Chris Pressey sent a recent announcement about the BSD Installer infrastructure, and changes thereto. I don’t see web-accessible archives of the message, so I’ll paste it here as an extended entry.
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GNOME Preview
There is a preview of the next version of GNOME (2.12), found via Slashdot.
Anyone compiling GNOME from CVS on DragonFly? It’d be interesting to know how compatible it is.
Coming in PREVIEW
Matthew Dillon and Hiten Pandya outlined their plans for what goes into the next PREVIEW revision.
BSDInstaller spreads
The first version of the BSDInstaller on FreeBSD is available.
Shuttle BIOS nitpicks
Matthew Dillon mentioned a couple of obstacles in booting with a Shuttle board.
Monthly BSD summary is a blog!
Sam Smith (I assume) wrote in a comment that his monthly BSD summaries for OnLAMP/BSD have become a blog, with June being the latest entry.
FreeBSD on XBox
FreeBSD’s been ported to the XBox, interestingly enough. It’s more proof-of-concept right now – once networking works, it could be very useful.
Dirty daemon
Seen on Hubert Feyrer’s blog: The BSD daemon used for sex toy vending machines. Wierd.
retro-zlib
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert committed a fix to 1.2-RELEASE for the recent zlib security problem.
UnixReview.com: lotsa schtuff
UnixReview.com has three new articles: a review of the book on 60’s culture and PCs, “What the Dormouse Said“, an article on Nagios, and a look at OpenSolaris.
DragonFly BSD Digest on Google
So, if you’re using Google’s new personalization features, you can add DragonFly BSD Digest headlines using: http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.rdf. Ooh, pretty.
BSD, described other places
Matthew Dillon only just noticed the Wikipedia entry for DragonFly. (It’s been linked here for quite a while.)
Also, IBM’s developerWorks has a “Why FreeBSD?” article that mentions DragonFly as the more technical alternative.
Sendmail updated
Gregory Neil Shapiro just updated sendmail to 8.13.4, which means it runs natively on DragonFly. (It no longer assumes FreeBSD.) He posted a list of changes.
HEADS UP: pam.d and ABI
Joerg Sonnenberger posted two alerts: the first is that pam.d now replaces pam.conf, and that he’s mangling the ABI in HEAD (bleeding edge code) over the next few days in preparation for moving what’s in HEAD to PREVIEW (moderately stable code).
FreeBSD March through June
FreeBSD’s latest newletter is out, covering a number of their projects.
Speaking of this topic, there hasn’t been a BSD news roundup on OnLAMP for some time. Where did you go, Sam?
SMP bug hunting
Matthew Dillon posted about the work he and others are doing to track down some elusive SMP bugs. Because of this work, the “preview” tag will be moved up soon.
BSDNews changes
The BSDNews website has undergone a cosmetic change. Content and layout appears to remain the same, however.
OnLAMP interview
OnLAMP/BSD has a new (and long!) interview of Colin Percival, who discovered the cache security flaw in multicore chips.
Colin primarily works on FreeBSD, but he very kindly sends alerts to DragonFly developers for issues that affect both code bases.
New BSDInstaller version needs testing
Chriss Pressey announced the 2005.0721 version of the BSD Installer. This version can partition disks and leave existing installed operating systems intact. Also, the entire session is saved in a repeatable script that doesn’t even require the installer to run, similar to RedHat’s Kickstart or other technologies.
There’s more changes, and a new upgrade feature that needs testing. Check the announcement for details.
Weekend Update
Or rather, potentially no weekend update. A friend of mine is getting married this weekend, so news postings may be slow. I’ll catch up early next week, if need be.