Noah Yan has committed more of his AMD64 work to DragonFly; check the README for details on how to experiment with it.
Hubert Feyrer has done a very nice job of collating all the online material from the various presentations, with data from Axel Gruner, that happened at EuroBSDCon 2007.
I recently completed a bulk build of pkgsrc using Joerg Sonnenberger’s pbulk tool; there has been discussion of using these packages as part of a mirroring system (poke around the thread for more.)
OpenBSD Journal has an interesting article up that talks about the life cycle of a bug, as seen by an OpenBSD user. I call it interesting because it gives a good summary of a bug-squishing process from a ‘user’ perspective.
The freeze period (where only bugfixes are committed) for the next quarterly release of pkgsrc starts tomorrow. Interestingly, this next quarter’s release marks 10 years of pkgsrc.
Strange as it is to use the words “C compiler” and “excitement” in the same sentence, there’s been a lot of excitement about PCC, the Portable C Compiler, as a faster replacement for GCC. (Previous story here)
There’s a web page for it, and a mailing list, though no mail archive I can find associated with it archived at MARC. (Thanks, Anonymous). The web page has a link to an old PostScript document detailing the original PCC design – there’s something about old Unix manuals from Bell Labs that makes them fun to read.
And of course, there’s always the inevitable Wikipedia page.
In BSDTalk 129, Will Backman talks to Dru Lavigne about BSD Certification and her new job at The Open Source Business Resource.
Matthew Dillon, as part of a larger discussion, chimed in with some sensible descriptions of licensing and how it applies to the recent OpenBSD/Linux kerfuffle.
Hasso Tepper added a whole pile of uftdi(4) drivers. Why? Apparently it’s cheaper to buy from FTDI than it is to buy a vendor ID from usb.org.
Noah Yan posted how to apply his recent patch for building an AMD64 kernel. Be warned; it does not create a full usable system – yet.
There’s an effort to make the ‘official’ pkgsrc logo happen; previous discussion was described here. It looks like the simple version is the candidate; there’s a fun, alternate version that unfortunately won’t reproduce well.
pcc has been added to NetBSD (via pkgsrc) and OpenBSD, and Steve Mynott has been messing with it on DragonFly. It doesn’t work as a replacement for GCC, but it looks promising. There are other alternatives in progress, too.
This week, BSDTalk talks about sysjail, the Open/NetBSD version of FreeBSD ‘jail’, with Michael Dexter. (Yes, I realize that’s an oversimplification.)
Sepherosa Ziehau has a patch that makes it possible to assign polling(4) to specific CPUs.
Update: There’s a new version of that patch.
If enabling ACPI means that some of the devices attached to your computer can’t be found, YONETANI Tomokazu has a patch that may fix it.
Sascha Wildner has added two new man pages: kernconf(5), for explaining kernel options, and firmware(9), for the process of loading firmware images into the kernel.
Chris Turner is also a new DragonFly developer with commit access. Welcome, Chris.
Hasso Tepper has a patch that appears to fix net-snmp; it can be downloaded for someone who needs SNMP now, and it should hopefully be integrated into pkgsrc soon.
DragonFly’s newest developer with commit access: Noah Yan, already known to be working on the AMD64 version of DragonFly. Welcome, Noah.
Hasso Tepper has brought in extensive changes to agp(4), from FreeBSD. For a full list of the many new supported devices, puzzle through the man page diff.