Archive for March 2008
Matthew Dillon has turned net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on by default, due in part to problems seen during the most recent pkgsrc bulk build I’ve been doing on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org.
Student proposals for the Google Summer of Code are now due on April 7th, instead of today. This means more time to refine proposals, or create a new one. Get to it! We have 28 applications at this point.
And look: Google’s newest product to launch on April 1st: Google Gulp.
Abstracts for paper presentations at EuroBSDCon 2008 are due June 1st. The EuroBSDCon site doesn’t have the Call For Papers on it, so I’ll link to the mail.
I like this note from the family page: “Derivative work such as Gentoo are considered welcome though their creativity is restrictively licensed.” (Emphasis added)
Matthew Dillon reports that HAMMER is running well enough to have survived a week holding backups on his local LAN; he asks for more testers.
The March issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out. There’s a timely article in there where Murraay Stokely describes the benefits for FreeBSD that came from Summer of Code participation. (via Dru Lavigne)
(remember, student apps are due by Monday!)
Sepherosa Ziehau has added a packet generator to DragonFly that can apparently pump out a lot of data.
Two minor changes: Matthew Dillon has brought in updates for disk support (NATA) from FreeBSD, and Sascha Wildner has updated the timezone database. I never realized timezone information fluctuated so much.
Dave Hayes has committed changes that allow the local version of the installer (i.e. the one in CVS) to be used when building a release CD.
Matthew Dillon posted another HAMMER filesystem update. In this one, he goes into the current state and talks about a bit of what’s planned for this filesystem (boot support - yay!). He later went into details of historical filesystem access and snapshot usage.
An interesting point from a recent commit: a HAMMER filesystem is stable enough to use as /usr/obj during a buildworld.
We are in the student signup period for Google Summer of Code projects on DragonFly. I have a link roundup for both students and mentors - check it if you have not yet signed up or want to propose a project.