- Dru Lavigne has an excellent presentation: “Now What?” for the Open Source Noob
- I’ve heard about this before, but: Eric Scott Raymond thinks the GPL can be replaced by the BSD license, safely. The counter-argument on that page is totally weaksauce. (via)
- The Q2 2009 issue of BSD Magazine is out, focusing on PC-BSD. (via)
- Hey, a “sequel” to wmii: i3 – someone tell me if this works on DragonFly, please. It’s in pkgsrc-wip… (via)
Thanks to Archimedes Gaviola, I’ve changed out the slide presentations (that didn’t work) on the Presentations page.
I’ve also linked all 5 BSDTalk interviews of Matthew Dillon on that page – previously, only one was linked there.
Alex Hornung has done some preliminary work with llvm/clang, and has successfully compiled a GENERIC DragonFly kernel, and completed a buildworld, using it. He also has some very nice notes available detailing the work. There’s potential for cross-BSD work with FreeBSD on this one, too.
The Unofficial Unix Administration Horror Story Summary, compiled by someone from my alma mater. Read through the section on misuse of ‘rm’ and you will want to use Hammer all the more… (via I forget, sorry)
Do you have room for more than 25 people? Are you in Europe? If you answered ‘yes’ to both questions, then you could help out with finding a venue for Pkgsrccon 2009.
While these details have probably been explained before, Matthew Dillon has a nice summary of how the vkernel system works, for your weekend reading.
It might be time to stop buying Apple audio products, as the company is deliberately picking physical incompatibility to force upgrades.
Someone want to fix up siginfo?
For those wanting to build Qemu right now on DragonFly, Hasso Tepper has published instructions on how to compile from Qemu’s development trunk.
This hasn’t been as clearly noted as it could be: there’s a DragonFly channel on IRC: #dragonflybsd on EFNet, with a steady population of users and developers. Please drop in.
- ‘alexh’ put in a new page on dragonflybsd.org, describing how you can contribute to DragonFly.
- ‘jth’ has been making a huge number of fixes for the Handbook pages, for links I missed in conversion.
- If you have projects for Google Summer of Code 2009, or can work as a student or mentor, put it on the SoC 2009 page, as a number of people have been doing.
Oliver Fromme has a new bootloader for FreeBSD and DragonFly. He’s added the DragonFly logo, and it looks neat. Can someone test this on physical hardware?
There’s a lot of BSD-related events and conferences happening; enough that it’s difficult to track them all. Dru Lavigne has a very good idea: Twitter them at @bsdevents.
This month’s @Play column dives into the playing mechanisms of XRogue, an older roguelike variant with some interesting features. Of special interest to geeks like me is the historical line drawn between XRogue features like charmed monsters and NetHack pets.
‘Sdävtaker’ posted that his school, Universidad de Buenos Aires, has a traveling teacher program. So, if you can teach computer science, there’s some funding for a 5-day trip to Argentina.
BSDTalk has Andrew Doran of NetBSD talking about the not-yet-out NetBSD 5 release, for 22 minutes.
With the new 0.10.0 release of Qemu, it’s a bit easier to get it running on DragonFly. Hasso Tepper asks that anyone who patched Qemu to run it on a DragonFly system send him the patches. He can get them into pkgsrc, and upstream.
Stathis Kamperis has written up a man page for objcache. Stathis is looking for feedback, though Sascha Wildner and Samuel J. Greear have already commented. More is welcome before it goes in.
(I’m especially happy about the concept of complete man pages, having been frustrated today by a newly installed Linux system that lacked man pages to match the installed drivers or utilities for the intended hardware. Yeah, I’m talking AsteriskNOW.)
If you were looking to create a very large or very small version of the DragonFly logo, I’ve added .eps and .ai versions of the logo to the images page on the DragonFly website.