It's New Year's Eve Eve, and so here are a bunch of links I've built up over the past few days.
The headline sums it up: the next quarterly release of pkgsrc, which was due on the 31st of this month, will be released at the end of the first week of January 2010.  The alert message cites a number of different issues.
Matthias Schmidt is posting to Twitter about his time at 26c3 with other DragonFly developers, on his own feed and in @dragonflybsd.  (if you are reading this via a Twitter link, you may already know that.)  Follow the #26c3 tag if you want to see all the news about the event.  A quick scan shows some interesting mobile phone security problems have been discovered.  There's streaming video too.
Matthew Dillon is working on moving more of DragonFly out from under the Giant Lock.  This may mean some instability this week if you're following the bleeding-edge.  He's already posted a warning and an explanation (with numbers!) of work already completed.
A recruiter found me through my administrative role for DragonFly in Google's Summer of Code, and passed along a job description.  I'll paste it after the cut.  If you're looking for a job (or know someone who might match this job), contact me and I'll pass contact information around. Edit: The recruiter has a similar but non-BSD job also available...) Man, I hope this works out.  In the job climate we've had the past year or so, helping someone get a job is very fulfilling.  Plus, the job sounds cool... (more…)
I didn't set anything up with the Digest and tumblr... Please speak up, if you did it. (found via Google)
Avalon.dragonflybsd.org was power cycled, so pkg_radd works now, as does git.dragonflybsd.org.
avalon.dragonflybsd.org is temporarily down, so pkg_radd will not work unless you set $BINPKG_BASE to a new mirror.
If you have previously tried 64-bit DragonFly on a system with more than 3G of RAM and it failed to boot, the problem is fixed.
Following a link from vitunes (which has been updated), I see vimprobable, a vi-ish web browser.   Interesting both for its relentless focus on keyboard controls, and for its old-style quietly angry help (from the FAQ):
How will I know if a website is genuine without a phishing filter? Use your brain.
Also along the same lines, vimperator.
Thanks to the urging and help of Matthias Schmidt and Saifi Khan, posts on the DragonFly Digest now also show on Twitter, as @dragonflybsd.  (well, except for this one, as it would be redundant.)
Sascha Wildner has added -Werror to the kernel build process.  Warnings will now result in an error that stops the kernel from building.  If you're a developer, this will force you to create warning-free code when doing kernel development.  If you're a user, this will result in a cleaner, more stable kernel.