DragonFly BSD

I have had trouble with my daily/weekly periodic reports never making it to my GMail account.  Sascha Wildner pointed out to me that periodic.conf has its own answer already: daily_output=”/var/log/daily.log” ... [More] daily_status_security_output=”/var/log/security.log” weekly_output=”/var/log/weekly.log” monthly_output=”/var/log/monthly.log” … and newsyslog is already set to take care of them.  There’s more in the periodic.conf man page.   [Less]

Without meaning to, I’ve broken into full-on computer nostalgia this week.  Don’t know how it happened, but at least the links are interesting. Tiling by squares.  I hope you like math.  (via) “whatever it is, it’s already over“, which led me to “The planned unplanned outage“. The NMFECC Cray Time-Sharing System (1985) [pdf]  (via) Programming […]

At the last minute, as usual. Contributing to OpenBSD.  “I spent two days hunting through Xenocara & graphics card driver code Finally found a good workaround: get a wife.”  (via) Invented by OpenBSD. OpenBSD 5.7 highlights. Raspberry Pi 2 support in NetBSD.  (via) AMD Catalyst might be coming to FreeBSD.  Comments are more useful than […]

There’s been some linking to the updated HAMMER2 design document.  The Reddit link doesn’t have anything specific, but the Hacker News one has some details (including a credit code!) for installing DragonFly on a Vultr VPS.

Noticed in the most recent time zone data update for DragonFly: some people keep Mars time.

The most recent (well, this is the mostest recent) update of ACPICA for DragonFly, by Sascha Wildner, is different from the usual import: it happens to include actual upstream support for DragonFly

This week’s BSDNow talks with Baptiste Daroussin about developing and using pkg, for ports and for packaging the base FreeBSD system.  (Baptiste has been seen on #dragonflybsd, since pkg is on DragonFly, so I’m sure there’s some relevant bits there, too.)  There’s also the usual news summary.

I haven’t been drawing enough attention to it, but there’s been a bunch of HAMMER filesystem activity lately: First, Tomohiro Kusumi has been working on HAMMER – these posts are a small subset of his commits.  Second, Matthew Dillon has been working ... [More] full steam ahead on HAMMER2.  The HAMMER2 design document has been updated (read this!), and he’s […] [Less]

Happy Easter!  It means chocolate for me. Everything is Made up and the Points Don’t Matter.  Substitute “open source work” for “design” in this story.  (via) The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty.  Quoted from the article:  They would roll their eyes a bit, then hasten to add, as more than one did, “But he’s right about most things.” […]

If you’re part of a BSD user group, please let me know your schedule.  I’m able to catch NYCBUG announcements cause I’m on their announce@ mailing list – but I could use more. DiscoverBSD for 2015/03/30. Lumina 0.8.3 is released. Building PC-BSD Utilities From Source.  (video) BSD Magazine for March. Directly building FreeBSD AMI images. […]