UnixReview.com this week has a book review of Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response, and a book review of Book Review: Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution – good for those who got religion.
Linux ’emulation’ packages are present in pkgsrc, same as they are in ports, but the use is slightly different. Joerg Sonnenberger detailed some of the differences in a recent post.
Updated: And check this post too.
This is a test, to ensure I didn’t mangle the database connectivity. Ignore me.
OnLAMP.com/BSD has a new Big Scary Daemons article up about emulation – specifically, Linux emulation on FreeBSD. It should mostly apply to DragonFly.
Jeremy C. Reed has been adding to the PF documentation to cover other operating systems, including DragonFly. He needs another set of eyes to look it over, though.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has put together a Roundup issue tracker and has been collecting issues off the bugs@ mailing list for a while. He says it’s about 5 minutes of work daily to keep things straight, which isn’t bad at all for mailing list integration.
Garance Drosihn wrote up a little summary about the oft-revisited subject of: why isn’t there something easier to build than CVSup?
At Daniel Sturm’s suggestion, I’ve put a link for the DragonFly BSD Frappr group over on the side of the page.
While we’re on the topic of papers, BSDCan 2006 is happening at the University of Ottowa, May 12-13th, and any proposals for a paper are due January 19th.
Joseph Garcia noticed that the newaliases command is apparently not run as part of a new DragonFly 1.4 install.
The USENIX 06 Technical Conference, held May 30th to June 3rd, has a call for papers out – due by the 17th!
UnixReview.com has 4 articles, this week: book reviews of
Write Portable Code,
Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide,
Debugging Expect,
Marcel’s Linux Game of the Month : eboard, a networkable chess game.
Bob Bagwill posted a link to an “unflattering (but not inaccurate)” review of DragonFly BSD 1.4 over at DistroWatch.
I’ve seen a couple sites using WordPress, lately. Anyone have opinons on it vs. Movable Type?
I’m not worried about cost or license – just utility. And a way to eliminate – not stick in a junk folder – all that comment spam!
I was bit by this myself: the weekly tarball of pkgsrc files, for those who plan to install pkgsrc, appears to be broken. Use CVS (instructions on the aforementioned wiki page) to update the files within it.
Joerg Sonnenberger found a slight problem with linking to gettext, which only can happen when building a pkgsrc package from source; binary users are unaffected. Details and a link to a workaround are in his message.
shiningsilence.com moved from ports to pkgsrc, and rebuilding everything took some work – the website was down for a short while while removing/restoring apache, and search/comments have been broken on the site while moving from /usr/local/bin/perl to /usr/pkg/bin/perl. Everything seems OK now…
This lengthy blog post details the use of NTP and time in general on Un*xy systems. (Seen on the #NetBSD Blog via hubertf)
Also seen on #NetBSD Blog: play hack over ssh!