Unixreview.com has two new article that may be of some use: Regular Expressions: Resource Management and Understanding the Command Line (with Perl).
Eduardo Tongson’s DragonFly Presentation (134K pdf) has been updated.
This small post about hyperthreading led off to a much larger and informative discussion about Intel vs. AMD CPU architectures and hyperthreading vs. multicore CPUs. (Summation so far: AMD and multicore are the better of the set.)
Dru Lavigne’s FreeBSD Basics column on ONLamp.com has a “Tips and Tricks” entry up, most of which can apply to DragonFly.
In a discussion about backporting to FreeBSD, Matthew Dillon weighed in, describing the troubles he’s seen with porting DragonFly improvements to FreeBSD.
Eduardo Tongson put together an informational presentation (PDF) on DragonFly, for which Matthew Dillon had some comments.
Is a boot from a 64M USB key possible? Maybe.
Simon Schubert is the newest committer.
Martin Hellwig created another DragonFly logo idea with some symbolism.
Robert Nagy submitted patches to include ‘sudo‘in the base system for DragonFly. Reaction is generally positive. The reason I’m posting this is to point out that there are no criterion for what can be in the base system – what would you like to see?
GoBSD.com has the second preview release of GoBSD. GoBSD, for those who don’t know, is built from DragonFly and includes pkgsrc for software management.
ONLamp/BSD has posted the January BSD news roundup from Sam Smith.
If you’ve been feeling an urge to submit patches to DragonFly, and don’t know when to start, Max Okumoto did a small writeup on how to get started (with followup).
Note that submitting documentation improvements is as simple as rewriting something and posting it on submit@, though it’s more helpful to download docs from CVS and patch.
Xin LI announced a new DragonFly mirror in China: dragonflybsd.delphij.net, carrying CVSup collections and updated 4 times a day.
I’ve updated the Handbook, and there’s a new PDF version, too, thanks to Matthew Dillon updating the leaf doc tools.
Apparently the parts to the BSD Installer are showing up in pkgsrc. (Thanks, Todd Willey.)
Sascha Wildner has imported the Handbook into the DragonFly Wiki. Neat, though I’m not sure how easily the changes can get placed back into CVS.
YONETANI Tomokazu posted some comments on how to get the FreeBSD Port of linuxpluginwrapper working.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has created a cross reference tool (details) that compares across DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, syncing by tag when possible. A test version is available.