Matthew Dillon’s collecting opinions on what source control system DragonFly should move to; the two ‘finalists’ are Git and Mercurial, though other suggestions are welcome. There’s already a lot of people that have spoken up; I count 11 for git and 8 for mercurial so far.
I love these.
- A new issue of the OSBR: “Building Community“. (via)
- Android is out as Open Source (Apache license), seen many places.
- The latest @Play column about roguelikes: “Much About Monstania“
- Interesting to me: another “Perl on Rails“.
- Heise has an article about Linux’s ext4 and its segue into btrfs, which has been mentioned here before in contrast to Hammer. (via)
- While talking about the howling void, there’s a post there about Git vs. Subversion. Matthew Dillon is in there asking about opinions on Git vs. Mercurial, for use with DragonFly.
- The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System*, an oldie but goodie.
I think I stumbled on this while looking at NYCBSDCon sponsors: Reconnoiter is a network monitoring application that is designed to monitor very large networks. It was started on OpenBSD, and works on a number of operating systems. Interesting for multiple reasons.
EuroBSDCon 2008 just concluded in Strasbourg, France. Audio (pick Formation: EuroBSDCon) and pictures from the talks are now available; check out Constantine Murenin;s talk on the OpenBSD sensors framework, as DragonFly shares that code. (via Hasso Tepper on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
Matthew Dillon’s added support for kqueue in Hammer; as part of that, he’s added a new ‘monitor‘ utility. If you’re curious about what kqueue is, look at the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X versions. Edit: and of course, the DragonFly version.
The OpenBSD Journal has a number of interesting news items, so I’m just going to list the links and titles of each. All worth reading.
- Cross-site request forgery via ftpd(8) – don’t know if this is present in DragonFly or not
- OpenGL has been relicensed
- Will Backman’s Day 1 summary for NYCBSDCon
- Ian Darwin talks about getting OpenBSD on a ‘netbook’ – I still want one of these little laptops, even though I don’t need it.
Hasso Tepper, who has been committing a number of laptop-related fixes lately, has added a page to the DragonFly wiki with some tips on how to reduce power usage and heat on your DragonFly laptop.
I don’t normally link to Windows-bashing here for various reasons, but this parody of Windows 7 is darn good.
The Call For Papers for AsiaBSDCon 2009 is out. It’s being held in Tokyo, the 12th to 15th of March.
Both Matthias Schmidt and Sascha Wildner drew attention to a rconfig(8) script now in DragonFly 2.1 that, when used off a LiveCD (and modified for any differences in disk setup) will create a UFS /boot and a Hammer /everything-else.
Matthias Schmidt has added a number of DragonFly-specific tips to the fortune file; these will be visible on login or if you run fortune dragonfly-tips (on a bleeding edge system, of course)
As mentioned previously, DragonFly’s included BIND could use the ability to be compiled with DNSSEC support, after Jeremy C. Reed’s DNSSEC presentation at NYCBSDCon. (.mp3) Jeremy’s kindly provided a patch for just that.
The other presentations from NYCBSDCon are not yet online, but Jason Dixon’s “BSD vs. GPL” is available now on his site as an mp4 file and also at Google Video. (via comments here)
Edwin Groothuis pointed out in a blog post that FreeBSD’s ino_t type being 32 bit, not 64 bit, was a major obstacle to having Hammer on FreeBSD. He also noted that there’s some work that may change that.
The most recent branch of pkgsrc, 2008Q3, is available now.
The audio from NYCBSDCon presentations is available thanks to Nikolai Fetissov. Matthew Dillon’s Hammer presentation audio is available, along with others. I’ll link to the video/slides as soon as they are available. An idea of what Jason Dixon’s “BSD versus GPL” (,mp3) may be like as video can be gleaned from his previous work: BSD is Dying (Google Video, via).
Matthew Dillon also points out on his return from NYCBSDCon that some of the funding behind various BSD projects and developers comes from the financial institutions melting down recently; DragonFly is, luckily, unaffected.
(my IRA lost “only” 15% on Friday. Yeesh.)
BSDTalk 161 has 25 minutes of streamed audio from Sunday’s NYCBSDCon session.
BSDTalk 160 is a longer-than-usual 40 minutes of audio right from NYCBSDCon. An interesting listen, especially if like me you wanted to go, but didn’t. (Stupid expensive NYC hotels…)
Apparently the version of BIND that comes with DragonFly is not built with support for DNSSEC. Matt Dillon posted from NYCBSDCon noting that, after hearing Jeremy C. Reed’s “Introduction to DNSSEC” presentation, maybe we should. Peter Avalos has a different argument: why bundle BIND at all?