DragonFly BSD

In addition to all the Intel video updates that have gone into DragonFly, there’s been work on radeon support from Michael Neumann.  This will show in the next release, coming soon.  (Just a few patches more…)

If you’re using nginx on DragonFly, version 1.9.1 has specific DragonFly speedup options built in.

Emulation is this week’s accidental topic. MAME and the New Emulation Reality.  (via) A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open.  (via) Venture capital vs. community capital.  An interesting view of history.  (via) Introduction to Keyboard Programming. ... [More]  (via) #define __ENABEL_EPSPERAMENTLE_TAPDOLE_ORATORS (comment from this article.) Apple][ in Javascript.  Also, Apple][ in Javascript.  Two different presentation styles, […] [Less]

A short but more interesting list this week, I think. ZFS Mastery is out in print and electronic versions. BSD management with Puppet. DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/25. Dell Networking OS 9 powered by NetBSD. Lumina Desktop Status Update/FAQ. PC-BSD ... [More] 10.1.2: an Interview with Kris Moore. A FreeBSD Foundation visit to the (a?) NYI datacenter. “Patrol Read” […] [Less]

Hammer 2 now uses LZ4 compression by default.  It also uses a new CRC algorithm that performs much better, and there’s numbers to prove it.  It helps iSCSI too.  When I say new, it appears to be from the 1980s?  I may be looking at the wrong place.

There’s a new ‘ifconsole’ option for /etc/ttys on DragonFly that may help you if your serial output device is a bit strange.

I always try to guess the interview topic from the episode title, but I wasn’t able to predict the several mini-interviews in this week’s BSDNow episode.

Matthew Dillon has been doing a lot of Hammer 2 work lately.  Well, he’s been doing it for quite some time, but the recent commits contain the sort of things that are easier to link to, like deletion speedups, freemap changes, and stats tracking/compression results.

If you were running a version of DragonFly 4.1 (i.e. the master version, not release) built between the 20th and 25th, rebuild.  There’s a UFS bug introduced in that short timeframe. If you are running 4.0.x release or built your version of DragonFly-master outside of that date range – you are unaffected.

I guess the accidental theme this week is Unix. The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid.  From 1981, which says something.  (via) Terminal: Beyond Ctrl + A and Ctrl + E.  Linked because I needed to know what the nondestructive version of Ctrl-U was.  (Ctrl-A) Tools don’t solve the web’s problems, they ARE […]