Tomorrow: NYCBSDCon! In 1 week: EuroBSDCon!
Matthew has a small project for anyone who wants it: automatic creation of slaved pseudo file systems, for mirroring. Do this, and you make everyone’s life easier.
Matthew Dillon warns that there is a relatively unlikely chance of a crash with Hammer committing bad data to disk if you ‘continue’ in the debugger. Don’t do that, for now; it will be fixed soon.
Mattias Schmidt, Sascha Wildner, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert are all going to the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin – speak up if you’re going too.
Did you know there was a “Berlin International Roguelike Development Conference 2008“? Me neither, but there’s video to prove it. (via)
Today is apparently crazy links day.
I find this strangely useful: a listing of equivalent concepts and commands, across a wide variety of Unix-ish systems. Be prepared to scroll, and make sure to check the extra links at the bottom. (via)
I don’t normally link to things like this, but these are useful: Woot! is running a special on a 2-pack of 5-outlet Power Squids. (Sorry, non-120v-3-prong European readers; won’t help you much…) Today only, like most Woot! specials.
This entry on the OSBR blog links to the recent results of the OpenLogic open source survey. It also mentions some “free software for non-free platform” bundles that I hadn’t heard of, like OpenDisc and OSSWin.
Robert Luciani’s EuroBSDCon bachelor’s thesis presentation on DragonFly’s threading model is available as a PDF. (anyone have a mirror? That link is intermittent.) Previous versions have been linked here before.
The latest 12-minute BSDTalk has an interview with Kris Moore, one of the folks involved in PC-BSD. Version 7 of PC-BSD was just released.
The most recent @Play article talks about Legerdemain, a cross between roguelikes and old-style RPGs like Ultima. It’s old school twice over.
The entries in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition are all available. (Think Infocom-style games.) (via)
Michael Neumann has a patch that makes DragonFly able to run on VirtualBox; Matthew Dillon has a suggestion on how to make the fix permanent, which also may help with clock timing under other virtualized setups.
This week’s BSDTalk is a 24-minute talk with Chess Griffin, who put together the 100-podcast LinuxReality series.
Dru Lavigne’s blog brings news of her upcoming convention schedule, the September issue of the OSBR, themed on “Social Innovation”, and an always-fun linkpile.
It’s always nice to see work benefiting multiple BSDs. (via) Joerg Sonnenberger also gets credit for committing patches from Hasso Tepper to pkgsrc, contributing to the upward success rate for pkgsrc packages building on DragonFly.
pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org has been upgraded to DragonFly 2.1, and now has several Hammer volumes. This is the system that builds and hosts the pkgsrc binary packages.
The 2.0.1 release of DragonFly will arrive soon, incorporating recent improvements to Hammer, including the new cleanup utility.
The development machine leaf.dragonflybsd.org has been upgraded with a lot more disk space. Development accounts on there are free for everyone, though keep in mind only some parts are backed up.