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Good news everyone! Last two days I’ve been testing FreeBSD/mips by running buildworld on netbooted RouterStation with root mounted over NFS. So far so good, it successfully completed twice. A couple of weeks ago arch-dependent part of libthr (both kernel and userland) was implemented and it seems to work. “Seems to work” means that it passes thr1 and thr2 tests from stress2 and python’s test_thread[ing].py. And yes, python and perl build fine on the same board from the ports do work. As bash et al :) Though perl should be built without Perl malloc but it’s on my ToDo list.

Has just received two books from Amazon. The first one is Beautiful Architecture by fellow FreeBSD developer Diomidis Spinellis and Georgios Gousios. I bought it because software design is not my strongest skill and there is a lot of place for improvement. And learning from real life examples is always better then reading pure theory. The other one is The Productive Programmer by David Bock. Productivity is my sweet spot (well, it’s more about cool tips then real productivity boost). This had nice reviews so I decided to give it a try.

And again long pause in blogging. In this 4 months several things happened to me: I relocated to Vancouver, was interviewed and rejected by Microsoft (don’t know why they contacted me in the first place), met new people (philip@ and thompa@ among them), saw new places and even got some free time and learned to cook (it turned out to be fun!). Being close(geographically) to PMC-Sierra, major MIPS vendor, I tried to contact them and ask for a donation for FreeBSD/MIPS project. Got no reply, though. Predictable result, but it’s better to try and fail then have never try at all. ...