@HankB

No, the BSD variants inside are quite different, it's not one kernel with different userspace and a couple of patches:) And the driver set is also different - #NetBSD doesn't want to use the #OrangePi Zero network card, #FreeBSD has no problems with it.
#DragonFlyBSD doesn't know how to use ZFS, so it's not clear which sw component won't wake up the hard drive.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/history/

First lessons from experiments with #ZFS - I connected an external 750G HDD with usb interface to play. Creating pool and so on... everything was great until I got distracted and HDD's motor stopped.
Under #DragonFlyBSD it was enough to give ls a mounted directory and the motor would spin up, but that was not the case with #FreeBSD - the hdd didn't wake up.

tomorrow I'll check with UFS, maybe it's FS.

#DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind • Phoronix

｢ Yesterday's push to the DragonFlyBSD Git tree syncs the DRM driver code against what's found in Linux 4.20.17. Yes, the 4.20 series that debuted at the end of 2018 compared to Linux 6.16 being the very latest upstream. It's also far behind FreeBSD currently using around Linux 6.7 kernel graphics driver code ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-DRM-Linux-4.20.17

#bsd #unix #opensource

You're welcome. I cottoned on when there was a very brief flicker of a character at one point, and went looking.

#TianoCore doing that self-recursion for backspace and #NetBSD calling OutputString twice makes enough of a window that the character not being erased yet, can synchronize with the display refresh on rare occasion.

So I expect that some sort of putchar_twiddle() that calls OutputString then SetCursorPosition would likely also cut down twiddling overhead.

#FreeBSD #DragonFlyBSD

The same goes for #GhostBSD and #DragonFlyBSD on EFI, obviously.

You've all assumed a non-destructive back space and a destructive forward space, and you're all calling OutputString twice.

https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-src/blob/stable/14/stand/libsa/twiddle.c#L61

https://github.com/DragonFlyBSD/DragonFlyBSD/blob/master/stand/lib/twiddle.c#L49

OutputString is a fairly hefty function to be calling once per character, and as you can see even calls itself recursively to do a back space. Not using BS at all seems like a good choice.

#UEFI #EFI

Getting ready for #BSDCan

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

The final schedule for @bsdcan has been published: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-all.html

#BSDCan #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #HardenedBSD

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!

#BSD #RunBSD #DragonflyBSD #HappySunday

PSA on the changed bus service for BSDCan conference goers.
The website has been updated.

https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/gettingthere.html

#Ottawa #BSDCan #BSDCan2025 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD

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'

#BSDCan #BSDCan2025 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #Ottawa

@toomanysecrets

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.

#yes @WindOfChange

Hacker Public Radio BSD Overview https://lobste.rs/s/uvozyb #dragonflybsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4388/index.html

⚠️ 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 :) We're currently hosting ~ 600 free VPS instances.

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #VPS #FreeVPS #IPv6 #hosting #ISP

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.

#DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 has been released (#DragonFly / #FreeBSD / #BSD / #BerkeleySoftwareDistribution / #386BSD / #Jolix / #Net2 / #43BSD / #Unix) https://dragonflybsd.org/

@kobilacroix nah.

You'd propably find him and Howard doing some weird shit, like an #OpenBSD / #toybox distro or a #DragonflyBSD cluster...

@dwarmstrong

It's worth remembering that there aren't just three flavours. There are DragonFly BSD, Midnight BSD, and Ghost BSD too.

#DragonFlyBSD #MidnightBSD #GhostBSD

A wild #blog post appears!

I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

(Yes, I already sent a PR to NetBSD.)

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250516.html

#linux #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #aix #ibm #solairs #illumos #pkgsrc #opensource #freesoftware

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!

https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/

#BSDCan2025 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

Question for all the #BSD admins out there: have you ever deployed #DragonflyBSD in production?

Personally I deployed my fair share of #OpenBSD and #pfsense firewalls in production. I've also encountered a few #FreeBSD servers and I know that SDF runs on #NetBSD but I've yet to see a DragonflyBSD machine in prod.