An article on undeadly.org lists what Echothrust Solutions has done to move to OpenBSD for their client and server needs. What I find interesting is the list of all the applications they use to solve various problems, including some nontraditional (for open source) things like project management and CRM.
Noah Yan is working on porting DragonFly to AMD64, with some notes on the wiki. He and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert have set up a Git repo of the DragonFly code for this.
Newest on BSDTalk: Fast IPSec, with George Neville-Neil.
As part of a larger discussion of large size memory pages, called ‘superpages’, Oliver Fromme linked to a 2002 OSDI article that talks about implementation.
DragonFly just turned 4 years old!
Wiger Van Houten made even more original wallpapers.
Recent discussion on the tech-pkg@netbsd.org list has led to another possible pkgsrc logo – this time, one you could print out and use to construct a small cube.
There’s two new BSDTalk podcasts since last I checked: one on IPv6 testing (15 minutes), and one interviewing Isaac “Ike” Levy (26 minutes).
Matthew Dillon has updated libarchive, including a fix for a recent security issue.
Joe Talbott has added support for tying virtual CPUs (in virtual kernels, naturally) to real CPUs, so that a multiprocessor vkernel will actually use multiple processors.
There’s a post by the ZDNet Technical Director, George Ou, talking about the recently found issues with the Core 2 Duo processor. Rather, he’s talking about people’s opinions about it.
I’m not linking it because it necessarily has more information, as it’s already been covered here, but rather to show the difference in speed and depth that can be found between what more annoying people like to call old media (print magazines) and new media (this Digest).
Leonardo Baldelli posted a link to a number of DragonFly desktop backgrounds he created.
A big thank you goes out to Peter Avalos, who brought in a large quantity of updates to the ahc(4) driver, originally from FreeBSD. Check this month’s commits to see his name a whole bunch of times. (Someone correct me if I have that man page link wrong.)
Matthew Dillon has added a page to the DragonFly website listing the PGP key for the DragonFly security officer.
Some nostalgia for those who have been computing for a long time: a chronological picture index of various Apple models. (Via Underwire)Yes, I know there were other computers in the 80’s, but they weren’t fun to look at, with some exceptions.
Credit goes to Hasso Tepper for recently doing a lot of cleanup in DragonFly’s USB code. This is one of those contributions that should be recognized, though it’s hard to have any one part to link to here. Here’s one commit of many.
Noah Yan has volunteered himself for porting DragonFly to AMD64; Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert, who has worked previously on this, suggested using git for handling changes, what with the next release coming soon. Simon even gave a short writeup on git.