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2009/12/30

Messylaneous for 2009/12/30

It’s New Year’s Eve Eve, and so here are a bunch of links I’ve built up over the past few days.

Hubert Feyrer posted notes on how to mount fixed disks in KDE. This probably works on NetBSD, but I bet it would work on DragonFly too…
pcc is now able to build an OpenBSD i386 kernel. Will it work for other BSDs? I hope so, eventually.
The FreeBSD Foundation is in the last hours of donation for 2009 – give if you get a chance. Did you know they get Bad Code Offsets, like carbon offsets? I did not know such a thing exists, though it makes sense.
Brian Kernighan talking about Elements of Programming Style, in video. (via) Kernighan’s book, “The Practice of Programming“, with Rob Pike, is an excellent read.

2009/12/102009/12/14

Messylaneous for 2009/12/10

I’ve been building this entry up for a while, so some of these entries are newer than others.

From the howling void: OpenSolaris or FreeBSD. I’ll admit I haven’t tried OpenSolaris, but I’m also biased to BSD.
cpdup, originally-on-DragonFly software, has had an update.
This description of the Content Pyramid talks about web content and links, but it could be stretched to open source software. There’s always been an implicit value to being at the top of the pyramid – hence the prestige not always fairly attached to “the commit bit”.
Old computer facts (storage sizes) presented in handy infographic form? Sign me up!
vitunes, a curses-based playlist manager. OpenBSD-specific, but may work on DragonFly. I like the look. (via)
Video4Linux support is being worked on for FreeBSD, as apparently the headers are available without having to accept the GPL. This makes it potentially available to all the BSDs, which is nice.
FreeNAS is moving to Linux, which is a mistake bummer. Except iXsystems stepped in and now FreeNAS is continuing as a FreeBSD-based item. A story that seemed bad but came out well, thanks to iXsystems. (Quick, buy their hardware!)
“If you know of surviving software on 1/2″ tape, paper tape, cards, DECtape, etc. from users groups or computer manufacturers, please contact us. Equipment is available to recover these bits, and in some cases can be brought on-site.” (via)
3 BSD-themed holiday gifts.
what.

2009/12/04

hotplugd added

Alexander Polakov has imported OpenBSD’s hotplugd(8). It monitors for hotplug-style events, like disk additions and removals, and executes corresponding scripts to handles those events.

2009/11/062009/11/07

BSDTalk 179: Jacek Masiulaniec on OpenSMTPd, Epitome

OpenBSD developer Jacek Masiulaniec gets 14 minutes of airtime in the most recent BSDTalk podcast.

2009/10/28

mandoc(1) added

Sascha Wildner has added mandoc(1), an OpenBSD product. I like the HTML output. (I’ve said it before, come to think of it.)

2009/07/142009/07/13

The recent importation of tmux into OpenBSD 4.6’s base system has led to some interest; I haven’t used it directly but having a BSD-licensed session manager (if that is the right term) in the base DragonFly system would be nice.

2009/05/28

New test machines and AHCI work

Matthew Dillon has put together some new test machines, in preparation for porting the OpenBSD AHCI driver to DragonFly. Check his message if you are thinking about building a new system, as they appear to work well.

2008/09/122008/09/11

How it’s made: OpenBSD

Undeadly has an brief, interesting article up, written by Mitja MuÅ¾eniÄ, describing the OpenBSD releasing process.Â Worthwhile reading if you are involved in any sort of release cycle.

2008/06/29

More LiveCDs are always good

Undeadly has an article noting that OpenBSD is getting in on the LiveCD game with BSDAnywhere.

2007/10/172007/10/16

I <3 graphs

Something interesting: graphs of the commit activity for some (all?) of the OpenBSD committers.Â (via ‘constant’ on #dragonflybsd)Â I’d like to do the same for DragonFly.Â Plus, GIANT DAEMON HEAD.

2006/10/27

OnLAMP: OpenBSD 4 details

OnLAMP.com has a 3-page interview with various OpenBSD developers about the features in the newest release.Â The interview goes into interesting detail, and for relevance, some of the newer wireless drivers in DragonFly came from this code work.

2006/06/12

BSD == better support

Seen on KernelTrap, then OpenBSD Journal and then Slashdot: BSD support (specifically OpenBSD) hardware support is improving faster than Linux in some cases.

2006/04/04

OpenBSD gets money

Apparently the Mozilla Foundation donated US$10K to OpenSSH.Â That’s good!Â They still need money, though.

2006/03/302006/03/30

deRaadt interview

Daemon News has an interview of OpenBSD’s Theo deRaadt, where he mentions DragonFly. The last response in the interview is also entertaining.

2005/12/19

OpenBSD ssh-only installer

Here’s something interesting: there’s an installer for OpenBSD called “YaifO“, which requires only SSH to work – no keyboard or serial access needed. Of course, there’s no binary, no docs, and no way to do it on a multiboot system… but the concept’s neat.

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