Matthew Dillon just added a number of bugfixes to the release verion of DragonFly (1.2.5). If you have a SMP machine running 1.2.5, he’d appreciate a test before we go to 1.2.6.
UnixReview.com has just two book reviews this week, both of which are relevant: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and the more focused “Cisco IP Communications Express: CallManager Express with Cisco Unity Express“.
Matthew Dillon happened to write something about RAID vs. SATA drives that says, among other things, picking SCSI over SATA drives doesn’t make financial sense.
Matthew Dillon started to think about writing his own bug tracker, to which the genral response was “Keep up the cool DragonFly work!”. Many people are leaning towards Jira, though Hiten Pandya still wants to evaluate Bugzilla or cvstrac if Jira does not work out by the time of the next release.
Matthew Dillon, like many people, thinks hardware RAID is generally better. In fact, he’s using cards from 3ware.
Also, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert looked at the bug tracking program jira, and liked what he saw. He liked it so much, he set up a test installation.
The BSDCertification website has a new survey up. Unlike the last one, it’s only 19 questions and very short. It’s available in a number of languages.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org will be out again, 9-10 PDT tonight.
Jeremy Messenger suggested this comparison list for bug trackers; Hiten Pandya also wants to look at MySQL’s Eventum.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has updated gcc to version 4.0.1.
If you want to build the system using gcc version 4, you must put WANT_GCC40=yes into make.conf and rebuild your system. Then, rebuild again with the environment variable CCVER set to ‘gcc40’.
The first build builds gcc4 using your existing compiler; the second uses it during the build. I have not done this myself, so be careful.
dragonflybsd.org may be down at times this weekend, as Matthew Dillon is adding/moving a whole lot of hardware.
Update: There’s downtime tonight, starting 9 PM PDT. If you have data on leaf:/unused3, it’ll be gone.
Brad Schonhorst kindly sent along this announcement about NYCBSDCon:
“There are only 2 days left to preregister for the first ever NYCBSDCon, to be held September 17th at Columbia University, in the Davis Auditorium.”
There’s more at the NYCBSDCon site. Among other notable speakers, our very own Jeffrey Hsu will be presenting “History, Goals, Objectives, and Structure of DragonFlyBSD”. I’d really like to go see this.
Hot on the neels of the 1.19.1 update, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated groff to groff 1.19.2. Ooh, the excitement of typesetting languages!
UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach“, some writeups of what some people think of computer certifications, and some date-related shell functions.
Joerg Sonnenberger noted there are some useful steps one can perform for transition to pkgsrc.
Author Neil Gaiman found a tomato that looks like it has a horn; add a matching second horn and it would look like Beastie.
Incidentally, Neil Gaiman has little to do with BSD, but he has written some excellent books and comics.
Joerg Sonnenberger has added the just-released OpenSSH version 4.2
Matthew Dillon made a number of journaling-related commits today; in one of them, he included an extended writeup of some of the problems encountered when dealing with multiple transactions forwards – and backwards – in time.
The systems mentioned in a previous post as being ordered for dragonflybsd.org will be “ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe”, which means that they will probably be good choices for supported hardware.
Matthew Dillon’s ordering some new hardware for dragonflybsd.org. Among other improvements, there will be a new machine specifically for building world, kernel, and pkgsrc.