This Month in BSD.

Sam Smith <s@msmith.net>

Another “this month in BSD” - The first to be an O’Reilly blog (Hi!). Previous roundups are
available. It’s been a relatively quiet month in BSD land; except for OpenBSDville which has had one of its busiest periods in the last year.

Misc

Worth Reading

• “On (Design) Bullshit”
• Why smart people defend bad ideas
• Does your business use BSD?
• Three little words: “Tell your friends”
• Location and Geography at Where 2.0
• Explaining RAID using water coolers.

Misc reading

(lots this month)

• The big infrastructure behind kernel.org
• If you could teach the world just one th
  ing…
• Deconstructing Maui X-Stream - “The Liars And Frauds Be
  hind CherryOS”
• BSDcertfication.com opens its first beta exam
• Massive Data Aggregation with Perl (article)

BBC Backstage

“Build what you want using BBC content” (formal launch at Open Tech 2005)

• http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
• Feeds and APIs list
• What others have built.
• nat on How To Roll Out An Open API
• “Remix the Beeb”

Books from O’Reilly

(an expensive month)

• The Art of Project Management
• Classic Shell Scripting
• SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

BSDCan roundup

• Infrastructure behind the FreeBSD Package Clu
  ster
• FreeBSD Marketing work in progress
• Photos

Dell - “Software Support or Extortion”

• Unwanted, mandatory support &amp
  ; “reporting” software
• To uninstall the support softwar
  e, pay $50. Their instructions lie.

Worth attending

• EuroBSDCon 2005 - Nov 25-27, Switzerland. CFP now out.
• Open Tech 2005 - July 23rd, London. “An informal, low cost, one-day conference about
  technologies that anyone can have a go at”.

Apple

Tiger - a month on

• The image Apple uses for their DopplerView widget: A storm ov
  er Microsoft HQ
• Spotlight
• Meet Automator

CoreData Tutorials

• Build a Core Data Application
• Core Data Class Overview

OpenBSD

Summary of the OpenBSD Hackathon

(by Jeremy at Kerneltrap)

• Background
• Part I
• Part II

3.7 released

• Announcement
• Changes
• Download
• A new song
• The project funds development and releases by selling CDs and T-shirts
• Interview with OpenBSD Developers
• Happy Birthday Theo

Zaurus port

(Very cool; fully fledged OpenBSD, built natively)

• OpenBSD in your pocket

Hackathon photos

• From Matthieu
• From Robert

OpenBSD Hackathon - more details

“saving the world through disruptive proactivity”

• Day 0 - Infrastructure Day
• Day 1 - Big Iron
• Day 2 - Little Things
• Day 6 - What day is it?

Misc

• Fixing the Idle loop - making things work better.
• Citrus slowly being imported to OpenBSD
  

Other BSD

FreeBSD 5.4

• Announcement and downloading
• Release notes
• Lifetime of FreeBSD Branches (explanation and discussion)

HyperThreading Considered Harmful

• Paper discussing possibilities
• Proper fix non-trivial.
• linux’s response

NetBSD

• Tales of Rescuing Old Hardware
• Upcoming release schedule
• pkgSrcCon presentations online

DragonFlyBSD

• GCC3 and 4 news
• tying together monolithic kernels vs. microkernels and h
  ow they relate to DragonFly
• Hyper-Threading Dangers
• Kernel interfacing library layer

Please feel free to add important stuff I missed below: