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’.
When DragonFly was moving away from CVS, the votes were split pretty evenly between Git and Mercurial. DragonFly went to Git, but it’s apparently now possible to use Mercurial with a Git repository.
Well, I’m not sure if it’s out, or the new thing is the release announcement and 2009Q1 has been out for a while. Usually, the quarterly releases of pkgsrc are available 2 weeks after freeze, which was back in March. Either way, it’s available.
Jordan Gordeev posted installation instructions for his ‘BTX Halted’ fix. It may not be the final answer, though.
Here’s an in-depth but quite readable explanation of not just the surface features of Git, but the underlying ideas of how it works, via a narrative. (via)
Dru Lavigne has posted links to SummerCamp presentations explaining “What is BSD?”. Whip this out for your mildly confused Linux-using friends.