BSDNow 181: The Cantrillogy

This week’s BSDNow has notes about the FOSDEM BSD Devroom, and a triple-shot of Brian Cantrill – all three interviews with him.  If you’ve been watching BSDNow for a very long time, you may have seen one or several of them, but this is one long replay of all the interviews of an opinionated and lively speaker.  (The first interview’s original episode is titled “Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens” for a reason.)

Near-term dports work

Rimvydas Jasinskas posted an extended description of what’s happening with dports.  There’s a significant xorg reformatting coming in ports, which is going to be absorbed into dports, but it may take some time.  There’s also an odd loss of commit rights for John Marino, who commits (frequently!) to both DragonFly and FreeBSD.  (His followup)  This all translates to some upcoming transition time for dports to accommodate these changes.

Note that if you are using dports binaries, especially on DragonFly 4.6 release, this won’t really affect you; the way dports is set up, binary sets always work.  It is interesting to hear about future work, in any case.

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/11

A lot of the real content this week is buried in the comments, strangely.

In Other BSDs for 2017/02/04

Note the end this week of pc98, the most focused of niche platforms.

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/28

Done all at the last minute.

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/21

Accidental theme this week: books.

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/14

This turned into a BSD User Group event list, which makes me happy.  There was nothing like that 3 or 5 or whatever years ago.

 

In Other BSDs for 2017/01/07

There’s always a rush of links after a holiday, as people sit at home and catch up on what they’ve wanted to do.

In Other BSDs for 2016/12/31

Last anything for the year!