DragonFly BSD

Another good week for BSD releases and events. Why do you love FreeBSD? Announcing FreeNAS-10 ALPHA tame(2) is now pledge(2), and Call for testing: pledge(2) in -current The OpenSMTPD audit, a debrief OPNsense 15.7.16 Released EuroBSDcon-2015 Recap ... [More] NetBSD-7.0 developer interviews: Pierre Pronchery, Antti Kantee, Christos Zoulas, Mateusz Kocielski Tom’s Hardware Reviews the FreeNAS Mini Call for testing: FreeBSD i915 […] [Less]

BSDNow episode 111 is up, with an interview of Brandon Mercer, talking about OpenBSD and healthcare.  There’s the usual news, plus several ‘how-to-build-something’ articles up for discussion.

Imre Vadász has put together an initial port of Wayland / Weston for DragonFly.  You can look at his pull request for dports to see how to install, though I’d imagine this is only for people who like to experiment at this point.  It’s still work in progress, as is Wayland itself.

Tomohiro Kusumi has added a dm-delay target, which means you can simulate poor disk performance, without having to have poor disks.  His commit message includes some benchmarks that shows it doing a good job creating a bad job.

You will probably be able to guess some of my thinking processes this week based on these links. “If you work for Facebook, quit.“ Related: Facebook “Shadow Profiles”.  A DragonFlyBSD “fan group” spontaneously appeared on Facebook at one point, but didn’t actually exist – they auto-create Facebook pages for other people’s work, but don’t make […]

I didn’t get to run through as much of the source commits as normal this week, but there’s still plenty to read. Why do you use *BSD? Service to read BSD 4.2 UNIX reel tape to file? vnStat, a network monitoring tool. Is OpenSMTPD worthy of OpenBSD inclusion?  (via) Assigning programs to specific video ports. […]

The Tanzanian Digital Library Initiative is using DragonFly (and FreeBSD) as part of their library setup, and Michael Wilson, the project coordinator sent a note to users@ describing this.  They are looking to spread through the continent, so get in contact if you want to be part of the project.

BSDNow 110 is now available.  It’s back to the text summary format, so I can tell you easily that it includes an interview with Benno Rice, about Isilon and their interactions with FreeBSD.

There’s a new version of the Intel video driver in dports – xf86-video-intel-2.99.2015.09.09.    If you update to this and you experience an xorg-server crash, Matthew Dillon found that changing the acceleration method from SNA to XAA fixes the problem.  Don’t change it unless you actually see the problem, of course.

NYCBUG is having “true(1) and false(1), The Classical Code Reading Group of Stockholm, NYC*BUG Mix Tape Edition” happen this Wednesday the 7th.  You may remember a similar event at the end of August.  This will be led by George Brocklehurst from the original event, with NYCBUG members present.  If you missed the previous one, try this out – […]