Chris Turner has added in support for a -l option to vnconfig(8), listing configured vnode disks.  Note that this will require a full rebuild for those running bleeding-edge code.

An aside in this post from Matthew Dillon notes that the next release (which I assume will be 2.0) will be before the end of February.

Matthias Drochner managed to get one of those USB-powered missile launchers working on NetBSD; it looks enough like a USB keyboard that this could work on any BSD.  (Via Hubert Feyrer)

This week’s BSDTalk is an interview with Dru Lavigne, covering her new “Best of FreeBSD Basics” book and the new BSDA exam, both previously mentioned on this Digest.

To continue that topic, Dru also attended DemoCamp7 in Ottawa recently and has a writeup on the new products she saw.

boulder.tele.dk is a new DragonFly mirror, serving images and pkgsrc binaries via HTTP and FTP.

Dru Lavigne saw that the BSDA exam is through ‘beta’ and ready to go - it will be offered at a number of conferences through 2008.

An experiment in Barcelona, last year, took a number of people with no coding experience but plenty of graphic design experience whatever and got them to modify a version of the old game Breakout. The results were quite interesting. You’ll need Flash to see the video of the abstract results. (Via waxy)

Why do I mention this? Open source systems tend to assume users are either very experienced or totally inexperienced. Looking for people who don’t fit either of those categories is a much more useful goal, as it produces new methods and ways of looking at things.

An article on OpenAddict talks about managing multiple FreeBSD systems, though it could apply to most any BSD system, including DragonFly.  It boils down to “Share code via NFS.”, really.  (Via FreeBSDOS)

The January issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out.  There’s notes in there on some $300k (!) of grant money for Ontario, canada universities for open source projects looking to commercialize.  (Via Dru Lavigne)