Author: Justin Sherrill

Matthew Dillon has posted an update for the 9th on the state of Hammer.  The next big question: should the Hammer code for porter be stored in Subversion or Git?

Also: Nothing earth shattering, but this post on users@ has some details on Hammer usage and how it works with large files and with backups in general.

Antonio Huete Jimenez has created a DragonFly Facebook group; join up, if you’re a Facebook user.

(Update: fixed the accidentally Anglicized name – sorry!)

Louisa Luciani has put up a website for her Google Summer of Code LiveDVD project. (Work history is also available.)

Caveat: I don’t know if it’s done yet, as the work period for GSoC projects is not quite over.

Today is one of those dates that’s fun to type. Anyway!

• KernelTrap has a summarization of the recent Tux3/Hammer discussion between Matthew Dillon and Daniel Phillips. Read for the summary, stay for the mind-boggling filesystem design detail.
• Philip Paeps has a note on his blog on how to use one-time passwords, good for when you are traveling and know you won’t be connecting from secure locations. He does it on FreeBSD, but it works on DragonFly too.  (update: site seems to be down.  Darn.  Look at opiepasswd(1) in the meantime.)
• This article titled “Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)” talks about how people generally don’t mind copying; what makes them mad is attribution. e.g. Someone copying your works doesn’t bother people unless the copier claims the work is his or her own. This is not an unfamiliar concept, folks. (via)

There’s something there being updated, though it just has the old icon and what looks like a default PHPNuke-ish interface.  Hopefully some authorial voice will arise.

As part of a larger discussion about PXE booting, Pedro F. Giffuni pointed at a Google Summer of Code project for FreeBSD, titled “http support for PXE“.  This would be very convenient.

Matthew Dillon’s latest Hammer update, among other things, brings news of a Hammer mailing list specifically for people working on porting Hammer to other systems.

Matthew Dillon is planning for the most recent minor bugfixes for Hammer to go in Wednesday; they will also be merged to the 2.0 branch.

With all these updates going in, a 2.0.1 release, sometime soon, appears likely.

These linkdumps are really kind of fun to do:

• Star Trek, the console game, from BASIC to C#.  I knew the game was old, but not that it originated from 1971.  A version is on your system right now, probably.  (via)
• This week’s @Play column talks about modeling player motion in roguelike games.
• Hopefully, this report (among others) makes me sound a little less crazy when I say “You should be able to choose what software you can use, on hardware you own.” is one of the reasons for open source.

I have a tentative potential layout for dragonflybsd.org.  As stated in my mail about it, I want opinions: comments plz!

Mayur Bhosle has updated his wiki page with the latest details on his Proportional Scheduler for Summer of Code.

As mentioned previously, Matthew Dillon and Daniel Phillips have been having a public conversation about filesystem work; it’s complex stuff, but interesting material.  The most recent conversation is about atomic commits.