Raphael Marmier has a patch that makes portupgrade work with DragonFly port overrides; he’s looking for testers.
YONETANI Tomokazu committed changes to make MAKEDEV include ServeRAID devices by default.
Markus Schatzl referenced this page on how to get a German umlaut to print on-screen.
Markus also noted in a separate post that the TIMER_USE_1 kernel config option fixed problems he had with X freezing at startup.
Not directly DragonFly related, but I recently read this article in print form, which talks about server motherboard architecture with the new amd64 chips. A number of people running DragonFly have reported excellent results using them, even though DragonFly is not yet 64-bit.
KernelTrap mentions, and highlights, recent mailing list discussion on the DragonFly scheduler. (found through Google Alerts)
Joerg Sonnenberger warned that several drivers will be removed in the next two weeks from all flavors of DragonFly, including Stable, unless someone needs them:
– GPLed math emulator
– GPLed dgb driver
– GPLed awe driver
– old pre-newbus rp driver (use nrp instead)
– OLDCARD AKA pcic (also not built as module by default)
Max Okumoto, who’s been submitting a torrent of patches lately, has been given commit access, probably just so that he can take care of it all himself. Congratulations, Max.
Hey, look! GoBSD has a new news aggregator that carries headlines from this very site.
Richard Bejtlich’s always excellent TaoSecurity blog comments on the different goals described by the major BSD projects. A interesting read. He also wrote a list of reasons on why he works with FreeBSD – points 4,6, and 7 apply even more to DragonFly. (From BSDNews.) He later linked to more discussion, including a discussion on freebsd-chat that unfortunately consists of some folks pointing out a problem (FreeBSD project goal definition) and a number of others doing nothing but describing their indifference, intricately.
The Sitetronics wiki has a new C Development Under DragonFly BSD” section that already has some content.
The BSDInstaller mailing list is back – again. It seems it wasn’t quite fixed at the time I mentioned this before, but this time, it’s for real. It’s still discussion-subscribe “at” bsdinstaller ‘dot’ org to subscribe.
Update: I still haven’t seen a “confirmation of subscription” message, so I could be wrong again.
NetBSD 2.0 is almost out – watch the NetBSD web site for the release announcement.
Guillermo Garcia Rojas is looking to translate the DragonFly FAQ into Spanish; if you have a reasonable command of Spanish and English, take a look at his Wiki version and contribute.
The bsdinstaller mailing list was accidentally trashed a little while ago; if you want to (re)subscribe, mail discussion-subscribe “at” bsdinstaller ‘dot’ org.
Want to try pkgsrc, but you already have DragonFly installed? Todd Willey posted that he has put up a binary bootstrap package.
The Sitetronics wiki now has a copy of the DragonFly FAQ; add to it if you feel you have something good to explain.
Volume 2 of the FreeBSD Handbook is available in print form now, at the FreeBSD Mall. A good amount of it will apply to DragonFly, though this material is availble free.
BSDCan 2005 is coming May 13-14th, in Ottawa, Canada. The Call for Papers is out!
Matthew Dillon suggested a small, easy project for anyone who wanted it would be to support booting from logical partitions.
A recently discovered security problem in FreeBSD’s proc also affects DragonFly; it’s already been fixed.