DragonFly BSD

Sepherosa Ziehau’s recent changes to UDP in DragonFly mention some performance gains to sheer packet count.

Markus Pfeiffer has imported FreeBSD’s if_lagg to DragonFly.  It’s for talking LACP over multiple network ports, so that the traffic from those multiple ports can be aggregated – if what’s on the other end generally understands LACP.  (Failover mode may not count.)  Please test if you have that sort of surfeit of network ports.

There’s a few more days of freeze for the pkgsrc-2014Q3 release of pkgsrc.  Normally I’d save this for the weekend In Other BSDs, but that’d be too late.

There’s a new bash vulnerability that could be a problem for a network-facing machine that happens to use bash.  (See here for test.)  As a BSD user, you can feel somewhat smugly superior since the default shell is tcsh and therefore it may not affect you – unless you’ve installed it from dports. John Marino […]

Matthew Dillon hasn’t committed anything to DragonFly in several days… cause he just got married!  Congratulations to the newly married couple.

Lots of links this week. Device names.  (via) xscreensaver 5.30 is out, along with a story of how much work jwz put into the first version of Lament. One Thing Well mentions toybox, which I think is similar to busybox, but BSD-licensed. This hard drive still worked.  (via) Unix: Scripting with templates. Road to Rust […]

Low on the source links this week, but there’s plenty else. TrueOS, CD-sized.  Warning: lots of ads on that page.  (via) FreeBSD with a swap file instead of a swap partition.  (via) FreeNAS in VMWare Workstation, part 1.  Lots of screenshots, little explanation.  (via) FreeBSD 10.1 Beta 1 is available. A summary of the OpenBSD […]

There’s been so much work in DragonFly recently that makes a desktop easier (i915 support, dports, and so on), that I decided to resurrect an older Dell machine and use it as my desktop. The Dell that I’m using is a leftover from someone else’s workplace; it’s 7 years old, and has “only” 4G of […]

BSDNow 055 has the normal news items, and an interview with Adrian Chadd, who has dome a lot of work on FreeBSD network device drivers (and some coordination with DragonFly, too, thank you Adrian), plus a lengthy news roundup.