That was fast – there’s another BSDTalk already!  BSDTalk 186 has Jeff Roberson, FreeBSD committer.  He’s talking about schedulers and softupdates for a good half hour.

The first online-only free version of BSD Magazine is out!  It’s good, but there’s no DragonFly, darnit.  Anyway, it’s worth reading if for no other reason than it’s in pleasant, colorful PDF format.

James Nixon, iXsystems employee and PC-BSD developer, is interviewed for 16 minutes on BSDTalk 185.

Still not used to typing “2010″.

• I have no idea if bup is a worthwhile backup tool or even if it would compile on DragonFly, but more products should be described this way.  (via)
• I’ve seen plenty of articles along the lines of “Open Source and X”, where the article explains at great length how open source in certain situations can work well.  “Doing It Wrong” comes at it from a different direction.
• BSD Magaine is going free, meaning it’s a free download starting with the February issue.   The site says “sign up for our newsletter and get every issue straight to your inbox” – the correct link is “Newsletter” on the upper right corner of the page.  PDFs of the print issues are available too.
• The Open Source Business Resource is now publishing weekly articles in addition to their monthly issue.  The inaugural article is “Avatar, Open Source and Humanity 2.0” by Stephen Huddart, and the second is “Do, Delegate, Defer” by the wonderfully-named Emma Jane Hogbin.
• Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX: linked many places.  It’s a good argument, which reminds me…  anyone want to work on DRM for DragonFly?  It could use some loving.
• A Python script that takes your picture and uploads it every time a merge (in Mercurial) fails.  Someone make this work for Git, please.  (via)
• Speaking of Git, here’s a way to get auto-complete of git commands and local/remote branches in bash.
• The latest @Play covers the new, developing roguelike Dungeon Crawl, part 1 of many.  It’s listed as running on “all the BSDs”, though I don’t see it in pkgsrc.  It is playable via telnet to other servers, though.

Why, BSDTalk 184 is our very own Matthew Dillon talking about all the recent changes in DragonFly, for a good half-hour!  I’ve listened to about half of it so far…  I hadn’t realized the significance of some of the changes in the last two releases.  It’s also strange to hear someone mentioning the work you’ve done (pkgsrc bulk builds)…

The January issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with the topic being “success factors”.   Many of the articles focus on participation, and it’s an interesting read.  February’s theme is “Startups”, with articles due by Jan. 20th if you’re contributing one.

The 2010Q1 issue (Is that their numbering now?  I’m not sure.) of BSD Magazine is out.  (via)  Subscribe or pick it up in a local store.  Back issues are still available online, too.

If you can produce an article on open source success factors by December 20th, the Open Source Business Resource would like to hear from you.  Also, the audio of a recent NYCBUG meeting is available online.  Both of those links come from Dru Lavigne’s excellent BSD Twitter feeds.  It’s worth watching the BSDEvents one because there’s literally daily BSD-themed events coming up, and she seems to catch every one.

It’s a dry-sounding topic, but the articles are interesting: The December issue of the Open Source Business Resource is now available, with “Value Co-creation” for a theme.   I’ll point out “A Social Vision for Value Co-creation in Design“, because it has charts!

The first one of the Open Source Business Resource Co-Creation issues is out.  Read this if any of the open source software you use has a commercial component.  (Chances are, yes, it does.)

The next theme for the Open Source Business Resource was to be “co-creation”, focusing on commercial companies and relationships with open source development.  There were so many articles that it’s now covering 2 months.

The October issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with Arts and Media as the theme.   The article about film production using open-source tools is especially good, as articles like that tend to be a list of application names only, while this article goes into the whys and wherefores.

Dru Lavigne is going to be doing blogging/tweeting for the FreeBSD Project and FreeBSD Foundation.  This is a good thing – BSD in general is helped by more of a conversation about what’s going on.  I daresay this Digest has established that there’s definitely enough events, just with DragonFly, for daily news.

Also, Dru’s published summaries of the articles in the upcoming July ‘Collaboration’ issue of the Open Source Business Resource.

The whole OpenBSD-focused issue of BSD Magazine is available online as a PDF, plus some other articles from the NetBSD issue.  (via)

I linked to articles from last week’s issue of the Economist before, but now that I made it to the other end of the magazine, there’s another one of interest that doesn’t mention open source but still relates to it: An article on intellectual property that covers how to handle antitrust legislation and companies where the property is mostly virtual.  Useful to anyone who has dealt with the GPL and/or Microsoft.  (i.e. everyone)

Also, not really open source related, but computer games can be good for you.  I really like this magazine – not because I agree with them, but because they at least examine things in depth, and avoid the usual computing blunders you see in print.

If you don’t want to read the whole magazine yourself, there’s a nice summary available.  (that link covers the previous week; recap of this issue possibly this weekend.

The newest BSDTalk has a conversation from BSDCan 2009 with 5 different FreeBSD core team members, for 38 minutes.

Dru Lavigne has linked to the latest issue of the Open Source Business Resource, with a focus on open source in government.  The next issue will be “women in open source” (appropriate given recent hullabaloo) – they’re looking for submissions.

Also, Dru made a good point in a separate post, that is connected with the recent kqemu work for DragonFly: if every BSD had a working kqemu kernel module, it would make life easier for people taking the BSDA exam.

The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with the topic being “Geospatial” – something that isn’t covered often in open source terms.

The February issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, focusing on “Commercialization”.