FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 is out; I’m wiping my sandbox machines right now and doing a fresh install (building world right now). This will give me a chance to work out the NFS issues I’ve been having.

With regards to that problem, I think I’m going to scratch the idea of giving each node persistent state, which kind of simplifies things. What I eventually want to have is a FreeBSD implementation of BProc, which is a set of kernel modifications in Linux to get a distributed process space. Going to take a lot of work to get anything anywhere close to useful, but hell, that’s what winter break is for, right?

Still kind of bummed out about the whole hardware issue, but I managed to repair the heatsink mounting stub I broke off one of my boards. Patched up fine with a couple dabs of superglue, which was kind of nice. And I got an email this morning about payment for some freelance work I did which’ll provide a nice $200 to spend on cases for the two boards I’m running naked.

Blah. It’ll all come together eventually <3