These parodies of the “Vista Capable” stickers contain, among other systems, DragonFly BSD.
For some end-of-the-work-week reading: Aggelos Economopoulos posted some of his thoughts on in_pcbs for his planned work on removing the Big Giant Lock from networking.
GameSetPlay has another @Play column, with comparisons of roguelike games to Dungeons and Dragons. If you find this interesting, you may be an old-school geek. Like me.
This week’s BSDTalk has an nearly half-hour interview, from BSDCan 2008, with 7 different members of the FreeBSD Core Team.
I think I already read about this, but it didn’t really sink in until I read this commit message: HAMMER will allow multiple physical devices to be mounted as a single volume. Wait! That’s in the wrong tense: it’s possible now.
The new ‘undo’ utility looks equally interesting, though the name may not stay.
Max Lindner posted a summary of his SoC plans for enhancing dma this summer, and he’s looking for feedback.
Louisa Luciani is looking for more discussion on her LiveDVD project; specifically, what kind of environment to create. She’s already collated previous suggestions on the wiki.
Robert Luciani (yes, they’re related) recently finished a school project evaluating threading on DragonFly; his poster and paper (PDF) are available. Appropriately,he’s working on multiprocessing support.
(typos fixed – thanks, smtms on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
Among other HAMMER work, Matthew Dillon has added a “softprune” option. With this option, historical versions of a HAMMER filesystem can be tracked by maintaining a list of soft links. There’s some sort of joke about ‘regularity’ to make here.
Matthew Dillon’s new statvfs() calls in the kernel require a full build/install process for world and kernel, if you are running bleeding edge code.
James Frazer sent along a new site design for dragonflybsd.org; I’ve got an example of it hosted locally. Mailing list discussion starts here, and of course comments are welcome.
NASPRO, a sound processing framework, recently had a 0.1.0 release – it works ‘out of the box’ on DragonFly.
BSDTalk 151 has Sean Cody of Frantic Films, a visual effects studio spread over the North American continent, who details his use of BSD at home and at the office. They apparently sling about a huge amount of data.
Michael Neumann has volunteered himself for adding USB4BSD into DragonFly after the 2.0 release. (That release is slated for mid-July, by the way.)
Vkernels on leaf.dragonflybsd.org are now able to locally network; if you are a Google Summer of Code student that needs that functionality, tell Matthew Dillon and he will put you in the right group.
In addition, he’s created a new tool called vknetd, which enables network creation in userland. This is intended for userland applications like vkernels, though there seems to be some capability for a SSH-based VPN? Someone correct me – or better yet, try it out.
I have a number of small things, mostly old-school games, to post, so I’ll break out the bullets:
- Temple of the Roguelike has some links to roguelike applets; they need Java.
- Rob Beschizza asks on Boing Boing Gadgets, “Who’d like a portable text game console?” Me? Of course, running a BSD on a handheld (NetBSD is the most obvious choice) will get you that free.
- Parchment, a z-machine implemented in Javascript. You can play many free text games or dig up Infocom games. (via)
- Everyone has Big Kernel Lock troubles – everyone!
- The howling void has a post on “Smartphones for text SSH use” – an interesting idea, and there are some good suggestions interspersed with the bickering in the comments.
- Hubert Feyrer found an interesting thing: DracoPKG – a combination of pkgsrc and Slackware’s pkgtools.
There’s a bounty for fixing up the Linuxulator; bringing it up to match FreeBSD-current’s state will net you €250. If you want to contribute to the bounty, write your sum into the page. If you want to do the update, volunteer. (There’s already one interested person.)
A recent commit by Michael Neumann makes qemu work, and also the “HP Compaq” (They’re using both names now?) laptop model 6710b. This apparently was a USB issue.
As Dru Lavigne reports, the May issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, focusing on “Enterprise Readness”. I found the article on the need for project management in open source very interesting.
DragonFly hasn’t worked under VirtualBox for a long time. Several people found a cause, though not the reason for it – yet.
This question at the howling void about donating to open source projects (in this case, DesktopBSD) got me thinking. I’ve been meaning to investigate setting up a DragonFly nonprofit similar to FreeBSD and NetBSD‘s foundation efforts, in order to receive donations and have a legal entity. Anyone have experience with setting up a 501(c)3 company?