As part of a conversation about headless installation, Bill Hacker describes the old-fashioned way, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert mentioned the ‘Pre-Flight Installer‘, and Matthew Dillon described how he uses rconfig.
The modular version of xorg is predicted to be in pkgsrc in October.
For those needing an explanation: We currently have the ‘monolithic’ version.  The modular form breaks the build of xorg into parts that can be updated separately, and will be the form used for future versions.
It’s nice to see code flowing back and forthe bewteen BSD projects; the latest is OpenBSD taking advantage of the DragonFly acx(4) driver. (Thanks, Undeadly)
Gregory Neil Shapiro has kindly updated sendmail to 8.13.8 (see release notes).
This week on UnixReview: A software review of G2 8.2, a book review of Nagios: System and Network Monitoring, and an article: Certification: Test Your Knowledge of A+ Elective Topics. There’s also some Linux articles which I am so totally ignoring.
User “Xaduha” posted a link to his compiling-on-DragonFly version of the Glorious Haskell Compiler, necessary to build Pugs (Perl 6 in Haskell) and apparently some other less mind-bending things.
Jan KoÅ¡ir wrote a pkgsrc updating script that will handle local patches, include pkgsrc-wip, and work with pkgmanager – pretty nifty.
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.