OpenOffice, which has been around for 5 years now, just released version 2.0. Wow, the web site is pretty.
OnLamp.com has an interview up now of some OpenBSD developers, talking about the about-to-be-released OpenBSD version 3.8.
drhodus’s blog on GoBSD.com mentions a strange panic found on DragonFly and FreeBSD systems that has so far been unsolvable.
For those of you using PF, there’s a tutorial by Peter Hansteen (OpenBSD-centric, but still applies) that was recently updated. (thanks, BSDForums)
UnixReview.com has a review of a game for learning music, called GNU Solfege. The rest of the articles for the week are all Linuxy.
Adrian Nida’s recent installation troubles have spawned a longer thread that talks about the various issues – a good read about fdisk issues and why source isn’t included with the install CD.
OnLAMP.com has an article up about “Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd“. thttpd, if you didn’t know, is found at the fabulously-named acme.com
Joerg Sonneberger has an untested driver for anyone using a Ralink RT2500/RT2500USB wireless adapter, supported in other BSDs.
A new document explaining the various CVS tags has been placed on the wiki by Adrian Nida.
Liam J. Foy put together a list of BSD-related RSS feeds; you can read them all on his site.
Jonathon McKitrick asked about obfuscating assembly code, which seems like a redundancy. In any case, the thread let to some discussion of interesting tricks, and also George Georgalis posting links to “How To Write Unmaintainable Code“, and a special obfustication section.
Matthew Dillon’s working on getting his dual-core Shuttle systems working with DragonFly, with some issues.
UnixReview.com this week has 3 book reviews: Perl Best Practices, File System Forensic Analysis, and Open Source for the Enterprise. There’s also a review of the game Pingus, which is a clone of the old game Lemmings.
OnLAMP/BSD has two new articles: “Running Cyrus IMAP” (using FreeBSD as an example, but the model holds), and an extensive article on Identifying Changes to a Macintosh File System. Why show that on a BSD site? Cause it’s BSD!
If you are trying out pkgsrc now, Jeremy C. Reed recommends using the version that is in CVS, not the quarterly releases (of which 2005Q3 is the most recent). Yes, it’s bleeding edge, but so is your operating system.
bsdcertification.org has made available the objectives for the “BSD Associate” certification exam. The exam itself will be out in the second quarter of 2006.
Martin P. Hellwig has a not uncommon problem with his mail server: he’s transitioning from one provider to another, and he wants to get the new network connection working before he drops the old one. Matthew Dillon has a solution with ipfw that will last until we are able to establish multiple default routes under DragonFly.
Updated: Martin took notes on how he got it to work.
If you have a server with a Broadcom chipset (em driver) – specifically, models 82571EB, 82572EI and 82573E – Sepherosa Ziehau has a patch he’d like folks to try.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert wrote up his own description of DragonFly’s rather loosely-defined release schedule.