DragonFly BSD

If you are around New York City tonight at 6:45, make your way over to the Stone Creek Bar & Lounge, at 140 E 27th St., to hear Brian Callahan present the newest OpenBSD things.

If you are running DragonFly-master, there have been fixes for a wrong uname (my fault) and initrd image booting with encrypted drives.  Update if you are running on the bleeding edge, if you haven’t already.

If you are sure you don’t need to look at your boot menu for very long in DragonFly, you can make it zip by quickly.

I managed to be on the road and so did not post about the milestone 100th episode of BSDNow, which has an interview with Sebastian Wiedenroth about both pkg and pkgSrcCon, along with all their other news. I’m glad to see 100 episodes together of a video podcast for BSD; if you had asked me a […]

Be ready for the latent craziness in some of the links for this Lazy Reading episode. Unix Meets Prime Numbers. The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up. Google INTERCAL Style Guide.  (via) Before Spelunky and FTL, There Was Only ASCII.  “Procedural ... [More] Death Labyrinths” sounds fun.  (via) How Pinterest simplified, compartmentalised and scattered the web. “actually a […] [Less]

It’s an unexpectedly diverse list this week. The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn’t.  The best explanation for the much-linked OpenSSH story last week: PAM is the problem. pfSense 2.2.4 is released. OPNsense 15.7.4 Released. A week of pkgsrc #11. The 2015Q2 ... [More] FreeBSD status report is out. FreeBSD 10.2-RC1 Now Available. Introducing BSDHistory, and how it is […] [Less]

If your DragonFly machine can do it, it will now run an accelerated console by default.

A DragonFly machine with a lot of network traffic will have a significant amount of memory consumed by all the running network connections.  (as with any system)  It’s now possible to adjust the amount of memory set aside for those operations, live.  This sort of fine-tuning will only matter if you run an extremely busy machine, but it’s […]

John Marino has been updating locale support in DragonFly.  There’s no single explanatory commit to point at, so I’ll instead link to the many, many commits and changes he’s been making to show the size of the work.  If you are anywhere other than UTF-8 (or maybe even then), this will help you.

Francois Tigeot has a new i915 video branch for testing, if you are running DragonFly-current.  It will be especially useful for people on a Broadwell chipset.