DragonFly BSD

I’m late posting about these, but they go together: Sepherosa Ziehau has added the ability to read CPU temperature through various sysctls, and the same for DIMM temperature readings.

Spillover from last week, even. Big Changes at USENIX LISA in the last 5-10 Years. Open Source won, so what’s next? “The lack of diversity in the Valley isn’t an individual problem, it’s a systemic one.”   If you doubt the hive mind of Silicon Valley, look at We Put A Chip In It. (via) The […]

I couldn’t help the commentary on some of these links. The Arrival of TrueNAS 9.3 and more. Has anyone tried making a BSD phone?  They did; starts with an i. softraid(4) – RAID 5 Call for Testing for OpenBSD. OpenBSD’s rcctl.  (via) Solaris moves to pf.  I still wish for compatibility tests so people can […]

Matthew Dillon bought a system with a Broadwell series CPU, installed DragonFly, and wrote up his experience.  Read it if you plan on purchasing this hardware any time soon.

Here’s some comments from Matthew Dillon on page coloring in DragonFly; a topic that comes up every year for some reason.

The release candidate for GCC5 (5.1.0) is out, and it’s in DragonFly too.  It’s not yet switched over to run as the default – that’ll require the release.

Episode 085 of BSDNow has a conversation with Pascal Stumpf about PIE in OpenBSD, along with the usual mix of news.  In the mix is a link to the 1.5.0 release notes for pkg, which affects a number of BSDs, DragonFly included.

The default compiler in DragonFly is going to change over from GCC 4.7 to GCC 5.x very soon, to match the GCC 5.1 release.  This means that packages built for DragonFly-master won’t be compatible with the old ones.  You will need to reinstall packages when you next ‘pkg install’.  John Marino has an extensive writeup […]

Francois Tigeot has a new update to the drm/i915 driver for testing.  It matches, feature-wise, what’s in Linux 3.12.  Try it if you’ve got the hardware.  (and dragonfly-master)

The insulation on the external lines leading here are apparently delicious, if you’re a squirrel.