Martin Hellwig is a lucky guy; he gets to boot DragonFly on a spiffy Sun Fire v20z.
While replying to an otherwise irrelevant thread, Matthew Dillon described some of the hardware/software work he’s done on the side.
Though it was previously “leaked”, there’s a contest for a new FreeBSD logo – details have been mailed. $500 for the winner!
DragonFly developers are helpful people.
Unixreview.com has two new article that may be of some use: Regular Expressions: Resource Management and Understanding the Command Line (with Perl).
Eduardo Tongson’s DragonFly Presentation (134K pdf) has been updated.
This small post about hyperthreading led off to a much larger and informative discussion about Intel vs. AMD CPU architectures and hyperthreading vs. multicore CPUs. (Summation so far: AMD and multicore are the better of the set.)
Dru Lavigne’s FreeBSD Basics column on ONLamp.com has a “Tips and Tricks” entry up, most of which can apply to DragonFly.
In a discussion about backporting to FreeBSD, Matthew Dillon weighed in, describing the troubles he’s seen with porting DragonFly improvements to FreeBSD.
Eduardo Tongson put together an informational presentation (PDF) on DragonFly, for which Matthew Dillon had some comments.
Is a boot from a 64M USB key possible? Maybe.
Simon Schubert is the newest committer.
Martin Hellwig created another DragonFly logo idea with some symbolism.
If you can read this, it means shiningsilence.com has now moved from FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE on a dual P2/333, to a single 1.8G AMD64 running on DragonFly stable.
shiningsilence.com is moving to newer hardware, which means a change in IP and probably a short adjustment time as DNS updates come through. So, this site and mail will be unavailable for a little while, perhaps as soon as tonight.
Are you a geek? If so, then you’ll find this patent funny.
(Found while researching/comparing compression results at work)
Robert Nagy submitted patches to include ‘sudo‘in the base system for DragonFly. Reaction is generally positive. The reason I’m posting this is to point out that there are no criterion for what can be in the base system – what would you like to see?
GoBSD.com has the second preview release of GoBSD. GoBSD, for those who don’t know, is built from DragonFly and includes pkgsrc for software management.