DragonFly BSD

Get ready for some reading. There’s some packages moving from pkgsrc-wip to pkgsrc proper. pkgsrc-2014Q4 branching is planned for Monday the 15th. PC-BSD now has an automatic package/security patch upgrade mechanism. Steam on PC-BSD.  Holy grail ... [More] , there. PC-BSD needs testers for the new Update Manager, for moving from 10 to 10.1 NetBSD has imported BIND […] [Less]

It’s possible, if you are several releases (years) behind, to end up with a DragonFly system that can’t compile and install the current release, due to incremental changes over time.  It’s rare, but it could happen now between, say, version 3.4 and 4.0.  The usual solution would be to incrementally upgrade in order, which is […]

If you want to help I/O performance when DragonFly is virtualized, here’s a short checklist of what to work on.  I haven’t noticed any problems – but I’m not taxing any of my VMs that heavily.

BSDNow’s episode this week focuses on the just-released Bitrig 1.0, and has an interview with Patrick Wildt of that project.  There’s also coverage of other topics, including the new poudriere release – that’s the tool that bulk builds packages for DragonFly and FreeBSD, though I don’t know if it’s unified across both operating systems yet.

bycn82’s rewrite of IPFW2 is available as a git branch to try out; he’s posted the link.  Please try, especially if you are still working with the original ipfw. (note: remember, ‘ipfw’ in DragonFly is what was called ‘ipfw2′ years and years ago because it was a replacement of the original ‘ipfw’ in FreeBSD.  It was […]

If you’re using one of those Acer C720 or C720p Chromebooks with DragonFly, remember to set: machdep.mwait.CX.idle=AUTODEEP To automatically enter the right power-saving states on the CPU. You used to have to do it manually, and now you don’t.

Sascha Wilder ported over the urio(4) driver to DragonFly.  It’s for the USB-based Rio mp3 players.  Does anyone have one of these and is running DragonFly?  That would be a startling coincidence.

Today is my birthday, so I have a gift for you: a lot of reading! Don’t panic and keep forking Debian.  It leads to devuan.org.  For a fork to succeed, they need positive reasons to exist, not just a definition of what it’s not.  (via) Advent Planet.  Follow it, find your interest topic, get something […]

I have been building up quite the variety this week. Bitrig 1.0 has been released. Writing NetBSD Sound Drivers in Haskell.  (PDF, via) ruBSD 2014, happening December 13th in Moscow.  (via) How to configure full disk encryption in PC-BSD 10.1.  (via) BSD Magazine for November 2014.  (via)  Why don’t they put new issue announcements in their […]

This page, Varialus et Anisoptera, set up by… I’m not sure of the real name but it’s ‘varialus’ on IRC – has a detailed description of the DragonFly install process and installation of MATE, plus extra notes.  I always find these sorts of cheatsheets entertaining.