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Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
Even sysctl accesses can be made to handle multiprocessor environments.  This can actually make a difference when you’ve got a lot of processors building a lot of software, as in all of dports.
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
From IRC today: “19:43 <@dillon> I’m bored at the moment. lemme try to speed up module builds“ Buildkernel, depending on your processor count, now may have tripled in speed.  
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
This week is more eclectic than usual. How to boost your Vim productivity.  As usual, the comments on the link location are nearly more useful than the target story.  (via) Telegrams: still possible, even desirable, and legally binding.  (via) An ... [More] in-depth explanation of host names from Matthias Rampke on the DragonFly users@ list. PreTTY Screenshots. […] [Less]
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
A more compact week. usesthis.com has a BSD category.  (via) Another BSD technology comes to Windows. BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code.  15 year old article.  (via) Next CDBUG meeting is June 17th. BSD Magazine for May. DiscoverBSD for ... [More] 2015/06/01. FreeBSD 8.4 is reaching end-of-life. “The launchd on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD train is never […] [Less]
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
Those changes I mentioned yesterday for text console support?  They’re in DragonFly-master now, along with a loader tunable to turn it on and off.
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
Right now, if you have a USB port and a need to get networked, axe(4) is your best bet.
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
If you are using a DragonFly system with accelerated video, and you have noticed that you can’t return to a text console after exiting xorg – Sascha Wildner/Imre Vadasz have a branch for you to try.  Please do so if you have time and are on master; this is the last big item to fix before […]
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
This week’s BSDNow has an interview with Matthew Holt about MidnightBSD, along with some new-to-me interesting items like Zocker and the testimony of yet another person interested in BSD because of systemd.
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
That’s Non Uniform Memory Architecture, and John Baldwin is talking about how it works on FreeBSD, tonight/now, in New York City for NYCBUG.  There’s several more events this month with NYCBUG, so look at the announcement for tonight’s location and more dates.
Posted about 10 years ago by Justin Sherrill
You can now get temperature readings from your Radeon card under DragonFly.