BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and More BSD News
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New FreeBSD Journal column out
The new issue of the FreeBSD Journal is out, including my We Get Letters column. Before you click on the browser-based version, know there’s a PDF.
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pkg_*: the road forward
An anonymous submitter reminded us that Marc Espie (espie@) posted a summary of the state of OpenBSD packages in a message to the tech mailing list with the subject pkg_*: the road forward.
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pkg: No SRV record found for the repo ‘local’
Today I removed and added the same package. The add failed.
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Success. I’m going to guess that recent pkg changes have caused this issue.
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An even tinier NAS
Behind Clara’s and my TV sits a monstrously large Antec 300 fitted to the gills with hard drives. It weighs as much as a school bus, and makes even more noise than one when performing ZFS scrubs, but wow it works well. I was able to consolidate five machines into the one, thanks in part to FreeBSD bhyve and jails.
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ChiBUG: meeting July 18
If you are near Chicago on July 18th, go to the ChiBUG meeting.