Marcin Jessa pointed out that since it’s possible to compile the DesktopBSD tools on FreeBSD, it may also be possible on DragonFly.
‘walt’ has an patch for kdemultimedia that may make KMix, the KDE mixer, work on DragonFly. It’ll be in the pkgsrc binary soon.
Some trivia about shutting down your DragonFly system: ‘shutdown -p now’ is the preferred way, though the rare laptop needs some tweaks. It’s also possible to get KDE to issue the command. While on the topic of power management, YONETANI Tomokazu is planning to update ACPI in the next month.
Sascha Wildner’s removing a whole lot of kernel options. Speak up if you are using them… though if you are, they probably don’t work.
Anyone want to write a new devfs? (That’s device file system, if you haven’t seen the term before.) A discussion about tracking disks and their appropriate mount points ended with Matthew Dillon noting that at this point, the DragonFly system is cleaned up enough that this would be an approachable task for someone with experience.
This week on UnixReview.com: Security+ test review, plus examples, and a look at CherryPy, a Python framework. (Programming frameworks are all the rage lately, what with Ruby on Rails defining an otherwise nearly-unused language.)
DragonFly is (one of?) the first to plan for ZFS, but it appears another BSD – Mac OS X – may also take it up. More information is (unsurprisingly) on the Wikipedia ZFS entry. Gee, it’d be nice to have ZFS across all BSD platforms, wouldn’t it?
PC-BSD, which is FreeBSD 6 with KDE 3.5 and a GUI package management system, is now at version 1.0. I can only describe it as the way a BSD should be packaged.
One of the design goals for DragonFly is creating a BSD with clean, clear code. Here’s one example.
Matthew Dillon would like feedback and perhaps even testing on his BUF/BIO separation patch.
Oliver Fromme noticed that the cheap DVD sold at Lehmanns for LinuxTag 2006 now contains FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD – and DragonFly.
2 weeks until BSDCan! I won’t be able to make it, but there will be a few DragonFly people up there…
If you’ve got an hour or two, check out the many organizations participating in the Google Summer of Code. The idea lists have a lot of neat material.
This week on UnixReview.com has a lot more content than usual:
Examining the Updated Security+ Certification - Part One, Shell Corner: Graphing Perl's Regular Expressions,
Security: Unpatched and Doing Fine?,
and the book reviews Migrating to IPv6 and Cryptography in the Database
The wiki now has an Italian version of the FAQ.
Alex Burke has a writeup of his experiences installing DragonFly to a third partition.
Adrian Nida has a huge patch for the Handbook, removing outdated ports info and replacing it with pkgsrc mentions. He’s looking for feedback, and there’s already some.
Also, Jeremy C. Reed has improvements to the X11 documentation in the handbook for review.
If you speak a language other than English, Trevor Kendall wants you to check out and sync the wiki FAQs.
It’s open! We need to incorporate a DragonFly nonprofit to be involved, at some point. (Thanks, Christian Sturm)