DragonFly BSD

Hey, my stickers arrived!  You can order your own.

No theme, though I’ve been thinking about IPv6 lately.  Mostly in a “oh man all that PLC equipment at work can barely do IPv4 this won’t be easy” sort of way. The Art of Monitoring.  Accidentally pretty reports.  (via) IPv6 usage projections.  IPv6 usage is finally taking off.  (via) Legacy IP.  (same source as previous) Related: […]

I seem to have In Other BSDs exactly 1 day off from the OPNsense release schedule, so far. A wild Puffy appeared!  (via) FreeBSD 10.2-BETA2 Now Available Reducing RAM usage in pkgin OPNsense 15.7.2 Released OPNsense 15.7.3 Released Lumina Desktop ... [More] 0.8.5 Released Sudo Replacement Hits the Tree  “doas” Making my RPI serial console work (on NetBSD) pkgsrc-2015Q2 […] [Less]

Michael W. Lucas is having an “open dinner” tomorrow, in Scottsdale, AZ.  That means you get to talk about his tech books and BSD and conventions and whatever else enters collectively enters everyone’s heads, I assume, over dinner.  (you buy your own food; the talking’s free)  It sounds like a potential little mini-convention; you should go.

BSDNow 098 is up with the normal collection of news and links, plus an interview with David Meyer of Xinous – which I infer is using FreeBSD to underpin their main project.  I always find the decision/planning around major commercial open source interesting, cause the open source aspect changes the game, so to speak.

I don’t have actual numbers, but I do have a note: DragonFly network performance is pretty darn good.

There was a newer release of OpenSSL (1.0.1p) last week, so there’s a new revision of the DragonFly release – 4.2.3.  There’s little major change other than the security fix for OpenSSL. Those readers who can count past 2 may notice that there wasn’t a 4.2.2.  We went straight from 4.2.1 to 4.2.3.   That’s my […]

I don’t know enough about Erlang and LFE to say much other than “Hey, look at this article about installing LFE on DragonFly!”  (via)

This is Thoughtful Consideration week. The Anti-Mac Interface.  The future of interfaces is in some ways the opposite of good interface design circa 1986.  (via) What was the technology stack driving the original Ultima Online servers?  The ... [More] resemblance to a classical MUD is not a surprise when you think about it.  (via) The Harmful Consequences […] [Less]

This is a week for unexpected BSD news – OpenBSD and Microsoft, a new 4.4BSD variant, and so on. Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD.  (via) FreeNAS 10: Early M2 Preview. More BSDCan trip reports, from Warren Block, Christian Brueffer, Kamil ... [More] Czekirda, and Shonali Balakrishna. DiscoverBSD for 2015/07/06. Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor.  Probably related to OpenSSH-in-Powershell. […] [Less]