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Month: August 2004

Posted on 2004/08/31
Even more Open* updates

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added OpenSSL 0.9.7d.

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Posted on 2004/08/31
Openntpd testers needed

Scott Ullrich has a version of OpenNTPD, a network time daemon, available for testing.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2004/08/31
NVIDIA binary broke

The ports/x11/nvidia-driver port currently stops during build with an error about vnode_if.h. This is being worked on.

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Posted on 2004/08/31
8254 project available

As Matthew Dillon described in a post to bugs@, anyone with a little assembly knowledge could fix up 8254 access.

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2004/08/31
OpenSSH upgraded

Scott Ullrich has updated OpenSSH to version 3.9p1.

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Posted on 2004/08/28
VFS 4th stage

Matthew Dillon’s 4th VFS patch probably will go in today. ‘esmith’ asked why nullfs was so broken on FreeBSD, and how it was better on DragonFly, to which Matthew Dillon posted this reply, which happens to include some details of his next major task.

Update: commited, with further explanation of what changed.

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Posted on 2004/08/28
A pile of updates

Joerg Sonnenberger has added NForce onboard ehternet support, while Jeroen Ruigrok has updated timezones. Matthew Dillon has brought VESA support in line with FreeBSD-CURRENT.

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Posted on 2004/08/27
B(F)PM manager

(seen on DaemonNews) BSD Ports Manipulator appears to be rather spiffy, and may work with the ports system on DragonFly. The “B” instead of “F” implies it should be handling more than just ports, though.

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Posted on 2004/08/27
Overoptimize

As a few people have found out, turning on some compiler optimizations such as -O2 with gcc 3.4 will cause problems, though Joerg Sonnenberger did just fix one issue. The speed benefits may be more mental than real, anyway

2 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2004/08/26
Want trouble?

Matthew Dillon has a third VFS patch up; he’s looking for anyone using UFS under heavy load, or other filesystems. This is dangerous, as he expects there to be crashing with this patch.

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Posted on 2004/08/26
SViSta on DragonFly?

Looks like Serenity Systems has a Serenity Virtual Station (link from Slashdot) product that lets you run a virtual machine, much like VMWare, and they have a FreeBSD-native version. This may work on DragonFly, though it’ll take someone with a spare $50USD to find out.

2 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2004/08/25
Not journaling yet

But the base is there.

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Posted on 2004/08/25
UTF8 work easy to do

If you’re looking for something to do, you can always help with language locales. This does not require programming experience.

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Posted on 2004/08/25
Hardware just laying around

If you happen to live in Holland with some spare NVIDIA cards, SMP motherboards, or hard drives, or you live anywhere in the US with a spare laptop that could run DragonFly, then you should be looking at the Donations page.

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Posted on 2004/08/22
Newer version of OpenSSH coming

Scott Ullrich’s working on an import of OpenSSH 3.9p1.

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Posted on 2004/08/22
Seeking superior syscons support

Sascha Wildner is looking for people to try his 16/32 bit patch for syscons, the DragonFly console mechanism.

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Posted on 2004/08/22
Means to an End

Joerg Sonnenberger has made a whole pile of endian cleanups.

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Posted on 2004/08/22
Copyright miscellanea

Matthew Dillon’s clarified how to have source recognition for your contribution to DragonFly.

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Posted on 2004/08/19
New Donations page

dragonflybsd.org now has a donations page.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2004/08/19
Cross-pollination

Well, this is a good thing.

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