iXSystems has bought FreeBSDMall.  Interesting, as now it is a company with its own software and hardware product.  There’s only a few others like that, who coincidentally also have offered BSD-based products.  (Seen on BSDNews.)

Matthew Dillon’s written up a description of how indexing (via B+trees) will be handled in his as-of-yet-unnamed clustering file system.

If you are running a DragonFly system older than version 1.6, and you are in North America using something other than UTC time, you will need to manually update your tzinfo files to reflect the changed (in 2005, taking effect this year) Daylight Savings Time start and stop dates.  If you are on UTC or are running 1.6+, you are fine.

AsiaBSDCon 2007 has no DragonFly-specific events happening at this point - Masao Uebayashi posted a neighborly welcome for any DragonFly developers to join the NetBSD discussion and beer party on March 9th, starting at 13:00.

OSNews has a news story up about Matthew Dillon’s planned new filesystem, with comments of varying utility.

I didn’t know this, but it’s very simple to assign VLANs to your network interfaces in DragonFly.

YONETANI Tomokazu happens to know the secret to building multiple kernels at once.

This week on UnixReview.com: the Regular Expressions article “Tcl Scores High in RE Performance“, “Examining the Novell Certified Linux Engineer 10 Certification“, “Test Your Knowledge of HTML Topics” in Q&A format, a book review of “The Relational Database Dictionary“, and a very silly “Codysseus: A Geek Travesty by Erudil“.

Sascha Wildner has a version of DragonFly 1.8 compiled using NATA, the new ATA system, available on leaf.dragonflybsd.org.  (Link goes directly to a bzipped ISO)  Try it if you’ve had trouble getting DragonFly to install on a system with a very new SATA controller.