BSDCertification.org is looking for donations. Given how much work they’ve already put into the process, it certainly seems a good idea to support. (Thanks, hubertf)
linuxjewelry.com is closing down, and having a final sale of their goods. Included in that is various Beastie statues and BSD case badges. (Thanks, hubertf)
Want a project for your winter vacation? Matthew Dillon wrote in a post that I don’t have a link for:
I would still like to have a regression suite that can be run with a simple ‘
make DESTDIR=(some_place_with_lots_of_space_available)‘. It would be a good project for someone.
BayLISA has Matthew Dillon giving a short presentation on DragonFly. This is on the Apple campus in Cupertino, California, so some of you west coasters can see this. Apparently he’ll have some good statistics to report.
Joerg Sonnenberger has modified nrelease, the release-building setup on DragonFly, to use pkgsrc. That’s the last major step before the next release.
Wiger van Houten passed along a link to the FreeBSD projects and ideas page. There’s some projects there that would be useful for DragonFly, and also there are a number of ideas there from DragonFly.
The bugs page on the DragonFlyBSD website has been updated with a security officer(s) address, on the off chance a security issue is found and a confidential contact is needed.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has put together a Mercurial repo of the DragonFly source code, for those who like their SCMs decentralized.
I took my own advice and made a little experiment: a cheesy status page for Joerg Sonnenberger’s pkgsrc binary site. The page lists the update time, in descending order, for all the packages on the site. (and links to them too.) Could it be better? Yep.
Jeremy C. Reed is writing an article, and he’s taking a survey of DragonFly users.
I have a number of small posts to link, and I’m placing them in one article: First, Joerg Sonnenberger mentions that he is updating his pkgsrc binary collection on an ad-hoc basis, though not everything is there yet. (Tracking updates is an afternoon project that would be enourmously beneficial, if anyone wants to try it…)
Also, Bob Bagwill contributed his own description of How Cabling Should Be. Last, Hiten Pandya commented on the idea of automatic crash reports, much like the “Feedback Agents” that upload crash information on the Windows platform.
Joerg Sonneberger wants everyone to try out pkgsrc if possible; apparently large projects like KDE and Gnome are building, mostly.
UnixReview.com this week has two book reviews: Network Administrators Survival Guide and High Order Perl (I saw the book author, Mark Jason Dominus, at a conference a while back, come to think of it), an article about IPC called “Networking’s Easier than Programmers Realize“, and an article about forensic CDs, which is a cooler way to say “rescue CD”.
Let’s say you want to debug a crash, but it was caused by a separate kernel module? Hiten Pandya has a way to use asf(8) to get at the module-specific data.
Questions about multiprocessor machines and routing ability led to this post from Matthew Dillon, who described the bottlenecks (and how they will be eliminated).
Sergey Glushchenko asked a question about how the LWKT scheduler functions, and Matthew Dillon wrote up a rather detailed answer.
BSDCan 2006 is looking for proposals for (technical) papers, for presentation at their next event in May, 2006.
Matthew Dillon’s posted his first patch that can make network interrupts multiprocessor-safe. If you don’t want to run bleeding-edge code, it’s worth reading for the explanation.