The lua SoC project is getting a lot of coverage, but I'd also like to see some energy behind a very interesting project from this year's summer of code: NetBSD's SASL Client LIbrary.

Right now there are two major players in SASL/open source: Dovecot and Cyrus. Both of these are developed along-side IMAP servers, and work with postfix. Cyrus is also compatible with OpenLDAP, sendmail, and a ton of other stuff. (apache, for example)

The fact that NetBSD is taking on their own implementation is impressive, just like many other parts of the netbsd tree which have potential around the world.

the NYCBSDCon 2010 Schedule

If you look at the NYC BSD Con you might see two NetBSD-related names:

• jmmv
• reed

And a name I don't recognize but has NetBSD in his bio: James K. Lowden

Anyway, since I'm living in new york now definitely look me up if you plan on attending/being around for NYC BSD Con (or just in nyc anytime). I should be at the conference.

lua in the netbsd kernel

The addition of lua to the netbsd kernel project was completed and has patches available. I definitely look forward to some crazy stuff, rapid prototyping, very easy/efficient packet filter languages, insane puffs-lua filesystems (netfs == netstat as a filesystem in lua in userland/kernel? why not?)

On NetBSD the memory available to the OS is calculated after the kernel pretty much boots up, so I added a ton of banner()'s to my startup and saw where memory was lost after subsystem inits. Here are the results:

total memory = 255MB

avail memory = 238 MB  <- after consinit
avail memory = 237 MB  <- after uvm_init
avail memory = 235 MB  <- after a bunch of devices startup
avail memory = 234 MB  <- final number

However, I'm not sure how to get accounting of that initial drop, but I assume that's where the main kernel parts are loaded.

clang support in pkgsrc

The link pretty much says it all.