Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added OpenSSL 0.9.7e to DragonFly. YONETANI Tomokazu also fixed a bug where each directory committed to the DragonFly CVS generated a separate CVS message – the OpenSSL addition generated something like 90 messages.
There’s been lots more discussion on getting a German keyboard and characters to work. Along with that, Jonas Sundstom asked if standardizing on UTF8 would help.
Matthew Dillon’s added the first parts of the journaling infrastructure, among other things, in his most recent VFS work.
Joerg Sonneberger committed a patch from Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert that fixes a longstanding problem with X.org and multithreaded applications. Read the commit message for more details.
Sascha Wildner is gaining the ability to commit DragonFly changes, due to his frequent submissions. Congratulations, and get to work.
Craig Dooley posted a description of his dfport override for DRI, and asked for help finding a place to host it, as it needs testing.
FreeSBIE 1.1 is out, using the very same installer technology as DragonFly – the BSD installer! (thanks GeekGod for the note)
Todd Willey pointed out on GoBSD.com that the pkgsrc bootstrap kit now should work on DragonFly, now that his changes have been committed. It should be possible to download the most recent version of pkgsrc and start using it normally (barring individual package issues).
Matthew Dillon, with the assistence of many, has tracked down the keyboard connection loss issue that was plaguing a number of people.
If you are one of those people, update, check /usr/src/sys/dev/misc/kbd/kbd.c to make sure it’s version 1.14, and rebuild.
If it hasn’t already happened, Matthew Dillon will be moving the stable tag up to the newest version of DragonFly, as there are no major problems right now with the bleeding edge code. He’s waiting to see how well Jeffrey Hsu’s network stack parallelizing code (!) works.
Joerg Sonneberger brought the DragonFly version of OpenNTPD into sync with the OpenBSD version, and added an example configuration file. Also, David Rhodus has posted a writeup about the integration of OpenNTPD into DragonFly over at GoBSD.com.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai added support for a number of different Intel devices.
A poll for your favorite BSD personality was posted on the users@ mailing list. Relive high school years – in Dutch!
Joerg Sonnenberger posted a solution that creates a working German keyboard layout on DragonFly.
We had a short outage tonight because of a full partition – fixed now.
‘walt’ has a patch for /boot/loader that lets DragonFly be installed to an extended partition, and he’s looking for testers.
Glenn Johnson described just how to change optimization flags when compiling X.org, though Joerg Sonnenberger recommends against it.
An old corecode suggestion about cleaning up the “$XXX is not set properly” warning has been reinforced by Robert Garrett, the fellow who brought RCNG into DragonFly.
If you see that error message on startup or shutdown, this will fix it:
sed -i -e 's/FreeBSD)/DragonFly|&/' /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.subr
It’s a slow news day, so take the time to read the full text of the USL settlement text, over at GrokLaw.
For those not versed in arcane history, BSD is a product of the code that Berkeley produced from early access to AT&T’s Unix source code. Lawsuits ensued, almost two decades ago, but were all settled – this is why SCO has not been able to sue any BSD-using company, even though BSD is a more “direct descendant” of the original UNIX than Linux.
NetBSD 2.0 is officially out; this is notable because several of the NetBSD replacements for GNU utilities are now found in DragonFly, too.