Rthreads Hackathon Part the Epilogue
Ted Unangst(tedu@), the original author of rthreads (you can watch his DCBSDCon09 presentation
on youtube),
recently took the time to answer some of our questions.
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Lazy Reading for 2012/05/20
There’s been so much activity this week in DragonFly that I’m having a hard time keeping up. There’s always time for Lazy Reading, though.
The March of Progress. (via)
My Third Attempt at Vim. Follow the link to pathogen, if you haven’t heard of it.
From the same article, Destroy All Software screencasts. They (R [...]
More on HAMMER2 progress
As noted in a recent commit, it’s possible to set up a HAMMER2 /usr/obj and survive a buildworld. That’s good progress.
Note that this is basic work, so features like multi-master and deduplication are not present yet, and it’s still work in progress, so don’t try HAMMER2 unless you like losing data. Watch the branch [...]
PHP 5.4 status in pkgsrc
Takahiro Kambe is bringing PHP 5.4 into pkgsrc, probably as lang/php54. Follow the whole thread for a discussion of version numbering. As a side effect of this, PHP 5.2 will leave pkgsrc by the next quarterly pkgsrc release. If you’re using that older flavor, you’ll want to upgrade.
Recent networking updates
Sepherosa Ziehau has been making various updates that conform to standards lately, including “RFC4653 Non-Congestion Robustness (NCR)” and “RFC3517bis“. I’m not familiar with what they do, but you can follow the links and read the RFCs if you are curious.
(Not sure if I got that 3517 one correct…)
BSDTalk Interview with Peter Hansteen...
BSDTalk has an almost hour-long
interview
from BSDCan 2012 with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer(henning@); they talk about recent work on OpenBSD.
As a bonus, both Peter and Henning presented at BSDCan; the slides from Peter\'s
PF tutorial
and Henning\'s preview of
upcoming queuing changes
are online.
BSDTalk Interview with Peter Hansteen...
BSDTalk has an almost hour-long
interview
from BSDCan 2012 with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer(henning@); they talk about recent work on OpenBSD.
As a bonus, both Peter and Henning presented at BSDCan; the slides from Peter\'s
PF tutorial
and Henning\'s preview of
upcoming queuing changes
are online.
TUI mode added to kgdb
TUI mode is available now for kgdb on DragonFly, thanks to John Marino. It’s apparently a Text User Interface for debugging core files. I haven’t used it, so I’m relying on the testimony of others.
An Apache 2.4 bug, worked around
Apparently Apache 2.4 has a bug that will cause network stalls when sending data that doesn’t line up with segment size. Sepherosa Ziehau has put in a workaround for the issue. Alternately, you can use www/apache22.
Hammer 2 progress
Matthew Dillon’s recently added getaddr/setaddr support, dumping, and session encryption, among other things, to Hammer 2. Or is it HAMMER2? I’m not sure.
BSDTalk 214: Peter Hansteen and Henni...
BSDTalk 214 has nearly an hour of conversation with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer, all from the recent BSDCan.
bsdtalk214 – Peter Hansteen and...
Rthreads Hackathon Part the Fourth
Philip Guenther(guenther@), the man who got this hackathon rolling, takes the time to organize his post-its:
Sometimes you go into a hackathon knowing exactly what you\'re going
to tackle and it all follows the plan. No, wait, that never happens.
There\'s always something that comes up that ends up eating more of
the hackathon t [...]
Vendor branch updates: libedit, libnc...
John Marino has updated libncurses, libedit, gdb, libgmp, and zlib. The release notes are helpfully contained within each commit. If that wasn’t enough, he’s also added terminfo, a future replacement for termcap, if I understand correctly.
Scratch of the day – ssh transf...
There\'s 2 servers which configured only my workstation is able to login using ssh keys. But I need to transfer files between these 2 servers. Downloading from server A to my workstation then upload the files to server B seems to be way. It would be good if I can combine the 2 operations into 1 single execution.
With shell\'s (Read more... [...]
Upgrading from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABL...
A number of people have asked if they can upgrade from 9.0-RELEASE to the latest snapshot. Yes you can, if you carefully follow these instructions:
IMPORTANT: As with any pre-release, there can and will be bugs, so be sure to backup your data to a removable media or another system first.
As the superuser, grab and build the newest pc-updatema [...]
OpenSSL updated two different ways
Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL in two different places:. The 3.0 release now has OpenSSL 1.0.0j, which fixes several security issues (see link for CVE IDs). DragonFly 3.1 now has OpenSSL 1.0.1c. As for a changelog… this, maybe?
“Level/low” USB fix
If you are having USB issues on boot with DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau’s sysctl suggestions may help you.
SSH Mastery Released
The editors are a bit late to the party, but are pleased to belatedly announce the publication of
SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels, and Keys
. From the author, Michael W. Lucas:
Secure Shell (SSH) lets systems administrators securely manage remote systems. But most people only use the bare minimum SSH offers. Used [...]
Lazy Reading for 2012/05/13
I’m starting to pack these full enough that I might have to go biweekly.
“My 10 Unix command-line mistakes“. (via) You will have done at least a few of these – see comments on that article for even more. I know I’ve shut down the interface I’m connected on a few times…
BSD vs. Linux. ( (Read more [...]
