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DragonFly 5.4, soon
We’re overdue for 5.4 to be released. New releases are due every 6 months; I lost track! I plan to work on tagging and building over the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday later this week.
Lazy Reading for 2018/11/18
Another cover-all-categories week.
The Valley Girl of Oz, Bjork Bjork Bjork.
Character by character TTY input in Unix, then and now.
howto: create your own time zone. (via)
Guide to computing. (via)
Restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer, part 1, 2, 3, and 4. There’s more than what I (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/17
Still lots of BSD stuff happening.
DWM on FreeBSD, monocle not showing up.
Play Stardew Valley on OpenBSD.
Project Trident RC3 available. (via)
NetBSD 8.0 ? dmesg?????? / KOF2018-NetBSD. (via)
FreeBSD 12.0-b4 available.
Capsicum.
FreeNAS.
Polish BSD User Group OpenBSD Gaming talk (slides, PDF, Polish) (via)
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Double shot of podcasts
BSD Now 272, “Detain the bhyve” is up now, as is “garbage[45]: New fixes for old laptops“. Hope you have time for listening tonight!
DragonFly and dhcpcd
Aaron LI has brought dhcpcd into DragonFly-current, as a replacement to dhclient(8) and rtsold(8). dhclient does support IPv6 but it’s bundled with server and BIND applications, so it’s harder to support.
Another DragonFly laptop entry
There’s a section of the DragonFly website (a wiki) that records success with various laptops and DragonFly. The latest addition: Lenovo IdeaPad Y500.
Web browsers on DragonFly
For better or worse, there’s different browser options out there, especially for non-mainstream platforms. You know what I mean. DragonFly developer tuxillo has put together a helpful page listing options and how to get them to build.
Lazy Reading for 2018/11/10
The movies link should keep you busy.
1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. It’s divided into sections, each one alphabetical, so if the first group doesn’t interest you, there’s more. Be ready to scroll to find a section that’s all martial arts, or an interview of Benoit Mandelbrot, [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/10
Aaaand I have a backlog again.
using smartd to automatically run tests on your drives.
FreeBSD Foundation Update, October 2018. (via)
OpenBSD on a Laptop. (via)
OpenVPN Setup Guide. (via)
FreeBSD 12 beta 3 out.
First Time on BSD: Installing FreeBSD.
OpenSMTPD 6.4.0 released and upcoming filters preview (Read more...)
Hammer2 reminder: bulkfree makes some...
For future edification: If you have HAMMER2 installed, the bulkfree operation will create console/dmesg activity even when nothing is wrong, to show operations are happening.
BSD Now 271: Automatic Drive Tests
BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.
Fetching DragonFly src over https
If you happen to be using DragonFly from a network location that only allows http/https as outbound traffic, you won’t be able to update /usr/src using defaults. /usr/Makefile pulls DragonFly source using a git:// URL.
The fix is to use the read-only Github mirror. You can set origin manually or just change GITHOST in /usr/Makefile (o [...]
NYCBUG meeting tomorrow
Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration is the presentation at tomorrow’s NYCBUG meeting. Going by the details, it’s covering multiple BSDs. Go, if you are near – I wish I was.
ip6addrctl in DragonFly
Aaron LI’s added ip6addrctl(8) to DragonFly; on by default. There should be a man page entry for it within a couple hours, online.
Lazy Reading for 2018/11/04
I almost put the OpenSSH stuff in In Other BSDs yesterday, but it is really cross-platform at this point.
A fun optimization trick from rsync followed by More about auto-generated switch-cases.
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations:
Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems. From Harvard Business S [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03
Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.
setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing t [...]
BSDNow 270: Ghostly Releases
This week’s BSDNow has a whole lot of release news – GhostBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSH, plus plenty more. Make sure to check the Beastie Bits at the bottom of the page.
openresolv added to DragonFly
Aaron LI has added openresolv to DragonFly. According to the commit message, this is for dhcpcd(8) support later. It’s added as resolvconf(8), needed for IPv6 DHCP support and a replacement for rtsold(8).
Limiting arp interfaces
arp(8) can now be limited to a particular interface on DragonFly; a minor change but I mention it because otherwise you may not realize it.
A rare pfi example
DragonFly has an automated installer, called PFI, for “pre-flight installer”. It’s not well-known, and there isn’t a man page to link to for it that I can find. Because of that, I jump at any chance I can get to link documentation or example configs.
