My presentation for next week’s Ohio Linuxfest is available on Slideshare.
If you’re in the Columbus, OH area next week, drop by the BSD booth and pick up a free DVD of PC-BSD 8.1 and meet and chat with members of the PC-BSD team.
PC-BSD: An Easy to Use BSD Desktop
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "dru" from "Official PC-BSD Blog"Presentation for Ohio LinuxFest
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
My presentation "PC-BSD: An Easy to Use BSD Desktop" for next week's OLF is available on slideshare. If you're in the Columbus, OH area, drop by the BSD booth to pick up a free DVD of PC-BSD 8.1 and chat about all things BSD. Also, consider supporting BSD Certification by taking the BSDA exam at this event.
BSD Professional Certification Requirements Published
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "a year in the life of a bsd guru" from "A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru"
If I've been quiet lately it's because I was burning the midnight oil participating in the final technical and grammatical review for the BSD Professional Certification Requirements document. The document was published late Tuesday night and is a thing of beauty. From the announcement:
Boot loader replaced
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"A familiar procedure in any open source project: irritation causes improvement. In this case, the Forth-based boot loader irritated Matthew Dillon into writing a new replacement C-based one. (See the commit too, and it may slightly affect the upgrade process for 2.7 users.)
All these recent locking changes seem to be adding up to a much more responsive system,
3Ware Nagios plugin
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
I liked it, but I wanted more
September OSBR: Keystone companies
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"The September issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, with the theme of “Keystone companies”. “Platform base development” may be a clearer if less exact phrase.
A reference for pkgsrc make, again
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"There’s a whole lot of options for bmake, used in pkgsrc, and they aren’t immediately obvious. I’ve linked to a reference before, but it’s no longer at that location. However, I found a new link!
Another BSD Show! item
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"I missed this before, but Gerard van Essen linked to it: there’s a BSD Show! episode from 2010-06-22 with James T. Nixon from PC-BSD, in addition to the other episodes I linked recently.
(I was recorded for the show tonight – it was fun!)
BSD Certification Professional requirements out
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"The Professional Certification requirements are now published. (via) The tests happen at various conventions around the world, so plan ahead and you should be able to find one near you.
Upgrading pkgsrc from 2010Q1 to 2010Q2
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"As I found out directly, upgrading from pkgsrc version 2010Q1 to 2010Q2 has a minor quirk: binary packages for 2010Q2 will refuse to install with an older version of pkg_install. Rebuild pkgtools/pkg_install to the 2010Q2 version and the problem will go away.
Just continue with buildkernel for now
Posted on September 1st, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"Full buildworlds again, as there’s more commits that make it necessary. If you’re running 2.7, you should probably just plan on using buildworld, and not quickworld for rebuilding.
PBIs for Search & Rescue and Gnumeric
Posted on August 31st, 2010 by "dru" from "Official PC-BSD Blog"The following PBIs are now available for installation through Software Manager:
- Search and Rescue: a 3D flight simulator in which the player flies around
the map rescuing people. The game has a selection of several different
helicoptors and a jet airplane to choose from. The game includes
training missions, more complete missions and a campaign mode as
well as a
Heads up! System python changed to 2.6
Posted on August 31st, 2010 by "openbsd journal" from "OpenBSD Journal"New committer: Glen Barber (full doc/www)
Posted on August 31st, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"Another recompile
Posted on August 31st, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"System data structures have changed again, so make sure your next rebuild is a full buildworld/buildkernel if you’re running 2.7. There’s been a lot of changes to pull more and more out from under the Giant Lock.
New committer: Dimitry Andric (src)
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by "freebsd news flash" from "FreeBSD News Flash"Where is my SCSI card?
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by "The FreeBSD Diary" from "The FreeBSD Diary"
Things are hidden right before your eyes
More BSD Show!
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"The BSD Show!, the show I didn’t know was there, already has more 20 minutes more of content; an interview with Adam Hamsik about NetBSD.
They’re looking for more guests, too…
The BSD Show featuring Adam Hamsik
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by "sarah" from "NetBSD Blog"Adam Hamsik talks about NetBSD with Guillermo Amaral from Webbaverse on this week's episode of The BSD show.
Minor software hiccup possible
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by "justin sherrill" from "DragonFly BSD Digest"happened to notice that recent libkinfo changes broke sysutils/estd. It’s fixed by rebuilding the program, though this may affect a few other packages. This only affects people running bleeding-edge DragonFly 2.7.
