Lazy Reading for 2018/08/05
This is a straight dump of open browser tabs. You can tell what motivated me to set up the Mastodon account for the Digest this week, from some of the content.
Save RSS and Atom! The source link has mention of a number of resources.
The history of design systems at Clearleft.
Inside Out. View Source (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/08/04
I have more to post but just plain couldn’t get it all pasted!
OPNsense 18.1.13 released.
rtadvd(8) has been replaced by rad(8).
More mitigations against speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usage in base”.
g2k18 hackathon reports: Kenneth Westerback on dhcpd(8) fixes, disklabel(8) refactoring [...]
BSDNow 257: Great NetBSD 8
BSDNow 257 (which is not as exciting a number as last week but still prime) has no interview but manages to hit all the right notes – every major BSD is mentioned and also links to recent convention reports.
The Digest, now on Mastodon @bsd.netw...
This is way overdue: I’m now posting Digest notes to bsd.network/@dragonflydigest, a BSD-specific Mastodon server.
It’s bothered me for a while that I’m autoposting Digest headlines to Twitter, which is useful for Twitter users but still supporting a walled garden. Mastodon is a better implementation of a similar idea, and [...]
HAMMER2 and multi-slave disks
As part of a larger conversation about HAMMER, Matthew Dillon noted that he is planning to work on master-to-multiple-slave for HAMMER2, which would function similar to HAMMER1 mirror-stream.
mtree(8) update
Sascha Wildner has brought in the NetBSD version of mtree(8), as groundwork for some other changes. There’s little user effect at this point, but it’s worth being familiar with mtree as a tool. Take a look at the man page, especially the section on trojan horse detection under EXAMPLES.
New ena(4) driver for DragonFly
DragonFLy now has a port of the ena(4) driver from FreeBSD. If you aren’t familiar with it, it’s the Elastic Network Adapter used for running on Amazon EC2. That link for the commit message points at several dports tools useful for anyone wanting to try the next logical step.
OpenBSD Errata: July 31st, 2018 (iopo...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.2.
IO port permissions were incorrectly restricted.
Binary updates for the i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
Source code patches can be found on the respective errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata62.html
https://www.openbsd.org/errata63.h [...]
OpenBSD Errata: July 31st, 2018 (amdl...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.2.
On AMD CPUs, set a chicken bit which turns LFENCE into a serialization
instruction against speculation.
Binary updates for the amd64 and i386 platforms are available via the
syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
[...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/07/29
Short, perhaps, but blame my traveling.
“Why use OpenStreetMap instead of Google Maps?” Better reasons than I expected. (via)
Frank’s Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses. (via)
Kermit Project. Found via previous link.
A Global Guide to State-Sponsored Trolling. Trolling is not the right word. (via)
Tariffs in a Nutsh [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/07/28
A lot of this was early overflow posted ahead; I’ve been on the road.
NetBSD 8.0 released.
How to port your OS to EC2.
Booting Without /usr is Broken. Another step away from history and its lessons. (via)
“Is there a LibertyBSD community? how big is it?“
Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2018)
Valuable (Read more...)
g2k18 hackathon report: Ingo Schwarze...
For the g2k18 Ljubljana hackathon, i decided to try and get rid
of as many small userland tasks as possible.
Lots of them have been piling up over time.
Read more…
Theo de Raadt on “unveil(2) usa...
In a
message
to tech@, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) discusses the state of development of
unveil(2)
support in userland (and for a certain port):
Read more…
BSDNow 2^8: Because Computers
The newest BSDNow episode is number 256 but it’s numbered as a power of 2 which makes me irrationally happy. (Rationally happy? Squarely happy? Trying to add in a combination math and language joke there.)
Aaaaanyway, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, some Linux comparisons, ZFS, and so on. It’s the usual content, though I don’t mean th [...]
g2k18 hackathon report: Kenneth Weste...
A new g2k18 hackathon report has arrived, this time from Kenneth Westerback (krw@), who writes:
Other than missing a connection due to \"seat maintenance\" in YYZ,
travel was uneventful. I arrived MUC (twelve hours late) and spent a
week hacking with bluhm@ and mpi@ at Genua\'s Geekweek, to which bluhm@
had kindly arranged an invitatio [...]
More DragonFly mirrors
I’ve been remiss in noting new DragonFly mirrors, so here’s the most recent: 4 new locations in Ecuador.
Running scripts once, only once, on D...
Sascha Wildner’s brought in a new rc mechanism that runs scripts on first boot, and only the first boot. It seems like something for an install process, but it’s also preparation for a new network interface.
Changes to NetBSD release support pol...
The NetBSD release engineering team is announcing a new support policy for our release branches. This affects NetBSD 8.0 and subsequent major releases (9.0, 10.0, etc.). All currently supported releases (6.x and 7.x) will keep their existing support policies.
Beginning with NetBSD 8.0, there will be no more teeny branches (e.g., netbsd-8-0 [...]
Changes to NetBSD release support pol...
The NetBSD release engineering team is announcing a new support policy
for our release branches. This affects NetBSD 8.0 and subsequent major
releases (9.0, 10.0, etc.). All currently supported releases (6.x and
7.x) will keep their existing support policies.
Beginning with NetBSD 8.0, there will be no more teeny branches (e.g.,
netbsd-8-0 [...]
