A question about multiple sound sources playing leads to this solution, which may require manual sound device assignment, though it’s not that bad. Better solutions are possible.
I’ve updated the online version of the Handbook to include the last 2 months of changes. (Available as PDF and text too.)
If there was a mailing list that had regular summaries of the posts on here, would it be useful to you? If so, would you want it daily? Weekly?
Ian R. Stephenson suggested this, and I’ve had more people than I expected agree.
Something I wrote myself: things you can do with a headless computer running DragonFly.
As part of a conversation about headless installation, Bill Hacker describes the old-fashioned way, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert mentioned the ‘Pre-Flight Installer‘, and Matthew Dillon described how he uses rconfig.
The modular version of xorg is predicted to be in pkgsrc in October.
For those needing an explanation: We currently have the ‘monolithic’ version.  The modular form breaks the build of xorg into parts that can be updated separately, and will be the form used for future versions.
It’s nice to see code flowing back and forthe bewteen BSD projects; the latest is OpenBSD taking advantage of the DragonFly acx(4) driver. (Thanks, Undeadly)
Gregory Neil Shapiro has kindly updated sendmail to 8.13.8 (see release notes).
This week on UnixReview: A software review of G2 8.2, a book review of Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, and an article: Certification: Test Your Knowledge of A+ Elective Topics. There’s also some Linux articles which I am so totally ignoring.
dragonflybsd.org is going down 9AM – 1PM PST for power and UPS testing.
User “Xaduha” posted a link to his compiling-on-DragonFly version of the Glorious Haskell Compiler, necessary to build Pugs (Perl 6 in Haskell) and apparently some other less mind-bending things.
Jan KoÅ¡ir wrote a pkgsrc updating script that will handle local patches, include pkgsrc-wip, and work with pkgmanager – pretty nifty.
Matthew Dillon’s committed some changes to cpdup that allow it to copy over a network, using ssh. It’s somewhat experimental, but it can even be used for incremental backups.
Christian Sturm mailed me a link to the newest project derived from FreeBSD: MidnightBSD, which appears to be a “FreeBSD-with-ports” effort rather than the more complete splits of DesktopBSD or PC-BSD. Not that it’s a bad thing!
Sepherosa Ziehau has updated em(4) (That’s an Intel networking chipset) support to version 6.1.4, the latest available from intel.
Matthew Dillon’s vnode reference work is already 75% complete.
What if a piece of software in pkgsrc is updated, but the pkgsrc version isn’t (yet)? Steve O’Hara-Smith has some ideas.
Matthew Dillon is starting some work that will possibly destabilize HEAD for a bit. The work involves vnode reference counting and locking. The advantage is that it will remove the hard locks that filesystems can experience, such as waiting for NFS mounts to time out.