Crescent Anchor’s operating system based on DragonFly, originally called “Silver OS”, has been renamed “FireFly“. Thanks Jeremy Almey.
4th clause not needed
‘Users’ list now available
“Users”, a new list/newsgroup for “general, non-kernel postings” is available.
Mail “subscribe” to users-request@lists.dragonflybsd.[excised to spamprotect] to sign up.
Learning C
This thread started by Joshua Coombs names some good resources to start with if you plan to learn programming in C.
bsdinstaller CVS records
Apparently, a history of CVS commits to the Installer is available. There’s some mentions of the installer and OpenBSD in recent commits…
Dangerous programming
Code carefully, because otherwise someone may become homicidal.
X11R6.8 almost out
The next release of X is almost out; it’s not released yet contrary to some reports. When it is out, or if you are running a release candidate, there’s a note here about how to enable some of the new features. Hopefully a port will be available.
Unix history, GameBoy
Someone got 5th edition Unix running on a Game Boy Advance, in a demo loop of sorts. I’m linking to this not because it has any real use, but because the page also contains a nice history of very early Unix.
apr Approved
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added a dfport override for devel/apr, the APache Portable Runtime, which happens to recognize DragonFly.
Test pf
By the way, there is a test version of pf for DragonFly, available to try.
It’s ips
Joerg Sonnenberger’s committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s changes to the ips driver, for RAID devices such as ServeRAID. Among other benefits, it now supports more recent Adaptec hardware.
Scheduler alternatives
‘walt’ posted in kernel@ a note about the new Linux staircase scheduler, available here, and how it may be useful for DragonFly.
New wi(4)
Joerg Sonnenberger has imported a new wi(4) driver for 802.11, taken from FreeBSD. Update: if this new driver doesn’t work for you, use owi(4), which is the older version.
VFS, then 64
Matthew Dillon noted in this post to kernel@ that he anticipates 64-bit work in perhaps 6 months, after VFS is completed.
Better USB keyboards
Matthew Dillon made some improvements to USB keyboard support.
KDE 3.3 port overrides
‘Rum’ has started work on dfport overrides for KDE 3.3.0. (The link he supplies appears not to work yet, however.)
Syscons upgraded
See you, Tip.
The cu program has been out of the system for a long time; Matthew Dillon has committed
cu emulation in tip.
Sanity for me
Spam was being placed in the comments for various entries on this page at the rate of 1 every 10 minutes or so; I’ve changed the setup to block most of it. If you post a comment and it doesn’t appear immediately, it may be waiting for approval.
Sanity for other OS developers
Matthew Dillon pointed out that when comitting functional changes to the DragonFly source, keep them separate from other modifications. That way, when other BSDs/projects use these modifications, it will be much easier for them to review and use.