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over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
Because of the recent tcp keepalive change and some other updates, DragonFly 5.6 has been updated to 5.6.2. See my release email, and update the normal way. You will need to update your installed dports.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
I have some neat history items mixed in this week. ASCII table and history (or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?) (via) As Flash dies a little more. Beginner Problems With TCP & The socket Module in Python. Linked cause it shows
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
A reminder: if you have a BSD user group and I’m not posting about your meetings, please make sure I know about it. The OpenBSD Ada Library. (via) BSD Link Roundup 7.29. Project Trident 19.07-U1 now available. No, wait, 12-U1 now available.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
When you encrypt your DragonFly boot drive, initrd(7) is run to get your system online and able to accept a password to decrypt the drive. So far, so good. The initrd program is a minimal userland designed to be small, and it generally works.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
by
Justin Sherrill
Remember my post about a new upgrade script? tse, the author, has happily added in a bunch of suggestions. I’m intermittently traveling and can’t do anything to test it for days yet – but I’d love to see others try it out. The bugs issue tracking versions is here: #3197. Can you, dear reader, try … Continue reading "A new upgrade method"
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
DragonFly has a utility called kcollect(8), for gathering about the last day’s worth of kernel statistics. It recently gained some extra flags and details, and should work well if you want to collect stats in a low-impact way.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
by
Justin Sherrill
Andre Buskvekster is presenting at NYCBUG about video on OpenBSD, tomorrow. Go, if you are near.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
It’s supported, and given how well DragonFly supports SMP and the number of processors Zen 2 supports, it’s a no-brainer if you’re in the market for a new server.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
This week’s material filled up fast. It’s vacation season in the northern hemisphere, so let’s see what next week brings… “Anyway my point here is that all of crypto should be run entirely by tweens.” Look for the Utility Token section, though it’s
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
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Justin Sherrill
A bumper crop this week! Video on OpenBSD, a presentation at NYCBUG by Andre Buskvekster, happening on the 7th. I’ll post a reminder on the 6th. OpenBSD ttyplot examples. Something blogged (on pkgsrcCon 2019). NetBSD 9.0 release process has
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