drhodus’s blog on GoBSD.com mentions a strange panic found on DragonFly and FreeBSD systems that has so far been unsolvable.
For those of you using PF, there’s a tutorial by Peter Hansteen (OpenBSD-centric, but still applies) that was recently updated. (thanks, BSDForums)
Joerg Sonnenberger has a new version of the iwi(4) (Intel Wireless miniPCI adapters) driver, available for testing. Assuming no problems, it will be committed.
UnixReview.com has a review of a game for learning music, called GNU Solfege. The rest of the articles for the week are all Linuxy.
Adrian Nida’s recent installation troubles have spawned a longer thread that talks about the various issues – a good read about fdisk issues and why source isn’t included with the install CD.
Sepherosa Ziehau has updated the em driver to sync with FreeBSD-current, among other things, adds support for the Intel PRO/1000 GT and 82546G. He’s also added DEVICE_POLLING to the GENERIC kernel. What’s it do? I don’t know!
Update: Now I know.
A coworker of mine sent me an article written by a Cisco employee describing the IPv4 pool as likely to run out within 5 years. It’s titled “A Pragmatic Report on IPv4 Address Space Consumption. It certainly makes it sound like any new planning for networks should involve IPv6 capability.
DragonFly has IPv6 capability from KAME, which sounds like it will become much more useful very soon…
Matthew Dillon has implemented an emergency interrupt polling feature that, apparently, should never be turned on.
OnLAMP.com has an article up about “Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd“. thttpd, if you didn’t know, is found at the fabulously-named acme.com
Joerg Sonneberger has an untested driver for anyone using a Ralink RT2500/RT2500USB wireless adapter, supported in other BSDs.
A new document explaining the various CVS tags has been placed on the wiki by Adrian Nida.
Liam J. Foy put together a list of BSD-related RSS feeds; you can read them all on his site.
Jonathon McKitrick asked about obfuscating assembly code, which seems like a redundancy. In any case, the thread let to some discussion of interesting tricks, and also George Georgalis posting links to “How To Write Unmaintainable Code“, and a special obfustication section.
Matthew Dillon’s working on getting his dual-core Shuttle systems working with DragonFly, with some issues.
Joerg Sonnenberger has committed most of his pkgsrc changes, so using pkgsrc from CVS should be even more likely to succeed. He still has some needed local changes, however.
UnixReview.com this week has 3 book reviews: Perl Best Practices, File System Forensic Analysis, and Open Source for the Enterprise. There’s also a review of the game Pingus, which is a clone of the old game Lemmings.
OnLAMP/BSD has two new articles: “Running Cyrus IMAP” (using FreeBSD as an example, but the model holds), and an extensive article on Identifying Changes to a Macintosh File System. Why show that on a BSD site? Cause it’s BSD!
Matthew Dillon has updated the Release version of DragonFly (the most stable flavor) to 1.2.6. A list of the included updates are in his commit message.
If you are trying out pkgsrc now, Jeremy C. Reed recommends using the version that is in CVS, not the quarterly releases (of which 2005Q3 is the most recent). Yes, it’s bleeding edge, but so is your operating system.