What’s been happening in the BSD and friends world in the last
couple of months.
Worth Reading
- How the Coast Guard got Katrina response right
- Finding relationships in your Rolodex.
- Integrating Methodologists into Teams of Substantive Experts
- Author’s Guild vs Google
- Presentation Zen: Visual simplicity: Steve Jobs does it again
- Writing sensible email messages
- What you can do for less
- Less is more
Misc Reading
- What is Web 2.0
- Open Office license is now just LGPL
- Using FreeBSD ACLs
- Big debate over small packets
- Interview with Hans Reiser
- Securityfocus covers Mmap Malloc and other implementations
- How IBM Conned My Execs out of Millions
- Remixed TV Data
- Building Detailed Network Reports with Netflow
EuroBSDCon 2005
Basel, Switzerland - 25-27 November
RSS Aggregation of news
OpenBSD
RAID Management in 3.8
(this rocks)
Pre-Orders for 3.8
3.8 Song
Misc
- Securityfocus covers Mmap Malloc and other implementations
- OpenBSD is 10 years old
- Proactive wireless networks with hostapd(8)
IPMI support
‘Nightmare’ drove desperate user to open source
G5 support in progress
NetBSD
tmpfs integrated
“NetBSD and my life”
(can be said for all the BSDs)
A package manager for pkgsrc
(doing as a third party what the OpenBSD pkg tools do by default)
Misc
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 6.0 Beta 4
Interview with Scott Long
New website launched
DragonFlyBSD
Dragonfly to use pkgsrc
DragonFly at NYCBSDCon
Intricacies of Journalling
Apple
XAR
“The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format”
iPod nano
iTunes handles video
After a intermittent few months, hopefully this will now stay
on a monthly schedule.
