BSDTalk 143 is an interview with Deborah Norling, focusing on computer accessibility for the blind on BSD, and old computer equipment. It’s a very different interview from the normal technical overview. A choice quote: “We don’t have a [PDP] 11/70 cause they’re just too darn big”.
Sascha Wildner has added a way to get a new list of PCI IDs added to the system; for those who don’t know, these lists are how the system knows what names to use for devices detected and listed in dmesg.
wiki.dragonflybsd.org has been updated by yours truly to 1.6.1 of MoinMoin; this should fix some reported errors with 1.6.0.
Peter Avalos has been working on CAM locking using lockmgr; he has a patch set available for anyone who wants in on the action.
Welcome our newest committer: Dave Hayes.  His first project will apparently be importing the BSD Installer.
If you’re willing to mentor a DragonFly project for Google Summer of Code, please speak up now, as the application is going in soon.
HEAD users will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel because of Sepherosa Ziehau’s recent changes to ifnet.
The relentless Sepherosa Ziehau has written a new iwl(4) driver for Intel’s 2100BG wireless chipset. As he warns, please drop ipw(4) and switch to this more capable driver.
Because my name is attached to a variety of DragonFly ‘things’, including this digest, sometimes I get bizarre email.
Sascha Wildner’s added experimental support for NICs using Silan Microelectronics’ SC92301 chip.
Adam Hoka is running another hackathon, based on pkgsrc-wip packages (hence ‘Wipathon‘), this weekend and next. Contributions from people willing to run patched programs – say, testing DragonFly support – are welcome.
Francis Gudin is working on IKE/IPSEC support for DragonFly; he has patches for racoon in pkgsrc, plus there’s other patches available out there.
If you need an XSLT2 processor, or like programs written in Eiffel, Colin Adams has a program for you.
If your configure is out of date, Sascha Wildner pointed out the right place to get the most recent config.sub and config.guess.
This is one of those perennial article types: “Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits” on IBM’s developerWorks site. It’s not shell-specific, and actually quite useful, though dry. (via rootprompt)
Matthew Dillon is going to roll release 12.1 very soon, due to the discovery and fix of a Sendmail bug that can cause segfaults.
OnLAMP has a article talking about setting up Apache with SSL; it’s been covered elsewhere, but this article manages to not assume you’re using one platform or another, thankfully.
DragonFly user ‘why the lucky stiff’ has put together a book called ‘Nobody Knows Shoes‘. Shoes is a library for creating graphical interfaces on Ruby applications. The book is a lesson on how to use Shoes, mixed in with hand-drawn and collaged art, and available as a free download or a physical, purchasable object.
I am all for more interesting computer books. This one reads as a mix between an O’Reilly Nutshell guide and The Book of the Subgenius, or perhaps a Max Ernst novel.
Alert readers may remember why’s previous book, “Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby“.
The NYCBSDCon site now has a call for presentations, plus details for sponsorship.  (via Undeadly)
Hubert Feyrer’s latest post detailing recent changes in NetBSD mentions strcspn(3), strpbrk(3) and strpspn(3) improvements coming from DragonFly. It’s gratifying to see good ideas spread.