This Month in BSD.

Sam Smith <s@msmith.net>

It's summer; so it's quiet.

Apple

New iMac G5
(very nice design)

• http://www.apple.com/imac/
• Technical spec
• BBC News article

OpenBSD

Hardware donation wanted

• Apple Dual G4 for SMP work

OpenBSD 3.6 available for preorder
(released on 1st November)

• New features (more next month)
• Announcement on KernelTrap
• Order page

SGI O2 architecture support added

• KernelTrap summary
• Brief webpage

Reliability fixes

• bridge
• icmp

Laptop page being updated

• Undeadly.org article
• the existing page

FreeBSD

RELENG_5 branched; HEAD becomes 6-CURRENT

• Summary

FreeBSD5.3-BETA series
(don't know where it will be when you read this, but Test It!)

• Schedule
• Test! Test! Test!

ADAPTIVE_GIANT turned on

• http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/16-08-04.html#adaptive-giant-turned-on-by-default

Various GEOM new functionality

• http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/16-08-04.html#geom-support-for-read-only-compressed-disks-added

CARP placeholder added

• http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200408070932.i779W4u6054997

Lock Order Reversal Documentation

• http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3620

NetBSD

ftpd root escalation bug

• Advisory

DragonFlyBSD

VFS changes

• Roadmap for threaded VFS's
• Discussion links
• New VFS model
• see the many entries on the DragonFly BSD Digest

DragonFlyBSD Digest reaches 1 year old
(congratulations and thanks to Justin)

• http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/

Other Stuff

Many Conferences

• UK - UKUUG Winter Conference 2005 Call for Papers
• Switzerland - SUCON'04 Registration Opened
• Hack in the Box SecConf 2004
• Australia - AUUG 2004
• Netherlands - EuroBSDCon 2004

The Long Now
(worth reading and listening to)

• http://www.longnow.org/
• The Long Now Clock
• Recordings of Seminars
• Jingu Shikinensengu

Redesigning the BBC Radio3 website
(it works very well)

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/
• Site launches
• Developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites
• Ripples, or "The Social Life of a Broadcast"

OnLAMP articles

• Open Souce on the Mars Rovers
• The Process of building a UNIX server
• Tim O'Reilly's radar
• The Top Ten Subversion Tips for CVS Users
• Alleviate RSI the Hacker Way

Misc

• VagueWare - The Idea Playpen
• Tricks of various trades
• Dru's BSD Miscellany
• osViews Interviews Jim White from the Darwine project
• XML for Chess
• State of the Perl Onion
• Interview with Paul Graham
• Trouble brewing in the land of SMTP?
• Building Systems to be Shared Securely