Category: Goings-on

Jeremy C. Reed, of BSDNewsletter fame, sent along news of the first survey from the BSD Certification Group. The survey is to “determine what kinds of tasks are performed by BSD system administrators in their day-to-day duties. Also of interest is the importance of each of these tasks as well as the level of skill required for each.” Read the announcement, and then take the survey.

Also, seen on BSDNewsletter.com, there is a ZDNet interview with Dru Lavigne, one of the folks working in the BSD Certification Group, and also a BSD author.

The FreeBSD Status report for this year so far has been published. Several of the projects overlap with DragonFly, notably David Xu’s libthread.

PCVT, which may already be broken, is being removed.

Now on UnixReview.com: IPv4 to IPv6 migration, and a Nameko webmail review.

BSDCan is having Work In Progress presentations – 5 minutes or less on a given topic; sort of a “lightning talk”. I can’t find an online copy of the email announcing this, so I’ll paste in the body of what Dan Langille wrote:
Continue reading “BSDCan WIP sessions”

There’s now German and Swedish versions of the FAQ, too.

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has created pages on the wiki for Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, and Norwegian translations of the FAQ. If you are familiar with these languages, please help. The Norwegian and Dutch FAQs are already partially translated.

Since there’s not much else in the way of news today, I’ll point at the gobsd.com blog section, which mentions, among other things, Todd Willey’s recent work on getting KDE in pkgsrc working, and Eirik (Nygaard?) mentioning that he has TenDRA compiling.

A new French translation of the FAQ is up on the wiki.

Adrian Nida has put together a nice HOWTO for pkgsrc on the wiki.

Guillermo Garcia Rojas translated the DragonFly FAQ to Spanish; it’s now in print, in the Spanish magazine “Linux Free Magazine“, issue 9.

The BSDnewsletter store has a T-Shirt with the BSD license on it. Supergeeky, but fun.

If you’re trying to boot DragonFly on a serial-only machine like a Soekris 4801, you may have some troubles with serial output. However, there is a possible fix.

I’ve added the Adobe Illustrator and (encapsulated) PostScript versions of the official DragonFly logo to the wiki. The art is originally by Joe Angerson.

Jonas Sundstrom pointed at a open source NVIDIA driver that supports 3D, and currently runs on BeOS. Could it work under X? Maybe, with a pile of work.

Emiel Kollof warns that the newest binary driver from NVIDIA is now FreeBSD-5 specific, and so does not yet work on DragonFly. If you’ve got a working driver now, don’t upgrade.

UnixReview.com has 2 new book reviews available: one on “Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators” and one on “Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages“.

If you’re going to USENIX this week, tell Matthew Dillon. If time permits, he’ll be setting up a DragonFly BoF session, in addition to presenting a paper in Kirk McKusick’s session.

Brad Harvell posted a link to a torrent for the 1.2 DragonFly release.

NetBSD’s first quarter report is out. Some of it’s already been linked here.