Author: Justin Sherrill

Joerg Anslik has written a very complete bit of documentation on getting a Quake 3 Arena server running under DragonFly; it’s available on the Wiki.

Matthew Dillon posted a warning that the final ABI changes would go in this weekend, and that Preview would soon be bumped to match the bleeding-edge HEAD. That means everything on non-Release systems will have to be rebuilt – pkgsrc/port packages, too.

Scott Robbins mailed in a link to his page, which contains some DragonFly notes, and a much more up-to-date install guide than what’s in the current Handbook.

Jeremy C. Reed has started a bulk build of pkgsrc packages for DragonFly; so far, he has 907 built of 5,523. He’ll have a full report when it completes.

Matthew Dillon explained why his journaling system will be more like a transactional database. (He should know; he wrote one)

UnixReview.com has a review of “Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks“, an article about regular expressions titled “Don’t Fear Reliability“, and a review of the podcasting application jPodder, which may work on DragonFly

Matthew Dillon described some of the possibilities and hurdles for his journaling code.

Jeremy C. Reed announced a new roadmap (.pdf) for the planned BSD certification process at BSDCertification.org.

Do you have an ARECA based RAID/SATA card? Hiten Pandya needs guinea pigs

Joseph Garcia proposed a new format to ifconfig.

There’s several new programs to try out. First, “walt” mentioned his ‘rlc’ program, which can be used to randomize background colors in new xterms. Joerg Anslik ported over the recently released Quake 3 Arena server, and Jeremy C. Reed posted (untested) patches for postgresql 8 in pkgsrc,

Todd Willey posted a fix for compiling gdm in pkgsrc. gdm is necessary for using Gnome.

If you’re having trouble with Netgraph, Hiten Pandya has a temporary fix until he gets to work on it again.

Seen on BSDNews: Maik Ehinger has written (partial) support for the Accelerometer on IBM laptops. Well, really Lenovo laptops, nowadays.

There’s a Linux module that does similar work, with an interesting story on the work.

Sascha Wildner added a feature: if you set the sysctl machdep.enable_panic_key to 1, CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-ESC will panic the machine, no matter which keymap you have.

I hadn’t noticed these two pages on the wiki, but Jeremy Messenger posted a link to DragonFly Status and Network Stack Status.

There’s a new Big Scary Daemons article up at ONLamp.com/BSD: Monitoring Network Traffic with Netflow, which is, oddly enough, a topic I had to deal with at work recently.

Seen a number of places: the NYCBSDCON is coming in almost exactly a month. If you can’t guess from the acronym, it’s a BSD-themed convention in New York City – specifically, at Columbia University. There’s some interesting speakers, too!