DragonFly BSD

As you may be able to guess, BSDNow episode 061 has an interview with John-Mark Gurney about updating FreeBSD’s IPSEC setup, along with the normal collection of news items.  There’s also a link to a new BSD-switching blog, and “mailing list gold”.

Despite my complete lack of good planning, John Marino and Francois Tigeot have packages available for the DragonFly 4.0 release candidate that I assembled.  Point at this directory to use them.

As Francois Tigeot has pointed out, recent Mesa upgrades have made very old graphics drivers using DRM1 no longer work.  They’ve been removed.  This won’t affect you unless your graphics card is 10+ years old.

If you are running DragonFly, and also using nginx, the so_reuseport option will give you a significant speed boost.  I’ve mentioned it before, but not this directly.

Your local mirror should have a copy of the release candidate for DragonFly 4.0.0 by now.  Please try it out and report problems.  Note that this is a x86_64 only version; there’s no i386 version though you may be able to manually build on i386.

Lots of light topic links this week. A 50 Year-old Teletype Powered by a Raspberry Pi.  (via) Found via the same link: teletype restoration. Also found: the rotary VoIP phone.  I’ve made rotaries work again via ATA, but only for inbound.  This, I would love to do. How SimCity came to Unix.  It’s available now […]

This week I was on top of the whole linking thing. A Minecraft plugin for FreeNAS. PC-BSD has a YouTube channel. LibreSSL 2.1.0 is out. OpenBSD 5.6 sneak peek. Question about the current state of FreeBSD Tanenbaum realizes BSD was a better idea. ... [More]  (via) DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/13. DiscoverBSD for 2014/10/20. FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon […] [Less]

BSDNow episode 060 bypasses the pun and just commands you to obey.  At least, I don’t know the reference if there is one.  Anyway, there’s an interview of Olivier Cochard-Labbé of the BSD Router Project, along with the usual array of news.

It’s been possible to install and run clang on DragonFly for a long time, of course, and at least build world with it.  However, John Marino is putting in significant work to make clang one of the system compilers, replacing the older gcc44 that’s in DragonFly now.  (The newer gcc47 stays.)  This won’t be part of the […]

I noted the last few things that should be committed before the DragonFly release.  People have spoken up for most of them, but it wouldn’t hurt to try recent -master with the upmap/kpmap work that recently went in.  Benchmarks wouldn’t be a bad idea, either.