The Month in BSD: December 2004

by Sam Smith
01/24/2005

Foretelling the Future?

• An article from 10 years ago, discussing 01 December 2004
• Need To Know (by the same authors)
• 10 headlines you won't see in 2005

Google

• Google Suggest
• How Google Suggest works
• Google's search of printed books

Worth Reading

• Lost for words
• Is activism always good?
• BBC Radio MP3 takes off--MP3, podcasting, and Listen Again
• What Torvalds really thinks of Solaris
• "Big Weather" from itConversations

Misc Reading

• Robbers scared off by PlayStation game sounds
• What's Next for Google (Technology Review subscription needed)
• Interview with RMS
• Dissecting PC server performance

Software Patents in Europe
(words fail)

• Software patents almost approved by a fisheries meeting
• What happened
• Poland said no--thank Poland

OpenBSD

OpenNTPD considered harmful?
If you don't want to run it, run something else.

• OpenBSD FAQ entry summary
• Brad Knowles thinks so
• Darren Tucker responds

OpenCVS is coming along

• Import message, details, and discussion
• README
• OpenCVS website

OpenBSD -current/i386 switches to gcc 3.3

• OpenBSD Journal discussion
• A bit about the NX bit; virus protection woes

NetBSD

NetBSD 2.0 released

• NetBSD homepage
• Announcement
• KernelTrap article

Misc

• Ideas about an audio framework
• "NetBSD 2.0 takes Xen path"
• Unofficial roadmap past 3.0

FreeBSD

FreeBSD Foundation requests and receives donations
(continuing to exist is good)

• Newsletter: December 21st call for help
• Foundation makes the required amount five days later

FreeSBIE 1.1
"A FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD"

• FreeSBIE website
• Screenshot tour

Towards 6-CURRENT

• Testing of 6.0 wanted
• Rewritten TCP Reassembly
• Project Wish-Lists
• More testing

Why Bother?

• PHK's "Why Bother" and project goals
• Why Bother with FreeBSD?

Misc

• FreeBSD can use Mozilla branding
• Schedgraph--Scheduler Trace Visualization Tool
• ULE scheduler status

Apple

Story of the Graphing Calculator

• The Story

MacWorld SF rumours
(probably baseless, but fun to think about)

• Apple sues to find identities of leakers
• Reports on sub $500 Mac For the expo?
• Headless iMac?
• iWork '05 Productivity Suite?
• iLife '05, Keynote 2, Asteroid, and other new applications?

Misc

• Microsoft tries to shut down MacSlash (sledgehammer, meet nut)
• NeoOffice/J beta--OpenOffice for Mac OS X

DragonFlyBSD

Future Plans

• I/O consolidation and direct-to-DMA plans (original post)
• I/O Consolidation and direct-to-DMA plans (KernelTrap discussion)
• Scheduler revision

Journaling

• Initial posts about implementing journaling
• How Matt expects DragonFly journaling to work
• First parts go in

Misc

• Porting OpenNTPD to DragonFly

Sam Smith lives in Manchester, England, and works on interfaces to data. When he's not in front of a computer, he's usually in a theater, probably with MUGSS.

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