Will Backman has put up a new, 6 minute BSDTalk episode, where he asks for suggestions on live streaming while visiting NYCBSDCon and also for ideas for his new hardware.
I did not realize this is possible: you can rename your network interfaces. This example uses FreeBSD, but it translates to DragonFly.  (via)
Also, Giorgos Keramidas has written up his experience getting his FreeBSD system moved from one laptop to another – useful steps to know, plus on DragonFly you could use cpdup to copy wholesale. (via)
Software Freedom Day is September 20th. It’s a “worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software” – check to see if there’s an event happening in your city. (via)
Apparently, there’s some changes happening to DRI (the project, not just what’s in DragonFly). This may make it better or worse for any platform that isn’t Linux to keep up with the new code. Check the comments on that story for a variety of opinions.
(Linked by Hasso Tepper on #dragonflybsd on EFNet)
I’ve seen plenty of graphs, but this one describing BitTorrent performance on a FreeBSD cluster is surpisingly pretty, perhaps because of the scale.
(Spotted by sjg on #dragonflybsd on EFNet.)
The Summer of Code samples from all the DragonFly participants are available now on the Google Code-hosted site. Visit the Downloads section to get the tarballs.
The NYCBSDCon 2008 schedule is up. Will Backman, of BSDTalk, will be there, and there will be BSD Certfication exams. Among other presentations, a certain Matthew Dillon will be talking about Hammer. (via Dru Lavigne)
Matthew Dillon has added hunt(6) to DragonFly, calling it “The best multi-player terminal game ever!” Does that exclude MUDs? Mangband? IRC? (OK, that last one stretches it.) This version of hunt(6) came from OpenBSD, which came from the NetBSD version, all the way back to the original program in 4.4BSD. (Thanks, Hubert Feyrer, for the history)
Louisa Luciani has created her DragonFly LiveDVD, complete with X and a nice desktop. I really like this thing.
Dru Lavigne brings news of oDesk offering a BSD job trends page and RSS feed – focusing on FreeBSD, since I daresay that’s the largest part of the market. More like this please!
The latest @Play column on GameSetWatch describes something I never expected to see: graphical, accessible versions of NetHack. Is part of the experience for some people staring at a terminal?
Not news, but a succinct description of DragonFly’s scheduler. Bits of what’s described there have shown up in news posts here, but I think this is the first full description.
Damian Vicino wrote up his experience presenting DragonFly at JRSL 2008; it apparently was lightly attended because of another big event, but the DragonFly presentation was interesting enough they ran long and had to keep answering questions even after the next presentation started. (previously mentioned here)
As part of a larger discussion about transactional file systems, Dmitri Nikulin posted a link to two relatively recent blog posts by Jeff Robinson talking about I/O atomicity and file offset semantics.
For those readers who use vi or vim or another vi-like editor, here’s an interesting writeup of how to make vim really work for you. Emacs users, please look away. (via someone on IRC)
5 years of this Digest, with around 3,000 posts, starting from the first in 2003. Why isn’t there more like this, more frequently, in the BSD world?
KernelTrap has a nice article up covering Daniel Phillips’ description of the Tux3 file system structure, which will be interesting to anyone who followed the previous file system discussion between Phillips and Matthew Dillon.
I’m not sure if I’ve linked to this before, so anyway: Robert Luciani linked to a nice image explaining how threads work in DragonFly, translating from pthread to LWP to LWKT.
MeetBSD 2008 is happening November 15th and 16th, at the Googleplex. This one coincides with the 15th anniversary of FreeBSD, too. Check the Speakers page for details on what’s happening.
As Dru Lavigne noted a few days ago, the August issue of the Open Source Business Resource, focusing on Education, is now available.