News
Default SSH change
SSH, on DragonFly, now defaults to allowing root logins, but does not allow plaintext password logins. This is on new installs only, so any existing installations won’t be affected, even after upgrades. Plaintext passwords are under constant brute-force attack for some years now, so this is probably safer.
Notes on unprivileged building
YONETANI Tomokazu wrote up a nice bit of explanation about compiling src and pkgsrc as non-root. He even explicitly names some useful variables to set.
Progress with clang
Several people have been working on having DragonFly compile with clang. Alex Hornung’s updated the clang page on the DragonFly site for details; if this interests you, a conversation on EFNet #dragonflybsd may be in order.
pkgin, in
Sascha Wildner has added pkgin to the base DragonFly system. It’s still present as a pkgsrc package, so it’s manageable and upgradeable with the normal pkg_* tools. See prior discussion here for the history.
More less
Did I already make that joke? Oh well. less has been updated to version 4.3.6 from a patch by Jan Lentfer.
A few more things
Linkbloggy, briefly:
A view of Bell Labs, where that other Unix flavor came from, in the 1960s. (via) Best sideburns ever.
IRC, as explained by American prime time television. (YouToooob, via) Remember, #dragonflybsd is available on EFNet.
Stallman, Torvalds, and Knuth walk into a bar… (via)
Text Game history
The National Center for the History of Electronic Games is looking for tangible artifacts having to do with old text-based games, like Adventure or Zork. The article includes some history, too.
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Algorithms algorithms algorithms
This blog post from Peteris Krumins lists all the publicly available Introduction to Algorithms lectures from MIT, and links to his summary for each, so you can find out what it’s like before investing in over an hour of lecture. Very specific but very valuable stuff.
BIND updated
I mentioned it for testing, and now it’s ready: BIND 9.5.2 is in DragonFly.
Socket changes
Matthew Dillon is making some changes to sockets; these should make the code significantly more simple. Look at the first patch, for instance.