This work was done in August. Since then, I have replaced the APC with an Eaton 5PX, and I am much happier. This might make for interesting reading, but that depends on how bored you are.. Following on from my failed calibration attempts, I thought I would try it again this morning before work. In […]
It’s apparently release week? Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via) BSDCan 2021 is canceled. NetBSD 9.1 released. OpenBSD 6.8 Released. REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer. TrueNAS 12.0 released. Valuable News – 2020/10/19. FreeBSD Q3 2020 report. FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for …
The July to September 2020 Status Report is now available with 35 entries.
The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
I have these boot drives, I want to copy them to another. They both happen to be zroot and bootable. I booted from mfsBSD and imported both new and old zroot, using the pool ID shown by zpool import -N. root@mfsbsd:~ # zpool import -N pool: data01 id: 2668514456528412656 state: ONLINE action: The pool can […]
I always thought of cross-pollination – sharing of code between BSDs – as a good thing. This seems like the most basic way to do that: same base sh.
I should have set this to post at 10:10AM GMT. OpenBSD Amsterdam Podcast interview. (via) duf – a user friendly alternative to df. Works on BSD. (via) Old School Disk Partitioning. (via) Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of), How the Unix newgrp command behaved back in V7 Unix, and People still use newgrp (to my surprise), touching …
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Recovering From BIOS UpgradeRecently, I booted Windows on my laptop for the first time in a while to play Portal 2 with my son. It asked me to upgrade, and I said ‘sure, upgrade the BIOS.’And then I couldn’t boot FreeBSD… The BIOS upgrade delet…
No theme, but lots to read. Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current. (via) OpenBSD on Desktop (Part I) and OpenBSD on Desktop (Part II). (via and via) FreeBSD Journal 2020/07-08 – Benchmarking/Tuning. I keep missing the new issues; no RSS feed. (via) FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Available. “Even if you’ve never heard of OpenSSH, you’ve also …
The first RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Straight dump of my BSD RSS feed. On the use of a life. A BSD business. FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020. (via) FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why? Related: Subversion and Git on FreeBSD. (video, via) k2k20 hackathon reports: Florian Obser on DNS, Klemens Nanni on network land decluttering, Bob Beck on LibreSSL progress, and Martijn van …
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and powerpcspe architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Michael W. Lucas is doing a talk on Introductory Jails as part of FreeBSD Friday – mentioning it now instead of saving for In Other BSDs, cause Friday is tomorrow.
The second BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Perhaps a performance tweaks mini-theme this week? Valuable News – 2020/09/07. OPNsense 20.7.2 Released. Quare FreeBSD? FreeBSD Mini Git Primer. (via) Install OpenBSD 6.7 with Disk Encryption and FVWM Ricing. Note for non-English speakers: “ricing” is a derogatory term. (via) NetBSD Tips and Tricks. (via) OpenBSD/FreeBSD performance. Beginner’s Guide to FreeBSD. More of an overview. …
The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
Following on from my recent nut setup, this is the second in a series of three posts. The next post will deal with adjusting startup and shutdown times to be sure everything proceeds as required. I want to test the host shutdown mechanism without: unplugging the UPS from the mains powering off the UPS without […]
It is time to replace my existing UPS with another one. I’m getting only 3 minutes of runtime with the existing batteries (and new batteries, after recalibration). It was suggested I buy an Eaton 5PX. I wasn’t convinced. Two days later, I’d purchased a new Eaton UPS and a battery pack. This post will be […]
It’s a good mix this week. ChiBUG’s next meeting is in a few days, the 8th. I’ll post about it again. FreeBSD 11.3 EOL. Modernizing the OpenBSD console. Valuable News – 2020/08/31. FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync. 6.8-beta tagged in CVS. (OpenBSD) PPP Over a WiFi232. Incidentally, how to run a PPP server in …