This Month in BSD.

Sam Smith <s@msmith.net>

Lots happened.

Security

Lots of Advisories and Erratta for all systems have been released this month
(make sure you're up to date)

• FreeBSD
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD

NetBSD

NetBSD went to LinuxTag

• pictures

Ultrasparc III kit required
(Got a spare SunFire 15000 ?)

• http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#ultrasparc3donation-200406

PF comes to NetBSD
(now in all the BSDs)

• BSDNews article
• Commit message

pkgsrc frozen

• http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2004/06/07/0009.html

OpenBSD

SMP imported into -current

• test, test then test some more.
• Undeadly.org article

2004 Hackathon
(hackity-hackity-slackity-hack)

• Theo's initial announcement
• Undeadly comments
• SMP works on AMD64
• FibreChannel kit wanted
• And lots of other stuff

Systrace Shell

• http://monkey.org/~jose/software/stsh/
• Undeadly article
• The book it grew out of

Apache no longer being updated

• Announcement
• Undeadly article
• http://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=4590

OpenBSD's own ntpd imported to -current

• Undeadly article

Monolithic Simplicty

• Summary on KernelTrap

FreeBSD

2.5 Million Active Sites now running FreeBSD

• http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html

FreeBSD Project to use material from POSIX

• http://www.opengroup.org/press/01jun04.htm

ZDnet covers PHK's funding drive

• Original article
• BSDNews comments

Alpha demoted to Tier 2
(needs some attention)

• http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-alpha/2004-June/001576.html

Misc updates

• PF updated to 3.5
• GEOM supporting VINUM imported

DragonFlyBSD

USENIX launch
(USENIX will be covered next month)

• Launch at USENIX
• USENIX 2004

New Installer

• Installer goes Beta
• curses interface snapshot
• Lots of pictures (in English). But the article is in Hungarian.

MSFBUF API committed

• read this for a description.

Misc

• DragonFly Diary updated
• "Powered by DragonFly buttons
• DragonFly Song
• More Perl utilities go away
• rconfig - jumpstart for Dragonfly
• Official list archive sorted out.

Other

Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
(new book from O'Reilly)

• If you hack (or want to), you should read this book.
• Interview with Paul Graham.

Another webfront end for PF

• http://bsdnews.com/view_story.php3?story_id=4615

BSD dmesg catalogue
(Cute idea)

• http://www.nycbug.org/dmesgd/
• BSDNews.com discussions

NotCon 04 happened
"an informal conference with an emphasis on learning about useful, working projects"

• Website
• Talk: Shit, I'm a manager
• Writeups of most sessions. Well worth reading.
• TheyWorkForYou.com launched at NotCon

This month's O'Reilly:

• BSD Hacks Excerpt (part I)
• BSD Hacks Excerpt (part II)
• BSD User Hacks
• The writing of BSD Hacks
• A day in the life of #Apache
• The Mythical Man-Month Revisited
• Tales of Optimization and Troubleshooting
• Inside Mitch Kapor's World

Other Reading

• How to stalk your MP in less than 10 minutes a day
• Building OpenSSH--Tools and Tradeoffs (for OpenSSH 3.7)
• DevChannel Subversion article discussion
• 10 Things Apple Did To Make Mac OS X Faster
• Apple makes its case for security
• Has UNIX programming changed in 20 years?