Matthew Dillon has committed a change that adds new lines to the template when committing to DragonFly; most notably, it includes a line for a link back to the appropriate issue on the DragonFly bug tracker.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, which hosts the mail archive and developer accounts, has a dead power supply. The drive has been moved to a slower backup machine, so it’s still reachable until the original is resurrected.
Sepherosa Ziehau has a test version of the FreeBSD stge(4) driver ported to DragonFly, which supports a good number of gigabit networking devices. Please test and give feedback.
Seen several places: Jason Dixon’s humorous “BSD is dying” talk from NYCBSDCon06 is available with audio and slides online on Google Video and in other formats from his site.
An oft-touted benefit of the GNU Public License is that it forces organizations that use GPL code to republish their changes, so that improvements to open code can be shared. That sounds good, in principle.
According to Harald Welte, founder of the gpl-violations.org project, this clause in the GPL has never resulted in any useful code ever being returned to the community. (Thanks, HubertF)
Even though it’s been around forever, awk is still being updated, and Peter Avalos has added the latest version to DragonFly. Notice that it is the One True Awk, not GNU awk.
The call is out for papers for the 2007 USENIX Tech conference. Submissions are due by January 9th, 2007.
This week on UnixReview.com: a writeup on Tile, a new GUI toolkit for Tcl, “Exploring the CCNP Certification“, and “Test Your Knowledge of CCNP Topics“