Keyboard issue fixed!

Matthew Dillon, with the assistence of many, has tracked down the keyboard connection loss issue that was plaguing a number of people.

If you are one of those people, update, check /usr/src/sys/dev/misc/kbd/kbd.c to make sure it’s version 1.14, and rebuild.

Read legalese for fun

It’s a slow news day, so take the time to read the full text of the USL settlement text, over at GrokLaw.

For those not versed in arcane history, BSD is a product of the code that Berkeley produced from early access to AT&T’s Unix source code. Lawsuits ensued, almost two decades ago, but were all settled – this is why SCO has not been able to sue any BSD-using company, even though BSD is a more “direct descendant” of the original UNIX than Linux.

Why Buy Opteron?

Not directly DragonFly related, but I recently read this article in print form, which talks about server motherboard architecture with the new amd64 chips. A number of people running DragonFly have reported excellent results using them, even though DragonFly is not yet 64-bit.