Month: August 2005

Jeremy C. Reed posted his results from building all possible pkgsrc packages on DragonFly. More than half were successful already, and more (since he was building as non-root) should be possible. You can read his full post for details, but here’s a nice little summary:


Build started: Mon Aug 29 19:45:33 2005 GMT
Build ended: Wed Aug 31 03:36:14 2005 GMT

Successfully packaged: 2902
Packages really broken: 1037
Pkgs broken due to them: 1270
Total broken: 2307
Not packaged: 314
Total: 2621


UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Database in Depth“.

Matthew Dillon wrote a small entry on how he goes about merging important fixes back into the Release version of DragonFly.

There’s a petition on bsdnexus.comto bring Codeweavers’ Crossover Office to BSD (meaning FreeBSD, probably).

Update: I’ve traded a few emails with Frank Jahnke, the man behind this work, and I take back every unoptimistic thing I’ve ever said about it.

Matthew Dillon, while looking at a locking problem on chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de, happened to explain a bit about SPECFS and the trouble it causes.

Matthew Dillon posted that the last (major) ABI changes are done, and Preview has been updated. If you’re running Preview, now is a good time to update. However, you’ll have to rebuild everything, as he describes.

Joerg Anslik has written a very complete bit of documentation on getting a Quake 3 Arena server running under DragonFly; it’s available on the Wiki.

Matthew Dillon posted a warning that the final ABI changes would go in this weekend, and that Preview would soon be bumped to match the bleeding-edge HEAD. That means everything on non-Release systems will have to be rebuilt – pkgsrc/port packages, too.

Scott Robbins mailed in a link to his page, which contains some DragonFly notes, and a much more up-to-date install guide than what’s in the current Handbook.

Jeremy C. Reed has started a bulk build of pkgsrc packages for DragonFly; so far, he has 907 built of 5,523. He’ll have a full report when it completes.

Matthew Dillon explained why his journaling system will be more like a transactional database. (He should know; he wrote one)

UnixReview.com has a review of “Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks“, an article about regular expressions titled “Don’t Fear Reliability“, and a review of the podcasting application jPodder, which may work on DragonFly

Matthew Dillon described some of the possibilities and hurdles for his journaling code.

Jeremy C. Reed announced a new roadmap (.pdf) for the planned BSD certification process at BSDCertification.org.