I think this has been around for a while, but it was just posted on the GoBSD mailing list: NYCBUG has a BSD Tracker page, where businesses that use BSD can be listed. If that describes your workplace, get on there.
Joerg Sonnenberger has a workaround for anyone who is running EXPERIMENTAL and tried to update within the last 24 hours or so.
ONLamp/BSD has two new articles; one about getting NetBSD into difficult installs, and the other being the excellent and regular monthly news roundup for April.
Matthew Dillon’s proposed a formula for a ‘kernel interfacing library layer‘, which should, among other things, ease the tranistion between major upgrades.
(Yeah, it’s a forced title. I liked the assonance.)
If you can read Swedish, you can read Jonas Sundström’s entry about Matthew Dillon at unix.se.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai sent along word that he got MathML working on DragonFly. Even better, he wrote down what he did.
3 different security issues have been reported for FreeBSD; these may affect DragonFly because of its FreeBSD-4 heritage.
Matthew Dillon pointed out that the recent TLS work will make for much less complex code, and also means that GCC 2.95 will finally be retired from the DragonFly system.
UnixReview.com has some new articles up: A review of Visual SlickEdit, a description of the USENIX @ 30 event, and an ongoing look at Server+ certification.
Adrian Nida noted that he has updated his pkgsrc HOWTO located on the DragonFly Wiki.
If you’re following the EXPERIMENTAL branch right now, there’s a lot of breakage going on because of the library upgrades, which will break some/many applications until they are recompiled. Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has put up a recompiled version of cvsup that works with EXPERIMENTAL at this point in time.
If you’re running anything else other than EXPERIMENTAL, you don’t need this.
UnixReview.com has an article up on using telnet to test network services; if you aren’t nodding your head in recognition of what this is, you should read the article. It’s a basic and useful tool.
Steve O’Hara-Smith found that running the Knoppix CD left his network card in a wierd state and unable to pass traffic. He had to physically remove power from his machine before DragonFly (or FreeBSD) could use the card again.
A minor point that came up during conversation on user@: DragonFly releases do not slowly move into new versions, as STABLE does on FreeBSD; 1.2 will always remain 1.2.x, while the next stable version (1.4) will be built from the new code that’s in 1.3 right now.
I’ve seen links in a few places for PC-BSD, which is a flavor (dare I say distribution?) of FreeBSD 5.3 with a nice installer.
Jeremy C. Reed, of BSDNewsletter fame, sent along news of the first survey from the BSD Certification Group. The survey is to “determine what kinds of tasks are performed by BSD system administrators in their day-to-day duties. Also of interest is the importance of each of these tasks as well as the level of skill required for each.” Read the announcement, and then take the survey.
Also, seen on BSDNewsletter.com, there is a ZDNet interview with Dru Lavigne, one of the folks working in the BSD Certification Group, and also a BSD author.
Now on UnixReview.com: IPv4 to IPv6 migration, and a Nameko webmail review.