If you have a ciss(4) SCSI-3 card in your computer, Sascha Wildner has a patch for you to try out.
Some miscellaneous links I’ve been saving:
- Undeadly has some recent notes on the status of pcc; does this run on DragonFly yet?
- Occasional DragonFly user _why has released Shoes 2.0, an entertaining Ruby-based GUI toolkit. Or maybe it’s a vehicle for him to tell stories. Or both.
- The preview of the December issue of the Open Source Business Resource has, among other things, an article from Leslie “Google Summer of Code 2008” Hawthorn, which DragonFly particpated in. Oh wait – it’s up as HTML or PDF.
- Asciio, a GUI program to draw charts in ascii that you can then cut and paste anywhere. Nothing earthshaking other than a very good idea.
If you feel like updating netgraph in DragonFly to match what’s in FreeBSD 7 (a task that has been partially accomplished), Alexander Motin will be able to answer questions to help out, as he’s already supporting it in FreeBSD.)
Thomas Klausner posted on tech-pkg@netbsd.org a summary of the state of Gnome in pkgsrc; read it if you are interested in the packages involved.
The DCBSDCon site, for the BSD convention in Washington, DC, Feb 5th-6th, now has a separate blog. The very first post lets slip the name of their first speaker and the fact that they will have 2 separate BSDA exams at the convention.
Michael Neumann created a patch that can get VirtualBox to run DragonFly, kinda sorta. The underlying issue in Virtualbox is not fixed by this, however..
I don’t know if this is going to be the long-term solution, as discussion is ongoing, but the existing commit mail format has been explained.
Stumbled on via Google Alerts: Freebench, a new benchmarking program that has already been tested on DragonFly. (Scroll down to “Freebenchin'”.)
Hasso Tepper has a copy of cgit running for DragonFly’s git repository, and I’ve set up the same thing on leaf.
I added BSDanywhere to the blogroll – it’s another livecd BSD ‘distribution’, this time with OpenBSD as the base. Also, Jibbed, which is the same arrangement using NetBSD.
When creating the 2.1 tag in git, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert also auto-created a message showing every commit ever, grouped by committer, with the first line of each commit. Reading through it provides an interesting look at what particular itch different people have scratched with DragonFly, over the years. (Also available as a plain count.)
Matthew Dillon’s updated Hammer to create two new directives: ‘version’ and ‘version-upgrade’, along with a number of internal changes and fixes.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert warns that a recent change in the size of struct thread is going to require a buildworld; this only affects people running DragonFly 2.1.
The new switch to git has brought out a lot of new committer activity; nothing to point you at specifically, but it’s nice to see that it has encouraged action.
Jason Dixon posted that today is the last day to submit papers for the DCBSDCon. So you’re either done, really close to done, or not getting anything in this year, at this point.