If your buildworld chokes on a nonexistent authpf group, read this note from Matthew Dillon.
The recent move to non-GNU patch(1) can cause some trouble building ports. Andreas Hauser has a patch to bsd.port.mk that will fix it until the change can be added “upstream” in the FreeBSD ports collection.
Matthew Dillon gave an answer on the kernel@ list to Magnus Eriksson’s timer question; explaining in the process why DragonFly uses a different timer process than FreeBSD.
Emiel Kollof has posted a patch fixing the NVIDIA binary video driver override; this still does not provide Linuxulator support, but it should otherwise work.
Matthew Dillon gave an interesting description of the machines powering the various parts of dragonflybsd.org.
Joerg Sonnenberger posted a note that code added to the project should meet a certain level of WARNS cleanness.
Matthew Dillon cooked a dragonflybsd.org computer recently. It was a backup machine, so no public data was lost.
BSD-Systems.co.uk has been added to the Commercial links section of the dragonflybsd.org download page.
This LinuxInsider article about alternative operating systems namechecks DragonFly, though it doesn’t do much more.
There is now a “stable” cvs config file at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/DragonFly-stable-supfile for tracking the known stable point in DragonFly code. Added by Matthew Dillon.
dragonflybsd.org now has a new latest known stable ISO mentioned on the download page, and a new entry on Matthew Dillon’s diary page.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai removed the “host.conf to nsswitch.conf” conversion.
The aforementioned bug in compiling KDE 3.3 on DragonFly seems to be getting straightened out.
Matthew Dillon, on users@, gave a short outline of how to buildworld/kernel on a different, faster computer, and then move to another machine to install.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for libc that makes it possible to run multithreaded programs under xorg 6.8. If you really like testing out the bleeding edge, try it out.
Joe Love posted on the new users@ list a question about having the SPDIF output on his sound card recognized, instead of the analog out. Jonas Trollvik mentioned that the Open Sound System (which supports DragonFly) made his sound card work, including SPDIF.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s got the latest test version of PF available. This will hopefully be the last before it goes in.
There is now a mailing list specific to the Installer program. Email discussion-subscribe@bsdinstaller.com – subject: subscribe
Emiel Kollof has posted bug 89544 for KDE 3.3.3, for getting KDE to compile on DragonFly. It may be worthwhile to register on KDE’s Bugzilla and vote for that bug, so that it gets “on the radar”.
Update: There’s related bug 89577 too.
Update update: Joerg Sonnenberger noted (see bug report linked above) that the DragonFly code can be changed to make this work, though the Single Unix Specification implies that the problem is with where KDE is looking. Quote below:
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