Dru Lavigne has posted a pile of links to various things – click through and eat up an hour or two.
Port scan blocking by IP, automated
Joerg Anslik posted his setup to blacklist IPs which repeatedly scan via FTP or SSH. Some discussion ensued.
Long-time readers will remember a previous discussion like this.
pkgsrcCon 2008 call for papers
pkgsrcCon for 2008 is happening June 13th-15th in Berlin. If you are planning to present a paper there, their call for papers is up. You have until May 25th.
2 new committers: Matthias Schmidt, Nicolas Thery
DragonFly has two new committers, as an end-of-year treat: Matthias Schmidt and Nicolas Thery. Welcome, both of you. (Also, don’t forget ‘walt‘ earlier this month.)
msk(4) driver added
Sepherosa Ziehau has imported the msk(4) driver, which supports the Marvell Yukon II networking chipset, orginally from FreeBSD.
/etc/periodic update
Matthias Schmidt has tried synchronizing with FreeBSD’s /etc/periodic; he reports no issues on his DragonFly system. He also helpfully summarizes all the improvements in his post.
BSD Bits
- The FreeBSD Foundation has released its semi-annual newsletter for the end of 2007.
- NetBSD has released version 4.0.
- Peter Avalos has updated DragonFly’s libarchive to 2.4.8.
BSDTalk 136: Peter N. M. Hansteen and PF
The latest BSDTalk has a16-minute interview with Peter N. M. Hansteen, who recently wrote The Book of PF, and apparently possesses a lot of middle names.
It’s also the 2-year anniversary of BSDTalk – Congratulations to Will Backman.
vn and how it could be better
Chris Turner posted his thoughts on improving vn(4).
New kernel option for CAM
Peter Avalos has added the CAM_NEW_TRAN_CODE kernel option, which apparently is very helpful in an unspecified way if you are using SCSI disks via CAM.
December OSBR, More Cisco and BSD
The December issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out.
Also, Cisco is looking for some FreeBSD developers. Given Cisco’s recent announcement that they were moving to an open source operating system for their equipment, and that Juniper’s system is already BSD-based…Â Hmm.
I group these together because they were both found by Dru Lavigne at AYitLoaBG.
BSDCan 2008 call for papers
BSDCan 2008, held in May, in Ottowa, has the initial call for papers out. They have space for informal talks and presentations too.
More on binary upgrades
Matthew Dillon chimed in with his description of how a binary update system for DragonFly could work, with an emphasis on using existing tools.
Perl anniversary and new release
Perl’s 20 years old today, and a new release of 5.10 is out, along with a new version of Parrot, which includes the nascent Perl 6. (Via OnLAMP)
I’d be happy to note other major programming language changes – I don’t follow, say, Ruby as closely. Please tell me if there’s something of note.
Sound tip: virtual channels
An oldie but goodie: don’t forget that it’s possible to set up multiple virtual sound channels in DragonFly.
Binary updates for DragonFly
Matthias Schmidt has put together what I think is A Good Thing: a binary updates system for DragonFly. There’s still some details to work on, but he has working code already.
(Almost) New committer: Thomas Nikolajsen
Welcome Thomas Nikolajsen, newest DragonFly committer. (Or at least I missed mentioning him before.)
Thanks, anonymous commenter! Not only do I lack reliable short-term memory, but I can’t even use a search function.
Cisco going for Unixish operating system?
Cisco has announced plans for a Unix-based operating system for their network equipment, near the same time as Juniper (who already has a BSD-based system for their equipment) announces third-party development abilities (PR here)Â (Via the howling void)Â Of course, “open” is a relative term.
Having used a variety of Cisco equipment, I can say I’d like to see their system versions at least a little more sane, as it can get quite difficult to sort out all the various point releases.
libthread_xu now default
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has made libthread_xu the default threading model for DragonFly. You can switch to it immediately with a symlink if you are not running the bleeding edge code. Caveat emptor, however.
Floating point error and fix
Joerg Anslik found a strange error that turns out to have been a problem in handling floating point states; it’s fixed, but you will need to recompile kernel and libc_r if you are running bleeding edge code.