A combination of software upgrades and me changing my apache config on shiningsilence.com led to some unplanned downtime this weekend – sorry!
Matthew Dillon expounded a bit on the reasoning and method behind his kernel file reorganization.
Out of a conversation on users@, Oliver Fromme gave a list of the ports used by NFS. Someday, you may be on the other side of a firewall wondering what those ports are…
‘walt’ gave some details on configuring X to use DMPS, so that your monitor turns off when your console is inactive for extended periods. Good for conservation, but not as fun as the alternative.
lukemftpd (the ftp server nowadays known as tnftpd) was removed from the base DragonFly system by Perter Avalos. It wasn’t built by default, and it’s still available in pkgsrc if you need it. Note that the server version was removed, but the client version, lukemftp (also now known as tnftp) has been updated.
Will Backman wrote a journal of his experiences at the recent NYCBSDCon. (Thanks, Undeadly)
Matthew Dillon is planning major cleanup in the kernel files, in part because it’s been historically inconsistent, and in part to support virtual kernels. The part that will affect most people is a new location for the kernel config file, and ‘i386’ is now the more relevant ‘pc32’. (or maybe not. I’ll post when it’s defined.)
Matthew Dillon has committed a change that adds new lines to the template when committing to DragonFly; most notably, it includes a line for a link back to the appropriate issue on the DragonFly bug tracker.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, which hosts the mail archive and developer accounts, has a dead power supply. The drive has been moved to a slower backup machine, so it’s still reachable until the original is resurrected.
Sepherosa Ziehau has a test version of the FreeBSD stge(4) driver ported to DragonFly, which supports a good number of gigabit networking devices. Please test and give feedback.
Seen several places: Jason Dixon’s humorous “BSD is dying” talk from NYCBSDCon06 is available with audio and slides online on Google Video and in other formats from his site.
An oft-touted benefit of the GNU Public License is that it forces organizations that use GPL code to republish their changes, so that improvements to open code can be shared. That sounds good, in principle.
According to Harald Welte, founder of the gpl-violations.org project, this clause in the GPL has never resulted in any useful code ever being returned to the community. (Thanks, HubertF)
Even though it’s been around forever, awk is still being updated, and Peter Avalos has added the latest version to DragonFly. Notice that it is the One True Awk, not GNU awk.
The call is out for papers for the 2007 USENIX Tech conference. Submissions are due by January 9th, 2007.
This week on UnixReview.com: a writeup on Tile, a new GUI toolkit for Tcl, “Exploring the CCNP Certification“, and “Test Your Knowledge of CCNP Topics“
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