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.
Samuel J. Greear started a new topic on kernel@: what Revision Control System should DragonFly move to, based on needs. This is a subject that can lead to lots of bikeshedding, but it has stayed pretty calm so far.
Also, ideas from me: packaging pkgsrc into releases, and zipping the release ISO.
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.
The 2008Q2 pkgsrc bulk build pn pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org has been redone; it should flow out to the mirrors normally.
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.
GPT partitioning is now supported, though Matthew Dillon’s post about it warns that it is very experimental. He also lists some interesting potential projects to go with it.
Matthew Dillon’s committed some initial support for streaming mirroring. With this, two disks can be synchronized over a network link of any speed or reliability – it can be restarted and immediately begin where it left off, and the amount of bandwidth used can be controlled. This sounds neat.
Upgrading WordPress to 2.6 yesterday broke the direct links to articles on the Digest. It’ll be updated in the 2.6.1 release of WordPress, but until then I’ve changed the links to correct for the issue.
I really like pkgsrc. It’s a big system that works well for managing a huge variety of software packages, across multiple platforms, and it’s been beneficial to DragonFly for making a lot of programs instantly accessible.
The issue nobody’s fixed – yet – is that there are plenty of ways to upgrade, some of which don’t work (make update), or involved homegrown solutions that miss the goal most people have: the ability to say simply “Upgrade this” and have it work. This is why programs with the same functionality but simpler usage become popular.
(Prompted by a number of recent “How do I upgrade pkgsrc?” questions on DragonFly and pkgsrc mailing lists.)
Gergo Szakal noticed that there is now ath9k, an official open source driver for Atheros 802.11n wireless chipsets. (‘Sunnz’ pointed out it’s still not as open as people would like.)Â There is an existing community-built ath(4) driver.
Edit: Gergo Szakal pointed out ath(4) is 802.11b/g and ath9k is 802.11n, so it’s not a direct overlap. Thanks, Gergo.
Sepherosa Ziehau’s committed his ETHER_INPUT2 networking upgrades, which moves networking a bit closer to getting out from under the Giant Lock.
Damian Vicino is presenting a 40-minute talk on Hammer at the “Jornada Regional de Software Libre” in Argentina, August 20-22.