If you’re running the latest Development code, you will need to do a full build/install of world and kernel, because of a libc change. Matthew Dillon says so.
This week, UnixReview.com has book reviews of Networks, Security and Complexity and Digital Identity, along with a writeup of some Nagios plug-ins.
Matthew Dillon’s tsleep patches are in, making another chunk of code multiprocessor safe. The commit message comes with a good bit of explanation, too.
It’s labeled 3 but named 4. Either way, read the message to see the details.
And in another followup, several people pointed at the forcedepth Linux driver (for which I can’t find a link – help!) for Nvidia-chipset network cards as an alternative to get the Shuttle boards working. (previous story) Matthew Dillon’s going to look at them.
Matthew Dillon’s got another tsleep patch, along with some more comments.
Matthew Dillon’s got another tsleep patch for people, especially SMP users, to try out. As is usual, he has a good description of the work involved in producing it.
Matthew Dillon wrote out his final report on the Shuttle XPC with a AMD X2 dual-core processor. The short version: it works under the latest DragonFly code, except for the built-in ethernet. It’s zippy.
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote me to describe the preferred bug reporting path for pkgsrc issues on DragonFly:
1: Mail Joerg Sonnenberger or users@dragonflybsd.org
2: Mail DragonFly developers known to work on pkgsrc
3: send-pr, on the NetBSD site. (The first page I found for that looks to be focused on NetBSD…)
4: Mail to the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list.
pkgsrc is the upcoming application packaging system for the next release of DragonFly, and there are several mailing lists just for pkgsrc (not DragonFly-specific) that talk about what’s going on. It’s also a good place to go if you have trouble with a particular package, as the maintainer of that package may not be on any of the DragonFly lists, due to the extreme cross-platform usage of pkgsrc.
This week on UnixReview.com, there’s a review of the game Fish Fillets Next Generation (which ought to compile on DragonFly), plus ‘John & Ed’s Miscellaneous “Split” Tips‘, dealing with splitting files.
If you have a multi-processor computer, Matthew Dillon would appreciate testing of his latest , more efficient changes to the scheduling system.
internetnews.com has a “Return of the BSDs” article that probably doesn’t describe anything new to readers of this blog – though it’s nice to see. Also, there’s an article on bsdnewsletter.com describing a Google Summer of Code participant’s experience writing a NetBSD version of Project Evil.
http://blog.onetbsd.de/ is a new blog with several folks from the #NetBSD IRC channel contributing. It’s a bit more chatty than newsy, but it appears to be regularly updated, unlike most BSD news sources.
FreeBSD 6.0 is out. OpenBSD 3.8 is out. NetBSD 2.0.3 and 2.1 are out.
And, for the upcoming DragonFly release, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has created a wiki page for DragonFly 1.4 release planning. Matthew Dillon has chimed in with some of what he wants for the release.
Matthew Dillon has created a way to run a SMP kernel without using the APIC_IO option. This lets his Shuttle XPCs boot. He also solved a BIOS problem on AMDX2 dual-core machines.
This week, UnixReview.com has “Shell Corner: Reading Function and Cursor Keys in a Shell Script“, “Comparing Convergence Certifications“, and a review of “up.time 3.0“
Joerg Sonnenberger has a whole lot of prebuilt packages for DragonFly 1.3.x available. It’s showing up on mirrors, too. Going by a rough line count, it appears to have about 60 more packages (2%) than gobsd.com/pkgsrc.
Matthew Dillon is moving the FreeBSD-based pkg binaries out of the regular location to make room for the pkgsrc version, which will be in the next release. That next release, by the way, is coming before the end of the year.
On a related note, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has proposed moving to rsync instead of cvsup to get updated code; cvsup works well but requires a lot of resources to build.