DragonFly BSD

The vi in any BSD is not the original Berkeley vi – instead it’s usually nvi.  However, thanks to John Marino, DragonFly has the up-to-date, multibyte-supporting nvi2.  (I know I’ve made reference to the nv/nvi difference before.)

If your DragonFly-running c720p (the touchscreen model) occasionally decides to go perma-bonkers, Matthew Dillon has added a method to reset it, either on reboot or by setting debug.atmel_mxt_reset=1.

Sepherosa Ziehau posted some information on a project for anyone interested: ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control.   It’s an extension of p-state power management, and he’s already done a lot of groundwork to support that in DragonFly.

CDBUG is meeting today, at 6:45 PM at INOC, 80 State St., Albany.  The speaker will be Jonathan Capra talking about DNS solutions other than BIND.

There’s been a bugfix-release to the release version of DragonFly, bringing it to 4.2.4.  This is to fix a rare crash on issuing ‘shutdown -h now’.  If you haven’t had this problem, there’s no rush to upgrade.

There’s some meaty reading this week, so get settled in and start clicking. Haunted Machines An Origin Story.  I love this sort of intersection of ideas.  (via) Our Friends, the Bots.  (via previous) Futures of Text.  Why wasn’t this ever done at the command line, too?  (via previous) Cybernetic Serendipity. The Verge’s Web Sucks.  A […]

I missed this because it was only on the completely separate and rarely updated “News” section of the BSDNow site, but: they are selling a BSD shirt, for hitting the second year of production.  It is only available this month.  Proceeds go towards new equipment.  (noticed via) (There’s no DragonFly on their shirt…  will they make […]

Terse link week! From distribution to project. Using OpenBSD as a FreeBSD Router.  (via) More C2K15 reports on Undeadly. A new OpenBSD Foundation donor. OpenBSD now defaults to remote root logins permitted – with key. Quakecon runs on BSD.  (via) BSD ... [More] Magazine for I assume August. DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/27. LibreSSL 2.2.2 is out. PC-BSD 10.2-RC1 […] [Less]

The 101st BSDNow episode has the normal arrangement of news, plus an interview with Adrian Chadd after he made a decision he will regret forever.

Francois Tigeot has updated i915 support to match what’s functionally in Linux 3.16.  Accelerated video on Broadwell chipsets is now fully supported, plus a bunch of other changes mentioned in his commit message.