DragonFly BSD Digest

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)