DragonFly BSD

I’ve already mentioned the Hammer2/OpenBSD Summer of Code project (one of several), but here’s more: The April issue of BSD Magazine is out. OpenBSD on an iBook G4 Midnight BSD 0.6 is out. OpenBSD 5.7 is out. Lumina Desktop 0.8.4 is out. PC-BSD 10.1.2 RC1 is out. DiscoverBSD for 2015/04/27. FreeBSD project report for 2015Q1. Hacking […]

DragonFly committer Joris Giovannangeli has a Google Summer of Code project.  He’s bringing Hammer2 to OpenBSD, in single-node form.  It’s a very difficult project, but Joris is a very talented worker.

BSDNow 087 has an interview with Christos Zoulas, about NetBSD and blacklistd, along with the usual collection of news stories that I’m trying not to peek at because I’m behind on my usual reading and I want to get my own collection together for Saturday’s In Other BSDs.

Tomohiro Kusumi has been quietly making a lot of commits to Hammer.  I haven’t been linking them because they don’t necessarily equate to new features, but here’s an recent exception: the -A argument will make your Hammer command run on every PFS.  It only affects reblocking/rebalancing – for now.

We’re already 2/3 of the way to Christmas! UNIX history book recommendations. Networking for System Administrators, a BSD-friendly book I was slightly involved with, reviewed on Slashdot. How UNIX system administration is like filing your taxes. The ... [More] history of computer data storage, in pictures.  (via) Ops books.  How much of Github is not-code?  (via) The […] [Less]

It’s been a relatively calm week, for once. New Delhi has a BSD user group.  (via) PC-BSD and 4K — Oh my! Is nvidia the best option for gaming on FreeBSD? EuroBSDCon 2015 has extended the time for paper submission, cause they have so much to work through. Hipster keyboard layout on NetBSD The pkgsrc-security GPG […]

You can now export Hammer slave volumes as NFS mounts – but since slave volumes are updated from master, you’re mounting a snapshot of that point in time.  That may actually be an advantage.

DragonFly builds two compilers by default.  If you weren’t interesting in building both, there were switches to build only the default, like NO_GCC47.  This changed with every compiler update. With the switch to GCC 5, the new switch is ... [More] “NO_ALTCOMPILER”.  That will last through compiler changes.  I’m mentioning this now because sooner or later, you’ll want […] [Less]

BSDNow 086, just out, has the usual roundup of news, plus an interview with Antoine Jacoutot about OpenBSD and BSD in business environments.

DragonFly now has GCC 5.1 release.  If you are running DragonFly master (i.e. 4.1), you’ll probably want to both rebuild world and kernel, and update your packages so they all match.  There’s already packages built with GCC 5.1, so binary package upgrades can happen quickly.  There’s GCC 4.7 packages still available if you aren’t making […]