UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Database in Depth“.
Matthew Dillon wrote a small entry on how he goes about merging important fixes back into the Release version of DragonFly.
There’s a petition on bsdnexus.comto bring Codeweavers’ Crossover Office to BSD (meaning FreeBSD, probably).
Update: I’ve traded a few emails with Frank Jahnke, the man behind this work, and I take back every unoptimistic thing I’ve ever said about it.
Matthew Dillon, while looking at a locking problem on chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de, happened to explain a bit about SPECFS and the trouble it causes.
Matthew Dillon posted that the last (major) ABI changes are done, and Preview has been updated. If you’re running Preview, now is a good time to update. However, you’ll have to rebuild everything, as he describes.
Joerg Anslik has written a very complete bit of documentation on getting a Quake 3 Arena server running under DragonFly; it’s available on the Wiki.
Matthew Dillon posted a warning that the final ABI changes would go in this weekend, and that Preview would soon be bumped to match the bleeding-edge HEAD. That means everything on non-Release systems will have to be rebuilt – pkgsrc/port packages, too.
Jeremy C. Reed has started a bulk build of pkgsrc packages for DragonFly; so far, he has 907 built of 5,523. He’ll have a full report when it completes.
Matthew Dillon explained why his journaling system will be more like a transactional database. (He should know; he wrote one)
UnixReview.com has a review of “Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks“, an article about regular expressions titled “Don’t Fear Reliability“, and a review of the podcasting application jPodder, which may work on DragonFly
Matthew Dillon described some of the possibilities and hurdles for his journaling code.
Jeremy C. Reed announced a new roadmap (.pdf) for the planned BSD certification process at BSDCertification.org.
Do you have an ARECA based RAID/SATA card? Hiten Pandya needs guinea pigs
Joseph Garcia proposed a new format to ifconfig.
There’s several new programs to try out. First, “walt” mentioned his ‘rlc’ program, which can be used to randomize background colors in new xterms. Joerg Anslik ported over the recently released Quake 3 Arena server, and Jeremy C. Reed posted (untested) patches for postgresql 8 in pkgsrc,
Todd Willey posted a fix for compiling gdm in pkgsrc. gdm is necessary for using Gnome.
If you’re having trouble with Netgraph, Hiten Pandya has a temporary fix until he gets to work on it again.
Seen on BSDNews: Maik Ehinger has written (partial) support for the Accelerometer on IBM laptops. Well, really Lenovo laptops, nowadays.
There’s a Linux module that does similar work, with an interesting story on the work.
Sascha Wildner added a feature: if you set the sysctl machdep.enable_panic_key to 1, CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-ESC will panic the machine, no matter which keymap you have.