@dch
let's see. I have no desire to reboot from #DragonFlyBSD now - I've been struggling with Free all day and now I'm going to watch a film:).
But I can give you hardware information if that's what you mean. If you need the result of #FreeBSD specific commands, then post which ones and I'll do it tomorrow.
FWIW, I heard #netbsd and #openbsd both works great on the T480. I would expect #freebsd and #dragonflyBSD would too.
Also let us know the choice and how it went :)
Source code sandboxing
｢ Sandboxing is when a developer limits available system resources to a program from within its own source code. A classic example is calling chroot(2) to change the root file-system to an empty directory so that the program cannot scribble into the root file-system ｣
M.2 USB SSD wakes up using #ZFS and #FreeBSD. I'll leave that question for later (although I have SATA mechanical drives and it would be annoying to see wake-up failures).
I need the Linux command line to create #apicula bases. Qemu works here, which is welcome. But 10 times slower than under #DragonFlyBSD - accel=nvmm accelerator is used there. I wonder what kind of accelerators there are under #FreeBSD?
@kobilacroix nah.
You'd propably find him and Howard doing some weird shit, like an #OpenBSD / #toybox distro or a #DragonflyBSD cluster...
Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").
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@merlin so what are you gonna do then?
#OpenBSD? #DragonflyBSD? #FreeDOS or #Linux?
DragonFly 6.4.1 is out - this is a bugfix release. ISO/IMG files are
available now on dragonflybsd.org and mirrors soon, if not already.
bsdfetch is a simple tool to show information about a running #FreeBSD / #OpenBSD / #MidnightBSD / #NetBSD / #DragonflyBSD system.
$ git clone https://github.com/jhx0/bsdfetch.git
$ cd bsdfetch/
$ makeOpenBSD on ROCK64 ( @PINE64 )
$ ./bsdfetch
OS: OpenBSD
Release: 7.6
Version: GENERIC.MP#196
Arch: arm64
Host: <...>
Shell: ksh
User: <...>
Packages: 109
Uptime: 190d 0h 25m
RAM: 1995 MB
Loadavg: 0.03 0.04 0.00
CPU: ARM Cortex-A53 r0p4
Cores: 4 of 4 processors online
CPU Temp: 53 °COpenBSD on @OpenBSDAms
$ ./bsdfetch
OS: OpenBSD
Release: 7.6
Version: GENERIC#332
Arch: amd64
Host: <...>
Shell: ksh
User: <...>
Packages: 110
Uptime: 113d 23h 59m
RAM: 2031 MB
Loadavg: 0.30 0.26 0.20
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
Cores: 1 of 1 processors online
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Hmm... I guess I should update my #DragonflyBSD until this patch is accepted, and look out for other BSDs in the next couple of years
It's not really about /dev/crypto - I just felt a cold whiff when a device is removed in exchange for a library - no matter how slow it is, it's still a universally easy way to access functionality. Everything is a file, etc
And it doesn't matter what it's currently being used for - the whole point of the device is access from everywhere
New #blog post!
Let's explore virtualizing the different BSDs on Apple Silicon.
#Poll: are you "dog-fooding" #BSD?
Unlike previous polls (
) I have tried really hard to make sure the options make sense. Select the lowest item in the list that is true for you:
Of the ten options, the first four are for those that don't use BSD regularly (let's say at least once per week).
The fifth option ("VPN/server") is for someone who uses BSD on a server they manage, but don't have physical access to.
The sixth ("at work") through eighth ("secondary laptop/desktop") is for those who regularly use some variant of BSD, but not as a primary daily driver.
The ninth and tenth options are for "dog-fooding"
Oh, right, and I'm sorry, but it really must need be said: MacOS, iOS, and other Apple products do not count. Sorry again. I will count any FOSS BSD-like OSes like #OpenIndiana, though.
I will also count retro commercial Unixes, if you're actually daily-driving them. ;)
