Areca updates
Sascha Wildner’s added updatesfrom FreeBSD for the Areca arcmsr(4) driver; specifically for the ARC-1213, ARC-1223 and ARC-1882 models.
A whole lot of slides
Remember how I pointed at BSDEvent’s collection of slides from 3 different BSD conventions? Well, now’s it is a lot more conventions. As in multiple years of convention slides.
Users@ shows up at MARC
MARC, which stands for Mailing list ARChives, has a lot of mailing lists. It now includes the DragonFly users@ list, along with the others. (It’s not linked in *BSD on the main MARC page yet, but it should be soon.) It’s worth digging through the massive, massive wall of text on that page to find a mailing list (Read more...)
Google Code-In: participants?
Google Code-In 2012 has been announced. I’m not going to be able to coordinate it for DragonFly this year… anyone want to step up?
Rebuild everything if you’re running ...
This latest commit for the new scheduler means that on your next update, you will want to build a new kernel, and probably a new world too. This only applies if you’re running DragonFly 3.1, of course.
PC-BSD Presentation at KyivBSD
Yuri Momotiuk will give a presentation “Development Environment of PC-BSD” on Saturday, September 24 at KyivBSD in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yuri developed the PC-BSD Control Panel and the GDM Configuration utility and is working on a bug reporting tool for PC-BSD 9.2. The presentation will be in Russian.
Lazy Reading for 2012/09/23
The weather is finally turning cooler, which makes me happy.
I don’t think I’ve seen this before: Very old UNIX releases, listed for running in emulation. (via)
Where the red-black tree name came from. A red-black tree underpins Hammer 1′s data structures, though it does not in Hammer 2. (also via)
Someone with a HP (Re [...]
Mailing list archives updated back to...
I got the old mailing list archives converted to Mailman. As I wrote in a post to users@, please let me know about problems. There’s some garbled messages from the old archive that were placed into the 2012-Sept. section for each message; I’ll be cleaning those up manually.
Posting but not reading mailing lists
The old mailing list software for @dragonflybsd.org mailing lists, bestserv, apparently allowed people not subscribed to a list to post to it, after answering a confirmation message for each message posted.
The closest way to duplicate that for Mailman is to sign up for the list you want, and then turn off mail delivery for your email address [...]
Announcing Release Candidate 2 for Ne...
On behalf of NetBSD\'s developers, I\'m happy to announce the availability
of the second release candidate of NetBSD 6.0.
Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_RC2 are available for download at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC2/
ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from
USB sticks or other hard drives, and t [...]
Announcing Release Candidate 2 for Ne...
On behalf of NetBSD\'s developers, I\'m happy to announce the availability
of the second release candidate of NetBSD 6.0.
Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_RC2 are available for download at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC2/
ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from
USB sticks or other hard drives, and t [...]
3 different conventions, 1 pile of th...
BSD Events linked to the presentations for FOSDEM 2012, BSD-Day Europe 2012, and BSDCan 2012. There’s a lot of reading there for you – and even some video.
Budapest g2k12 Hackathon part IV
The editors apologize for the extreme delay in this, our penultimate installment of our hackathon reportage!
Read more...
A flurry of fixes and scheduler impro...
The combination of Mihai Carabas’s successful Summer of Code work on the scheduler and the recent Postgres benchmarking got Matthew Dillon to start thinking about making UNIX domain sockets work better, a shortcut around the buffer cache, scheduler improvements and then a new default scheduler, along with a change in idle CPU behavior. [...]
Notes on smartmontools
Smartmontools will catch impending disk failures about 2/3 of the time, so it’s useful to run it and interpret the results. The results can be somewhat complex, though. However, it can be useful to look at other people talking about the output and glean knowledge from the context.
A bikeshed and a code change
A discussion of why root automatically lists dotfiles with ls and all other users do not led to a long thread that includes some UNIX history. There’s some useful and some not-so-useful parts in the thread, but it did indirectly produce a way to reverse the listing effect itself.
Foundation Gold Sponsor of EuroBSDCon
The Foundation is proud to be a gold sponsor of EuroBSDCon, to be held at the Warsaw Univeristy of Technology in Warsaw, Poland from October 18-21. EuroBSDcon is the European annual technical conference gathering users and developers working on and with BSD based operating systems family and related projects. This year\'s keynote s [...]
SYSV shared memory vs. mmap
Francois Tigeot benchmarked the recent Postgres 9.3 release. Postgres apparently switched to using mmap instead of SYSV shared memory, and Francois has done this to show the performance differences. (view the PDF in his post.) Of course, work has continued since this was posted, so there should be new numbers soon, and new changes I’ [...]
Pkgsrc freeze has started
See the note on pkgsrc-users@. The next quarterly release, pkgsrc-2012Q3, should be fully baked by the end of the month, if all goes well.
