Hasso Tepper has some things he’d like to see for the next release, and he put them together in a wish list. His hands are full with pkgsrc, but if any of these projects look interesting to you, now is a good time to take advantage of the delay before the next release. (there’s already some work done.)
I’ve been traveling the past few days, so there’s a huge backlog of things to post. I’ll revert to bullets. Some of this stuff merits individual posts, but I need to clear out too much. I haven’t even reached my email yet.
- The July version of the Open Source Business Resource is available.
- Sometimes I take my roguelike interests too far. (needs Flash. Via.)
- Still roguelike: New Nethack variants: Sporkhack and UnNethack, at @Play.
- Open source only comes in one edition: awesome.
- X text copying made less likely to fall down: autocutsel. (via)
- BSDTalk 176: 13 minutes on the Unbound DNS resolver, with Wouter Wijngaards.
- OpenBSD imported tmux. That seems like a good idea.
- Microsoft really is getting better at open source. This is something that probably requires more arguing than I have the desire to do. (via)
Matthew Dillon is shifting the semiannual release schedule over by two months; new releases of DragonFly will happen in March and September. The current July-December releases hit right on major (U.S.) holidays and too close to quarterly pkgsrc releases.
The message linked above also contains a list of the surprisingly large quantity of work that will go into the next release, plus some details on booting strategies going forward.
From Xerox PARC: The first Ethernet cable, plus diagrams from Bob Metcalfe.
Dru Lavigne is going to be doing blogging/tweeting for the FreeBSD Project and FreeBSD Foundation. This is a good thing – BSD in general is helped by more of a conversation about what’s going on. I daresay this Digest has established that there’s definitely enough events, just with DragonFly, for daily news.
Also, Dru’s published summaries of the articles in the upcoming July ‘Collaboration’ issue of the Open Source Business Resource.
BSDTalk 175 (the semidemibicentennial?) has a 23 minute interview with Michael Dexter of BSD Fund. Did you know you can get a BSD Fund Visa card (if you are a U.S. resident) that contributes money on each purchase and has a beastie on the card? I did not.
Siju George described his efforts to set up a continuous, automatic backup system using Hammer, with some interesting results. Matthew Dillon chimed in with some suggestions.
The whole OpenBSD-focused issue of BSD Magazine is available online as a PDF, plus some other articles from the NetBSD issue. (via)
The list of monthly topics for the Open Source Business Resource have been published. The list runs through the end of the year. If one of the topics is something you’re interested in, here’s your chance to get published!
For the benefit of others: a Git diagram that shows the different levels of storage. Useful, because git goes far beyond the ‘it’s either here or it’s there’ style of cvs/svn. (via)
‘Haidut’ brings word of a 50-system DragonFly installation acting as web crawlers, with performance exceeding that of the Debian Linux systems they replaced. There’s more details about what’s being run, if you’re curious.
Another installment in my continuing obsession with roguelikes: Nethack, implemented as an AJAX application. (via)
An entertaining diversion: a fantasy map of C++. It’s huge; give it time to download. (via)
Matthew Dillon has committed the start of his AHCI work, taken mostly from OpenBSD. He described what he’s doing in a separate post, along with the welcome news of the enhanced performance that comes with AHCI support.
Not one, but two roguelike items! Close your eyes and click randomly if you have no interest in my little obsession.
- The newest @Play column has more 7DRL coverage, with screenshots and nice little summaries that mention whether a game is fair or not.
- Also at GameSetWatch, mention of a new roguelike called MnemonicRL, with a video preview. It’s planned to be a MMORPG, of all things.
A useful BSD item from the Howling Void: BSD jails found to be more efficient than VMWare in given situations. I am both pleased and not really surprised.
The DragonFly mirror at dragonflybsd.kiev.ua went down due to hard drive failure some time ago, but it has returned. It’s an honest-to-goodness DragonFly system now too, I think. It’s (re)listed on the mirrors page.
The newest issue of the Open Source Business Resource covers Women in Open Source, with a larger-than-normal variety and length of articles.
While asking some questions, Alex Hornung let drop some of the details of his Summer of Code devfs project. Sounds like he’s making good progress.
This arrived in my mailbox in dead tree form today, but it’s also online: My favorite magazine has some good thoughts on open source vs. cloud computing, plus one on open source variety, or lack of it. It’s interesting that mainstream articles talking about open source software have moved beyond the forms ‘gee whiz there’s Linux’ and ‘here’s what a software license is’.