Sometimes, people can just read things wrong. However, hilarity ensues.
Gergo Szakal managed to get a DragonFly system running as a filtering bridge using PF; his writeup on how he did it can be found on the wiki.
Much thanks is due Jason Watson, who donated a new server to Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert. This new, more powerful server is bugs.dragonflybsd.org, builds the snapshot ISOs, and is one of the mirrors for DragonFly releases.
Simon added “if you have spare/old hardware which you will throw away anyways, don’t hesitate to ask if somebody can use it for dragonfly.”
Daniel Hartmeier recently posted several chapters from a now-canceled book that describe using and managing PF, on undeadly.org. These should also generally apply to DragonFly’s version of PF.
If you are running DragonFly as the only operating system on your computer, there’s not much point to having a boot menu installed. If you want to speed up booting, my first guess at how to get rid of it works, plus Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert describes how to back it up.
Massimiliano Stucchi announced that registration for EuroBSDCon 2006 is now open.
Jeremy C. Reed is looking for someone from a user perspective who has been using pkgsrc and had experience with the old dfports system. This is apparently for an article.
Unless it’s with a very old Linux binary, you no longer need to use brandelf(1) to run Linix binaries; you just need pkgsrc: emulators/suse100_base and a symlink.
Pulled from many other conversations: a number of tips on how to burn CDs with cdrdao, save your shell command history, and estimate how much contention is caused by locking on a multiprocessor system.
A question about saving dumps from a crash led to some explanations of the process.
The 2006Q3 pkgsrc release is coming up, and Joerg Sonnenberger has built a good number of the binary packages for DragonFly using that release. Please test and report issues.
As part of a larger discussion on users@, I wondered what can be done to reduce power usage. There’s different options available, but it doesn’t matter much unless you have multiple servers.
The tersely named chsh command is what changes a user’s shell: Gergo Szakal has the best description of several on how to use it.
BSDCertification.org has the results of their “Test Delivery Survey” available as a PDF. It “summarizes the results from a recent survey of potential testing candidates to determine their geographic locations, the price they are willing to pay to take an examination, and their thoughts on various methods for delivering IT certification exams.”
It’s mind-bogglingly complete like many of their reports, though I question the idea of surveying to see what price people will want – the only price anyone can agree on is ‘free’; nobody volunteers to pay more money, no matter how realistic the price.
Welcome to the newest committer: Victor Balada Diaz.
OnLAMP.com has a 3-page interview of Charles M. Hannum, recently known for describing NetBSD as ‘stagnant‘.  DragonFly gets a slight mention.
A conversation about NFs led Matthw Dillon to give a short description of locking under NFS for most any operating system: generally broken. DragonFly clusters ought to, in contrast, work.
After making some adjustments, Matthew Dillon created a new test program for his virtual memory page tables.
Are you a DragonFly user who can give a talk at NYCBSDCon, October 28th-29th? If so, contact Matthew Dillon.
As Oliver Fromme found, bsdstats.org has a script that reports on BSD usage. It’s easy enough to run on your own, though it could be added to the base DragonFly system. (which would no doubt affect the per-flavor BSD scores on the site.)