Month: January 2005

ONLamp/BSD has two new articles up. One is an interview with Scott Long of FreeBSD about FreeBSD 5’s SMP implementation – DragonFly is mentioned in contrast. The other is a report of November’s BSD news. Both seem a little late – November is no longer last month as mentioned in the article, and the interview places FreeBSD 5.3 in the future. I’m nitpicking, as they are both good articles.

A few people posted that they could not build world. Matthew Dillon suggested cleaning out the object directory.

‘Piet’ posted a link to a “Walk Through the PicoBSD Kernel“. This would be FreeBSD-based, but still relevant to DragonFly.

The Sitetronics wiki page for DragonFly has undergone a DNS makeover – it is now “http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/“.

‘nega’ posted some additional info about RSA vs. DSA encryption.

The latest addition to Dru Lavigne’s “FreeBSD Basics” column on ONLamp.com is “More FreeBSD for Linux Users“. It’s oriented towards FreeBSD and Linux, but it generally applies to DragonFly and Linux, too. Also, there’s a nice link collection at the end of the article.

Hiroki Sato is the newest to join the DragonFly team with commit access.

UnixReview.com has posted 3 new articles of general interest: zsh “keeper” functions, a review of Internetworking with TCP/IP, and a review of High-Tech Crimes Revealed.

Adrian Bocaniciu posted an explanation from an unknown author of just what the differences are between DSA and RSA keys for authentication and encyption.

The BSD Installer mailing list has returned, but functional this time. Send email to “discussion-subscribe ‘at’ bsdinstaller ‘dot’ com”. (That address is munged, obviously.)

Update: I had the wrong address – it ends in .com. Should work…

FreeBSD has a (big!) status report up for the latter half of 2004.

The DragonFly FAQ on dragonflybsd.org is now copied irregularly from the one on the Wiki, along with the Spanish and Russian versions. This is based off an excellent idea from Max Okumoto.

ONLamp.com has an article up about EuroBSDCon2004. The EuroBSDCon site has PDFs of (nearly) all the presentations, some of which are well worth the time to read.

Take some time to read Jordan Hubbard’s keynote (pdf) – Jordan was one of the original folks behind FreeBSD and is currently a mucky-muck at Apple. Dru Lavigne’s “But I am not a developer…how can I contribute to open source?” (pdf) is also worth a look, along with a large number of other more specific presentations.

If you see nothing else, look at this picture of Jordan Hubbard’s talk, and read the slide behind him. That’s right, folks: we are the mainstream, not the margin.

Andrew Atrens now has a web page with his ports of wireless drivers to DragonFly – Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG and Atheros, at this point. He’s looking for testers.

The Sitetronics wiki now holds the Spanish and Russian translations of the DragonFly FAQ.

Matthew Dillon happened to outline the process for adding third-party software (like dhcpd, ncurses, or gcc) to the base DragonFly system.

Greg Lehey, BSD hacker from a land down below, has a BSD-based beer brewing system. (Seen on Slashdot, though strangely not in their BSD section.) Greg has a lot of other interesting material to look at while you’re there.

Sergey Gluschenko has created a Russian translation of the DragonFly FAQ.