The Month in BSD: January 2005

by Sam Smith
02/10/2005

Miscellaneous

Another month of activity in the BSD-related land.
Some fronts were relatively quiet, while others have been quite busy in the post-Christmas period.

Pictures from 21C3

21C3 photos

CIA's view of the future

• Bruce Schneier's thoughts
• Report of the 2020 Project

Microsoft Open Office Formats
Nope, just FUD.

• Office 2003 Reference Schemas
• Microsoft FAQ
• TechWorld article
• Analyst: MS Office Formats Not Open

itConversations
(Will there be full coverage of ETech?)

• Dan Gillmor on Memory Lane
• Andy Ihnatko: From Mac OS X Conference
• "Big Weather" final speaker and Q&A
• David Bornstein: New Solutions

Related Reading BSD Hacks 100 Industrial Tip & Tools By Dru Lavigne

Misc. reading

• Gladwell's new book available: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
• Overcoming Procrastination
• The Open Group releases DCE 1.2.2 as LGPL'd Free Software (and what you can do with it)
• Google opens API for AdWords
• Firefox Honcho working for Google
• Rolling with Ruby on Rails
• Keeping Your Life in Subversion
• Betting a Billion: Cringely's Predictions for 2005

Interviews and discussion

• Interview with founder of Open Graphics Project
• Interview with Richard Stallman
• The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac was Made: An Interview with Andy Hertzfeld
• Discussion on Reporting Linux Kernel Security Issues (KernelTrap)

OpenSolaris

• OpenSolaris.org

Conferences

• UKUUG Conference: Security & Networks, February 27-28; UK
• Emerging Technology Conference, March 14-17, San Diego
• Usenix 2005, April 10-15; Anaheim
• BSDCan 2005, May 13-14; Ottawa
• BSD meeting in France (site in French)

FreeBSD

SMP bits

• Giant removed from VFS ...
• ... how to test
• Plans from Robert Watson
• Interview with Scott Long
• NetBSD 2.0 beats FreeBSD 5.3 in server performance (probably proves little)

FreeBSD 4.11 released

• Announcement
• FTP sites

Misc.

• Announcement Java Patchset for FreeBSD and NetBSD (OpenBSD underway)
• Second half of 2004 status report
• FreeBSD System Disk Mirroring

NetBSD

Understanding NetBSD 2.0

• NewsForge Article
• Understanding NetBSD 2 naming schemes

Misc.

• Foundation Status Report 2004 Q4
• Intel donates kit

OpenBSD

New Platforms

• OpenBSD ported to Sharp Zaurus
• Undeadly.org article on Zaurus port
• SGI port goes "official" from "work in progress"

Misc.

• Extending stsh to work with CVS
• Initial pieces for Bluetooth support

DragonFly BSD

Discussions

• On SMP
• More on SMP
• 1:1 threading port from FreeBSD
• How to upgrade third party software (good ideas here)
• Routing code rewritten

CVS repository name change

• Avoid conflict with FreeBSD

More journalling progress

• Summary
• Links to commits

Apple

iWork and iLife05
(How long till iSlack?)

• iWork
• Pages: Giving the Word Processor the Apple treatment
• Keynote 2: Presentations
• InDepth Review: Pages
• InDepth Review: Keynote 2
• ZDNet Superficial Review

Mac mini
(Small, quiet, fast; ideal special-purpose server?)

• Mac mini
• Mac mini As a Home Media Server
• Small is cute

iPod Shuffle
(They're small, and nice as presents)

• iPod Shuffle
• MacSlash article
• New Users' Review
• Power Users' Review

iTunes Movie Store?

• Maybe
• Cringely on iPod and Movies
• Cringely on Mac mini and Movies

Misc

• When is a good time to switch to Apple?
• Another supercomputer cluster
• Apple Announces Best Quarter. Ever.
• "IT Pro. Information for IT Managers and technology Professionals"
• Cringely's predictions from 1997

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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