Martin Wilke says:
First of all I wish a Happy New Year to all readers.
FreeBSD 7.1 was released today and the ports slush
is over. A lot of you are waiting for the QT 4.4 and KDE 4.1.3
update, but I have some bad news, first is my AMD64 Tinderbox
is broken and we are working to find a way to [...]

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Evilcoder.org says:
Last period I read a lot of articles regarding the privacy in Europe, and that we are seeing similiar things as in China. China is a dictorial regime, where a few people tell what will happen and what will not happen. A bit like Europe’s Hitler a while ago. Basically it’s the same as “democracy” [...]

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Evilcoder.org says:
So the announcement had been send, the FreeBSD version 7.1 had been released
Please report any bugs and things that you can find on www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html so that we can try our best to iron out the open items.
I need to MFC a few things here and there which is now possible again, so prepare for [...]

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
pcc appears to have had some significant updates due to funding; has anyone tried it on DragonFly recently?

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FreeBSD News Flash says:
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 7.1. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page.

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
The newest @Play column talks about yet another roguelike I’ve never heard of: Incursion.  (Too much Zangband on my part.)  Apparently it follows 3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons rules quite carefully, which is different than the usual vague Tolkienish/D&Dish look that most roguelikes keep.  Check the supplement at the bottom for some literary history.

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20054565 says:
Don’t forget to visit DCBSDCon.org and register for the conference. Registration has been open for a while, and speakers are being announced on the blog.

Interview with Justin Sherrill of the DragonFlyBSD Digest, which can be found at http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/

File Info: 22Min, 10MB

Ogg Link:
http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk169.ogg

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
Are you using any ISA-based network cards?  Sepherosa Ziehau is planning to remove support very soon after the 2.2 release; speak up if this is a problem.   Or, spend a few dollars and buy a card made in the last 10 years.

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
You get to hear me blather on for 22 minutes about this Digest and how important/easy it is to contribute to BSD projects, in BSDTalk 169.

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FreeBSD News Flash says:
The FreeBSD Foundation has published their Semi-Annual December 2008 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to help the FreeBSD Project and community.

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
The ISC DHCP package in pkgsrc is changing as it moves from 4.0 to 4.1; the package names will be different, as will the rc flags.  Keep an eye out for this if you use it for your internal network.  (This may affect our install CD, too.)

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
Michael Neumann reported success booting DragonFly on his Eee PC 1000H, though the wireless/wired network drivers don’t work yet.

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
If you didn’t make it to the 25th Chaos Communication Congress, there’s a number of ways it’s getting streamed via video and audio.  (via)

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
Dru Lavigne mentioned that there are 2 different groups for BSD Certfication on LinkedIn, for those who use it.  (Don’t forget, there’s a LinkedIn DragonFly BSD group, too.)
The DCBSDCon Blog has announced annother speaker: Brooks Davis.

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A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says:
Back in 2006, I wrote Building a Desktop Firewall and Sharing Internet Connections which demonstrated the ease-of-use of using fwbuilder. fwbuilder is my favourite way of teaching the logic of ipfw, pf, and ipfilter rulesets to novice students using a gui which is similar in look and feel to the Checkpoint interface they are likely to come across in the field.

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134990750731157418 says:
The International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences has issued a call for papers for an upcoming special issue entitled Open-Source Innovation for New Business Models:

While [open source] communities are becoming important sources of new knowledge and innovation, it is a challenge to create business value out of such innovation because the participants are novices, collaborating without any meaningful organisational structure. Thus, it is important for both academicians and practitioners to explore innovative approaches to exploiting the value of collaborative open-source communities for developing new business models and value creation.

The focus of this Special Issue will be on the use of open-source innovation to foster knowledge creation and sharing, capture opportunities for developing new products and services, redesign the value chain for efficiency improvement, reinvent the concept of customer value, and expand the customer base. New business models that bring benefits to both participants and the organisation are the real core value of open-source innovation.

Submissions are due by April 1, 2009.

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A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says:
That’s the name of a recent study released by Catalyst and sponsored by Cisco, Dell, and the National Center for Women and Information Technology. From the introduction:

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pfSense Digest says:
The pfSense team has a Christmas present for you all - the 1.2.1 final release. 
The only changes since RC4: 

Fixed problem preventing RIP from starting
Fixed broken link in VLAN reboot notification
Fixed problem with SSL certificate generation

Changes since 1.2 release
This is a strictly a maintenance release, meaning it contains only bug fixes in the pfSense code, no [...]

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A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru says:
For those of you who use LinkedIn, two BSD certification related groups have been created:

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DragonFly BSD Digest says:
I did not realize this until someone else did, but: ScummVM, which should work on DragonFly via pkgsrc, supports a large quantity of non-Lucasarts games like 7th Guest.

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