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NetBSD Sees Its First Wayland Application Running

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 19th of August 2019 04:53:58 PM Filed under
Graphics/Benchmarks
BSD

Wayland support is inching ahead on NetBSD for this secure, modern next-generation successor to running an X.Org Server.

NetBSD has seen a lot of interesting developments this year on the desktop front from DRM graphics driver improvements to better Wine support and now the first Wayland bits are proving successful on this BSD operating system.

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KDE Frameworks 5.61, Applications 19.08 in FreeBSD

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 18th of August 2019 02:45:29 PM Filed under
KDE
BSD

Recent releases were KDE Frameworks 5.61 and KDE Applications 19.08. These have both landed in the official FreeBSD ports tree, after Tobias did most of the work and I pushed the big red button.

Your FreeBSD machine will need to be following current ports – not the quarterly release branches, since we don’t backport to those.

All the modern bits have arrived, maintaining the KDE-FreeBSD team’s commitment to up-to-date software for the FreeBSD desktop. The one thing we’re currently lagging on is Qt 5.13. There’s a FreeBSD problem report tracking that update.

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Project Trident 19.08 Now Available

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of August 2019 04:18:28 PM Filed under
BSD

This update includes the FreeBSD fixes for the “vesa” graphics driver for legacy-boot systems. The system can once again be installed on legacy-boot systems.

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OpenBSD and FreeBSD Updates

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of August 2019 07:13:45 AM Filed under
BSD
  • OpenBSD -stable binary packages

    The OpenBSD base system has received binary updates for security and some other important problems in the base OS through syspatch(8) for the last few releases.

    We are pleased to announce that we now also provide selected binary packages for the most recent release. These are built from the -stable ports tree which receives security and a few other important fixes: [...]

  • FreeBSD Around the World

    One of our major goals this year is to increase FreeBSD awareness around the world. I’m excited about upcoming events, like the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit, where we are giving a talk on FreeBSD. But first, I wanted to highlight some of the events we’ve attended over the past few months. I have been pretty bad about writing event reports, so I’m summarizing some of them here. It’s a good thing our Marketing Director isn’t local, otherwise she would be camping in our office forcing me to write the reports.

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Stable release: HardenedBSD-stable 12-STABLE v1200059.3

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 13th of August 2019 11:40:06 PM Filed under
Security
BSD

HardenedBSD-12-STABLE-v1200059.3

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Instant Workstation

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 13th of August 2019 03:10:05 PM Filed under
KDE
BSD

Some considerable time ago I wrote up instructions on how to set up a FreeBSD machine with the latest KDE Plasma Desktop. Those instructions, while fairly short (set up X, install the KDE meta-port, .. and that’s it) are a bit fiddly.

So – prompted slightly by a Twitter exchange recently – I’ve started a mini-sub-project to script the installation of a desktop environment and the bits needed to support it. To give it at least a modicum of UI, dialog(1) is used to ask for an environment to install and a display manager.

The tricky bits – pointed out to me after I started – are hardware support, although a best-effort is better than having nothing, I think.

In any case, in a VBox host it’s now down to running a single script and picking Plasma and SDDM to get a usable system for me. Other combinations have not been tested, nor has system-hardware-setup. I’ll probably maintain it for a while and if I have time and energy it’ll be tried with nVidia (those work quite well on FreeBSD) and AMD (not so much, in my experience) graphics cards when I shuffle some machines around.

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DragonFly 5.6.2 released

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 13th of August 2019 09:02:14 AM Filed under
BSD

Because of the recent tcp keepalive change and some other updates, DragonFly 5.6 has been updated to 5.6.2. See my release email, and update the normal way. You will need to update your installed dports.

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Also: DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 Released With Disruptive Change To Help Chromium, Ported Apps

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DragonFly 5.6.2 tagged

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 11th of August 2019 08:37:26 AM Filed under
BSD

I tagged 5.6.2 and built it this morning:

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2019-August/719259.html

It includes the recent tcp keepalive changes and some other work.
You'll want to update dports, too.

I'm uploading the 5.6.2 image as I type. You can rebuild using the
normal process on an existing 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 system:

> cd /usr/src
> git pull
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> make installworld
> make upgrade

and of course

> pkg upgrade

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Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 4th of August 2019 02:40:54 AM Filed under
BSD
  • Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD, second evaluation report

    As getting Wine to work with WoW64 support was of foremost importance, my focus was on compat32 dependency packages without which Wine's functionality would be limited and more importantly untestable. Initially, being unaware of what to expect, I just wanted Wine to run, at the earliest. So, with outmost support from mentors, the consensus was to install libs from 32-bit packages to ${PREFIX}/lib/32 and ignore everything else that came with the respective packages.

    I had most of the compat32 packages ready after a couple of days. And it was time we gave Wine a whirl. Well, the build was successful. However, I had problems with 32-bit Xorg. The applications which came packaged with Wine worked fine, but, other Microsoft Windows applications like notepad++, Mario etc had a hard time running. Additionally, I noticed that fontconfig went wild and crashed spewing errors symptomatic of Wine (32-bit) not playing nice with the fontconfig lib that came with 32-bit Xorg package. On top of this, I found that build failed on certain machines due to unavailability of headers. This made us reconsider our decision to install 32-bit libs to ${PREFIX}/lib/32 and ignore everything else which included headers and binaries.

  • Wine On 64-bit NetBSD Is Now In Much Better Shape Thanks To GSoC

    One of the many interesting Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects this year has been to improve the Wine support on NetBSD. Thanks to student developer Naveen Narayanan, that is becoming a reality.

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NetBSD 9.0 release process has started

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 31st of July 2019 07:06:28 PM Filed under
BSD

If you have been following source-changes, you may have noticed the creation of the netbsd-9 branch!

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Also: NetBSD 9.0 Prepping For Release With AArch64 Support, Kernel ASLR & Better NVMe Perf

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Red Hat/Fedora: Flock’19 Budapest, Cockpit 201 and Systemd 243 RC2

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