ONLamp/BSD has posted the January BSD news roundup from Sam Smith.
If you’ve been feeling an urge to submit patches to DragonFly, and don’t know when to start, Max Okumoto did a small writeup on how to get started (with followup).
Note that submitting documentation improvements is as simple as rewriting something and posting it on submit@, though it’s more helpful to download docs from CVS and patch.
Joerg Sonneberger has added ALTQ support from KAME, and removed PC98 support, though that probably affects noone.
Xin LI announced a new DragonFly mirror in China: dragonflybsd.delphij.net, carrying CVSup collections and updated 4 times a day.
I’ve updated the Handbook, and there’s a new PDF version, too, thanks to Matthew Dillon updating the leaf doc tools.
Apparently the parts to the BSD Installer are showing up in pkgsrc. (Thanks, Todd Willey.)
Sascha Wildner has imported the Handbook into the DragonFly Wiki. Neat, though I’m not sure how easily the changes can get placed back into CVS.
YONETANI Tomokazu posted some comments on how to get the FreeBSD Port of linuxpluginwrapper working.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has created a cross reference tool (details) that compares across DragonFly, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, syncing by tag when possible. A test version is available.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert posted a lengthy writeup of his thoughts on fixing nullfs
Unixreview.com has, among other things, a review of “C++ Coding Standards”, and a review of “The Mathematical Century” (for those who like reading about math problems). It is a nerdfest!
Would graphs like this help people working on DragonFly? If you would be helped, speak up. “ALiene” recommended creating them.
David Rhodus announced that there’s now a pkgsrc mailing list hosted at gobsd.com.
In addition, there are now binary pkgsrc packages available for DragonFly at gobsd.com!
Matthew Dillon, on kernel@, described the details of disk drivers under DragonFly
gobsd.com has an extensive writeup from Todd Willey on how he got pkgsrc working on DragonFly. There’s a number of links at the end of the article that carry more pkgsrc info.
Support for DragonFly in X.org requires people to “vouch” for the required patches to work, by trying them out. If you’ve got the spare time, read this bug report and try it out.
David Rhodus pointed out that UFS2 (what FreeBSD 5/6 uses) will eventually be supported on DragonFly, which will help with large filesystem support, and also with upgrading from FreeBSD 5/6 to DragonFly.
If you use Vinum, VINUMDEBUG is going away because of what Joerg Sonnenberger is doing.
“ALeine” is looking to backport GEOM to FreeBSD-4/DragonFly, though Matthew Dillon indicated it’s possible, though he has other plans.
A post by Ivan Voras on kernel@ led to a useful discussion talking about tokens contrasted with mutexes.