Month: June 2006

UnixReview has a review of the ActiveState Tcl Dev Kit version 3.2, and a book review of “Software Security: Building Security In“.

Steve Mynott posted an interesting link: ZFS-on-FUSE.  It appears to be a not-yet-complete implementation of ZFS on top of the FUSE (userspace filesystems)

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert would like to get rid of ipfw, slowly.  This means it wouldn’t be gone until release 1.7.   While pf doesn’t have all needed functionality to work as a replacement, Gary Allan pointed out that ipfw2 is a suitable replacement as it has similar features but is less of a mess.  (And look – he’s on it!)

‘walt’ has 3 pkgsrc packages set up to work on DragonFly – gnome-multimedia, nautilus-cd-burner, and sane-backends – he’d like folks to test.

Attilio Rao would like to make some improvements to the DragonFly kernel.  Follow the  link and resulting discussion between him and Matthew Dillon for details, because it’s far enough into the internals of the system that it’s like another language.

Matthew Dillon wrote about some of the remaining hurdles for ZFS.

Joerg Sonnenberger posted a short list of how he was able to make openvpn work.  Your mileage may vary.

UnixReview.com has a larger-than-normal number of new articles: book reviews of “The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4: Generating All Trees“, “The Definitive Guide to SQLite“, and “Eric Sink on the Business of Software“, a game review of SolarWolf, a Regular Expressions article on dictionary skills, and a note on Disaster Recovery.

If you enable device ehci(4) in your kernel, for USB 2.0 support, you’ll see some extra output on boot.  It’s harmless.

Sascha Wildner and Joerg Sonnenberger will be representing DragonFly at FrOSCon, happening in Bonn, Germany, June 24th and 25th.

Are you trying to put together the BSD Installer?  Taken from an email from Scott Ullrich (sorry, no web archive):

Here is the steps I take to build the installer once it is checked out of cvs:

cd installer/scripts/build
./create_installer_tarballs.sh
./copy_ports_to_portsdir.sh
./build_installer_packages.sh

The title sums it up: EuroBSDCon 2006 is ready to accept proposals, due by July 15th.

Demokritos University of Thrace (Greece) is the newest DragonFly mirror – links are on the download page.