Matthew Dillon’s been committing parts (example link) of Jordan Gordeev’s Summer of Code project for AMD64 support. It’s not done yet, but it should be by end-of-year.
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.
Sepherosa Ziehau’s work on parallelizing DragonFly networking can be tried out (for those running bleeding edge code) by setting the sysctl kern.intr_mpsafe to 1.
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)
I had a conversation with a coworker today about what phone to buy, and I thought about this: iPhones are pretty, but you don’t get to own your software or fully choose what to run. This developer’s blog entry sums up all the things you can’t do with Apple’s App Store, and by doing so manages to describe the opposite of open source. (via, I think) The point I’m making: BSD licensing is more valuable than you think.
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.
Sorry about a week without posts! I was in the wilds of Canada and without any Internet access, for probably the longest period for me since 1995. It was weird. Regular posts resume tomorrow.
One link to describe the pain of creating with software/the web, and one link that will make you want to keep doing it.
(Culled from other blog’s posts – sorry, lost original entries!)
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.
A recent commit from Matthew Dillon enables use of at least a terabyte of swap space. Is there anyone who can actually use that much yet? Swap is traditionally 2x available memory, so that would make for 500 gigabytes of RAM. I don’t think that’s even workable, though you’d be able to build up a heck of a MFS.
Steve O’Hara-Smith found that DVD playback didn’t work unless compiling with gcc34. Matthew Dillon’s implemented a possible fix.
Aggelos Economopoulos is looking for feedback for his NetMP (meaning giant lock removal from the network stack) work.
In a similar vein, Sepherosa Ziehau has committed the first stage of the first step of his parallelization of ipfw(4).
(Thanks to Sascha Wildner for the man page correction)
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.