Both Matthias Schmidt and Sascha Wildner drew attention to a rconfig(8) script now in DragonFly 2.1 that, when used off a LiveCD (and modified for any differences in disk setup) will create a UFS /boot and a Hammer /everything-else.
Matthias Schmidt has added a number of DragonFly-specific tips to the fortune file; these will be visible on login or if you run fortune dragonfly-tips (on a bleeding edge system, of course)
As mentioned previously, DragonFly’s included BIND could use the ability to be compiled with DNSSEC support, after Jeremy C. Reed’s DNSSEC presentation at NYCBSDCon. (.mp3) Jeremy’s kindly provided a patch for just that.
The other presentations from NYCBSDCon are not yet online, but Jason Dixon’s “BSD vs. GPL” is available now on his site as an mp4 file and also at Google Video. (via comments here)
Do you have a Realtek 8101E card? Are you running bleeding edge DragonFly? If so, Sepherosa Ziehau would like you to test out his recent changes.
Edwin Groothuis pointed out in a blog post that FreeBSD’s ino_t type being 32 bit, not 64 bit, was a major obstacle to having Hammer on FreeBSD. He also noted that there’s some work that may change that.
Hasso Tepper has added (based on this FreeBSD work) the ability to “parse the utrace(2) entries generated by malloc(3) in a more human-readable format”.
The most recent branch of pkgsrc, 2008Q3, is available now.
The audio from NYCBSDCon presentations is available thanks to Nikolai Fetissov. Matthew Dillon’s Hammer presentation audio is available, along with others. I’ll link to the video/slides as soon as they are available. An idea of what Jason Dixon’s “BSD versus GPL” (,mp3) may be like as video can be gleaned from his previous work: BSD is Dying (Google Video, via).
Matthew Dillon also points out on his return from NYCBSDCon that some of the funding behind various BSD projects and developers comes from the financial institutions melting down recently; DragonFly is, luckily, unaffected.
(my IRA lost “only” 15% on Friday. Yeesh.)
Sascha Wildner is updating DragonFly to tzcode2008g, which will modernize our time system, along with making 64-bit time_t possible. It also apparently fixes a recently reported problem in Python. Sascha links to this time page in his message, with more time zone link information than ever I’ve seen.
Oh, and Sascha updated timezone data, too.
BSDTalk 161 has 25 minutes of streamed audio from Sunday’s NYCBSDCon session.
BSDTalk 160 is a longer-than-usual 40 minutes of audio right from NYCBSDCon. An interesting listen, especially if like me you wanted to go, but didn’t. (Stupid expensive NYC hotels…)
Apparently the version of BIND that comes with DragonFly is not built with support for DNSSEC. Matt Dillon posted from NYCBSDCon noting that, after hearing Jeremy C. Reed’s “Introduction to DNSSEC” presentation, maybe we should. Peter Avalos has a different argument: why bundle BIND at all?
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)