DragonFly BSD

Roguelike/UNIX theme this week. Apple ][ colors.  (via) Ultimate ADOM. The Secret History of Cricket Magazine.  Unlike any other publication ostensibly for children.  (via) The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday.  (via) Apparently doors ... [More] run on UNIX now. A Net Before the Web, Part 4: The Rogue, the Yuppie, and the Soldier, … Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2017/11/26" [Less]

One month to Christmas! Anyone with ARM laptop experience? Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community.  I haven’t noticed anything. Semibug Christmas dinner: 19 December 2017. Official OpenBSD 6.2 CD set – the only one to be made! p2k17 Hackathon ... [More] report: Antoine Jacoutot on ports+packages progress. Lumina 1.4.0 released. DiscoverBSD for 2017/11/20. Any interest in … Continue reading "In Other BSDs for 2017/11/25" [Less]

If you are like me and have a long weekend, dig into /usr/share/examples.  Not all of it is necessarily up to date, but there’s examples there on running rconfig, diskless, different pf and ipfw examples, and so on.  Actual documentation is in corresponding man pages – and there’s examples on how to write them, too.

I just wasted an hour trying to figure out why xorg had strange output but no errors on this laptop, and it’s because I had i915_load=”YES” in /boot/loader.conf instead of i915_load=”YES” in /etc/rc.conf.  I’m almost nearly sure I’ve mentioned that ... [More] before, but if not: here you go. (though if you never plan to run X, … Continue reading "Remember: don’t kldload i915 too soon" [Less]

Allan Jude went to Taiwan for BSDTW, so there’s a nice con report as part of this week’s BSDNow, along with the usual news summary.

The Areca driver, arcmsr(4), has been updated to version 1.40.00.00.  This comes right from the company, too, which is very nice of them.

If you happen to be running an old version of DragonFly, you may need to do an intermediate upgrade to move to releases after 5.0.  This is in part because of commits to support C++14.  This only applies to version of DragonFly before 4.4.

There’s several ‘lockmgr’ test programs in DragonFly that can be used to test locking performance.  Matthew Dillon used them recently to test some locking optimizations.

No theme this week. Tennis for Two, a video game from 1958.  (via) Two Minutes Hate, Twitter Edition and Facebook says “send nudes”.  Social media is generally bad for everyone. The Case for RSS.  The Digest would be several times harder to do ... [More] without RSS.  (via) Running the First Ever 1970s Dungeon Crawl With Old School-Inspired Rules … Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2017/11/19" [Less]

Whee! More p2k17 Hackathon: Anthony J. Bentley on firmware, games and securing pkg_add runs, Sebastian Reitenbach on Puppet, Landry Breuil on Mozilla things,Florian Obser on network stack progress, kernel relinking. Hyper V VLAN tag on pfSense? ... [More] OpenBSD on G4 Cube.  (via) FreeNAS ISCSI Luns & VMware; restricting lun visibility? FreeNAS vs. Server 2016 vs. unRaid? How’s … Continue reading "In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18" [Less]