FreeBSD

See the original letter here.

It’s so common to provide information feeds through RSS feed and today Ceri has committed FreeBSD’s RSS transform.

Bruce M Simpson has added Daniel Hartmeier to the active committers’ rank. Daniel is from the OpenBSD campaus and is one of the authors of OpenBSD’s stateful firewall, pf(4).

This is my 201st blob, the 200th was used with a law disclaimer, well I don’t like legalize while I have a handful of friends who works on law-related jobs :-)

Yesterday I have talked with Max Laier about the pf accessories, say, the spamd. He explained me why it is kept in ports/ and not the base system - this is to keep the base system small, and I completely agree this.

I’m still working on deploying the new beastie.frontfree.net (builder.frontfree.net at present). Because a bug(?) in FreeBSD kernel I have temporary disabled HTT on the box.

As planned before, I am now downloading DragonFlyBSD’s live iso and tend to install it soon.

The SMP case seems to have something wrong with it. My MARCH=p4 and -O optimized kernel often crashes when shutting down on beastieng.frontfree.net. Apparantly this is lock related (we can see the panic strings there not to be outputing atomically, and they just mixed with each other).

用中文写了，因为这次活动只涉及北京地区的FreeBSD’er。昨天跟liue, hd商量基本确定下周六下午在网络中心的会议室(地点待定)举行一次小型的活动(主要是因为场地限制)，内容暂定为ports维护(如何写和维护port)、内核优化等等。

Dr. Alan Cox (alc@) has committed several improvements to FreeBSD’s VM implementation, and this brought significant performance gains on 5-CURRENT.