Trying out deduplication
I moved to DragonFly 2.10 over the past few days, and I tried out deduplication, to see what kind of results I would get. The procedure is outlined below. I’m using /home here as an example, just to reduce the amount of text pasted in.
/pfs/@@-1:00004 966000640 566434576 399566064 59% /home
Move my various Hammer pseudo-file [...]
PC-BSD at SouthEast LinuxFest
Members of the PC-BSD team will be attending Southeast Linuxfest in Spartanburg, SC, June 10–12. Conference registration is free.
On Saturday, June 11, Kris Moore will give a presentation entitled “Introduction to PC-BSD” and Dru Lavigne will give a presentation entitled “How Can I Contribute to Open Source?”. The rest of the day they will be [...]
libcxxrt C++ runtime now available un...
The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C, and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64, and MIPS. This software is an implementation of the C++ Application Binary Interface originally developed f [...]
libcxxrt C++ runtime now available un...
The FreeBSD Foundation and the NetBSD Foundation have acquired a non-exclusive copyright license to the libcxxrt C++ runtime software from PathScale, a leader in high performance Fortran, C, and C++ compiler products for AMD64, Intel64, and MIPS. This software is an implementation of the C++ Application Binary Interface originally developed f [...]
Canon Rebel Xt and 32GB CF
Just thought I\'d mention that I\'ve been using a 32GB CF card with no special formatting in the Canon Rebel Xt. It has been working great for years.
Canon Rebel Xt and 32GB CF
Just thought I\'d mention that I\'ve been using a 32GB CF card with no special formatting in the Canon Rebel Xt. It has been working great for years.
Lazy Reading for 2011/05/29
Whee!
Do you like the Opera browser? Apparently all it takes is a little misspelling to confuse it with a U.S. daytime talk show host. The “Best of Oprah emails to Opera“. (via) Mistaken identity on the Internet is always fun.
Popular free software licenses, described. (via) One of the better, non-polemic descriptions (Re [...]
Another pkgsrc build
This new build is on x86_64, pkgsrc-2011Q1. It’s already uploaded, if you want to update. i386 coming soon. Several packages freeze up during build, so it’s been turning into a manual process.
Minecraft! On DragonFly! Almost!
I managed to build openjdk7 on a DragonFly 2.9 system, and run a Minecraft server… but I can’t connect to it. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why? I haven’t used Java much in the past few years, so I’m not sure where to troubleshoot.
Other Summer of Code: pkgsrc
One of the Google Summer of Code projects that will be valuable for DragonFly even though it isn’t a DragonFly project: “Add other package formats to pkgsrc”, where pkgsrc can interpret rpm, dpkg, and FreeBSD Ports files. Anyway, the project has a Sourceforge site.
BSDCan Trip Report: Daichi Goto
The FreeBSD Foundation recently provided a travel grant to Daichi Goto to attend BSDCan and the FreeBSD Developer Summit. He has provided the following trip report:What have you accomplished by attending this conference?I have written thirteen BSDCan 2011 related articles for the \"FreeBSD Daily Topics\" section of gihyo.jp. The articles desc [...]
BSDCan Trip Report: Daichi Goto
The FreeBSD Foundation recently provided a travel grant to Daichi Goto to attend BSDCan and the FreeBSD Developer Summit. He has provided the following trip report:
What have you accomplished by attending this conference?
I have written thirteen BSDCan 2011 related articles for the \"FreeBSD Daily Topics\" section of gihyo.jp. The articles [...]
FreeBSD portmgr thank you to the Free...
The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wrote a thank you note to the Foundation for providing travel grants to several developers who therefore were able to attend the very successful Ports Working Group session.We would like to publicly thank the FreeBSD Foundation for granting Baptiste Daroussin and Julien Laffaye a travel grant to travel to BSD [...]
FreeBSD portmgr thank you to the Free...
The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wrote a thank you note to the Foundation for providing travel grants to several developers who therefore were able to attend the very successful Ports Working Group session.We would like to publicly thank the FreeBSD Foundation for granting Baptiste Daroussin and Julien Laffaye a travel grant to travel to BSD [...]
Getting started with disk encryption
I haven’t covered recent disk encryption work evenly, here, so I’ll point at a recent discussion instead. Alex Hornung mentioned a cryptsetup(8) man page that may help, as does any dm-crypt tutorial out there on the Internet. (DragonFly has the same userland tools.) The DragonFly installer will create encrypted disks at instal [...]
Hot-swap and a bad disk
If you follow this thread, it has some discussion on how to handle a multi-disk setup and Hammer. If a disk is going bad, you can try mirroring, though you have to be careful how your pseudo-file systems are set up.
Adobe Flash Plugin Update
An update to Adobe Flash is now available in the System Updates tab of Software Manager. The update addresses the security vulnerabilities described here. After applying the update, simply restart any open web browsers so that they will use the new version of flash.
The 2011 Slackathon conference
It\'s time to restart the tradition of yearly OpenBSD conferences in Sweden again. After a missing year in 2010, we have decided to hold the Slackathon on the 6th of August.
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SMP by default
The SMP option is now in the GENERIC kernel config. This means you’ll have a SMP-capable kernel even on an uniprocessor machine, unless you configure a special kernel.
