I’ve been building this entry up for a while, so some of these entries are newer than others.

• From the howling void: OpenSolaris or FreeBSD.  I’ll admit I haven’t tried OpenSolaris, but I’m also biased to BSD.
• cpdup, originally-on-DragonFly software, has had an update.
• This description of the Content Pyramid talks about web content and links, but it could be stretched to open source software.  There’s always been an implicit value to being at the top of the pyramid – hence the prestige not always fairly attached to “the commit bit”.
• Old computer facts (storage sizes) presented in handy infographic form?  Sign me up!
• vitunes, a curses-based playlist manager.  OpenBSD-specific, but may work on DragonFly.  I like the look.  (via)
• Video4Linux support is being worked on for FreeBSD, as apparently the headers are available without having to accept the GPL.  This makes it potentially available to all the BSDs, which is nice.
• FreeNAS is moving to Linux, which is a mistake bummer.  Except iXsystems stepped in and now FreeNAS is continuing as a FreeBSD-based item.   A story that seemed bad but came out well, thanks to iXsystems.  (Quick, buy their hardware!)
• “If you know of surviving software on 1/2″ tape, paper tape, cards, DECtape, etc. from users groups or computer manufacturers, please contact us. Equipment is available to recover these bits, and in some cases can be brought on-site.” (via)
• 3 BSD-themed holiday gifts.
• what.

Alexander Polakov has imported OpenBSD’s hotplugd(8).  It monitors for hotplug-style events, like disk additions and removals, and executes corresponding scripts to handles those events.

OpenBSD developer Jacek Masiulaniec gets 14 minutes of airtime in the most recent BSDTalk podcast.

Sascha Wildner has added mandoc(1), an OpenBSD product.  I like the HTML output.  (I’ve said it before, come to think of it.)

The recent importation of tmux into OpenBSD 4.6’s base system has led to some interest; I haven’t used it directly but having a BSD-licensed session manager (if that is the right term) in the base DragonFly system would be nice.

Matthew Dillon has put together some new test machines, in preparation for porting the OpenBSD AHCI driver to DragonFly.   Check his message if you are thinking about building a new system, as they appear to work well.

Undeadly has an brief, interesting article up, written by Mitja Muženič, describing the OpenBSD releasing process.  Worthwhile reading if you are involved in any sort of release cycle.

Undeadly has an article noting that OpenBSD is getting in on the LiveCD game with BSDAnywhere.

Something interesting: graphs of the commit activity for some (all?) of the OpenBSD committers.  (via ‘constant’ on #dragonflybsd)  I’d like to do the same for DragonFly.  Plus, GIANT DAEMON HEAD.

OnLAMP.com has a 3-page interview with various OpenBSD developers about the features in the newest release.  The interview goes into interesting detail, and for relevance, some of the newer wireless drivers in DragonFly came from this code work.

Seen on KernelTrap, then OpenBSD Journal and then Slashdot: BSD support (specifically OpenBSD) hardware support is improving faster than Linux in some cases.

Apparently the Mozilla Foundation donated US$10K to OpenSSH.  That’s good!  They still need money, though.

Daemon News has an interview of OpenBSD’s Theo deRaadt, where he mentions DragonFly. The last response in the interview is also entertaining.

Here’s something interesting: there’s an installer for OpenBSD called “YaifO“, which requires only SSH to work – no keyboard or serial access needed. Of course, there’s no binary, no docs, and no way to do it on a multiboot system… but the concept’s neat.