It starts with trying to install BSD, and goes downhill from there. (Check the image properties for more of the joke.)
This AP news story seen in several places describes how the BSA has been vigorously obtaining money in and out of court for pirated software, and it appears to be procuring more money than the actual value of the pirated software. … Another good reason to use open source, which the article touches on, by the end.
If you have a laptop with bleeding-edge DragonFly and an ExpressCard slot, please test it out, as Sepherosa Ziehau has made them supportable.
I like super-small computers as much as anyone, and I’ve been watching for the new Asus Eee PC. It uses Linux, though there’s been issues with it conforming with the GPL license.  You know, if the device only ran a BSD, there wouldn’t be these licensing problems… (BSD link via hubertf)
Aggelos Economopoulos has submitted a series of patches to bring pmctools into DragonFly; PMC stands for “Performance Measurement Counters”. Give them a whirl, as positive or negative feedback will get him to continue work.
The Open Source Business Resource’s latest issue is up in both PDF and HTML formats, with this issue focusing on support available for open source software. (Via)
Matthew Dillon has changed the random IP sequence number generation in DragonFly to use the system generator. This issue comes from a review of the old randomizer algorithm by Amit Klein, who has worked on some similar issues. No idea how this affects other BSDs…
Dru Lavigne brings news of a BSD-focused print magazine to be published by next summer.  She includes writing guidelines – this is a good chance to get published! (Via, Via)
Matthew Dillon is continuing his HAMMER work, with this and many other subsequent commits in the past while. Check the archive for more discussion.
Sepherosa Ziehau has committed the rest of his work separating dummynet from ipfw and making it run on a per-CPU basis. This means that, with some additional work, dummynet could be used with pf, for instance.
Sepherosa Ziehau has committed the first half of his work making dummynet(4) work per-CPU; his latest commit has a handy description and bonus ASCII art.
Matthew Dillon described the state of his distributed filesystem, saying a simple version should be up and runnable by next week, with actual clusters (meaning multiple disk blocks, not separate systems) supported some time after.
Also, the next regular 6-month release (2.0!) will probably be pushed out a little to mid-January 2008, so the release isn’t happening at the same time as everyone’s holiday plans.
Nuno Antunes has posted his latest version of a netgraph upgrade; he’s looking for feedback and ideas. Interestingly, he included a virtual kernel config so his changes can be tested without interfering with normal system operation.
Simonm ‘corecode’ Schubert has slipped the Preview tag; those of you running 1.11-preview can update and get all recent changes.
Alexander Orlov has written a wiki page on kernel module development. Please contribute if you’ve been through the same process.
After a short hiatus, BSDTalk is back with an interview of Joerg Sonnenberger, a developer for DragonFly and pkgsrc, etc., etc. (Add to that list if you’re reading, Joerg).
The source code to MULTICS, the ‘predecessor’ on which the UNIX named is based, has been released.  (From here via hubertf) If you are unfamiliar with the term, a short history is available.
Results from the bulk builds of pkgsrc are now available at http://pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org/package-reports/. There’s several reports in there already, for anyone who wants to see what isn’t working. (hint: net-snmp.)
Ulrich Habel put together a script to digest emailed pkgsrc bulk build reports. You can see the output at his site.