Not wanting to discover different views on what UFS is, for the data exchange between #DragonFlyBSD and #FreeBSD I just allocated a piece of disc and wrote it directly to it
tar cvf /dev/da5s4 some-dir
tar xvf /dev/ada5p4 -C dest
@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 :)
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?
Getting ready for #BSDCan
The final schedule for @bsdcan has been published: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-all.html
Walking through nature. I see a dragonfly flying.
I look at my wife. She looks at me, smiles and says "No, don't say it...".
I smile and: "Look! A BSD even here!".
And I burst out laughing.
She looks at me, smiles and lovingly says "you're incorrigible".
Have a great Sunday everyone!
PSA on the changed bus service for BSDCan conference goers.
The website has been updated.
For those coming to BSDCan (bsdcan.org) next week long term forecast looks like it should be ok Wednesday but possibly a tad moist if you are flying in on Tuesday.
https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=45.403,-75.687'
It's probably a rite of passage in becoming a software engineer to understand this.
I have a vague recollection of an explainer for this that comes up on #HackerNews every few years.
Interestingly, only #OpenBSD retains the full flaws of the original. #NetBSD and #DragonFlyBSD both add error checking, and #FreeBSD and #GhostBSD do the modern avoiding stdio and its rampant buffer rewriting thing.
Resources got restocked:
- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany
@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :)
I need to read if ZFS is a cow system. In 15 years I've been spoilt by #DragonflyBSD hammer FS - no cretins driving into a power pole, no lightning into an electrical cabinet, nothing has ever caused my data to be lost.
I've safely pressed RESET countless times at any time (yes, I've experimented with the kernel) and never had to admire the stupid promt from fsck on boot - well because there's no need for a check for a COW system.
@kobilacroix nah.
You'd propably find him and Howard doing some weird shit, like an #OpenBSD / #toybox distro or a #DragonflyBSD cluster...
It's worth remembering that there aren't just three flavours. There are DragonFly BSD, Midnight BSD, and Ghost BSD too.
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").
As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.
BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.
To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!
@merlin so what are you gonna do then?
#OpenBSD? #DragonflyBSD? #FreeDOS or #Linux?
DragonFlyBSD Sees Progress On UVC Webcam Support
｢ While UVC web cameras have long worked well on Linux and various other BSDs and other open-source operating systems, it hasn't been much of a priority for DragonFlyBSD. This BSD operating system though has been seeing work by developer Michael Neumann to port the UVC webcam driver from FreeBSD over to DragonFlyBSD. Additionally, it also ropes in some webcam patches carried by OpenBSD ｣
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-UVC-Webcam-Sort-Of
