DragonFly BSD

There’s a meeting of the NetBSD Japan user’s group, and an informal users session, tomorrow, in Tokyo.  Go, if you are near.  (via)

‘evdev‘, a driver for input device events, is now built by default in the DragonFly kernel. Update your custom config to match, if you have one.

Matthew Dillon has made some changes to DragonFly’s scheduling system His further tests show an improvement in basic forking.

In a larger users@ thread about multiple BSD development systems and how to set them up, I spied this tip on making multiple local virtual machines all reachable via SSH.

There’s several bug fixes that have gone into DragonFly over the past few days, in an attempt to track down an odd bug. They’ve been committed to 5.6, too, so you can pick them up if you update. I imagine this will turn into a 5.6.2 release, but not until we find the cause of … Continue reading "More updates"

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You’ll all be happy to know ACPI errors are less noisy now.  (And it was updated to 20190509, before the 5.6 release.)

This week’s BSD Now talks about the normal assortment of news, including DragonFly’s release, and an explanation of the Vulkan framework in OpenBSD; something I hadn’t read about yet.

Matthew Dillon’s made a change to the DragonFly kernel that could be disruptive, but will help make sure chromium runs.  If you update after this point, make sure to update your dports, too, just to be sure everything is in sync.  This applies to 5.6 and 5.7.