work? I do not have time.
BSDNow 205: FreeBSD turning it up to ...
No interview, but the latest BSDNow has talk about the newest FreeBSD release and the inevitable more.
If you don’t get the title reference, here’s a video clip.
DragonFly 4.8.1 released
DragonFly 4.8 has been updated to 4.8.1, bringing in a lot of small fixes. Improved Intel video support and the virtio_scsi driver will be of most interest, I think. The 4.8.1 tag commit has all the details. You can update the normal way, and if you need an install image, I’ve uploaded them and they should appear at your local (Read [...]
Firmware in userland: the proposal
Remember the firmware in userland idea I linked to before? Here’s the written plan/proposal.
HAMMER2 hardlinks, other work
Matthew Dillon’s found a solution to the problem of hardlinks in HAMMER2, and so moved on to dirents. The design document has a significant update to match.
Lazy Reading for 2017/07/30
Apparently this is the week where I comment about my links.
The Internet of Things – A disaster for no good reason. Comparison of old smoke detectors vs. new. You may already have an inkling of the outcome.(via)
Powershell 6.0 Roadmap. Interesting because it’s both Microsoft admitting people want a shell, and it’s Micros [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/07/29
I’ve been on the road, so this is a bit light.
What linux/BSD distros update Quicker? Yay graphs! (via)
Building a BSD home router (pt. 6): pfSense vs. OPNsense. (via)
SEMIBUG has a new website.
Building a BSD home router parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, (Read more...)
BSDNow 204, Wayland, Weston, & Fr...
Posting a bit late because I’ve been traveling, but: BSDNow 204, Wayland, Weston, & FreeBSD is up, with of course talk about windowing systems and an explanation of the “Scrub of Death” which is new to me.
DragonFly and Skylake P states
If you’ve got a Skylake CPU, setting P state won’t save you as much energy as powerd(8)‘s -c option, according to Sepherosa Ziehau.
sshlockout and your logs
sshlockout(8) will now lock out based on number of attempts, just so that you don’t have huge logs of stubborn but stupid SSH brute force attacks.
Firmware in userland: ideas
Ján Su?an has posted some ideas about handling firmware in userland, in DragonFly. I’d like to see it happen.
Lazy Reading for 2017/07/23
I’ve got some esoteric stuff this week.
24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse. The description of Amdahl’s Law is something not enough people realize. (via)
Pushing DNS into the Cloud.
Relive WW2 Lorenz decryption. (via)
books chapter four and books chapter five.
Build-from-a-kit mechanical keyboard, and odd but pretty controlle [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/07/22
It’s accidental how-to week!
OpenSMTPD under OpenBSD with SSL/VirtualUsers/Dovecot (via) and
OpenSMTPD and Dovecot under OpenBSD with MySQL support and SPAMD. (via)
Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates, plus examples of usage on FreeBSD.
OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X.
Add vmctl send and vmctl receive.
openbsd [...]
DragonFly and node.js
If you’ve had odd behavior with node.js (which I have) on DragonFly, it may be fixed now.
