Upcoming pkgsrc removals for 2012Q4
As is customary with pkgsrc, a number of packages that do not build or are no longer needed will be removed. This will happen in the next quarterly release. It’s a short list, and one item on that list, misc/p5-Locale-Maketext, will actually stay.
The freeze for pkgsrc-2012Q4 is due to complete in about 48 hours.
FreeBSD Foundation – 2012 Year-...
Just did a quick check on the targeted $500k donations and FreeBSD Foundation have made it!
As of this post, FreeBSD Foundation have managed to surpass it\'s 2012 fund raising goal by $184 905, at the total of $684 905.
This is no doubt a great news to the end 2012 and I look forward to see more of these (Read more...)
AboutBSD.net – outage
IFQ packet staging mechanism added
I’m not sure what IFQ stands for, but Sepherosa Ziehau’s added it. It appears to be based on an idea from Luigi Rizzo called ‘netmap‘. In this case, network packets are grouped together before being placed onto the network interface’s hardware queue. That means better packet per second performance without a co [...]
NetBSD 6.0.1 released
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons.
For more details, please see the 6.0.1 release notes
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.0.1 are available for download [...]
NetBSD 6.0.1 released
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.1, the first security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons.
For more details, please see the 6.0.1 release notes
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 6.0.1 are available for download [...]
Merry Christmas
Hope your presents are interesting this year…
Some notes on HR10-250 video
Over the past 5 or 6 years, I\'ve had my TiVo HR10-250 setup to extract videos off of it. Please see my other posts on how I set that up with Zipper and mfs_ftp. There are some newer programs to help with the video extraction, but I have a cobbled together system that works OK enough for now, so I\'ll (Read more...)
Outage fixed
The Digest was down over the last 12 hours or so – sorry! Upgrading this system took a bit longer than planned. I upgraded to Apache 2.4, and had to figure out all the config changes, and several packages didn’t like upgrading.
I’ve resisted upgrading for a long time, mostly because I think I could recreate the entire Apac [...]
Lazy Reading for 2012/12/23
I started this Lazy Reading early, since I had so many links it overflowed into the next week. Merry almost Christmas!
Here’s an in-depth review of Guilded Youth, an interactive fiction game that hearkens back to the old days of BBS usage. (Do I need an interactive fiction tag to complement the roguelike one?)
Dear Open Source Projec [...]
FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter
The December issue of the FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter has been published:FreeBSD has a flourishing community. Innovative technology is packed into every release. Thousands of products and services the world relies upon are built on FreeBSD, and the adoption rate of FreeBSD accelerates year after year. By all of these measures, FreeBSD is an [...]
The FreeBSD Foundation End-of-Year Ne...
We are pleased to announce the publication of The FreeBSD Foundation\'s 2012 End-of-Year Newsletter.
Linux and cpdup, plus a note
I could have sworn I noted it before, but as Venkatesh Srinivas points out, there’s a port of cpdup to Linux. Also, if you’re using cpdup to copy material out of a Hammer volume’s history, use the -VV switch.
Pkgsrc freeze for next quarterly rele...
Pkgsrc has entered a ‘freeze’ for their next quarterly release, which would be pkgsrc-2012Q4. (DragonFly 3.2 ships with 2012Q3) The freeze ends and the release happens at the end of the year, assuming no surprises.
PC-BSD 9.1 is Released
The PC-BSD Team announces the availablilty of PC-BSD 9.1.
DragonFly 3.2.2 released
DragonFly 3.2.2 has been tagged. The tag commit has a list of the fixes; this is a bugfix release, but it’s a good one. Download an ISO (they should be at the mirrors by now) or update your system.
IP Forwarding Performance
Sepherosa Ziehau has been making a lot of commits to increase packet-per-second rates without increasing CPU usage. He’s published a sort of progress report/benchmark to show current performance levels. It sounds like he’s expecting even better performance in the future, though I’m not sure how much more he could push out [...]
