Year: 2020

This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date.  Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.

Aaron LI’s added a pw-update.sh script to DragonFly, for use in automating group and user changes, especially as – someday – part of a binary upgrade.

So, if you find yourself in possession of an ADM-3A terminal, and want to attach it to a DragonFly machine, here is the /etc/ttys config (viewed on the ADM-3A itself of course) and the front switch settings that worked for me. Remember, ^h deletes.

As in, right now, and online, so join in and say hi.

Thanks to liweitianux, the mirrors page on the DragonFly site has been updated.  Check again to see if there’s a mirror near you, if you haven’t looked recently.

If you remember HAMMER1’s ability to create a volume that spanned multiple local disks, that capability’s been introduced to HAMMER2.  Look at the commit message to see how it works so far.
Note that this is not multi-master replication.

I haven’t had many posts this past week because of a mix of work then holidays. but there’s always Lazy Reading. My favorite essays of life advice. Lode Runner. “just don’t use any non-essential cookies“ Cemetery of Soviet computers.  Gotta reinstall STALKER.  (via) “Tell me you work in tech without telling me you work in …

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There’s an Q&A session for this week’s BSD Now.  I haven’t looked carefully enough to see if this is the last for the year, but there’s some fun what-are-you-running-at-home material in there.

DRM in DragonFly has been updated to match Linux 4.5.18,  along with recognizing some new hardware.

This week’s links are all fun, but you had better have some time to read. The Nethack story of Sery the tourist and Sery on the 7th floor. Concentrichron.  (via) MAX HEADROOM 10\u0027 4\”  Two levels of ironic there. The Making of Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600.  (via) XScreenSaver 5.45 is out. New hacks, …

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This week’s BSD Now talks about shell history, Plan 9, and new-to-me ArisbluBSD, so it should be fun.

This won’t affect your day-to-day operation of DragonFly, but it’s interesting: apparently, uptime was always (now minus boot time).  If you reset the clock on the machine, however, it would no longer be accurate.   Now it is accurate, for …

I realized I never followed up on the call for testing: re(4) driver updates from Sepherosa Ziehau were indeed tested and found good, so the driver has been updated.