DragonFly BSD

A calmer week, probably because of the U.S. holiday. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS is out (eBook format). DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/18. PC-BSD 10.1.2 is out.  (Update: hotfix) freebsd-wifi-build  (via) bhyve on Pluribus, a platform I’m unfamiliar with.  (via) ... [More] pkgSrcCon is happening July 4-5 in Berlin. I like cross-pollination. Diagnosing softraid failures on OpenBSD. OpenBSD now has ntpd […] [Less]

A recent commit from Matthew Dillon means users of Intel Haswell or later CPUs will see reduced power usage, if I’m reading this commit correctly.

This week’s BSDNow episode talks with Jed Reynolds about ZFS on Linux and FreeBSD, and includes other news bits including about DragonFly’s swap encryption, OpenBSD defaulting to having openntpd on by default, and plenty more.

Hammer will perform daily housekeeping tasks each night.  If you’re up late enough, it may kick off while you are working.  If you want to stop the process after it’s already started (since it’s disk-intensive), John Marino has added the ‘abort-cleanup‘ command.

If you want to use a scanner on DragonFly, install SANE.  That is apparently all you need to do.

Experimental automatic crypting of swap is now available in DragonFly-master.  Recently added, though it may have been possible another way.

Get clicking! The Rise and Fall of Japan’s PC-98. I always wondered what PC-98 was.  (pdf, via) Beyond the PDP-11: Processor support for a memory-safe C abstract machine.  Written this year, despite the title.  (pdf, via) Gonix – Unix tools written ... [More] in Go.  (via) Without Systemd (via several places) Your cyberpunk games are dangerous. Web Mandlebrot.  (via) Which SSD […] [Less]

This includes all the BSD material I didn’t have time to get posted last week.  I hope you have some time for reading today; there is a lot here. Royal activity affecting your open source files. Windows guest support (or at least the start of it) in bhyve. Bad memory blacklisting in FreeBSD.  I’d be worried […]

leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where the DragonFly website is hosted, is temporarily down while a disk is replaced.  Images and binary packages are still available.

This week’s BSDNow episode talks with Mike Larkin about memory protection in OpenBSD, along with the normal news summary.