Joerg Sonneberger followed up on his own commit message saying that Perl seems to be out of the base system.
Read an interesting conversation that I don’t understand.
Andreas Hauser detailed his X.org 6.8.1 packages and caveats in a recent post to the submit@ mailing list.
Is anyone even using a 386 processor anymore? If you are, go look for some pocket change and buy a faster computer.
Matthew Dillon noted that all chronic bugs appear to have been fixed, this week.
Joerg Sonneberger detailed the changes inherent in using OpenNTPd, which will be in the system momentarily.
Matthew Dillon’s committed the next big stage of his VFS work; the commit message includes a lengthy explanation of what it touches.
No, I’m not branching out. :) Hubert Feyrer is running an unadorned blog similar to this one, but concentrating on NetBSD.
There’s also a similar page at undeadly.org for OpenBSD. I suppose KernelTrap is in the same vein mostly for Linux, and the FreeBSD Project has src summaries.
A question about programming brought some interesting tips on how to deal with source code and other issues. There was quite a lot of suggestions, in fact.
Steven Looman pointed out a different way to handle ports: Portsnap.
Matthew Dillon reported that he and David Rhodus have tracked down and eliminated a longstanding bug that caused VM/filesystem corruption, dating from FreeBSD 4, which may even still be present in FreeBSD 5.
As a side effect, Matthew Dillon’s VFS work will get pushed into the most current code (HEAD). Unionfs and nullfs work has not been completed in the VFS code, so that means if you use HEAD and also use unionfs/nullfs, either don’t update for the next week or so, or drop back to DragonFly_Stable.
GDB 6.2.1 is now in the tree, and the BSD version of tar (bsdtar) is now included but not built by default. It’s all thanks to Joerg Sonnenberger.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE has happened. This is the start of a 5.x stable branch, after 4 (long) years. OpenBSD 3.6 is out too.
‘asmodai’ provided a link to this Intel web page as a reference for handling hyperthreaded processors. It’s Windows-specific, though.
“TIV” posted some notes on how to make a custom DragonFly LiveCD; Matthew Dillon suggested some additional tips.
David Rhodus posted a patchset to X.org 6.8.1 that should make it work on DragonFly; it may or may not make it in time for the next X.org release.
I don’t normally post about test patches, but I am linking here to one of Matthew Dillon’s recent VFS patches, as he explains a bit of the work that is going into it.
The GAG graphical boot manager now includes an icon for DragonFly.