Robert Garrett has imported NetBSD’s newbtconf, a system for choosing the boot environment. See that manpage link for a better description.
Joerg Sonnenberger mentioned some of the gotchas involved in porting a network driver from another BSD flavor.
There’s a new entry in the FreeBSD Basics section of ONLamp.com: Setting up a Secure Subversion Server
Joerg Sonnenberger listed a few links describing benchmarks with GCC 4.0, as part of a conversation on why he’s working on GCC 3.4.4 instead.
Colin Percival of the FreeBSD Project discovered a security problem with “Hyper-Threading Technology”, found on newer Pentium 4 processors, where information from one thread can be read by another. He talked about it at BSDCan 2005 today (wish I was there!), and there’s a corresponding security alert for FreeBSD. The FreeBSD securing procedure should work for DragonFly, too.
Matthew Dillon, David Xu, and Joerg Sonnenberger have been having an extended conversation on kernel@ about RTLD, TLS, and other things – look for the “kernel library interfacing layer” topic if you want to browse it. All three of these guys are heavyweight kernel programmers, so it goes in-depth.
UnixReview.com has a review up of the book “Linux in a Windows World“. Why mention this here? Because it doesn’t really cover Linux as much as it’s covering applications that run on Linux… All of which run on DragonFly too.
Jeffrey Hsu has implemented TCP Appropriate Byte Counting for DragonFly, which is described in RFC 3465.
A question about the file locore.s led to a little computer hardware history lesson.
I think this has been around for a while, but it was just posted on the GoBSD mailing list: NYCBUG has a BSD Tracker page, where businesses that use BSD can be listed. If that describes your workplace, get on there.
Matthew Dillon has created a subversion for the 1.3 experimental code, in order to deal with the recent changes there, and also moved the RELEASE code up to 1.2.2, to incorporate a recent TLS fix.
Joerg Sonnenberger has a workaround for anyone who is running EXPERIMENTAL and tried to update within the last 24 hours or so.
ONLamp/BSD has two new articles; one about getting NetBSD into difficult installs, and the other being the excellent and regular monthly news roundup for April.
Matthew Dillon’s proposed a formula for a ‘kernel interfacing library layer‘, which should, among other things, ease the tranistion between major upgrades.
(Yeah, it’s a forced title. I liked the assonance.)
‘walt’ posted a link to a book you mave have seen before: The Unix-Haters Handbook.
If you can read Swedish, you can read Jonas Sundström’s entry about Matthew Dillon at unix.se.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai sent along word that he got MathML working on DragonFly. Even better, he wrote down what he did.
3 different security issues have been reported for FreeBSD; these may affect DragonFly because of its FreeBSD-4 heritage.