‘walt’ passed along details of his GRUB configuration for booting Windows and DragonFly. Steven Looman added a writeup of how to do it with the Windows XP bootloader.
Matthew Dillon posted a number of explanations about how he expects DragonFly journalling to work. Maxim Sobalev raised some issues (answered twice), and work continued.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote me to mention that his recent libm changes “included optimised assembly routines for certain mathematical functions for x86 and amd64.”
Matthew Dillon posted what he plans to do to implement journaling, with some very impressive goals. He also detailed his methodology for new technology in a separate followup, and he performed more work on the topic. Here’s more on journaling if you’re unfamiliar with the general concept.
Unixreview.com has posted 3 new articles originally found in SysAdmin magazine, all of which can be used with DragonFly: Checking Your Bookmarks (a Perl script), Entrap: A File Integrity Checker (Korn shell schripts), and Online Backups Using dump and NFS.
A fellow named John Leimon posted a helpful tip on how to set up your soundcard under DragonFly, and some statistics on file transfer speeds improvements under DragonFly. (hint: it’s good)
Hiroki Sato of AllBSD.org has built 6,278 packages from the FreeBSD ports tree as of Dec. 12th. They’re available at ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/DragonFly/ports/i386/packages/, meaning you can add packages with ‘pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/DragonFly/ports/i386/packages/Latest/packagename.tgz‘.
Matthew Dillon’s committed more journaling work; Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has committed Kristian Vlaardingerbroek’s patch to support the 10/100 Ethernet chipset on ICH5-based Intel motherboards. If you are planning to edit man pages, look at mdoc(7), and vim may be a good editor to use, especially if you tackle it like this. Hiten Pandya will be in Bremen, Germany, through January 6th; look him up is you’re a DragonFly user and local.
The FreeBSD Foundation is looking to add $30,400 by the end of the year – i.e. within about a week. The Foundation has a good amount of cash, but a greater proportion of the Foundation’s money needs to come from private individuals, not corporations, in order to keep its non-profit status (and accompanying tax breaks) in the U.S.
Donating via PayPal or check to the Foundation doesn’t directly help DragonFly, but a high tide raises all boats, as the saying goes.
What kind of payoff is Matthew Dillon expecting from the threaded subsystems in DragonFly? *HUGE*
Oliver Fromme posted two helpful notes – one on mounting devices as non-root, and another on booting a group of computers without disks. The ‘diskless boot’ discussion continued on, with comments from Joerg Sonnenberger and Matthew Dillon.
UNIXReview.com has posted three new articles, all of which may be useful for DragonFly users: One on using OpenOffice, and another on integrating Cisco and Unix equipment, both of which are really book reviews. There’s a third article that covers the ports for Logmon, Portmanager, and Nullmailer.
A fellow named Robert T. Kopp posted a question on whether a new BSD user should pick FreeBSD 5.3 or DragonFly, and Matt Dillon did a short summary on the reasons for picking either.
The DragonFly BSD website has had its main page updated with a link to this log and to the Sitetronics Wiki, and Matthew Dillon’s updated his diary.
Matthew Dillon posted the plans he and Hiten Pandya have for working on I/O and dma-direct buffering (msf_bufs). His post dives right into specific details, so a link to it is in order.
YONETANI Tomokazu posted a detailed list of instructions on how to get the FreeBSD port of the linux-based Flash 7 plugin working.
Matthew Dillon said this weekend is when the Stable tag in CVS will be moved up to match the most recent version of DragonFly.
There’s been lots more discussion on getting a German keyboard and characters to work. Along with that, Jonas Sundstom asked if standardizing on UTF8 would help.