Matthew Dillon, upon finding there wasn’t a way to queue traffic ‘fairly’ with pf/altq, wrote a ‘fair queue’ patch. Give it a try if you are using pf on DragonFly as a router.
Cristi Magherusan has contributed a patch (which was quickly committed) adding est(4) support for the Core 2 Duo T7500 CPU.
Matthew Dillon asks, “How can pf be used to create a fair-queue algorithm similar to Cisco’s?” Answer if you know it; there’s been a few guesses.
The newest BSDTalk has an interview with Adam Wright of No Starch Press, who published among other things the excellent “Absolute FreeBSD” and a lot of books about Legos.
dragonflybsd.org is on a DSL line temporarily as the network connection is shifted; however, there’s a colocated server being added soon, and pkgbox has been upgraded to newer hardware.
pkgsrc.se, which has always been a nice way to browse through available pkgsrc and pkgsrc-wip applications, is working on a new test site. Details on the changes are listed in Hubert Feyrer’s post that first alerted me to this change.
Jeff Blank has a patch for people using both Postfix and IPv6 on DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon has turned net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on by default, due in part to problems seen during the most recent pkgsrc bulk build I’ve been doing on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org.
Student proposals for the Google Summer of Code are now due on April 7th, instead of today. This means more time to refine proposals, or create a new one. Get to it! We have 28 applications at this point.
And look: Google’s newest product to launch on April 1st: Google Gulp.
Abstracts for paper presentations at EuroBSDCon 2008 are due June 1st. The EuroBSDCon site doesn’t have the Call For Papers on it, so I’ll link to the mail.
I like this note from the family page: “Derivative work such as Gentoo are considered welcome though their creativity is restrictively licensed.” (Emphasis added)
Matthew Dillon reports that HAMMER is running well enough to have survived a week holding backups on his local LAN; he asks for more testers.
The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out. There’s a timely article in there where Murraay Stokely describes the benefits for FreeBSD that came from Summer of Code participation. (via Dru Lavigne)
(remember, student apps are due by Monday!)Â
Sepherosa Ziehau has added a packet generator to DragonFly that can apparently pump out a lot of data.
Two minor changes: Matthew Dillon has brought in updates for disk support (NATA) from FreeBSD, and Sascha Wildner has updated the timezone database. I never realized timezone information fluctuated so much.
Dave Hayes has committed changes that allow the local version of the installer (i.e. the one in CVS) to be used when building a release CD.
Matthew Dillon posted another HAMMER filesystem update. In this one, he goes into the current state and talks about a bit of what’s planned for this filesystem (boot support – yay!). He later went into details of historical filesystem access and snapshot usage.
An interesting point from a recent commit: a HAMMER filesystem is stable enough to use as /usr/obj during a buildworld.
We are in the student signup period for Google Summer of Code projects on DragonFly. I have a link roundup for both students and mentors – check it if you have not yet signed up or want to propose a project.
The upstream network provider for dragonflybsd.org is going through some changes, so there may be occasional downtime for some weeks.
This was mentioned before, but now it’s official: ipw(4) is gone, superseded by iwl(4).
Despite the logarithmic expansion of computers and drop in costs of the years, everyone looks back on their first computer systems with a sense of nostalgia. This is why certain readers will find the Raymond Commodore Amiga store in Minneapolis interesting. You should be able to gues their exclusive inventory from the store name. It’s so old-school, the website is a ~username directory. (via Boing Boing Gadgets)