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DragonFly BSD Digest
dragonflydigest.com · Group blog · on HN since 2015
DragonFly BSD Digest covers DragonFly BSD releases and development, plus weekly roundups of BSD news and reading links.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend it as a source of BSD news, especially its weekly Lazy Reading links and its survey of other BSDs.
17HN people shared it
7linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage5 people · first shared 2015
- 2Half billion tries for a HAMMER2 bug1 people · 37 points · first shared 2018 · 9 comments on HN
- 3Privatization Means Rebuilds1 people · 31 points · first shared 2016 · 26 comments on HN
- 4DragonFly 6.0 Soon1 people · 7 points · first shared 2021 · 2 comments on HN
- 5DragonFly 6.01 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 6NVMM Lands in DragonFlyBSD1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7DragonFly 6.2.1 Released1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 8LibreSSL not just available but default (DragonFly BSD)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9HAMMER2 update on the way1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10Even more Meltdown1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11Shut Up ARP – DragonFly BSD Digest1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12No More A.out on DragonFly1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 13Slow Typing Still Happens1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14Low Space and HAMMER2 Snapshots1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 15Lazy Reading for 2019/04/211 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
protomyth · 2015-01-04
For http://www.dragonflydigest.com I find the "Lazy Reading" articles to be some really great pointers to all types of cool articles. The "In Other BSDs" is a great survey of the BSD news highlights.
For general news, undeadly is in my rss feeds. I also like the BSD Now and bsdtalk podcasts. BSD Now is from two folks from PC-BSD and FreeBSD, but covers the other BSDs as well.
vermaden · 2019-12-16
I looked for UNIX/BSD/Linux related news that would be really important, not just usual bullshit, pointless 'small' things or PR from companies.
... and I failed. I was not able to find one or several such news sources.
The nearest thing that I was able to find was 'In Other BSDs' series from https://www.dragonflydigest.com/ page, but it is very limited and small.
In all that I decided to create my own 'Valuable News' series, with latest (weekly) episode available here:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/12/16/valuable-news-2019-12-16/
It may sound as shameless self promotion, but I really was not able to find such news source ...
Regards.
yuribro · 2017-03-12
OpenBSD related - http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/
Weekly aggregations:
- http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/
- http://www.dragonflydigest.com/ (Look for the weekly "Lazy Readings" post)
ceratopisan · 2016-07-26
Use it as a gateway, a web server (shiningsilence.com), and a music machine at home. At work as a host for a few software packages (Mediawiki, though not since a switch to Confluence, Request Tracker, and a few smaller web services) I'm using it both on hardware and as VMs.
I have never had resource problems other than filling up Hammer volumes because I didn't set the right clean rate relative to disk activity. e.g. I can give it a piddly amount of RAM and CPU and never notice.
I'm the person behind the DragonFly Digest (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/) so it's not a surprise that I would use it.
clarry · 2015-01-04
Not exactly LWN, but you can find a good sum-up of interesting news/changes/discussions concerning all the BSDs here: http://www.dragonflydigest.com/
I also watch tedu's blog (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/) and the OpenBSD tag on lobsters.
snvzz · 2018-03-16
I know there's something more recent I've seen, but I couldn't find it. This is what I found, which should show enough.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-September/626329.…
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2017/03/06/19425.html
cm3 · 2016-06-20
Except that with NVME drives, and the parallel operations you can run on these, the performance of checksums becomes important again. Recent experiments with HAMMER2: https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2016/06/15/18281.html