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Mount and HAMMER2 labels
If you’re mounting a HAMMER2 filesystem, you can refer to it by label instead of by device.
No, it’s not ready for use yet and I don’t have a date other than “when it’s done”, to preanswer the next questions.
Hammer and PFS notes
There was some discussion about using Hammer (1) and NFS and general setup on the users@ mailing list. I’m linking to the start of the thread because there’s some useful hints in there.
Lazy Reading for 2017/04/09
A slightly UK-ish tilt this week, by accident of course.
Playing roguelikes when you can’t see.
How Fountain Pens Work.
Something you didn’t know about functions in bash.
A comparison of regex engines. (via)
/dev/null Follies
Turtles on the Wire: Understanding How the OS Uses the Modern NIC. (via)
In love (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/04/08
Why why why…
Why Isn’t OpenBSD in Google Summer of Code 2017? (via) (also)
Why does everyone here seem to recommend Pfsense over VyOS?
Why is pfsense better than dd-wrt?
pkgsrc-2017Q1 released.
openbsd changes of note 8.
e2k17 Nano hackathon report from Bob Beck.
Control Your Files Using Your Own Cloud With (Read more...)
randread on DragonFly
Did you know there’s a randread utility on DragonFly that will report on disk performance? Well, you do now. The very terse comment in the source code will tell you how to compile it and the arguments.
BSDNow 188: And then the murders bega...
It really does work, that lead-in, and it’s on BSDNow episode 188.
DragonFly 4.6.2 released
Yes, I know we just released 4.8. This is a rollup release, capturing everything that was committed to the 4.6 branch after 4.6.1 and before 4.8 came out. If you are going to upgrade, it’s worth it to go to 4.8, but this way there’s a clean final version in the 4.6 branch.
(Hat tip to Sascha Wildner for reminding (Read more...)
Getting to yes.c with NYCBUG
It’s happening tomorrow night at the NYCBUG meeting: a yes.c code reading. (more details) Go, if you are close.
New ‘efisetup’ script in DragonFly
I am late in mentioning this, because it was added just before the DragonFly 4.8 branch: there’s a new ‘efisetup(8)‘ script added to DragonFly. Use to to perform a complete a UEFI-bootable installation to a given disk.
Lazy Reading for 2017/04/02
I’m very UNIXy this week.
Have You Played… Event[0]? Sounds like a simulation of IRC.
TERRIBLE, AWFUL, NO GOOD, REALLY BAD HEAVY METAL ALBUM COVERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. (via)
The Best Metal on Bandcamp: March 2017. A palate cleanser from the last link.
Google Open Source Docs. Everyone releases their code, but not their (Read [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/04/01
Odd batch of links this week.
Not ‘other BSD’, but I didn’t have another good place for it: DragonFly 4.8 release discussion.
LionBSD. Security-oriented FreeBSD packaging, at first look. (via)
Changing Send/Receive Bandwidth on FreeBSD.
Setting the Record Straight: containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs. (via)
The FreeBS [...]
i915, switcheroo update
Now that we’re past the DragonFly 4.8 release, Francois Tigeot has added an update to the i915 driver, bringing it to match what’s in the Linux 4.7.10 kernel. He also committed Peeter Must’s port of the vga_switcheroo module.
BSDNow 187: Catching up to BSD
This week’s BSDNow has no interview, but covers most every BSD to some extent, and talks about something I find super-interesting: a BSD phone.
KnoxBUG meeting tonight
KnoxBUG is meeting tonight – there’s no speaker scheduled, so it will be open discussion.
DragonFly 4.8 released!
DragonFly 4.8 is officially released! Download from your nearest mirror, where it should appear in the next 24 hours. If you’re upgrading your existing install, you can use the generic instructions in the release notes or in my users@ email; whichever you click first. Don’t forget to ‘pkg upgrade’!
Lazy Reading for 2017/03/26
Old-school UNIX and games this week.
Managing an open source project. (via)
There was a Coke machine connected to the ARPANET in the 70’s. The local version of this has a Beastie on the front. (via)
Swan – GNU/Cygwin Xfce Desktop. At first glance, “XFCE for Windows” is a much more clear title. (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/03/25
More thinking topics than version changes this week, which is interesting.
Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It’s the PDF transcript from the FOSDEM 2017 “My BSD sucks less than yours” presentation, linked previously. (via)
OPNsense 17.1.3 released.
Ask HN: Why is BSD becoming more popular in em [...]
Make reading to the end great again
An article about a semctl(2) bug on DragonFly, “Make DragonFlyBSD great again!“, has popped up a few times, in comments here, some online forums, and in IRC. I’m linking to it so that I can also say: read all the way to the end and notice the date. The bug was fixed more than 6 months ago. This (Read more...)
More NVMe bandwidth tests
Matthew Dillon picked up more NVMe M.2 hardware, tested it, and updated his report to match. Definitely a good read if you will be buying this hardware any time soon, and it’s not necessarily DragonFly-specific.
BSDNow 186: Fast & the Firewall
BSDNow 186 gets back into the convention grind after last week’s news about new roles: coverage of the recent AsiaBSDCon, and an interview of Philipp Buehler.
