If you happen to live in Holland with some spare NVIDIA cards, SMP motherboards, or hard drives, or you live anywhere in the US with a spare laptop that could run DragonFly, then you should be looking at the Donations page.
Sascha Wildner is looking for people to try his 16/32 bit patch for syscons, the DragonFly console mechanism.
dragonflybsd.org now has a donations page.
David Rhodus posted that the packages at GoBSD.com have been updated. This is the remote package location that is used by default by the ‘pkg_add‘ tool.
For instance, pkg_add -r gnome2‘ or ‘pkg_add -r kde3‘ will pull down the new versions of each. (pkg_delete existing packages first.) You can see the latest packages or the whole list.
I’ve set up a Bugzilla bug tracker at forknibbler.com, to use until a full-blown system is available at dragonflybsd.org. Be kind – it’s a woefully underpowered machine.
Leaf.dragonflybsd.org has been significantly upgraded; this is where shell accounts and the mail archive are located.
“Micha³ ‘GiM’ Spadliñski” posted a link to a 80×15 DragonFly banner.
If you’re feeling religious: a petition for Flash on BSD.
The FreeBSD NVIDIA driver has been updated; Emiel Kollof has a test DragonFly version of this new update he’d like people to try out.
A discussion about the planned and ongoing VFS changes has led to some very informative posts (that’s 3 different links) from Matthew Dillon about what he plans to do.
The Center for Internet Security has released a “FreeBSD Benchmark and Scoring Tool“. This may also work on DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon posted about the start of work on the new VFS subsystem.
dragonflybsd.org will be going though some upgrades soon, as Matthew Dillon noted in a recent post. Notably, leaf.dragonflybsd.org is going to be an AMD64 machine.
The qt33 override is gone; TrollTech has incorporated Joerg Sonnenberger’s patches.
dragonflybsd.org is now back on a T1, with a slightly better connection. So, now you don’t have to use the mirrors, though you should.
Matthew Dillon mentioned something of how well programming is going, and how close we are to a major step in the networking cleanup.
There’s a review of DragonFly 1.0A over at Newsforge by Jem Matzan of The Jem Report. It has valid points (Using the ports system is a hack) and some invalid ones (The reviewer wouldn’t benchmark with SMP off.)
Joerg Sonnenberger has a x.org port that uses the same layout as the FreeBSD port, available for testing.