Posts in category DragonFlyBSD Digest
Where are the pkgsrc-2012Q1 binary pa...
I’m still working on building them. I kept getting panics, which seem to be fixed by this commit, so I should have something soon. Sorry!
Lazy Reading for 2012/04/22
Enjoy!
I like the sentiments here about Instagram. (via) I can see why it was popular, but not how it represented anything but a cosmetic tool, dependent on other services.
Waxy.org turns 10. I relink (reblog? I don’t know) material from the links page on waxy.org, because Andy Baio has a keen eye. That article has (Read more...)
OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1a
Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL in DragonFly to version 1.0.1a, to fix the recent vulnerability CVE-2012-2110. Thanks Peter!
Cheap SSH Mastery
Michael Lucas’s worthwhile book, SSH Mastery, is currently having one of those sudden price cuts on Amazon – for the paperback version, about 25%. Now it a good time to nab it before the price bounces back up.
Disk quotas, the details
Francois Tigeot has followed up with a description of how to enable and disable quotas on DragonFly, which will work for most any local file system, unless rebooted. There’s also the vquota(8) man page.
Try out quotas, temporarily
Because of several recent commits, quotas can be set. They aren’t persistent yet, so they’ll vanish on reboot. The standard disclaimer applies, as this is new.
OpenJDK7 building
Based on a recent post from Chris Turner to the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list, here’s a bug report that should get you to a working lang/OpenJDK7 pkgsrc package.
Lazy Reading for 2012/04/15
It’s a good week when I can start collecting new Lazy Reading material right after posting the previous week’s summary.
There’s a ‘flickr doomsday clock‘. The concept is entertaining, even though the result it warns about is pretty bad. (via) There’s a sort of assumption that external sites hosting huge [...]
Optimized scoreboard for SACK
DragonFly now has a optimized scoreboard for SACK, thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau. What’s that mean? SACK is a way to make sure only the needed parts of a TCP transmission get retransmitted, when multiple packets are lost. The scoreboard is where the packets needing retransmission are tracked. So, the result of these improvements is bet [...]
em(4) update
Sepherosa Ziehau has updated the em(4) driver from Intel; it only matters if you are using the specific chipsets mentioned in the commit message.
Hammer2 messaging
If you’re curious about Hammer2 development, it’s been ongoing, but there haven’t been any more juicy commits to point at. Here’s one – the start of the messaging system.
DragonFly time
DragonFly now has its own ntp.org zone. What’s this mean? Nothing material, but it’s nice to do.
IW changes wiill need a buildworld
Sepherosa Ziehau has made changes to the initial TCP congestion window, based on a number of papers he links to in his post. The immediate effect is if you’re on DragonFly-current, you will need to do a full buildworld on your next upgrade. The long term effect could be improvements in latency by improving reactions to bufferbloat. O [...]
6 slots for Summer of Code
DragonFly has been given 6 slots (i.e. spaces for students) by Google for this year’s Summer of Code. That’s great! We have a crop of great student proposals this year, so far, so the biggest worry at this point is how to get to them all.
Longest review ever, finished
That DragonFly review is now available in all six parts. (I included the preamble there.) I still haven’t made it through the whole thing.
OpenSSL updated to 1.0.1
Peter Avalos has updated DragonF’y\'s OpenSSL to version 1.0.1, in part to make future upgrades easier. See the changelog for what’s new. Look for the part specifically about 1.0.1, since the notes include unreleased material too.
pkginteractive: graphical pkgin
Julian Fagir has put together a graphical – meaning it works under curses in a terminal, or under X - interface to pkgin, the binary package manager. Can someone try it and describe how well it works?
Have Areca RAID? Now you can use MSI
Thanks to Sascha Wildner, the Areca RAID controller driver, arcmsr(4), now supports MSI. It should only make things better, but if it doesn’t, you can turn it off.
Some more pkgsrc expunging
There’s several packages that will be removed from pkgsrc after the 2012Q2 branch, since they haven’t worked in a long time. Also, Python 2.4 has been removed from pkgsrc-current and 2.5 will go the same way before the end of the year.
Lazy Reading for 2012/04/08
The links are all over the map this week, which is fine. Enjoy!
This makes me laugh every time. (via)
Etsy has an astonishingly good internal development practice. And open source code? (via)
For contrast, Facebook’s release engineering process. (via I lost it, sorry) Not as interesting but I can’t tell why.
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