DragonFly BSD

BSDNow 105 is up, and has all the recent news, plus an interview with Scott Courtney about the in-about-a-month vBSDCon 2015.

BSDTalk 255 is out, and it’s a brief episode – 6 minutes.  No interview, but talk about recent events.

HAMMER2 recently gained the ability to be used as the root mount for your DragonFly system.  Live deduplication of data is also now possible, which means fast copy operations, less space used, and no need to wait for an overnight batch process to do it.  If you want to try it, you need a bleeding edge […]

Historical platforms week, quite by accident. NADCOG, North American Data Center Operators Group.  A new list similar to NANOG but for those who have to manage multiple servers. MIT has a Platform Studies series of books on systems like the Amiga, Atari, and so on.  The latest is on the Nintendo Entertainment System, titled “I […]

Put together at the last minute. NeXTBSD, a video presentation.  (via multiple places) Why FreeBSD should not adopt launchd.  Sort of commentary on the previous item.  (also via multiple places) DiscoverBSD for 2015/08/24. OPNSense 15.7.10, 15.7.11 ... [More] released. Beyond the Fork, an OPNSense status report. OpenBSD 5.8, Another Song. Kernel W^X extended to i386 on OpenBSD. […] [Less]

BSDNow this week is titled “Beverly Hills 25519”, which is a play on an older U.S. TV show if you missed the reference.  There’s the normal news, back this week, plus an interview of Damien Miller about OpenSSH.

Francois Tigeot has stepped i915 support in DragonFly even farther, this time bringing it to match Linux 3.17.  This may be most useful for those with Broadwell and Cherryview chipsets.

I’ve gradually been leaning towards two opinions: 1: Having the Digest load as fast as possible is a benefit for everyone, and 2: I want to get off the PHP/Wordpress vulnerability merry-go-round. Does anyone have specific experience with static site ... [More] generators?  Ideally there’s something out there as polished/unfiddly as WordPress, but I don’t know what.  The […] [Less]

I don’t note it enough, but Tomohiro Kusumi has been making constant updates to HAMMER, the version we have now.  Often they are the sort of update that makes the code more readable, or fixes possible problems, and so on.  Very essential, but hard to post about it.  In any case, I’m using his recent improvements to […]

Francois Tigeot has pushed in some significant updates from Rimvydas Jasinskas, updating the radeon driver to match Linux 3.17.  Try it if you have the corresponding hardware.