Paul Grunwald is selling his IBM laptop, which happens to run DragonFly just fine.
This week, UnixReview.com has a review of the tools Detox and jMemorize, a Linux book review that may be vaguely related to DragonFly, a conversation about regular expressions titled “Ten Years for Overnight Success“, and some other material that isn’t really on-topic enough for linking.
Matthew Dillon found this interesting collection of quotes from FreeBSD users who have purchased amd64 hardware.
John Leimon saw that DragonFly gathered some attention on the “fox-toolkit” mailing list.
Historically, access to devices by anyone other than root has been a slight hassle under BSD. Joerg Anslik’s changes to MAKEDEV have been committed, which, among other things, allows for a /etc/devices.conf that controls individual permissions for different devices, such as the CD drive.
The upcoming DragonFly release (1.5, probably) will be good, but the next release will be huge.
Matthew Dillon has committed changes to the DragonFly CD image, put together by Eduardo Tongson, so that if one is inserted in a computer running Windows, it will autorun a web page with information and links about DragonFly BSD.
As part of a longer thread about making your computer configure itself appropriately to available networks, Freddie Cash pointed at the profile.sh work in FreeBSD. This may be convertible to FreeBSD…
Matthew Dillon listed remaining bugs before the next move of the Stable tag, and also plans for the next release, which will probably be “1.5”.
YONETANI Tomokazu has already moved on to the next version of Intel’s ACPI code, and committed it.
Joerg Sonnenberger has added firmware support, put together by he and Johannes Hofmann. Does this mean DragonFly could work on specialized hardware? Boot from an EEPROM? I don’t know, but it’s fun to pretend.
Dan Langille of FreshPorts and FreeBSD Diary fame has an article up at ONLamp/BSD that talks about monitoring a RAID system with Netsaint.
Matthew Dillon detailed some of the issues he wants to be resolved before the next release, and also mentioned that the next release will be the switch to using GCC3 as the default compiler, isntead of GCC 2.95 as now. Chris Pressey followed up with news of some installer improvements he wants to include.
KDE 3.4 is out. I don’t know if the FreeBSD port will build on DragonFly, yet… A “new in this version” list is available. Gnome 2.10 is currently out in the FreeBSD ports tree too.
bsdcertification.org is now available. As you may guess from the name, it’s an organization for creating a standard measurement of BSD skills, and it’s also a very good idea. Some very clever people are behind it. There’s a mailing list available, which looks like the best way to see what happens when it happens.
If you’re looking to install DragonFly to something small, like, say, a USB memory stick, Gary Allan has some links for you.
David Rhodus posted some initial results with using a 3Ware 9500 RAID controller on DragonFly. The summarized version of the thread is this: transfer rates were 30 MB/s with FreeBSD 5.3, and 152 MB/s with DragonFly.
Rongsheng Fang suggested on users@ that the easy way to track working hardware would be to emulate an OpenBSD trick: sending a dmesg.
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