Dashu Huang has posted a patchset and a link to his design document (PDF) for his work on RFC3542 support, which is one of the DragonFly Summer of Code projects.
Here’s another one of those Flash shakycam presentations: Danny O’Brien talking about Web 2.0 and personal info. I link to this because it’s interesting: lots of newer web sites like Flickr, LiveJournal, etc have absorbed people’s creativity. While that’s good, it’s dangerous in a way that’s been seen before. Having your own system with your own operating system (hint: DragonFly) lets you own your own data and interests. If you can get past some of the joking at the beginning, the video makes that point at some length. I post this not to make with the tinfoil hat attitude, but to point out that in some ways, handing your writing or art off to a remote hosting service makes as much sense as renting a paintbrush.
The Open Souce Business Resource for this month is about Accessibility. (via) This means
Pedro F. Giffuni happened to catch Daniel Phillips’ announcement of a new Linux filesystem, Tux3, which he compared to Hammer. The followups between Daniel Phillips and Matthew Dillon are interesting, and go deeply into the design decisions being made for each product. It’s a lot of words; be prepared, and I think there will be more conversation past what I’ve linked here.
Tip 1: You can’t have too big a volume for Hammer.
Tip 2: Snapshots are the easiest way to track historical data.
Pulled from previous comments: there’s a Last.FM DragonFly group.
The DragonFly 2.0 release announcement is popping up in various places around the web: DistroWatch, Unix.com, LinuxQuestions.org, and of course KernelTrap.
I’ve created a DragonFly BSD group at LinkedIn, a business networking site. If you’re already using it, search for that group name and add yourself – I’ll get the request and approve it. There’s no major purpose, other than getting a group formed. It is a good place to find potential job candidates…
BSDTalk 155 is a short 7 minute interview with Martin Tournoij from DaemonForums.org.
More links for fun:
- The newest @Play column explores the limitations of using alphabet letters to represent all species in roguelike games.
- From the you-will-need-this-someday department: Giorgos Keramidas describes how to change your keymap for the Windows key. (via)
- Clay Shirky describes the existence of open source communities (needs Flash) and how they manage to last. Focuses on Perl, but applies to how most open source projects work. This talk captures the reasons for open source better than anything I’ve seen. (via)
- A Google talk (which also needs Flash) with the creators of the WarGames movies. WarGames is probably the last, most realistic Hollywood movie ever made about computer hacking. (via)
Sometimes BSD references show up in wierd places. (marginally NSFW) (Via)
Matthew Dillon posted a note about a last-minute bug in Hammer – make sure you sync before unmounting. It will only lose about 30 seconds of data at worst. He should have it fixed today, with the 2.0 branching tonight.
Matthew Dillon’s posted another one of his Hammer updates: mirroring is done, and there’s a few outstanding issues he lists.
There’s been a lot of linkworthy things lately, which I will list here in an effort to catch up:
- Jeremy C. Reed kindly updated BIND in DragonFly to cover for the recent cross-vendor DNS issue.
- Michael Neumann removed the 3-decade-old bug in yacc recently found by an OpenBSD developer.
- Smallest possible actual file size on Hammer: 272 bytes.
- Peter Avalos updated libarchive to 2.5.5. He detailed plans to start using the BSD-licensed version of cpio, with the GNU version dropped by DragonFly’s 2.3 release.
- This conversation between Dmitri Nikulin and Matthew Dillon is very interesting, partially because it contains detailed opinions from experienced people, but also because it’s an amicable disagreement – a rare thing on the Internet.
- Michael Neumann has added support for the NVIDIA MCP61, MCP65, MCP67, MCP73 and MCP77 chipsets, some of it from FreeBSD.
I know I just posted something like this, but Dru Lavigne’s got another link collection. The story about dsw is a gem.
Is it a linkpile if I link to someone else’s linkpile?
- Dru Lavigne’s posted another one of her link roundups.
- A cruel Hans Reiser joke buried in a Wikipedia edit. (via)
- The howling void brings news of a virtual C system. It sounds interesting from the description, and at the same time bizarre. C already runs on pretty much every platform ever; it seems strange to have to virtualize it to make it work.
- Update your DNS server.
- An old bug and a crazy bug.
Matthew Dillon is this week’s subject on BSDTalk, with 30 minutes of conversation and lots of Hammer content.
Matthew Dillon has updated his Hammer documentation (pdf), with more details on data integrity and mirroring.
The mid-term evaluation for Google Summer of Code work is coming up for the week of July 7th – meaning it starts tomorrow. If you’re a student or a mentor, read my post on the kernel@ mailing list, and make sure you complete your evaluations befoer the 14th.
(side note: TGEN, where are you?)
‘Rumko’ has posted a 75 euro bounty (that’s something like USD $150 a bunch of dollars) for anyone who updates nataraid in DragonFly; it should be a straightforward change from FreeBSD. The details are available on the Code Bounty page on the wiki, as referenced on the mailing lists.