Category: Goings-on

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.)

The DCBSDCon site, for the BSD convention in Washington, DC, Feb 5th-6th, now has a separate blog.  The very first post lets slip the name of their first speaker and the fact that they will have 2 separate BSDA exams at the convention.

Michael Neumann created a patch that can get VirtualBox to run DragonFly, kinda sorta.  The underlying issue in Virtualbox is not fixed by this, however..

Stumbled on via Google Alerts: Freebench, a new benchmarking program that has already been tested on DragonFly.  (Scroll down to “Freebenchin'”.)

I added BSDanywhere to the blogroll – it’s another livecd BSD ‘distribution’, this time with OpenBSD as the base.  Also, Jibbed, which is the same arrangement using NetBSD.

Jason Dixon posted that today is the last day to submit papers for the DCBSDCon.  So you’re either done, really close to done, or not getting anything in this year, at this point.

Sepherosa Ziehau has another test patch for optimizing network speed; he’s looking for (but not exclusively) ipv6 users.  It’s pretty safe, though it will require a quickworld.

• Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert suggests summarizing your changes in the first line of your commit message, as that first line gets used by other tools that read from git.
• Peter Avalos has set up a (speedy!) North American mirror of the DragonFly git repo.
• Aggelos Economopoulos has been adding Git tips for DragonFly to a page on the wiki.
  

The Git repositiory for DragonFly is up and running, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert asks people to use a mirror.  The update  messages to commit@ are working.  There’s places to see the repo via the web, too.

Instructions for using Git to access DragonFly source for users and committers has been posted, with a special note on the origin tag.  However, it’s not quite ready yet…

The latest BSDTalk is a 23-minute conversation with Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd.

These positions where someone works for a company, specifically to interact with a community of people who may produce unpaid work for that company, intrigue me.

Lazy Sunday?  Running carp?  Why not try Sepherosa Ziehau’s carp patch?  No, I don’t know what it does.

Dru Lavigne’s got a link to the slides from the recent MeetBSD event, plus links to video of her presentation.

BSDTalk 165 has a 35-minute conversation with Julian Elischer while at MeetBSD.  I wonder how many interviews Will backman got out of this event…

Dru Lavigne took notes at MeetBSD 2008, while Matthew Dillon took pictures, as did others.  There’s some neat technologies described there.

David Tweed posted a short but interesting anecdote of his real-world experiences dealing with a large number of files, to follow up with a recent discussion on handling large directories with Hammer.

Will Backman has another podcast up; this one being 38 minutes of FreeBSD Core Team interviews from the just-concluded MeetBSD event.

Will Backman visited iXsystems recently, and he has a 8 minute podcast with the details up as BSDTalk 163.

Matthew Dillon is adding versioning support to Hammer; it’ll support in-place version upgrading.  The gory details of his current plan are available, with an interesting tidbit: Hammer directory lookups remain the same speed even with 2 billion files in a directory, while UFS will be O(N^3) speed after several hundred thousand.