BSD Magazine sent out a link to all the BSD Magazine back issues, reproduced here for your enjoyment:
Hosting BSD
BSD as A Desktop
BSD as Servers
Infinity. Freedom. FREEBSD
BSD Security
Guide to FreeBSD
PC-BSD Uncovered
Explore NetBSD
Siju George has written up his 'real world' experience with DragonFly in production; I should probably do the same since this site has been DragonFly-driven for years now. Add your story to the page.
Matthew Dillon followed up on some comments from Sepherosa Ziehau about power management to describe a possible new way to manage power consumption; the project is up for grabs.
Matthew Dillon has added powerd(8), a daemon that adjusts CPU frequency based on activity; his initial report describes a whopping 40% power savings for server use.
Link catchup!
- The BSD Certification Group needs reviewers for the BSDA exam objectives. It's as easy as writing on a wiki.
- Undeadly has a lengthy article up about the OpenBSD equivalent of pkgsrc bulk builds, called dbp3. Interesting, because it was constructed on purpose, for that purpose. It's interesting to me because I have pbulk running all the time, and it's not as liner a process as I'd like.
- The PC-BSD installer is now present in FreeBSD; I think this is based on the same original installer used for DragonFly. Maybe, maybe not, but I'm curious about the feature set if it's able to displace the venerable and firmly lodged FreeBSD sysinstall.
- Off topic: I bought an Android-based phone recently, so this (kinda grody) comment on how Apple handles bad reception for the new iPhone is entertaining.
- Really off topic: this man's conversation about polyhedral dice (Youtube) is strangely compelling. You may or may have needed to play tabletop games previously to really appreciate it. (via)
Matthew Dillon set up a git copy of the pkgsrc repository some time ago. However, it's had syncing problems, and there's an 'official' pkgsrc git repository now which does not have the problems. You can still pull from the same place, but it's the 'master' branch now. His heads-up message describes how to switch.
Not actually related to DragonFly except by coincidental name, but it's entertaining and imageblogging is fun. (via, some other images there nsfw)
Michael Lucas is giving away a limited number of copies of his new Network Flow Analysis book. Post something clever and you may get it. Please don't be more clever than me, though, as I want a copy.
Dru Lavigne is the new "Director of Community Development" for PC-BSD. I am totally jealous, and she is the perfect person for the job.
November 12-14th, in New York City, at Cooper Union.
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There's a new BSDTalk podcast up, again from BSDCan 2010. This one interviews Henning Brauer and Peter Hansteen about pf, for 20 minutes.
It's been 0.25 years since the last, so pkgsrc is due for another quarterly release. The usually-two-week freeze before release starts tonight. The release should happen at the end of the month.
EuroBSDCon 2010 is happening October 8th-10th in Karlsruhe, Germany. (I'll let you guess the year.) The Call for Papers is out now. The website lists it as "Call for Speakers", but you have to write an abstract so I suppose that's close enough. (via lots of places)
Venkatesh Srinivas has quoted a good phrase to sum up the work he and Matthew Dillon are doing to remove the Big Lock: 'Less Lock, More Rock'
Naoya Sugioka posted his qemu config; I link to it for reference, both for running DragonFly in emulation and for running emulated systems on DragonFly.
Jan Lentfer's posted details on how his update of pf is going; it builds, but he's having some issues with that actual filtering. He's on vacation for a short while, but his git repo of that work is available for anyone who wants to look.
Normally I nab a few links from Christian Neukirchen's blog for my Messylaneous link roundups, but his latest entry has more good ones than I can steal comfortably. Go read.