Csaba Henk wrote up a detailed explanation of his patch for cache coherency; it’s a good, highly technical read on the various issues involved.
informit.com has the typical BSD overview article: BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family. (Seen on hubertf’s site) Shadow Development has an article about FreeBSD as a desktop; topical after this previously-linked DragonFly review. There’s some interesting material about the Intel Macs on there, too. (From BSDnewsletter.com, via Liam Foy’s BSD Portal.
Also: this is the 1,501st post on this blog! I am curious to see how this volume stacks up to the other BSD sites out there…
I’m adding DragonFly BSD Digest JP over to the links – a site that does what I do here, but in Japanese.
There’s a harsh but accurate review of the DragonFly 1.4 release up now on OSNews.
Matthew Dillon has posted his second parallel routing patch; there’s still some issues, listed in his post along with a link to the patch.
A bit unusual, but here’s a pkgsrc “wallpaper“, courtesy of Hubert Feyrer
mod_php, in pkgsrc, is the package ap-php. If you install the binary version, Apache 1.3 is the dependency it tries to load. This can be a problem if you are alreay running Apache 2.
The ap-php package works with Apache 2 – it has to be built from source, however. Joerg Sonnenberger has more details.
There’s an ongoing debate about this on the pkgsrc tech-pkg list, too.
Matthew Dillon’s posted the first patch for parallelizing the route table. People who don’t mind mangling their network connection are encouraged to give it a try.
UnixReview.com this week has a book review of Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response, and a book review of Book Review: Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution – good for those who got religion.
Linux ’emulation’ packages are present in pkgsrc, same as they are in ports, but the use is slightly different. Joerg Sonnenberger detailed some of the differences in a recent post.
Updated: And check this post too.
OnLAMP.com/BSD has a new Big Scary Daemons article up about emulation – specifically, Linux emulation on FreeBSD. It should mostly apply to DragonFly.
Jeremy C. Reed has been adding to the PF documentation to cover other operating systems, including DragonFly. He needs another set of eyes to look it over, though.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has put together a Roundup issue tracker and has been collecting issues off the bugs@ mailing list for a while. He says it’s about 5 minutes of work daily to keep things straight, which isn’t bad at all for mailing list integration.
Garance Drosihn wrote up a little summary about the oft-revisited subject of: why isn’t there something easier to build than CVSup?
At Daniel Sturm’s suggestion, I’ve put a link for the DragonFly BSD Frappr group over on the side of the page.
While we’re on the topic of papers, BSDCan 2006 is happening at the University of Ottowa, May 12-13th, and any proposals for a paper are due January 19th.
Joseph Garcia noticed that the newaliases command is apparently not run as part of a new DragonFly 1.4 install.
The USENIX 06 Technical Conference, held May 30th to June 3rd, has a call for papers out – due by the 17th!
UnixReview.com has 4 articles, this week: book reviews of
Write Portable Code,
Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide,
Debugging Expect,
Marcel’s Linux Game of the Month : eboard, a networkable chess game.