DragonFly BSD

There’s been a lot of BUG meetings lately; I think it’s time to form some more. Fixing up KA9Q-unix, or “neck deep in 30 year old codebases..”  Packet radio! ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits. How To Set Up Buildbot on ... [More] FreeBSD.  (via) Next ChiBUG meeting: October 8th.  I’ll post a … Continue reading "In Other BSDs for 2019/10/05" [Less]

This week’s BSDNow, number 318, “The TrueNAS Library“, covers some links I’ve picked up before but also has BSD and presidential library news, an uncommon combo.

You should set hostname in /etc/rc.conf.  I am mentioning this now because not doing it kept me from running X apps from a DragonFly system on a Windows 10 system with vcxsrv, and I wasted half an hour of my life figuring that out.  Apparently this is a lesson I need to keep relearning.

Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, presented by Ori Bernstein, is happening tonight at the ever-mighty NYCBUG.  Go, if you are near.

dsynth(1) has a new ‘monitor’ command, which watches log output and tells you what it’s doing.  I haven’t tried it yet, so I am only guessing.  A screenshot would be nice.

KnoxBUG meets tonight, with home labs being the topic.  Go, if you are near.

You may be able to tell one of my link sources changed RSS feeds, so I had some catchup to do this week. What is “DCC SEND startkeylogger”?  (via) Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case.  (via) Imaging Floppies.  (via) Just Delete ... [More] Me.  (via) ReMarkable review.  Has anyone used one of these recently? Explanations, … Continue reading "Lazy Reading for 2019/09/29" [Less]

Note there’s several BUG meetings coming up. KnoxBUG meets Monday, talking about home labs. Pure sh bible.  POSIX sh, not bashisms, for once.  (via) ZFS is not a universal filesystem that is always good for all workloads.  Neither is HAMMER.  It’s ... [More] interesting to think of the edge cases. Taking NetBSD kernel bug roast to the … Continue reading "In Other BSDs for 2019/09/28" [Less]

The default variables for jails on DragonFly have changed; obviously this only affects you if you are running jails.  Adjust your rc.conf as needed.

It’s Thursday, so BSD Now 317 is posted, with the usual news summary – and a recap of EuroBSDCon 2019.