BSDMag, collected
BSD Magazine has a “Best of 2011″ issue out for purchase; it has updated versions of various articles published over the last year in BSD Magazine. The price is not clear on the website.
Lazy Reading for 2012/09/02
I hope you like your links eclectic this week.
DragonFly is a popular project name, but this is unrelated to DragonFly BSD.
Russian Tea HOWTO. I know there’s at least a few vigorous tea-drinkers in DragonFly other than me. The tl;dr version is “make a syrup and dilute”, but it’s more enjoyable to get into the paperp [...]
Amazing new world with pkgng
I really like it. It\'s a pure magic... It\'s pkgng. So, my task is to deploy about 20-30 servers (jails) for practical courses in PostgreSQL. So, every student will have its own unique DBMS to crack and crash. Two years ago I said students to do: # cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/ && make install So, for half a lesson we [...]
Do you have a SSD yet?
Because here’s some recommendations on good models, and here’s a way to check SSD health. Seriously, they’re great.
Announcing Release Candidate 1 for Ne...
On behalf of NetBSD developers, I\'m happy to announce the availability
of the first release candidate of NetBSD 6.0.
Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_RC1 are available for download at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC1/
ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from
USB sticks or other hard drives, and torre [...]
Announcing Release Candidate 1 for Ne...
On behalf of NetBSD developers, I\'m happy to announce the availability
of the first release candidate of NetBSD 6.0.
Binaries of NetBSD 6.0_RC1 are available for download at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6.0_RC1/
ISO images and (for amd64 and i386) images suitable for installing from
USB sticks or other hard drives, and torre [...]
3.0.3 images up
I’ve uploaded DragonFly 3.0.3 disk images, both ISO and IMG. They should start appearing on a mirror site near you in the next 24 hours. This took a while after the tagging, I know, but I wanted to make sure every one of them booted. I didn’t on a previous release, and regretted it.
LSI users, take note
If you have a LSI RAID card, meaning you are using the mfi(4) driver, Sascha Wildner has added /proc/devices to linprocfs, so that LSI’s MegaCLI configuration utility will run.
Is your battery smart?
Sascha Wildner has pushed smart battery support, based on a patch from Dmitry Komissaroff and FreeBSD. He asks people to try it out. It apparently provides for more accurate battery charge level readings?
OpenHelp Trip Report: Warren Block
Warren Block of the documentation team recently submitted his trip report for the OpenHelp Documentation Conference:The Open Help Conference was held in Newport, Kentucky, just across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio. Shaun McCance, the GNOME documentation team\'s \"Fearless Leader\", organized the conference to bring together open sourc [...]
Postgres benchmarking again
Francois Tigeot benchmarked several different operating systems using Postgres 9.2b3, including DragonFly, and published the results. I have a local copy of the PDF since the attachment didn’t really survive the archiving. Follow the thread for discussion. The Linux results look abnormally high, so it is possible that something diffe [...]
BSDCan Trip Reports: Hiren Panchasara...
The last of the BSDCan trip reports have been received. Hiren Panchasara posted his on his blog. Adrian Chadd\'s report is as follows:The last couple of years has seen me take stewardship of the net80211 stack and Atheros wifi driver development and maintenance. The FreeBSD Foundation provided me with a travel grant to enable me to participat [...]
Lazy Reading for 2012/08/26
There’s certainly no theme to this week’s links. I even manage to avoid my usual git and vim links, strangely.
Ethernet’s Future: How Fast Is Fast Enough? The article doesn’t answer any questions, but I like the IEEE-supplied graph it opens with that shows the trend of overall network traffic doubling yearly. (via) [...]
Any mbox files for @dragonflybsd.org ...
Do you happen to have the saved messages for one or more @dragonflybsd.org mailing lists sitting around? Hopefully in mbox format? I’m working on getting Mailman installed to replace bestserv, and being able to bring in the old messages would be nice.
DragonFly and GSoC 2012 wrapup
DragonFly had a successful Google Summer of Code even this year. It marks our 5th time participating, 7th if you count Google Code-In events.
Mihai Carabas worked on adding SMT/HT awareness to the DragonFly scheduler. This project was very successful. The original goal was just to take advantage of threading with the scheduler, but the b [...]
3.0.3 tagged
I’m working on building new images, but: DragonFly 3.0.3 has been tagged. If you’re running 3.0, you can update and get some of the recent bug fixes.
PC-BSD 9.1-RC1 Now Available
Kris has announced the availability of RC1:
The RC1 images for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 are now available for i386 and amd64 architectures.
This release candidate provides both users and developers a means to test out new features in the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 release. This snapshot may contain buggy code and features, so users are encouraged to [...]
FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available
The first RC build for the FreeBSD-9.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and powerpc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
