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BSD: BSDCan, DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 15, 2024

DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ BSDCan in two weeks

Only a BSD conference announcement would include a note about changing your SSH listening port.  Also, BSDCan in 2 weeks!

DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ A DragonFly BSD Taste

A ‘first try’ document for DragonFly.

FreeBSD ☛ Improving and debugging FreeBSD’s defective chip maker Intel Wi-Fi support: Cheng Cui’s Key Role in the iwlwifi Project

The FreeBSD Foundation is actively investing in enhancing FreeBSD’s driver capabilities in important areas identified by the community. Users have emphasized that top priorities should include better wireless support for increased stability, faster speeds, and support for the latest wireless chipsets.

Ted Unangst ☛ sometimes the commit is misattributed

A response of sorts to commit robbery.

I’ve been on both sides of commit misattribution. Sometimes my commit gets sniped. Sometimes I’m the one doing the sniping. It’s very rarely intentional.

In a project like OpenBSD, we’d have three Todds and four Jasons, which led to frequent confusion. Forgetting exactly who contributed what would happen occasionally. Emails get forwarded around. And I think every new OpenBSD developer goes through the experience of having half their commits sniped for the first month because other developers think you’re submitting a patch, not requesting review.