The Month in BSD: April 2005

by Sam Smith
05/05/2005

Miscellaneous

Worth reading

• How often do you check your email?
• Zen and the art of Apache maintenance
• Some rights reserved: a view of the UK Creative Commons project
• BBC Creative Archive

BSDCan 2005
May 13-14, 2005, Ottawa, Ontario

• BSDCan 2005
• Schedule

Only in America

• Man arrested for paying bill with legal tender

New activist coordinator at EFF
(Danny O'Brien)

• If you're "running something that you think the EFF should know about, let me know"
• Electronic Frontier Foundation

Making packager-friendly software
What every free software developer should read

• Part 1
• Part 2

BSD Certification Group's task analysis survey
"This survey will take approximately one hour to complete"

• Start here
• BSD Certification

Related Reading Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security By Yanek Korff, Paco Hope, Bruce Potter

Linux kernel source control

• BitKeeper license changes
• Linus's post on leaving BK
• Linus begins Git development
• Git for beginners
• Managing the kernel source with Git
• 2.4 moves to Git

OpenBSD

• 3.7 song: "Wizard of OS"
• Announcement of the song on KernelTrap
• "Improve large wireless networks with hostapd(8)"
• hppa64 initial port committed

FreeBSD January-March status report

• Initial posting

Miscellaneous reading

• See how USB developed and discuss the pros and cons of the standard
• The countdown for the extinction of CDs is about to begin
• How to build a nonprofit for your community
• O'Reilly's radar weblog

Apple

Tiger

• Ars Technica 21-page review
• Apple web page
• Attention to detail

Enhancements to Tiger

• Dashboard widget center
• Spotlight plugin center
• Automator Action center

NetBSD

Live network backup
Back up your laptop filesystem to a server, in real time

• Readme file
• Code
• KernelTrap article

NetBSD quarterly status report

• Q1 2005

NetBSD 2 for the office
"Install--reboot--start using KDE"

• NetBSD 2 Office

"A technical look at the OpenBSD operating system from a NetBSD perspective"
It's different. Author thinks this is bad.

• The article

Miscellaneous NetBSD

• Xen disk I/O benchmarking: NetBSD dom0 vs. Linux dom0
• Development of NetBSD's system restarts
• Read/writable UDF filesystem's details
• NetBSD 2.0.2 announced: various fixes

DragonFlyBSD

DragonFlyBSD 1.2 released

• Announcement
• Release information
• Team working on DragonFly

Post-1.2 development
(lots of it)

• Some of the plans
• Warning of changes imminent
• errno becomes a thread local variable
• Lots of smaller changes

dntpd
DragonFly's ntpd client

• First commit and why it's been developed

Next Month

Next month, we'll alter the publishing of this column. Rather than frantically writing the column around the first of the month and publishing it on these pages a few days later, I'll have it appear in my new O'Reilly Network weblog. Because I get to publish it, you will find out just how late it usually is. If you have any suggestions on other improvements we could make, feel free to

For those who find out about this column by RSS from my author's page, the URL of announcements won't change.

Until next month, when I'll appear somewhere over there -------->.

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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