DragonFly BSD Digest

SANE 2006 will be held in May of next year; the initial call for papers is out.

SANE = “System Administration and Network Engineering”, if you didn’t know.

Matthew Dillon has made available a preliminary start on his bug tracker, which he is apparently calling “dunebuggy“.

Rob D. posted a link to a page that describes problems with MD5, a hashing algorithm.

Jeremy Reed found that there are some tricks to building world in a jail.

Reader LabThug helpfully pointed out that the blog at http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/ has been talking about the events at NYCBSDCON. Oh, I’m kicking myself for not going. Of special interest to readers here is a writeup on Jeffrey Hsu’s DragonFly talk.

This week on UnixReview.com: reviews of the books “Mobile IP Technology and Applications” and “Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition“, and a writeup of the card game “PySol“.

Any readers go to NYCBSDCON? How was the event?

Emiel Kollof pointed out that Mustang is going to be the next release of Java; we have a chance to get some support for DragonFly in now.

Matthew Dillon didn’t like the idea of a Java-based bug tracker, so he’s rolling his own. As part of it, his Backplane databse will probably be used as the back-end for it, though under the GPL.

The 2006 USENIX Technical Conference, coming up at the end of next May, has issued a Call for Papers. If you want to present one, you need to have your paper done by mid-January.

UnixReview.com has just two book reviews this week, both of which are relevant: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and the more focused “Cisco IP Communications Express: CallManager Express with Cisco Unity Express“.

Matthew Dillon happened to write something about RAID vs. SATA drives that says, among other things, picking SCSI over SATA drives doesn’t make financial sense.

Matthew Dillon started to think about writing his own bug tracker, to which the genral response was “Keep up the cool DragonFly work!”. Many people are leaning towards Jira, though Hiten Pandya still wants to evaluate Bugzilla or cvstrac if Jira does not work out by the time of the next release.

Matthew Dillon, like many people, thinks hardware RAID is generally better. In fact, he’s using cards from 3ware.

Also, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert looked at the bug tracking program jira, and liked what he saw. He liked it so much, he set up a test installation.

The BSDCertification website has a new survey up. Unlike the last one, it’s only 19 questions and very short. It’s available in a number of languages.

Jeremy Messenger suggested this comparison list for bug trackers; Hiten Pandya also wants to look at MySQL’s Eventum.