In Other BSDs for 2019/04/20
Nicely mixed topics this week.
It’s several years old, but worth viewing: .ike’s presentation of “Shell Fu” from NYCBUG, as video. Also: May event speaker needed. (via)
The FreeBSD-12 support model.
“OpenVMS vs. Unix” (antagonists or sisters?).
Previous link via Nixers Newsletter 121.
Back in the Day: UN [...]
HAMMER2 snapshots, a story
It’s always helpful to see other people’s questions and answers; in this case it’s a conversation about HAMMER2 snapshots and how to manage them. (Follow the thread)
docbook2mdoc-1.0.0 released
After doing active development on it for about a month,
i just released version 1.0.0 of the DocBook to mdoc converter,
docbook2mdoc(1).
The OpenBSD port was updated, too.
In a nutshell, docbook2mdoc was brought from experimental status
to an early release that can be considered mostly usable for
production, though no doubt there are s [...]
CFT FreeBSD + New Upstream ZFS (ZoL)
FreeBSD is testing a new upstream for its ZFS implementation, ZFS on Linux. Images for FreeBSD 12-STABLE and 13-CURRENT images are now available for testing FreeBSD + ZoL (ZFS on Linux). Please see the CFT FreeBSD + ZoL for testing details.
BSD Now 294: The SSH Tarpit
BSD Now 294 is up, with (among other things) a link to the well-named Endlessh.
DragonFly on a terminal, for fun.
I managed to find an ancient Wyse-185 terminal at my workplace today, left in the corner of the server room. For entertainment purposes only, I booted DragonFly in VirtualBox and attached the physical terminal to the physical serial port on my Windows laptop docking station, mapped through to that virtual machine.
Rather dirty WYSE-185 termi [...]
HAMMER2 fix in release
The aforementioned HAMMER2 fix is now in 5.4. You can update using the normal make buildworld/make buildkernel process to get it in place. I plan to roll a 5.4.2 release this weekend.
Shutting up ACPI
If you want to hear nothing at all from ACPI, no matter what, set debug.acpi.silence_all to 1. In related news, DragonFly has just updated to Intel’s ACPICA version 20190329.
Lazy Reading for 2019/04/14
I hope you have some time on your hands today. There are hours of reading and watching linked below.
Before Adventure, Part 3: Caves (1973), Before Adventure, Part 4: Hunt the Wumpus (1973), and Before Adventure, Part 5: Wumpus 2 and 3.
The ultimate guide to analog control panels in sci-fi movies. (via)
Buster Keaton: Anarchitect. (Read [...]
t2k19 Hackathon Report: On rsync, ssh...
The stream of t2k19 hackathon reports continues with this from Christian Weisgerber (naddy@):
Discounting an airport layover, this was my first trip to Asia.
I guess I picked the right spot. Seeing Taipei felt like stepping
into Ghost in
the Shell. Awesome. But this isn\'t the OpenBSD travel
blog…
Read more…
In Other BSDs for 2019/04/13
Straight open tab dump, again!
FreeBSD ARM64 AMIs are now available for Amazon EC2. (via)
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and OpenBSD.
Small NAS questions. Follow the thread; there’s many suggestions.
Challenge accepted: OpenBSD on a laptop. (via)
Encrypted (LUKS) HAMMER1 master/slave NFS fileserver : 9 months later.
[packages] libreoffice and [...]
t2k19 Hackathon Report: unwinding in ...
Fresh from the recent t2k19 hackathon in Taipei, Florian Obser (florian@)
writes in with this report:
unwind(8) is weird. It is the first daemon I wrote without having a
constant use for most of its features. slowcgi(8), slaacd(8) and
rad(8) are different, I use them every day and I will notice when I
break stuff.
Read more&hell [...]
HAMMER2 corruption bug and fix
It’s possible to have data corrupted on a HAMMER2 volume during a specific combination of a bulkfree operation and a lot of writing to disk. Matthew Dillon has a potential fix already. As he announced, it’s scheduled to go into 5.4 this weekend. It’s a rare bug, but if you want to check for it, look for CHECK (Read more. [...]
BSD Now 293: Booking Jails
BSD Now 293 has an interview with Michael W. Lucas on his newest book in the BSD Mastery series: BSD Mastery: Jails. It’s available to purchase now.
t2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperli...
A new hackathon report has arrived, this time from Stefan Sperling (stsp@), who writes:
This hackathon was an exceptional opportunity for several developers
involved in 802.11 wireless to meet face to face. I spent a lot of time
collaborating with Kevin Lo and Jonathan Matthew throughout the week.
Read more…
Need a new top
top(1) is no longer in DragonFly contrib/ directory, for a number of reasons. It’s still present in the system, of course, and I think needs to have someone re-add as a vendor branch – a relatively easy project for a volunteer, hint hint.
From Zero to NVMM
Six months ago, I told myself I would write a small hypervisor for an old x86
AMD CPU I had. Just to learn more about virtualization, and see how far I could
go alone on my spare time. Today, it turns out that I\'ve gone as far as
implementing a full, fast and flexible virtualization stack for NetBSD. I\'d like
(Read more...)
