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
The DragonFlyBSD LiveCD is at version 0.3. It was 1.2 previously, so I assume the major number was dropped to emphasize that it’s not released yet. What’s new? I don’t know, as I haven’t been in #dfinstaller (on EFNet) this weekend.
‘walt’ found out that if you switch from GCC 2 to GCC 3 (and probably vice versa), libtool needs to be rebuilt.
As Erik P. Skaalerud pointed out in the bugs list, there’s been a lot of source changes lately. If you encounter an error when doing a buildworld/buildkernel, update your sources and try again. A number of people have managed to fall right inbetween updates lately.
The ISO on the DragonFly download page has been updated. This version has an an updated ATA driver, and some other patches that are not yet part of the normal codebase, in an effort to help out some folks that have been reporting installation difficulty.
Beta 1.2a, released as of Fri Jun 23 13:30:40 GMT 2004.
Andre Nathan made some nice “Powered By DragonFly” buttons.
The Download page has a new ‘known stable’ ISO image. The Threads page has been updated too.
Someone wrote a DragonFly BSD song. Don’t worry, it’s just the lyrics, not a crazy sound file. More usefully, that site has some notes on installation and using LDAP.
The DragonFly Installer page now has a spiffy text scroller which mentions, among other things, the Installer Wiki and Installer Scripts.
I somehow managed to miss this, but there’s been an update to Matt Dillon’s Diary page.
GoBSD.com has a ‘packages’ section which holds prebuilt software packages for DragonFly, suitable for adding with pkg_add -r packagename. It doesn’t happen to have many KDE packages, which can be very time-consuming to build by hand. However, there’s a whole bunch in a different directory, http://gobsd.com/packs/.
Apparently, there’s a ISC DHCP vulnerability just discovered – DragonFly could use an update.
Gabor Mickso linked to a story in Hungarian about the new installer; if you can’t read Hungarian, there’s plenty of (English) screenshots.
A newer version of the beta installer is up at http://www.livebsd.com/dfly.
Chris Pressey announced the DragonFly Installer has gone to ‘beta’ status; his announcement is pasted here:
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