DragonFly BSD

My end of year vacation is over tomorrow, darnit. My $2375 Amazon EC2 Mistake. The Old New Thing 2014 link clearance. This sentence proves it is The Future. Another hidden computer/exposure surface.  (via) Preserving arcade games.  (via) The ... [More] Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island.  (via) The Internet version of ‘empty calories‘.  (via) Quake on an oscilloscope: […] [Less]

Remembered to do this all at the last minute, after I got the new server up. LibertyBSD, an OpenBSD fork with no non-free firmware. OPNSense, a FreeBSD-based firewall that is new to me. OpenBSD projects that aren’t OpenBSD. Broken build tracker for pkgsrc.  (via) pkgsrc-2014Q4 is out. pkgviews is gone from pkgsrc. NetBSD can now […]

I’m moved over to new hardware for the Digest.  Tell me if you see issues, please.

The BSDNow people aren’t slowing down for the holidays, as there’s another episode this week.  The interview is with Dan Langille, about the 2015 BSDCan conference.  He’s also the person behind freebsddiary.org, which served as partial inspiration for the Digest.  There’s also more video presentation links, news items, and so on.

shiningsilence.com/dragonflydigest.com will be going down for a brief period in the next 24 hours, for a hardware upgrade.

John Marino has created something very useful: a graphical tool for Hammer file history.  It’s called ‘Slider’, and it uses curses to work in a terminal.  It shows historic versions of files and can restore those old versions as needed.  This was already possible in Hammer, of course, but it required a sequence of commands that […]

I’m going to dive right in with an anecdote: As is normal for anyone in systems administration, I’m busy at work.  I’ve been short an employee for some time, and I brought in a managed service provider to do some work.  This included a revamping of the network equipment and layout, as it has been growing […]

Last of the year! Glitches: A kind of history.  (via) Speaking of glitches: Breaking Madden is still going. First Commits.  (via) Your Friendly North Korean Network Observer.  (via) The SoftSel Hot List for 1986. Steel Mill Hacked.  How long until ... [More] having operations disconnected from the Internet becomes a sign of quality for a business?  (via) Rooms […] [Less]

The list is shorter this week; I blame the Christmas holiday. OpenBSD now has position-independent executables for some architectures.  That may mean changing your upgrade strategy.  (5.6 upgrade guide here) FreeBSD now has frequency/voltage control ... [More] on the Raspberry Pi. There’s a lot of v7 ARM architectures.  I can see why people are waiting for AARMv8. […] [Less]

BSDNow isn’t slowing down for Christmas, cause there’s a new episode up.  There’s two interviews this time – Erwin Lansing, about BSD in Europe, and Cristina Vintila, about BSD conferences.  The rest of the episode is a bunch of “How did you get into BSD?” stories from viewers, both in text (i.e. read out from email) […]