DragonFly BSD

This may not be a huge surprise, but the Minnowboard MAX can run DragonFly just fine, modulo some dmesg complaints.

Sepherosa Ziehau has introduced a new sysctl: net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_creation_failure Set this to zero and you won’t get endless ARP events from networks you aren’t on.  For example, I’m hooked up to a cable modem.  I only get a public routable IP address, but the network used for the cable modem network itself bleeds ARP packets out […]

Accidentally very roguelike this week. It’s ALWAYS DNS! scroll, a console game that is also a pager.  (via) Reenix: Implementing a Unix-Like Operating System in Rust (PDF, via) Yet another Dwarf Fortress story. Rogue’s Item ID in Too Much Yet Not ... [More] Enough Detail.  Mentions the 1st Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide Appendix N, which despite having that […] [Less]

Whee! A week of pkgsrc #9. WordPress versus FreeBSD. OpenBSD now has disklabel templates. Application management made easy.  (PC-BSD video, via) DiscoverBSD for 2015/05/04.  

Francois Tigeot has committed his Broadwell work, which has a longer-than-I-realized list of benefits.  Does anyone have a 4k screen to try?

BSDNow 088 has an interview of Ed Schouten about FreeBSD, and all the normal roundups.  Also “DragonFlyBSD has officially won the race to get an Intel Broadwell graphics driver”. Maybe I need to start doing In Other BSDs posts on Wednesdays, cause BSDNow often has the links I’m already saving for the weekend.

John Vernaleo is giving a talk for NYCBug about Bitrig, tonight at 6:45 in New York City.  See the announcement for details on location and etc.

Jesse Wattenbarger wrote in with his success story of switching to DragonFly, both for server and desktop.  Of note is his noticeable speedup with swapcache.

If you’re running DragonFly-master and you have an Intel video chipset, Francois Tigeot has an update for you.  It brings accelerated Intel video up to match the Linux 3.14 version, adds Broadwell chipset support, and should generally improve performance.  He lists how to test right in the message.

I started sparse because this was a busy week, but I’ve still got a pretty good amount of reading for you. Comparing code layout.  Not the code, but the visual arrangement.  This could certainly be explored further. Schemaverse, a space strategy game implemented entirely within PostgreSQL.  (via) The Cray 2 Computer System.  (pdf, via) How […]