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.
The second issue of BSD Magazine is out, though the details aren’t up on the magazine’s site as of this writing – freebsdnews.net has the cover and contents. This issue gets into OpenBSD. (via)
The latest BSDTalk (actually from August 18th – I’m still catching up) has Isaac Levy and Steven Kreuzer talking about NYCBSDCon 2008, coming up October 11-12. It’s 15 minutes total.
Dru Lavigne has posted another set of BSD links, and something I wouldn’t expect: a video presentation (Youtube) of the table of contents to the July Open Source Business Resource.
Max Lindner posted a status update and a detailed followup on his Summer of Code project, dma(8). Matthias Schmidt asked for more DMA testing; it’s worth trying if you don’t care for Sendmail.
Matthew Dillon has posted an update for the 9th on the state of Hammer. The next big question: should the Hammer code for porter be stored in Subversion or Git?
Also: Nothing earth shattering, but this post on users@ has some details on Hammer usage and how it works with large files and with backups in general.
Antonio Huete Jimenez has created a DragonFly Facebook group; join up, if you’re a Facebook user.
(Update: fixed the accidentally Anglicized name – sorry!)
Louisa Luciani has put up a website for her Google Summer of Code LiveDVD project. (Work history is also available.)
Caveat: I don’t know if it’s done yet, as the work period for GSoC projects is not quite over.