Hasso Tepper has committed all the recent changes to sound infrastructure in FreeBSD-6 to DragonFly; this improves sound support on a number of different laptops.
New Bluetooth stack to try
Dmitry Komissaroff has created a new version of the Bluetooth stack, with a version ready to test.  Among other changes, it’s now possible to use a cellphone via Bluetooth to establish a PPP connection. There are other caveats.
AsiaBSDCon 2008: Paper deadline
AsiaBSDCon 2008 is scheduled for March 27-30 in Tokyo. The deadline for paper proposals has been pushed to December 11th, and there is a mailing list for further announcements – check the official website for more information.
At last, a conclusive correlation
According to Google image search, this very Digest has something to do with boobs. If this trend continues, I predict a significant increase in traffic. And disappointed visitors. (via Joerg Sonnenberger, who is apparently the common thread)
HAMMER: one chunk works
Matthew Dillon has posted another of his (apparently regular?) HAMMER updates.
The inevitable path
It starts with trying to install BSD, and goes downhill from there. (Check the image properties for more of the joke.)
Make money by driving away customers
This AP news story seen in several places describes how the BSA has been vigorously obtaining money in and out of court for pirated software, and it appears to be procuring more money than the actual value of the pirated software. … Another good reason to use open source, which the article touches on, by the end.
Do you have an ExpressCard slot?
If you have a laptop with bleeding-edge DragonFly and an ExpressCard slot, please test it out, as Sepherosa Ziehau has made them supportable.
Small computers and what to run on them
I like super-small computers as much as anyone, and I’ve been watching for the new Asus Eee PC. It uses Linux, though there’s been issues with it conforming with the GPL license.  You know, if the device only ran a BSD, there wouldn’t be these licensing problems… (BSD link via hubertf)
PMCTools support for testing
Aggelos Economopoulos has submitted a series of patches to bring pmctools into DragonFly; PMC stands for “Performance Measurement Counters”. Give them a whirl, as positive or negative feedback will get him to continue work.
OSBR November issue: Support
The Open Source Business Resource’s latest issue is up in both PDF and HTML formats, with this issue focusing on support available for open source software. (Via)
IP number randomizer updated
Matthew Dillon has changed the random IP sequence number generation in DragonFly to use the system generator. This issue comes from a review of the old randomizer algorithm by Amit Klein, who has worked on some similar issues. No idea how this affects other BSDs…
Write for a BSD magazine
Dru Lavigne brings news of a BSD-focused print magazine to be published by next summer.  She includes writing guidelines – this is a good chance to get published! (Via, Via)
HAMMER work continues
Matthew Dillon is continuing his HAMMER work, with this and many other subsequent commits in the past while. Check the archive for more discussion.
dummynet separation finished
Sepherosa Ziehau has committed the rest of his work separating dummynet from ipfw and making it run on a per-CPU basis. This means that, with some additional work, dummynet could be used with pf, for instance.
Dummynet halfway done
Sepherosa Ziehau has committed the first half of his work making dummynet(4) work per-CPU; his latest commit has a handy description and bonus ASCII art.
HAMMER status, and scheduling
Matthew Dillon described the state of his distributed filesystem, saying a simple version should be up and runnable by next week, with actual clusters (meaning multiple disk blocks, not separate systems) supported some time after.
Also, the next regular 6-month release (2.0!) will probably be pushed out a little to mid-January 2008, so the release isn’t happening at the same time as everyone’s holiday plans.
Netgraph change testing
Nuno Antunes has posted his latest version of a netgraph upgrade; he’s looking for feedback and ideas. Interestingly, he included a virtual kernel config so his changes can be tested without interfering with normal system operation.
Preview slipped forward
Simonm ‘corecode’ Schubert has slipped the Preview tag; those of you running 1.11-preview can update and get all recent changes.
Kernel module development on wiki
Alexander Orlov has written a wiki page on kernel module development. Please contribute if you’ve been through the same process.