Hasso Tepper added OpenPAM as a vendor branch in DragonFly’s git repository, and wrote up some notes, including the tip for .git/config:
[core] whitespace = -trailing-space, -space-before-tab Which I've already needed.
Papers for USENIX 2009 are due January 9th, which isn’t very far off, what with the holiday season. So get cracking!
Jason Dixon announced that DCBSDCon registration is open now. Also, they’ve announced Kirk McKusick, Henning Brauer, and Chris Buechler as speakers, with more people announced every Monday and Thursday until the Big Event. (That’s a lot of people…)
Does this XKCD comic ring true for anyone else? In my case, it was my last 2 years of undergraduate school, not 11th grade, but still. Blame open source software and its ability to provide a framework for contribution.
Related: The End of Credentials (via)
Are you going to the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, at the end of this year? Let other DragonFly people know, as they’ll be there too.
Hasso Tepper noticed that the scheduler performance on his DragonFly desktop was poor. Interactivity went way down whenever he had multiple intensive processes running, like building software while browsing the web.
Matthew Dillon came up with a patch that seems to have greatly improved responsiveness; there’s even more explanation available.
This cartoon from XKCD is very entertaining.
It looks like Jost Tobias Springenberg is planning to revamp DragonFly’s fdisk, which will be much appreciated.
Sepeherosa Ziehau has a patch for carp(4) users; it apparently removes some unneeded complexity.
The FreeBSD Foundation has 66% of the money they need to raise for the year; chip in, if you can. It gets you a tax break (at least in the U.S.) and they do good work.
Hiroki Sato has posted a reminder: the deadline for AsiaBSDCon 2009 paper submission is December 20th.
InsideSoCal‘s Click column has a nice review up of DragonFly; I remember reading this before and somehow not thinking to publish it. In my defense, I’ve been running a serious news backlog, from all these Git events. Anyway, I was reminded by the DistroWatch newsletter, which has an image of that very pretty LiveDVD desktop.
XHomer, a Linux (and possibly BSD; it’s untried) emulator of the DEC Pro 350 computer, is not that exciting unless you happened to own one way back when. However, look at the last of the screenshots, using the phrase “trans-cranial shock therapy“. Keep that in mind next time you’re thinking of taking a screenshot of an X desktop with the typical IRC client, music player, web browser, and widget display: be surprising. (via)
Jason Dixon’s doing a good job of publicity, so you’ve probably already seen this, but: BSDTalk 167 is Jason Dixon talking about DCBSDCon, happening this February.
The newest @Play column describes the general types of items found in roguelike games, and also covers the winners of the recent NetHack tournament. It’s a more enjoyable read than how I’m making it sound,
Some miscellaneous links I’ve been saving:
- Undeadly has some recent notes on the status of pcc; does this run on DragonFly yet?
- Occasional DragonFly user _why has released Shoes 2.0, an entertaining Ruby-based GUI toolkit. Or maybe it’s a vehicle for him to tell stories. Or both.
- The preview of the December issue of the Open Source Business Resource has, among other things, an article from Leslie “Google Summer of Code 2008” Hawthorn, which DragonFly particpated in. Oh wait – it’s up as HTML or PDF.
- Asciio, a GUI program to draw charts in ascii that you can then cut and paste anywhere. Nothing earthshaking other than a very good idea.
If you feel like updating netgraph in DragonFly to match what’s in FreeBSD 7 (a task that has been partially accomplished), Alexander Motin will be able to answer questions to help out, as he’s already supporting it in FreeBSD.)