DragonFly BSD

This week’s episode of BSDNow has an interview of Marc Espie of OpenBSD.  There’s yet another Linux-user-going-BSD story, and a nice collection of links to presentations from the just-finished BSDCan 2015 event.

You have two options if you live on the eastern side of New York State: CDBUG is having a mandoc presentation from Ingo Schwarze on the 17th (tonight), and then Ingo is heading to NYCBUG’s meeting on the 18th (tomorrow).  Note that you must RSVP and bring an ID for the NYCBUG meeting!

Thanks to Sepherosa Ziehau, powerd will now start the shutdown process if you are down to 2% battery on your DragonFly laptop.  It also will delay for 60 seconds if you just booted up and are desperately searching for a power cable.

‘Historic information week’ is this week’s accidental theme. Why traceroute uses UDP and not ICMP. W. Richard Stevens, a list of works.  The previous traceroute link came from there, and there’s a lot more gems in those links. I agree with this description of web apps. grepcidr2, for finding networks within a given CIDR range. […]

I’ve uploaded DragonFly 4.0.6 ISO and .img files.  (Does that capitalization make sense?)  They should be available at your nearest mirror, or will be shortly. I am still working on the 4.2 release candidate images.

News is a bit light this week, probably because BSDCan was eating up people’s attention.  I am assuming video will be up soon; I want to see the keynote. Tarsnap GUI for the desktop.  (via) The pkgsrc-2015Q2 freeze is starting tomorrow. USB thermometer support, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Intel is building BSD-specific utilities, if I read this […]

The more eagle-eyed may have noticed a branching for DragonFly 4.2, and for DragonFly 4.0.6.  The 4.2 branch is currently only a release candidate, so don’t necessarily change over yet – it’s for testing, not release.  Note that packages for 4.2 are not yet built, so you’ll have to manually specify a package path to […]

This week’s BSDNow has a talk with DragonFly’s very own Sepherosa Ziehau, about the huge amount of work he’s done on the network stack.

Matthew Dillon’s already using a 4K monitor on DragonFly, and he’s written notes on the various performance tweaks that went with it.

The direct memory access reservation on DragonFly has been set to 128M.  It used to be 16, but anyone using a system for more than a text console would want the greater memory reservation.  It can be set back to 16M, which is useful probably if you are one of those text console users, or if […]