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BSDNow 233: High on ZFS
This week’s BSDNow has a ZFS explainer about what the theoretical maximums on storage could be, plus a whole lotta DTrace. (Needed a Sun reference in their title this week.)
DWARF in your DragonFly
This isn’t really a dramatic event, but Rimvydas Jasinskas has added support for DWARF-4 line number tables in binutils 2.27. I am linking it to remind everyone that a little bit of Tolkien, in the form of elves (elfs?) and dwarfs (dwarves?) lives in your computer. We need a ORC standard. Oh. Hobbit? Hobbit.
exFAT support in DragonFly
Tomohiro Kusumi has brought in exFAT support to DragonFly from FreeBSD. Useful for cross-platform drives when FAT32 isn’t enough, and NTFS brings its own problems.
Lazy Reading for 2018/02/11
Some really fun things this week.
A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files. A fun, crazy read. (via)
Miniature Macintosh Plus. Also crazy. (via)
Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, going on now.
Centralise Your Bash History. (via)
Computer Role-Playing Games Book released. (via (Read more. [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/02/10
Very much last-minute; compiled 20 minutes before bed Friday night.
a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF. (via)
An Empirical Study on the Reliability of UNIX Utilities (1989). Some of it is early BSD. How much still applies? (via)
The Origin of the word Daemon. (via)
“SSH Mastery 2/e” copyedits back (Read more... [...]
BSDNow 232: FOSDEM 2018
BSDNow 232 this week covers FOSDEM 2018, cause both hosts were there. There’s other news items, too.
HTTP, Spectre, Meltdown
Sepherosa Ziehau published a PDF that shows the impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on network performance. It’s as bad as anticipated. If this is a problem for you, remember the sysctl machdep.isolated_user_pmap turns these changes on and off.
HELBUG launch tomorrow
Another BSD User Group event tomorrow, the 7th: HELBUG, a brand new BUG starting in Helsinki, Finland. The announcement has details on where to find it and what they’ll be doing. Go, if you are near.
NYCBUG: Reproducible Builds, February...
This Wednesday, NYCBUG has Christos Zoulas speaking on “Reproducible Builds on NetBSD“. See the announcement for details. Go, if you are near New York City.
Lazy Reading for 2018/02/04
I finally worked through my Lazy Reading link backlog.
Computer-generated books, a list.
Every Icon, eventually drawing every 32×32 monochrome image possible. I remember a 8×8 physical hardware version of this called All Possible Images, some years ago. Google doesn’t remember it, though, or chooses to give me links to API [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/02/03
Whee!
The history of NetBSD/atari and support for ATARI compatible Milan. Not in English, but it’s a slide deck so lots of pictures. (via)
The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign. “If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be (Read m [...]
BSDNow 231: Unix Architecture Evoluti...
BSDNow has made it so far that I have to double-check the episode number! In 231, they cover some history and some upcoming software work.
Outage today for DragonFly Digest
dragonflydigest.com is changing providers today, so the site may go missing for a while as DNS updates, and as I scramble my config.
Microcode updates for AMD too
If you don’t have an Intel CPU, but still want to perform microcode updates, cpucontrol(8) now supports more recent AMD CPUs.
Default kernel config changes
The default kernel config for DragonFly has changed: Sascha Wildner has added the acpi, gpio_acpi, gpio_intel, smbus and smbacp devices. If you are using a custom kernel, you’ll probably want to add these. If you aren’t using a custom kernel – you should have no negative effect.
em(4)/emx(4) update in DragonFly
Sepherosa Ziehau’s updated the em(4) driver for Intel network cards, with the 7.6.2 release directly from Intel. For once, Intel news not related to CPU hardware bugs.
Lazy Reading for 2018/01/28
I’m already filling in next week’s Lazy Reading links, there’s so much.
An Open Letter to the Perl Community. Getting from Perl 5 to Perl 6. (via)
chart.business. (via)
Teaching an Almost 40-year Old UNIX about Backspace. (via)
khal, a terminal calendar. (via kerma on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
10 PRINT, (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/01/27
Done last minute on Friday, mostly.
grep your way to freedom. (via)
Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions.
Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames. (via)
pfSense home unit. Follow the thread for some interesting hardware suggestions, including this one.
OpenBSD <-> projectors. In case [...]
Coffee Lake support in drm/i915
The title really says it all – if you have a Coffee Lake series Intel chipset, your video is accelerated on DragonFly.
BSDNow 230: Your questions, Part III
This week’s BSDNow has Spectre/Meltdown followups, plus a turning of the tables: questions for the interviewers.
