http://planet.freebsdish.org/related Planet FreeBSD Related Websites - http://planet.freebsdish.org/related http://bsdnews.com/?p=704 A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says: At the BSD booth at LinuxWorld San Francisco, I met up with the Director of Marketing at oDesk. ODesk provides a platform for business and qualified technology contractors to connect. Their service includes an application to record the hours worked, screenshots of work in [...] 2008-08-28T21:08:32+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=702 From FreeBSD Foundation: Dear FreeBSD Community, The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the Java JDK and JRE 6.0 binary installable packages for FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x on the i386 and amd64 architectures! The binaries are available at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml. We would like to thank Kurt Miller for his hard work on this project. We would also like to [...] 2008-08-28T15:14:31+00:00 admin http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/bsd-job-trends-26903 At the BSD booth at LinuxWorld San Francisco, I met up with the Director of Marketing at <a href="http://www.odesk.com"> oDesk</a>. ODesk provides a platform for business and qualified technology contractors to connect. Their service includes an application to record the hours worked, screenshots of work in progress as well as guaranteee payment to contractors (which are called providers in the oDesk world). They emphasize quality, trust, identify verification, and security. Providers are encouraged to demonstrate their skills by taking their qualification <a href="http://www.odesk.com/tests/"> tests and for employers to use their feedback system.</a> 2008-08-28T11:57:18+00:00 http://bsdnews.com/?p=670 DragonFly BSD Digest says: For those readers who use vi or vim or another vi-like editor, here’s an interesting writeup of how to make vim really work for you.  Emacs users, please look away.  (via someone on IRC) More: continued here 2008-08-28T08:56:39+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=690 DragonFly BSD Digest says: As part of a larger discussion about transactional file systems, Dmitri Nikulin posted a link to two relatively recent blog posts by Jeff Robinson talking about I/O atomicity and file offset semantics. More: continued here 2008-08-28T08:08:17+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=689 A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says: The August issue of the OSBR is now available in PDF and HTML versions. From the table of contents: More: continued here 2008-08-28T08:08:15+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=687 A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says: Software Freedom Day is Saturday, September 20. From the website: More: continued here 2008-08-28T08:08:15+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=399 Software Freedom Day is Saturday, September 20. From the website: More: continued here 2008-08-28T02:08:20+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=516 DragonFly BSD Digest says: Damian Vicino wrote up his experience presenting DragonFly at JRSL 2008; it apparently was lightly attended because of another big event, but the DragonFly presentation was interesting enough they ran long and had to keep answering questions even after the next presentation started. (previously mentioned here) More: continued here 2008-08-28T02:08:18+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=369 As some might have seen already on the cvs-* mailinglists, we have started the preparations for the 7.1-release build. That means that the 7-STABLE branch is renamed to 7.1-PRERELEASE and finally gets branched at some point after which it will be 7-STABLE again. DO NOT PANIC if you read this in your kernel after updating today. [...] 2008-08-28T00:08:45+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=390 On Friday I have received an approval from portmgr@ to allow Max Brazhnikov (makc) to join the Developers Community as a ports committer. He’s done a great work submitting new ports and a lot of KDE4 work, so it’s time to reward him. I’ll lead his first steps as ports committer and will be responsible for his possible errors and receive [...] 2008-08-28T00:08:17+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=371 A long time discussions and development had been done on USB. Hans Peter Selasky (hps) had rewritten the entire USB stack and it seems to be moving forward enough so that Alfred Perlstein is willing to commit this into the FreeBSD tree. Ofcourse things do not go without resistance, there are always (and will always be) [...] 2008-08-27T20:08:10+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=456 The pkg_radd utility that comes with DragonFly downloads binary pkgsrc packages from a variety of mirrors and installs them automatically.  However, the mirror script wasn’t redirecting to servers other than the overloaded pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org; I corrected that and it now downloads randomly from a number of mirrors. More: continued here 2008-08-27T14:08:05+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=367 Several hours after 7.1-PRERELEASE name had been created within 7-STABLE, not branched!, 6.4 had also been named for the time being from 6-STABLE. That means that that branch will also soon split into 6.4-RELEASE (the final branch) to continue for the release. As well as for 7.1.. NO PANIC! It will all be over soon, [...] 2008-08-27T10:08:08+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=376 Recently I had started the translation of the FAQ, which is currently progressing well. Initially I will do a rough translation and finalize the bits later on. I already got some positive feedback from Ed Schouten (A friend and fellow FreeBSD Developer) which I incorporated. The FAQ had become worthwhile to translate thanks to the [...] 2008-08-27T08:08:00+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=335 Status Update: The next major release PC-BSD 7 will be based on FreeBSD 7, and include KDE 4.1 as the primary desktop UI. The team is in the process of stabilizing the Alpha release and will release a public Beta as soon as the stability bugs have been squashed. For more information check out the notice [...] 2008-08-26T18:15:43+00:00 vizkr http://bsdnews.com/?p=331 By Steven Rosenberg The OpenBSD system on the $15 Laptop (Compaq Armada 7770dmt) has a 3 GB hard drive mostly devoted to OpenBSD, with about 600 MB set aside for Linux, about 130 MB as Linux swap and the rest an ext2 filesystem on which I have my pup_save file for Puppy Linux and any other [...] 2008-08-26T16:23:06+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=329 A few weeks ago I posted about NetBSD’s new journaling technology WAPBL. I received a lot of questions concerning the benchmark results that I published. People were especially interested in a comparison with FFS using soft dependences. I hadn’t used this mode in my original benchmark because my personal experiences with soft dependences weren’t very [...] 2008-08-26T12:40:36+00:00 admin http://bsdnews.com/?p=324 After NetBSD got journaling integrated into FFS recently, I&#8217;ve built and installed -current, and had a look. In short: it works just as expected. In other works: Yai! :-) The wapbl(4) manpage gives more details: To enable, a kernel with &#8220;options WAPBL&#8221; needs to run, which is available in NetBSD-current since end of [...] 2008-08-26T03:11:55+00:00 admin http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/newsflash.html#event20080826:01 2008-08-25T23:01:49+00:00