Christian Sturm mailed me a link to the newest project derived from FreeBSD: MidnightBSD, which appears to be a “FreeBSD-with-ports” effort rather than the more complete splits of DesktopBSD or PC-BSD. Not that it’s a bad thing!
Matthew Dillon’s vnode reference work is already 75% complete.
What if a piece of software in pkgsrc is updated, but the pkgsrc version isn’t (yet)? Steve O’Hara-Smith has some ideas.
Who’s our newest committer? Why, it’s Peter Avalos!
Karthik Subramanian found his work connection no longer worked for CVSup, due to a new firewall. From further discussion, his remaining options appear to be CVS, rsync, a tarball, and Mercurial.
Hubert Feyrer has a number of interesting links on his blog lately: netbsd.sk has an article on pkgsrc written in Slovakian, two links to explain what capabilities are, and another of the “Look, kids! BSD!” articles that appear every few months.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s Roundup bug tracker is now available at bugs.dragonflybsd.org.
Unixreview.com this week has an article on certification: “Further Examining Changes to the A+ Certification“, book reviews of “How to Break Web Software” and “Programming PHP, Second Edition“, and “Regular Expressions: Simplest possible not always so simple“.
lsof doesn’t build on DragonFly, but apparently the DragonFly version of fstat works well as an alternative, barring the occasional problem.
The utility calendar can be used to provide reminders of upcoming events; you can even provide your own personalized list, as Sascha Wildner pointed out.
(If you’re interested in a columnar calendar, similar to a wall calendar, try cal.)
A tip found from a larger discussion of root shells: su -m allows the user’s shell to be brought forth as the root shell. If you have multiple people su’ing to root, this will allow each to use a favorite shell instead of the default /bin/tcsh.
Matthew Dillon posted two tidbits of information: ‘large mode‘ in BIOS can be needed to make disks visible, and why console messages are often limited in rate.
bfconfig has been removed, as ifconfig now contains all of brconfig’s features.
Producing a trace from kdgb can be difficult, especially if the crash involved kernel modules whose symbols are not necessarily visible. Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has directions on how to resolve this.
Hubert Feyrer found a handy way to view/keep those embedded website movies (like on YouTube) that are difficult to play on BSD: keepvid.com.
As part of a larger discussion, Freddie Cash described some possible IDE disk and CD combinations that make sense for various tasks.
As a side effect of the new release, the various ISO images located on dragonflybsd.org and mirrors have been cleaned up to reflect only actual releases; there were some out-of-date intermediate versions in there. Daily snapshots are still available.
SATA drive donations are being solicited (in the form of cash) for the machine that hosts the FreeBSD Diary, FreshPorts, FreshSource, and BSDCan.