You may need to update your $PATH for pkgsrc when moving to 1.4, as the upgrade doesn’t necessarily change it for you. Fresh installs will be fine, however.
UnixReview.com has the “2004-2005 Annual SAGE Salary Survey” available on their site; skim it and look for your salary range.
The first release canidate for 1.4 is available now. A changelist will be available after Christmas Day, with the official release following.
‘Tis the season for new releases, as NetBSD 3.0 is out.
How’s Joerg Sonneberger’s bulk builds of pkgsrc for DragonFly going? It’s like this. The relevant stats for those too impatient to read: 4,269 packages built out of 5,742 (75% success rate).
The BSD Installer is at version 2.0; this is not yet (I think) the version included with DragonFly BSD. The web page isn’t updated yet, but it’s downloadable. Note that the download is just the installer, without an operating system to install.
1.5 is now going to be the Experimental version of DragonFly BSD (or HEAD for people used to FreeBSD); see the commit.
If you have an account on leaf.dragonflybsd.org, the pkgsrc-wip code is available at /archive/NetBSD-pkgsrc/wip or /usr/pkgsrc/wip. (softlink)
pkgsrc-wip, as I understand it – see comments, is the current version of pkgsrc. pkgsrc is normally released with new versions on a quarterly basis; following pkgsrc-wip gets the Work In Progress version. Less stable, more up to date.
As the final changes for the 1.4 release go in, Matthew Dillon describes the release plans as such:
I’ll be rolling the release branch thursday evening and start playing around with version numbers and release tags and such!
The official release will not occur until a day or two after Christmas.
OnLAMP has an interview with Roland Dowdeswell, author of CGD (“Crypto-Graphic Disk”) for NetBSD. CGD is an interesting disk driver that encrypts (and decrypts) disk data.
Joseph Garcia has added a commit history to his DragonFly BSD wiki page. It’s a nice summation of major code changes.
If you’re running the experimental branch of DragonFly code and you (re)built your system in the last 12 hours, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a quick fix for a typo that was present during that time.
Also, Simon has set up bridging between network cards, and posted instructions on how to set it up.
Among other things, UnixReview.com has a review of “Routing TCP/IP, Volume I, Second Edition”, and an interesting article called “Forensic Tools in Court“.
Matthew Dillon has placed the slides from his recent presentation at BayLISA on the DragonFlyBSD website; his post describes some details about the content there.
Going by Jennifer Davis’s comment, video of the event should be on video.google.com in January.
If you’re wondering how Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert made a Mercurial version of the DragonFly source code, check his recent post that links to his script.
Incidentally, browsing to http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/hg/dragonfly-src will give you a list of recent source changes that have been picked up by the Mercurial repo. Even better: it comes as an RSS feed!
Matthew Dillon has posted a description of what remains to be accomplished before the 1.4 release, and just when that will happen, and he also has a detailed plan of what he’s going to do in 1.5. (Which, when stable, will be DragonFly 1.6.)
That second post contains several special things to note:
- 1.5 will be significantly unstable (at least compared to the previous development versions), so stick with 1.4 for a while if you don’t want trouble.
- The introduction of a new acronym that I daresay we will hear more and more often: cache coherency management system (CCMS).
- ZFS! (See Flash demo)
This post from Joerg Sonnenberger notes a couple tricks about getting the most out of your ATA bus.
Matthew Dillon described his schedule for the upcoming 1.4 release, coming before the end of the year.
Sys Admin Magazine has a new CD out that contains all issues of their magazine (1992 through 2005) and all the issues of The Perl Journal (1996-2002). I think I have all the paper issues of the Perl Journal around here someplace…
If you like Perl and miss the Journal, there’s also The Perl Review, which can show up in both print and PDF form. I like the paper, but I can back up the PDF…