If you’re looking for a task to fill a rainy day, Joerg Sonnenberger suggested that moving over bits of smbfs from FreeBSD 5/6 would be good.
Matthew Dillon issued this warning to folks with accounts on leaf: Due to an increase in automated ssh scans, he’s implemented a security policy that may lock you out if you goof up your login. Mail him if that does happen.
I’ve seen these same ssh scans with some frequency for at least a few months; these scans appear to be looking for poorly configured machines. Not a huge threat, but enough to warrant a closer eye.
Frenzy, (also in Ukranian, I think) a cleverly-named Live CD based on FreeBSD, is available. Thanks, Slashdot/BSD.
It appears to be similar to FreeSBIE, though more oriented towards system maintenance. Once compressed filesystems are possible under DragonFly, a DragonFly version of these sorts of products should be easier to do.
Unixreview.com has an article up about using a shell script to find abusive folks connecting to your workstation, and another article that reviews “The Elements of Networking Style“, wich sounds great if you hate the OSI 7-layer model. (And who doesn’t?)
Sascha Wildner has made the wiki version of the Handbook editable. It can’t get any easier than this to update.
Todd Willey’s put together a web interface to the GoBSD.com pkgsrc collection. It shows details and build status of any given package in the collection.
Andreas Hauser has a new package of X.org available, at version 6.8.2. The one remaining issue is mouse acceleration – he’s looking to see if other people see the same problem when the acceleration threshold is hit.
Joerg Sonnenberger found there’s still a lot of cleanup to do.
A positive mention of DragonFly on a FreeBSD mailing list can often get you a negative response. Now, it looks like the same attitude is there for NetBSD. (Thanks Slashdot/BSD)
Instead of attacking the reasoning and intentions of people who raise problems, it may be better to fix the underlying mechanical issues. If that doesn’t work, there’s always fixing it yourself.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai posted some links to a thread library called protothreads, and a Single System Image OS. (Linux-based)
I missed this, originally: the BSDCan 2005 website has an extensive list of presentations now posted. Registration is opening up early next month.
ONLamp.com has a new interview up of several NetBSD developers, with what they plan to work on now that NetBSD 2.0 is released.
I’ve been meaning to put NetBSD on an IBM z50 as soon as I can find a working model.
Martin Hellwig is a lucky guy; he gets to boot DragonFly on a spiffy Sun Fire v20z.
While replying to an otherwise irrelevant thread, Matthew Dillon described some of the hardware/software work he’s done on the side.
Though it was previously “leaked”, there’s a contest for a new FreeBSD logo – details have been mailed. $500 for the winner!
DragonFly developers are helpful people.
Unixreview.com has two new article that may be of some use: Regular Expressions: Resource Management and Understanding the Command Line (with Perl).
Eduardo Tongson’s DragonFly Presentation (134K pdf) has been updated.