Matthew Dillon is adding versioning support to Hammer; it’ll support in-place version upgrading. The gory details of his current plan are available, with an interesting tidbit: Hammer directory lookups remain the same speed even with 2 billion files in a directory, while UFS will be O(N^3) speed after several hundred thousand.
I have a number of things to link which probably can all go together:
- Useful (Stupid) BlackBerry Tricks, to go with the previous ones for Unix, Vi, Emacs, and Regexes.
- Dru Lavigne brings work of the November OSBR issue: “Health and Life Sciences“, along with something else I didn’t know the BSD Fund was supporting: Events.
- BoingBoing is having an Obfusticated Code contest; I seem to have heard of this sort of thing before.
- Two links from sjg on EFNet #dragonflybsd: tarsnap and Sun’s hybrid storage plans. (PDF)
User “dark0s Optik” has put together a graphical tool for managing pkgsrc, called “pkgsrcgfe”. I’d say to give it a whirl, but I don’t recall seeing a download link yet.
The newest BSDTalk is about trying various BSDs (including DragonFly) on a EeePC 900A. Little netbooks are this close to being an acceptable price/performance combination for me…
Will Backman, the host, is going to be at MeetBSD, which is happening in 5 days…
Since DragonFly is switching to git instead of CVS, something handy is ‘eg’, or Easy Git. It’s a wrapper around git that makes the transition from CVS easier, or so it says. (via _hasso_ on EFNet #dragonflybsd) The linked page lists some alternate programs that are also designed to make git acclimation easier.
Hasso Tepper has been helpfully submitting DragonFly-specific pkgsrc fixes for some time; his reward/punishment is commit access to pkgsrc. Congratulations, Hasso
The change from CVS to git will be happening this week, with git being moved in and mercurial added in a mirrored form, so both will be available. Expect some wierdness on the commits@ mailing list.
Michael Neumann has come up with a way to automatically create pseudo file systems (PFS) when mirroring a Hammer volume. Previously, the destination/slave file system would have to be created first; this makes it Just Work.
This means Hammer data streams will be incompatible with versions before and after this change, but it’s not going to damage anything. Introducing a versioning system into Hammer data streams is an available project…
Some random links I’ve had built up:
- Dru Lavigne has links explaining cross-platform zip differences
- Microsoft is getting in on the idea of an App Store, same as Apple and Google. I want to point out that you can draw a straight line between the BSD world’s ports/package systems and this idea…
- pcc is seeking funding. (via)
I previously posted about Joe ‘Floid’ Kanowitz’s problem with the xorg driver for the ATI RS480 chipset. It turns out he went and figured out a workaround.
Fresh from the howling void: (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks and (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks. Caveat Emptor.
Update: Emacs too.
It looks like there’s already BSD-specific patches for OpenJDK according to commenter Samh; anyone want to see how well these would work for DragonFly?
Also, does someone want to work on interrupt routing for DragonFly? It’s tough and necessary work, but there are enough people that need it that there’s a potential bounty of $400 or more.
Do you have a Radeon card with a RS480 chipset? Joe ‘Floid’ Kanowitz noticed a problem when upgrading xorg; here’s his heads-up.
Stephane Russell pointed at work bringing the OpenJDK to the BSDs – anyone want to help out?
Thomas Nikolajsen turned the slides from Matt Dillon’s NYCBSDCon talk about Hammer into a PDF.
Marc G. Fournier reported hitting 25,000 BSD systems checking in to bsdstats.org; most of that is PC-BSD, where the bsdstats client is on by default. (It’s present in DragonFly but not on by default.) Some cross-posted acrimony followed, thankfully not from DragonFly users.
OpenBSD 4.4 is out, and OnLAMP (as usual) has a developer interview to match. They touch on a number of products that are also used in DragonFly, like the sensors framework and pf. (via)
Hey, there’s a part 2 to the @Play coverage of the the devnull NetHack Tounament! (Part 1 mentioned here if you missed it.)
txtfiles.com is having its 10th anniversary. Read up on Jason Scott’s history, which parallels the development of computer and the Internet for a lot of people (myself included), and then waste your afternoon browsing through all the data he has saved. If I had encountered something like this at 14 on my local BBS, it would have been amazing. For fun, look at the Hacking UNIX section, or perhaps Programming. (via)