Todd Willey announced on the GoBSD mailing list that a new set of pkgsrc prebuilt binaries have been placed on the gobsd.com site.
Matt Dillon mentioned that he hopes to have the next major release of DragonFly out, with journaling included in some form, before Usenix ’05 in mid-April. More info on this plus a stable tag slip are in his post.
In the ongoing discussion about journaling, Dan Melomedman linked to Paul Jarc’s “/fs“.
Matthew Dillon gave a further update on the journaling work, plus he noted (as many had hoped) that there would be no background fsck in DragonFly.
Zera William Holladay was looking for tips on where to find BSD-oriented material for a OS design class; several people replied with references to the “Design and Implementation…” book, other books, and general experience.
While talking about how to implement “undo” for disk journaling, Matthew Dillon also included some data on the relative effect of his journaling work on disk speed so far. (Look at the end of the post.)
Thomas Petazzoni posted a request on the kernel@ list for contributions to the Libre Software Meeting in July, in France.
The BSDCan 2005 schedule is released. (Thanks, BSDNews.)
Sam Smith’s excellent BSD news roundup, this one for February, has appeared on the ONLamp/BSD site.
Matthew Dillon is looking for someone with lots of time and know-how who can take on the userland side of his journaling work. Just read it, and you’ll see.
Matthew Dillon posted his C program for blocking repeated ssh scanners. Garance Drosihn pointed at a similar perl script, while Scott Ullrich modified Matthew Dillon’s script to use pf.
Also, Brian Reichert posted a link to the DROP list, while George Georgalis followed with a link to bogons along with a “sloppy bash script” that blocks by country code.
If you’re looking for a task to fill a rainy day, Joerg Sonnenberger suggested that moving over bits of smbfs from FreeBSD 5/6 would be good.
Frenzy, (also in Ukranian, I think) a cleverly-named Live CD based on FreeBSD, is available. Thanks, Slashdot/BSD.
It appears to be similar to FreeSBIE, though more oriented towards system maintenance. Once compressed filesystems are possible under DragonFly, a DragonFly version of these sorts of products should be easier to do.
Unixreview.com has an article up about using a shell script to find abusive folks connecting to your workstation, and another article that reviews “The Elements of Networking Style“, wich sounds great if you hate the OSI 7-layer model. (And who doesn’t?)
Sascha Wildner has made the wiki version of the Handbook editable. It can’t get any easier than this to update.
Todd Willey’s put together a web interface to the GoBSD.com pkgsrc collection. It shows details and build status of any given package in the collection.
Andreas Hauser has a new package of X.org available, at version 6.8.2. The one remaining issue is mouse acceleration – he’s looking to see if other people see the same problem when the acceleration threshold is hit.
Joerg Sonnenberger found there’s still a lot of cleanup to do.
A positive mention of DragonFly on a FreeBSD mailing list can often get you a negative response. Now, it looks like the same attitude is there for NetBSD. (Thanks Slashdot/BSD)
Instead of attacking the reasoning and intentions of people who raise problems, it may be better to fix the underlying mechanical issues. If that doesn’t work, there’s always fixing it yourself.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai posted some links to a thread library called protothreads, and a Single System Image OS. (Linux-based)