If you’re looking for a KVM switch to use with a DragonFly machine(s), it appears that Belkin (and USB) is the way to go.

Joerg Sonneberger wants everyone to try out pkgsrc if possible; apparently large projects like KDE and Gnome are building, mostly.

UnixReview.com this week has two book reviews: Network Administrators Survival Guide and High Order Perl (I saw the book author, Mark Jason Dominus, at a conference a while back, come to think of it), an article about IPC called “Networking’s Easier than Programmers Realize“, and an article about forensic CDs, which is a cooler way to say “rescue CD”.

Let’s say you want to debug a crash, but it was caused by a separate kernel module? Hiten Pandya has a way to use asf(8) to get at the module-specific data.

Questions about multiprocessor machines and routing ability led to this post from Matthew Dillon, who described the bottlenecks (and how they will be eliminated).

Sergey Glushchenko asked a question about how the LWKT scheduler functions, and Matthew Dillon wrote up a rather detailed answer.

BSDCan 2006 is looking for proposals for (technical) papers, for presentation at their next event in May, 2006.

Matthew Dillon’s posted his first patch that can make network interrupts multiprocessor-safe. If you don’t want to run bleeding-edge code, it’s worth reading for the explanation.

‘walt’ wrote up a rather nice description about how debugging works, or at least how it can work.

UnixReview.com has several new articles: “Making a Dashboard Widget for Systems Administration Purposes” (for you Mac/BSD users), “Common Network Protocols“, focusing on Perl, and “John & Ed’s Scripting Screwups“.

Matthew Dillon posted his plans for the next release, which revolve around multiprocessor capability and the inclusion of pkgsrc. He also noted some of what he plans for immediately after the 1.4 release.

Joerg Sonneberger’s commit makes clear his latest RC system changes make DragonFly more compatible with pkgsrc.

Kamil Chatrnuch has created a DragonFly BSD group on Frappr, a “Friend Mapper” application. Add yourself and your interests, if you are so inclined.

The latest FreeBSD Status Report is up, with reports on a large variety of projects, including the results of a number of Google Summer of Code projects that used FreeBSD.

The pkgsrc guide (not DragonFly-specific; for that, see the wiki) has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese.

Why, yes, I am having a hard time finding newsworthy items today; why do you ask?

This week, UnixReview.com has book reviews of Networks, Security and Complexity and Digital Identity, along with a writeup of some Nagios plug-ins.

It’s labeled 3 but named 4. Either way, read the message to see the details.

And in another followup, several people pointed at the forcedepth Linux driver (for which I can’t find a link – help!) for Nvidia-chipset network cards as an alternative to get the Shuttle boards working. (previous story) Matthew Dillon’s going to look at them.

Matthew Dillon’s got another tsleep patch, along with some more comments.

Matthew Dillon’s got another tsleep patch for people, especially SMP users, to try out. As is usual, he has a good description of the work involved in producing it.

Matthew Dillon wrote out his final report on the Shuttle XPC with a AMD X2 dual-core processor. The short version: it works under the latest DragonFly code, except for the built-in ethernet. It’s zippy.

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote me to describe the preferred bug reporting path for pkgsrc issues on DragonFly:

1: Mail Joerg Sonnenberger or users@dragonflybsd.org
2: Mail DragonFly developers known to work on pkgsrc
3: send-pr, on the NetBSD site. (The first page I found for that looks to be focused on NetBSD…)
4: Mail to the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list.

pkgsrc is the upcoming application packaging system for the next release of DragonFly, and there are several mailing lists just for pkgsrc (not DragonFly-specific) that talk about what’s going on. It’s also a good place to go if you have trouble with a particular package, as the maintainer of that package may not be on any of the DragonFly lists, due to the extreme cross-platform usage of pkgsrc.

This week on UnixReview.com, there’s a review of the game Fish Fillets Next Generation (which ought to compile on DragonFly), plus ‘John & Ed’s Miscellaneous “Split” Tips‘, dealing with splitting files.

internetnews.com has a “Return of the BSDs” article that probably doesn’t describe anything new to readers of this blog – though it’s nice to see. Also, there’s an article on bsdnewsletter.com describing a Google Summer of Code participant’s experience writing a NetBSD version of Project Evil.

http://blog.onetbsd.de/ is a new blog with several folks from the #NetBSD IRC channel contributing. It’s a bit more chatty than newsy, but it appears to be regularly updated, unlike most BSD news sources.

FreeBSD 6.0 is out. OpenBSD 3.8 is out. NetBSD 2.0.3 and 2.1 are out.

And, for the upcoming DragonFly release, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has created a wiki page for DragonFly 1.4 release planning. Matthew Dillon has chimed in with some of what he wants for the release.

This week, UnixReview.com has “Shell Corner: Reading Function and Cursor Keys in a Shell Script“, “Comparing Convergence Certifications“, and a review of “up.time 3.0“

Joerg Sonnenberger has a whole lot of prebuilt packages for DragonFly 1.3.x available. It’s showing up on mirrors, too. Going by a rough line count, it appears to have about 60 more packages (2%) than gobsd.com/pkgsrc.

The FreeBSD logo contest has a winner – more info can be found on the FreeBSD site. I can’t stop thinking “Kirby“.