I take it back
AboutBSD.net is putting source attribution on stories now, so I have nothing to complain about.
Well, I suppose I could complain about the default margins on embedded story images. It’s too small. Yes, I’m really reaching.
Snapshot build logs now available
The logs from regular DragonFly builds are now available as they are completed. It’s i386 right now, with x86_64 on the way.
pf progress
Jan Lentfer posted about his progress on upgrading pf. He has pickups working, but on on a per-rule basis; he’s looking for feedback on how important this option is for other users.
Heads up! OpenBSD now supports multi-byte characters!
On July 27th, Stefan Sperling (stsp@) added support for the multi-byte characters in the OpenBSD libc. Thanks to the work of the people involved in its development, the OpenBSD C library now supports the Unicode character encoding scheme UTF-8. Read o…
FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter
Our Semi-Annual Newsletter is now available. There’s a lot of information in this edition, including:Letter From the PresidentFundraising UpdateFlattened Device Tree ProjectUserland DTrace ProjectFreeBSD Jail Based Virtualization ProjectResource Contai…
FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter
The FreeBSD Foundation’s semi-annual Newsletter is now available. There’s a lot of information in this edition, including:
[c2k10] (Part 5)
In all of my interviews at c2k10, there were many things that kept coming up over and over again. One of those things was the release of 2.7 in June of 2000 and 2.8 in November. It was a period when many of the developers, tedu@ include…
Another compilation site, plus me complaining
Dru Lavigne linked to AboutBSD.net; it’s an aggregate site that compiles the RSS feeds from a number of BSD sites. It doesn’t list any news from this site. I had a conversation with “Psyber.Monkey”, the maintainer some months ago and I pointed out that since it was copying posts wholesale, it sounded like I was […]
New *BSD Planet Website
AboutBSD launched recently as a new planet for aggregating *BSD blogs. The founder of the site describes the goals of the website as follows:
FreeBSD Foundation July 2010 Newsletter
The FreeBSD Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2010 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community.
freebsd-update : 6.2-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE
Put on sysadmin hat and upgraded some 6.2 freebsd boxes recently. Here are the steps that I used. Please take note that you should have a good backup before attempting this upgrade. You are WARNED! old6# uname -a FreeBSD old6.vnet.0rg 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 A rather aged […]
GPT, please
Is it time to move to GPT instead of the traditional fdisk/disklabel combo? Petr thinks so. There’s some work to do, though.
PAE support for native i386
With kernel revision 5.99.37, the options(4) PAE was added to native i386.
It is currently disabled by default.
PAE support for native i386
With kernel revision 5.99.37, the options(4) PAE was added to native i386.
It is currently disabled by default.
[c2k10] The Hackathon BBQ (Part 4) – June 25 – July 3, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
With almost two days of hacking under their belts, everyone was
instructed to make their way to Bob Beck’s (beck@) house for the
traditional BBQ event and Swedish beer hurling festivities. The food was
fantastic and the cam…
FreeBSD – How to allow normal user to mount USB drive
Recently, I've got a few external hard disk and one of them is formatted into file system FAT32 (msdosfs or vfat), because the files are to be interchange between Linux, OSX & FreeBSD. After the files are save from OSX, the external hard disk c…
Network Flow Analysis: a review
Michael Lucas sent me a copy of his newest book, Network Flow Analysis, on the grounds that I read it and write what I thought. While book reviews aren’t usual fare for this site, it’s appealing to write something different from my usual brief summaries. (more after the jump…) The background: Michael Lucas also wrote […]
pkgsrc-2010Q2 out, I think
I haven’t seen an announcement at all, but I’m inferring that it’s out. I’ll be changing the DragonFly build machines momentarily.
Heads up! OpenBSD turns 4.8-BETA
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) has tagged 4.8-BETA (see here and here). Snapshots should be available soon for testing, check the mirrors for availability. Read below for the full commit messages:
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