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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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