ONLamp/BSD has a new article up in FreeBSD Basics, outlining how to access a Subversion server. I recall someone was experimenting with a Subversion server for DragonFly code, though it’s going to remain in CVS (man, nongnu.org pages are ugly!) in the main repositiory.
David Rhodus has updated the pkg_add command to point to http://www.fireflybsd.com/packages, where the binary builds live. This works if you’re running the latest code; however, you will need to use the full URL for a given package if you’re using 1.2.x Release, as it still looks to the old location.
Anyone know a good place (other than EBay) to find cheap used laptops? I want to find something small, light, and able to run DragonFly, natch.
UnixReview.com this week covers an interesting Python script called “DenyHosts“, which locks out hosts that fail login too much. There’s another game review, this time of the racing game TORCS, which may or may not work on DragonFly. (It’s currently broken on FreeBSD-4, so we may be out of luck, temporarily…)
The default location for DragonFly to use when retrieving binary ports is http://www.gobsd.com/packages. However, gobsd.com (the physical machine) is undergoing a data center move, and it’s not all back together yet. Until then, build ports from source, or use pkgsrc.
Joerg Sonnenberger has updated gcc to version 3.4.5.
Welcome Noritoshi Demizu, the newest developer for DragonFly.
Here’s some links nabbed from the IRC channel #dragonflybsd on EFNet: a tutorial on Project Evil (using MS Windows wireless card drivers on a different operating system), several tutorials on various types of shell scripting, and possibly the biggest list of programming documents ever I seen. Warning – it’s pretty Linux-centric.
Leaf.dragonflybsd.org now has additional disk space for twe (3ware controller) testing, and has had an operating system upgrade to 1.3.4-DEVELOPMENT. Matthew Dillon has the details.
As David Rhodus found, beeping from your PC speaker works in recent code. It can be turned off with `kbdcontrol -b quiet.visual`, but reports conflict on if that works.
It’s a slow news day, so here’s something I’ve seen linked in several places: DesktopBSD, which, if you can’t guess at the name, is an effort to make a desktop-friendly BSD. It’s based on FreeBSD and KDE, similar to PC-BSD.
There’s a whole lot of changes in the development branch (HEAD) of DragonFly. These are good changes, especially if you are a multiprocessor user, but HEAD users will shortly need to recompile everything – kernel, world, and ports/pkgsrc! Matthew Dillon lays it out in a recent post.
Bob Bagwill found that the FreeBSD version of Opera works on DragonFly, with some minor modifications.
Doug Keester noted that Bill and Lynne Jolitz have jolix.com and 386BSD.com, where you can read/buy various bits of historical BSD documentation.
UnixReview.com has several articles that may be of interest: a book review of Learning Perl (4th edition), a look at the Cisco CCIE Security Exam, and a shell script for verifying backups.
Wiger van Houten pointed at the FreeBSD kernel stress test and OpenPOSIX Test Suite as potential test methods for DragonFly; Matthew Dillon plans to try out the former.
A conversation about BSD architecture books led to “Basic Kernel Source Code Secrets” by Lynne and Bill Jolitz, who also penned a series of articles on porting Unix (what we now call BSD, of course) to the 386. These articles came out around the same time Linus Torvalds started his little project…
Matthew Dillon posted a thorough description of that the different tags mean when using cvsup to update your DragonFly system.
shiningsilence.com will be going down for a short period today, due to a repositioning of an exterior power line.
If you are running bleeding edge DragonFly code (HEAD), you will need to have COMPAT_DF12 in your kernel config file, unless you’re using the GENERIC kernel. This is because of the stat(2) work Joerg Sonnenberger plans to commit.