I have a report of the RC2 ISO image at http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFlyBSD/iso-images/dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz having the wrong MD5 checksum; double-check when downloading. You should get:
MD5 (dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz) = 9b39227698a0b7a4d4f3d18f7ad6ff75
There’s a nice screenshot at http://www.sitetronics.com/installer-config.jpg of the new CGI installer layout.
Release Candidate 2 is out on the Download page. It’s also available via Miguel Mendez’s Torrent.
Matt Dillon’s posted his photos from USENIX 2004 at http://apollo.backplane.com/USENIX2004/.
YONETANI Tomokazu noted that there is a kernel environment variable called ‘debug.acpi.disabled’, to which you can specify the following keywords:
acad bus button children cmbat cpu ec
isa lid pci pci_link sysresource thermal timer
“acpi” disables everything
“bus” disables “children”
“pci” disables “pci_link”
The Installer is at version RC1.004c.
Mat Dillon noted in a posting on the submit mailing list that he intends to roll Release Canidate 2 today. He’s also committed changes to the serial output during boot that may fix booting for some laptop users, fixed CD issues for those with multiple CD drives in one PC, and added support for a number of different AGP chipsets.
Another day, another installer version.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai noted that cvs for DragonFly has proxy support. No, I don’t know what that’s good for.
Jonathan Fosburgh posted, on the kernel mailing list, some of his subjective impressions of DragonFly vs. FreeBSD performance.
Curious about what short-term goals remain for the installer? Wonder no more.
Matt Dillon’s (post-)updated his work diary.
There’s a package system wiki up at http://www.livebsd.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/dflypkg. I’m waiting for someone to use that spiffy DFUI used in the installer to make a good packaging system…
The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC1.002. This version now better handles canceling an action, creates a /proc mountpoint, and does a better job of autoguessing partition size.
David Rhodus has announced Crescent Anchor, a company selling SilverOS, based on DragonFly.
If you are an experienced C programmer looking for work, you may want to see this job link on the FreeBSD Jobs mailing list.
There’s another ISO mirror at http://nibble.hp48.org/dragonfly/iso-images/.
The DragonFly Installer now installs RC1.
Antonio Dolcetta translated the installation README into Italian, at http://gelo.dolcetta.net/antonio/docs/dragonfly.README.it.
The port for acpitools may not work; if you want to take advantage of the new ACPI support, Hiten Pandya pointed at http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/
Mirror list:
http://home.hackerheaven.org/~coolvibe/mirrors
Devon O’Dell San Jose California, 100Mbit
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Torrent:
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org/files/dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz.torrent