DragonFly BSD

I’ll quote right from the summary for the 14-minute-long BSDTalk 254: “An interview with Ken Worster who is presenting on topics which include PFSense and FreeNAS in schools at the Technology Teacher ME conference in Bethel Maine.”

DragonFly 4.2 is officially released!  You can go to the 4.2 release page for details, go to the mirrors page to download, or read my users@ post for upgrade steps. Update: news stories and commentary seen on lobste.rs, Hacker News, and linux.fr.

I came up with a whole bunch of links at the last minute despite traveling and being sick.  I’m dedicated to your idle reading! In defence of curl | sudo bash –.  Not really in defense because nobody’s that crazy.  (via) Leap “smearing”. HyperRogue – A non-Euclidean roguelike.  (via) Hack RUN.  A… greenscreenlike? 30 years […]

More and more BSDCan videos keep showing up.  (See the bottoms of individual speaker pages on the BSDCan site.)  Here’s the PC-BSD summary. A pfSense SG-2440 review at Maximum PC. pfSense 2.2.3 is out. Puppet and OpenBSD. I love cross-pollination. ... [More] There’s a new BSD user group in Vancouver, Canada.  “VanBUG”. TrueOS/PC-BSD/FreeNAS keep showing as building […] [Less]

BSDNow 95 has an interview with Sean Chittenden of FreeBSD/Groupon, along with the usual roundup of BSD news – and more links to various BSDCan presentations.

If you wanted to try IPFW3 and NAT, nans_nans1 has done the experimentation for you, and wrote down the steps.

Sascha Wildner has been removing the no-longer-needed bits of i386 support in DragonFly.  One of the things going away is APM, the 32-bit power management superseded by acpiconf.  If you still type ‘apm’ out of habit, it’s aliased so you won’t be surprised.

I had to do this early, too, so the link count is a bit low this week.  Sorry! From the abacus to smartphone: The evolution of mobile and portable computers, a book by Evan Koblentz.  (via) A/UX – The Long View.  OS X in 1998.  I wish I had been able to try this.  (via) […]

I compiled this all bit early, so hopefully nothing exciting happens between now and when it gets posted. DiscoverBSD for 2015/06/16. YouTube review on “Networking For Systems Administrators”.  (BSD-friendly) Signify shortcomings. BSDCan 2015, a ... [More] review. BSDNow has an already-mentioned BSDCan presentation roundup, and various OpenBSD presentations are showing on the OpenBSD papers page, and there’s a […] [Less]

Now that DragonFly can (in most cases) offer video outside of X with KMS, not just text, more console options are possible.   By default, your accelerated console will scale to 80×25, but you can now tell it how many columns you want and it’ll automatically scale to fit your resolution.  Or you can turn it off.