Richard Bejtlich’s always excellent TaoSecurity blog comments on the different goals described by the major BSD projects. A interesting read. He also wrote a list of reasons on why he works with FreeBSD – points 4,6, and 7 apply even more to DragonFly. (From BSDNews.) He later linked to more discussion, including a discussion on freebsd-chat that unfortunately consists of some folks pointing out a problem (FreeBSD project goal definition) and a number of others doing nothing but describing their indifference, intricately.
The Sitetronics wiki has a new C Development Under DragonFly BSD” section that already has some content.
The BSDInstaller mailing list is back – again. It seems it wasn’t quite fixed at the time I mentioned this before, but this time, it’s for real. It’s still discussion-subscribe “at” bsdinstaller ‘dot’ org to subscribe.
Update: I still haven’t seen a “confirmation of subscription” message, so I could be wrong again.
NetBSD 2.0 is almost out – watch the NetBSD web site for the release announcement.
Guillermo Garcia Rojas is looking to translate the DragonFly FAQ into Spanish; if you have a reasonable command of Spanish and English, take a look at his Wiki version and contribute.
The bsdinstaller mailing list was accidentally trashed a little while ago; if you want to (re)subscribe, mail discussion-subscribe “at” bsdinstaller ‘dot’ org.
Want to try pkgsrc, but you already have DragonFly installed? Todd Willey posted that he has put up a binary bootstrap package.
The Sitetronics wiki now has a copy of the DragonFly FAQ; add to it if you feel you have something good to explain.
Volume 2 of the FreeBSD Handbook is available in print form now, at the FreeBSD Mall. A good amount of it will apply to DragonFly, though this material is availble free.
BSDCan 2005 is coming May 13-14th, in Ottawa, Canada. The Call for Papers is out!
Matthew Dillon suggested a small, easy project for anyone who wanted it would be to support booting from logical partitions.
The Perl Review issue 1 is out, too. This, like the Perl Journal, you need to have a subscription.
I suggested on the docs@ list that using a Wiki to allow people to make documentation updates may make it easier to actually have people contribute, and then changes can be merged back into CVS. Discussion ensued, with some folks pointing at Wikipedia‘s MediaWiki, or TikiWiki. Similar discussion popped up elsewhere. I plan to try this … soon.
The latest issue (November) of The Perl Journal is out, if you happen to subscribe. Quick! Someone make a Python comment, apropos of nothing!
Liam J. Foy has put together a new page to track what needs to be cleaned in DragonFly; take a look if you are curious, or(even better) if you wanted a relatively simple task.
Spotted on Unixreview.com: a review of Unix Shells by Example; a decent review, plus it covers the interesting term “UUOC“.
Jasse Jansson is putting together a list of supported hardware; he’s at jasse ‘at’ hornet ‘dot’ ac if you want to contribute.
Macomnet.net is a new DragonFly mirror: http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/
The GoBSD site has been visually updated, with a new GoBSD ‘distribution‘ of DragonFly, which includes pkgsrc as a built-in ports replacement. There’s also an ambitious mission statement.