Apparently there’s a good number of BSD-based jobs out there. These examples are based on NetBSD, but there’s surely more. (From Hubert Feyrer and others)
Matthew Dillon has two comments on some small things that are absolutely essential: how to reach the CDROM and how to really back up existing partitions before installing DragonFly.
“fader” has a post on gobsd.com that mentions Qemu works very well with DragonFly as a client environment, especially if you have the accelerator. Something similar that has been attracting attention: Parallels.
Petr Janda had the misfortune of overwriting his Master Boot Record; helpfully, a number of people had ways to fix it.
Andreas Hauser recommends using greylisting to combat spam, and talks a little bit about how to do it.
April 6th is the 1024th day since the DragonFly project was formed. Happy 8*8*8*2aversary, us!
Daemonnews has an interview with Jan Schaumann up;
the interview is about NetBSD as a desktop system. Many of the answers also apply to DragonFly, as NetBSD and DragonFly both use pkgsrc.
dragonflybsd.org has been updated with a different logical layout; it’s my fault.
Matthew Dillon is planning to start userland VFS work in about a month; this led Andreas Hauser to ask if FUSE could be brought in as for FreeBSD. Csaba Henk, who ported it to FreeBSD, said “yes, but better“!
BSDTalk has a new interview up with Liam Foy, who is porting CARP to NetBSD, created BSDPortal.org, and (most importantly!) also contributes to DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon posted a description of his near-term work that will get us closer to the vaunted Cache Coherency Management System and, incidentally, userspace VFS.
“walt” posted about the upcoming change from 512-byte to 4-kbyte sector size on disks. Apparently, this won’t cause problems.
This week on UnixReview.com: Regular Expressions: Experience Teaches Lessons for Team Projects, Certification: Test Your Knowledge of Wireless Security, Book Review: Nessus, Snort and Ethereal Power Tools, and a review of kdissert.
My fault: the Goals section on the DragonFly BSD website is now moved to a single page under Docs.
Robert Sebastian Gerus found that it is possible to see filenames after deletions, which is an outgrowth of UFS (and a number of other filesystems). If this concerns you, use rm -P to overwrite the data before marking it unused.
IBM developerWorks has a nice article up (by Chris Herborth, former BeOS dev) on using Eclipse as an IDE even with non-Java projects.
Sascha Wildner sent along a link to “The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin“, a many-part history of Unix.
A recent post on undeadly.org highlights the need for OpenBSD to find new funding sources to support the various hackathons held around the world for OpenBSD. It appears that the normal funding source, selling CDs of each release of OpenBSD, has become much less lucrative. OpenBSD also has a donations page.
With the growth of broadband access, the need to order a separate CD has dwindled. It appears the OpenBSD Project is going to have to supply some different form of services in order to continue the same revenue stream. According to the article, they previously generated US $80,000 each year for the last two years, and still came up $20,000 short.
Along the same lines, the FreeBSD Foundation is accepting donations. According to the most recent newsletter, the Foundation is doing well enough that a part-time administrator has been brought in to handle affairs. The most recent Foundation newsletter does not describe their financial status in specific terms, other than to sound positive. The newsletter for 2004 shows a small loss.
NetBSD also has a non-profit Foundation, with donations possible. The most recent financial report for the NetBSD foundation shows a positive balance, and recent newsletters show 2005 went well.
What about DragonFly? DragonFly is not yet a non-profit, so there’s no direct place for donations to go, though there are requests for equipment that can be filled. Pretty much all costs for dragonflybsd.org come out of Matthew Dillon’s pocket. Given the relatively huge size of these other project’s budgets, Dragonfly appears to be doing well.
Sven Willenberger saw some odd “cache_lock” messages; these are relatively benign.
Francis Gudin, I think it is, posted a link on his GoBSD blog to Dave Glowacki’s GCC warnings.