DragonFly BSD

It has finally happened: There’s no more IPv4 addresses left to allocate, at least for ARIN – and that’s going to affect most people reading this.  Ask your ISP for IPv6 access.  The next step is being forced to implement either wonky 6to4 mappings, or just plain IPv6 networks.

If you happen to still be running DragonFly 4.0 – that’s two releases ago and not supported – you may be noticing less ports are building.  There’s been enough significant changes in DragonFly since that release that it’s reducing the number of buildable ports. DragonFly 4.0 to 4.2 is not a difficult jump, so jump when you […]

Charles Musser updated rtadvd and added rtadvctl for DragonFly, based on what’s in FreeBSD (which is based on KAME? I’m not sure). This is most useful if you are using IPv6.

Matthew Dillon brought over the FreeBSD iwm(4) driver to DragonFly, with some changes.  This is useful to anyone with Intel “Dual Band Wireless AC” 3160, 7260, or 7265 units.

It’s a in-depth reading week, so make time! Restoration of First Edition Unix Kernel Sources.  I linked to a Google Code version of this before, but Google Code is shutting down.  (via) Dark corners of Unicode. In-depth and also might make you despair a little.  (via) In Search of SYNful Routers.  (via NANOG) ALTERNATE REALITY […]

Lots of activity; I didn’t even really need to look at source commits. OpenBSD (U)EFI bootloader howto.  (via) System XVI: A replacement for systemd.  (via) Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials.  (via) The FreeBSD Journal Reaches New ... [More] Milestone. BSDCam 2015 Trip Report: Mariusz Zaborski. OPNsense 15.7.12 Released.  OPNsense 15.7.13 Released. OpenBSD GPT support enabled. l2k15 […] [Less]

I mentioned Endless Sky in the last Lazy Reading post as a game that might run on DragonFly.  ‘Romick’ took that as a challenge and got it working; he’s posted the steps he took so that anyone else can do so.

Noticed both in a commit message and in tonight’s BSDNow, Imre Vadasz has added Panel Self Refresh (power saving) capabilities, set with a sysctl.

BSDNow 107 has the usual roundup of news, including some things I appear to have completely missed, and an interview of Aaron Poffenberger, who apparently gets BSD material into Linux conventions.

BSDTalk 256 (or as I like to think of it, BSDTalk 16^2) is out with 16 minutes of interview of Allan Jude at vBSDCon, about his work on the FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book.