EuroBSDCon, NYCBSDCon, BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon, whew

EuroBSDCon 2008 will be Oct. 18-19th at the University of Strasbourg, France.

NYCBSDCon 2008 will be October 11-12th at Columbia University.

BSDCan 2008 will be May 16-17th, in Ottawa, Canada.

AsiaBSDCon 2008 will be the 27-30th of March, at the Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan

EuroBSDCon’s dates were recently announced, which is what caused this post. Has anyone noticed that not so many years ago, BSD conventions were just informal gatherings held at Linux-centric events? An interesting change.

DragonFly 1.12 is released!

The 1.12 release is out now, and should be available on any of the mirrors. I’m blockquoting the announcement:

This release is primarily a maintainance update. A lot of work has been done all over the kernel and userland. There are no new big-ticket items though we have pushed the MP lock further into the kernel.

The 2.0 release is scheduled for mid-year.

Of the current big-ticket item work, the new HAMMER filesystem is almost to the alpha stage of development and is expected to be production ready by the mid-year 2.0 release.

Android phone: Linux and BSD

Looking at the general information page from Google and this OnLAMP article, it appears that Google’s new phone operating system, Android, is based both on Linux (the kernel) and OpenBSD/NetBSD (libc). I wonder how much of the GNU tools are on there.

I also wonder what moved them to that decision.  Part of the Android FAQ section points at this article about the Apache License (a BSD-style license) being preferable.

DragonFly project statistics

Ohloh.net keeps statistics for a variety of open-source projects, including DragonFly.  It tells a story mostly based on source code analysis.  Which committer for DragonFly has the least commits?  Me!  Of course, it’s my news articles from this blog that show up on the project page, so it’s missing out on what I’ve heard called the “atmosphere” around open source projects.  Hubert Feyrer seems to think the same way.

FreeBSD progress report and comparison

The most recent FreeBSD progress report is out; among other things, it talks about work on multi-IPv4/IPv6 jails, TCP cleanup, and TCP reassembly optimization.   Interestingly, I think there’s related work in DragonFly – the DragonFly jail changes were about a year ago, and Jeff Hsu’s work on the DragonFly network stack seems similar.

I doubt there’s many people on the planet with the brainpower and time for this, but it would be interesting to have a large-scare compare/contrast of the different BSD styles for solving problems in code.