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Something I knew:Â You can set the environment variable PKG_PATH to the URL where binary pkgsrc packages are located, and pkg_add will automatically fetch from there.
Something I didn’t know: you can have multiple sites listed, as Petr Janda explains.
ONLamp.com has a new article up: IPFW, which is one of the several firewalls present in DragonFly and other BSDs.
The Cache Coherency Management System, a fiendish system which will allow crazy things like mapping memory across multiple machines, mentioned before, has been started.
The somewhat perennial discussion of microkernels came up again on kernel@; start at the beginning to read the generally useful conversation.
Another how-to for today: two ways to get Flash working: Handbook method and Wiki method.
According to a recent announcement, the second AsiaBSDCon will be held on March 8-11, 2007, in the University of Tokyo, Japan. Papers are already being solicited.
A question about multiple sound sources playing leads to this solution, which may require manual sound device assignment, though it’s not that bad. Better solutions are possible.
I’ve updated the online version of the Handbook to include the last 2 months of changes. (Available as PDF and text too.)
If there was a mailing list that had regular summaries of the posts on here, would it be useful to you? If so, would you want it daily? Weekly?
Ian R. Stephenson suggested this, and I’ve had more people than I expected agree.
Something I wrote myself: things you can do with a headless computer running DragonFly.
As part of a conversation about headless installation, Bill Hacker describes the old-fashioned way, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert mentioned the ‘Pre-Flight Installer‘, and Matthew Dillon described how he uses rconfig.
The modular version of xorg is predicted to be in pkgsrc in October.
For those needing an explanation: We currently have the ‘monolithic’ version.  The modular form breaks the build of xorg into parts that can be updated separately, and will be the form used for future versions.
It’s nice to see code flowing back and forthe bewteen BSD projects; the latest is OpenBSD taking advantage of the DragonFly acx(4) driver. (Thanks, Undeadly)
Gregory Neil Shapiro has kindly updated sendmail to 8.13.8 (see release notes).
This week on UnixReview: A software review of G2 8.2, a book review of Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, and an article: Certification: Test Your Knowledge of A+ Elective Topics. There’s also some Linux articles which I am so totally ignoring.
dragonflybsd.org is going down 9AM – 1PM PST for power and UPS testing.