Author: Justin Sherrill

Dru Lavigne has a new article on OnLAMP.com describing how to fine-tune your firewall, assuming your firewall is IPFW.

Markus Schatzl happened to (re)post a link to a DragonFly installation guide he wrote that includes mention of the Smart Bootmanager, which can allow booting from the DragonFly install CD even on systems that don’t allow for CD booting.  I may have posted this before, but it’s worth repeating.

There’s a new version (4.0) of the BSDStats program out.  Hubert Feyrer has recently suggested some changes on his blog, which should make it into the next version.  Those changes may or may not apply to DragonFly, since there’s several elements of DragonFly that originated with NetBSD.

Sometimes, people can just read things wrong.  However, hilarity ensues.

Gergo Szakal managed to get a DragonFly system running as a filtering bridge using PF; his writeup on how he did it can be found on the wiki.

Much thanks is due Jason Watson, who donated a new server to Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert. This new, more powerful server is bugs.dragonflybsd.org, builds the snapshot ISOs, and is one of the mirrors for DragonFly releases.

Simon added “if you have spare/old hardware which you will throw away anyways, don’t hesitate to ask if somebody can use it for dragonfly.”

Daniel Hartmeier recently posted several chapters from a now-canceled book that describe using and managing PF, on undeadly.org. These should also generally apply to DragonFly’s version of PF.

If you are running DragonFly as the only operating system on your computer, there’s not much point to having a boot menu installed.  If you want to speed up booting, my first guess at how to get rid of it works, plus Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert describes how to back it up.

Massimiliano Stucchi announced that registration for EuroBSDCon 2006 is now open.

Jeremy C. Reed is looking for someone from a user perspective who has been using pkgsrc  and had experience with the old dfports system.  This is apparently for an article.