Alexander ‘alxl’ Lobachov has set up a cvsync server on alxl.info.
Matthew Dillon pointed out that the recent TLS work will make for much less complex code, and also means that GCC 2.95 will finally be retired from the DragonFly system.
UnixReview.com has some new articles up: A review of Visual SlickEdit, a description of the USENIX @ 30 event, and an ongoing look at Server+ certification.
Adrian Nida noted that he has updated his pkgsrc HOWTO located on the DragonFly Wiki.
If you’re following the EXPERIMENTAL branch right now, there’s a lot of breakage going on because of the library upgrades, which will break some/many applications until they are recompiled. Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has put up a recompiled version of cvsup that works with EXPERIMENTAL at this point in time.
If you’re running anything else other than EXPERIMENTAL, you don’t need this.
UnixReview.com has an article up on using telnet to test network services; if you aren’t nodding your head in recognition of what this is, you should read the article. It’s a basic and useful tool.
Steve O’Hara-Smith found that running the Knoppix CD left his network card in a wierd state and unable to pass traffic. He had to physically remove power from his machine before DragonFly (or FreeBSD) could use the card again.
A minor point that came up during conversation on user@: DragonFly releases do not slowly move into new versions, as STABLE does on FreeBSD; 1.2 will always remain 1.2.x, while the next stable version (1.4) will be built from the new code that’s in 1.3 right now.
I’ve seen links in a few places for PC-BSD, which is a flavor (dare I say distribution?) of FreeBSD 5.3 with a nice installer.
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.
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”
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.