DragonFly BSD

Rimvydas Jasinskas created a loader.conf(5) hint that keeps various nata(4) devices from attaching during boot.  This is super useful if it’s a device that screws up your boot process. and I think it’s also great if you get irritated having something in your dmesg every time about the device you never use, like a CDROM.

DragonFly now has support for the Adaptec 1420.   “Now” means since last month, cause I am working through my link backlog.

The ls(1) command has a lot of options (Look at the man page synopsis!).  So much so, that the most recent option added in DragonFly is “_”.  That’s to show nanotime as part of the -l output.  This will be most useful when you have multiple files being created within the same second of time, … Continue reading "Nanotime in your file listings"

Almost all of this was done within 24 hours of the last Lazy Reading.  No idea why there were so many good candidates for reading, but I’m happy about it. Digital Minimalism for the Working Hacker.  I like the plan he is working towards, though I’m not sure how to implement it for myself.  (via) … Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2018/01/21"

Done well ahead of time. ELI5: In 2018, what are the pros and cons between Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS in terms of kernel technology and user space tools. Adding IPv6 to an Nginx website on FreeBSD / FreshPorts. Should I use BSD? Certifications…are ... [More] they worth it? Will they be in the future? OPNsense 18.1-RC2 released. … Continue reading "In Other BSDs for 2018/01/20" [Less]

I’m still catching up with the pre-2018, pre-Meltdown commits, so here’s one: Changing the staged packet count in DragonFly changes forwarding rate, for the better – up to a point.  There’s probably some specific ratio in the change that makes sense, though I don’t know it.

The Meltdown/Spectre talk continues on BSDNow 229, along with an interview of @newnix, GhostBSD, and other recent news.

The commands rcp(1), rlogin(1), rlogind(1), rsh(1) and rshd(1) have been removed from DragonFly.  There’s a net/bsdrcmds port if you still need them…  though I imagine/hope ssh is filling the void for everyone.

I’m sure this was needed by someone: morse(6) can now encode and decode Morse code, signified by . and – of course.

I say “one more” like I know when this saga will end.  If you are using the devcpu-data port to update your processors, you’ll need to add microcode_update_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf, as Sepherosa Ziehau points out.