em/emx(4) updates
If you’re running an em(4)/emx(4) network card on DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau’s updated to the 7.7.8 release of the driver from Intel, and added a few more chipsets too.
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A reminder: updating pkg
I’ve mentioned it before but it came up again, so it’s worth repeating: your 5.8 install of DragonFly may need an update of the pkg tool.
pkgsrc-2021Q1 branch announcement
The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 70th quarterly release
of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available
with more than 26,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more
information on pkgsrc itself is available…
Lazy Reading for 2021/03/28
No theme this week cause I really did touch all the themes. The Smallest Keyboard. to smol About Deformin’ In The Rain. Spaceship builder. (via) Saying goodbye to my Commodore 64. Linked cause of the hardware mods. 50 Years of Text Games: 1981: His Majesty’s Ship “Impetuous” and 1982: The Hobbit. I never encountered these …
In Other BSDs for 2021/03/27
Quiet, this week. GNU really is a different animal. Paired links: Port of the week: diffoscope and Shamir’s secret sharing. Another pair: Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD and Enable 2 factor auth on OpenBSD using TOTP. A working D compiler on OpenBSD. mport package manager. Valuable News – 2021/03/22. Easy text transmission from computer to smartphone. I didn’t …
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-21:07.openssl
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FreeBSD-SA-21:07.openssl Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
Category: contrib
Module: openssl
Announced: 2021-03-25
Affects: FreeBSD 12.2 and later
Corrected: 2021-03-25 15:45:19 UTC (stable/13, 13.0-STABLE)
2021-03-25 16:25:06 UTC (releng/13.0, 13.0-RC3-p1)
2021-03-25 17:14:46 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2021-03-25 23:45:45 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p5)
CVE Name: CVE-2021-3449, CVE-2021-3450
For general information regarding FreeBSD Security
BSD Now 395: Tracing ARM’s history
BSD Now has the usual roundup of news this week, and leads with an article about FreeBSD and ARM – useful for the BSD content, but also interesting cause it has a nice summary of how ARM designs came to be so important.
kmalloc_obj added to DragonFly
Matthew Dillon has implemented per-zone memory management in DragonFly with the kmalloc_obj subsystem, as seen in these recent commits. As usual, the commit messages have detailed explanations – certainly more detailed than mine.
bnx updates in DragonFly
If you have a Broadcom BCM57785/BCM5718 series network card, supported by the bnx(4) driver, there’s some new models supported. There’s some fixes for other models, too.
A working D compiler on OpenBSD
Dr. Brian Robert Callahan (bcallah@)
blogged about his work in getting D compiler(s) working under OpenBSD.
The first paragraph reads:
I got GDC, the GNU D Compiler, working on OpenBSD. Supporting D has been a very long time coming. Here’s the st…
Lazy Reading for 2021/03/21
Mini theme this week: sound. Leave it to the phone companies to make simple ideas complex. Mini weather station with e-ink display. A good use case. The Data Sonification Archive. Data represented by sound. BOTTLED AUTHORS: The predigital dream of the audiobook. The Pixel Vision 8, for 8-bit games. Loop Hero, a roguelike where you …
In Other BSDs for 2021/03/20
Solene is publishing faster than I can link! EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open. Porting OpenBSD to RISC-V Final Report. (PDF, via) FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience. (via) Pine 64: March Update. Nominally BSD related. (via) Creating ports for BSD distributions. (via) Wayland on FreeBSD. Top 12 best opensource games available on OpenBSD. Using pkgsrc …
EuroBSDCon 2021 Call for Papers open
Hoping to be able to make a conference in Vienna in September (and doing it digitally if not), the EuroBSDCon is now accepting submissions for presentations and tutorials.
Read more at 2021.EuroBSDCon.org
FreeBSD Office Hours tonight
FreeBSD Office Hours are happening tonight, 18:00 UTC. Go, if you’re online.
LibreSSL 3.2.5 Released
We have released LibreSSL 3.2.5, which will be arriving in the
LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon.
It includes the following bug fix:
* A TLS client using session resumption may cause a use-after-free.
The LibreSSL project contin…
pkill and -T
Thanks to Levente Kurusa and Aaron LI, pkill(1) now has a -T option, to limit the killed processes to the current terminal. It’s a minor change, but worth remarking cause if you are killing multiple processes, your muscle memory is going to take…
Some video card advice
I am not sure if these Radeon cards are tested on DragonFly, but it’s a good base to start from.
OpenBSD Errata: March 15, 2021 (libssl)
Errata patches for LibreSSL have been released for OpenBSD 6.8.
A TLS client using session resumption may cause a use-after-free.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can …
Lazy Reading for 2021/03/14
Double links is the sub-theme today. PLATO Adventure (1979). Adventure/Zork was everywhere. Plus an incomplete guide. Wing Commander III. The graphics have aged remarkably well. Lotus 1-2-3 at arbitrary terminal sizes. (via) Similar: Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one. Trainspotting, A story of trains, computers, and two images. (also via) And then: Mystery …