Matthew Dillon has a rather lengthy writeup of the needs of a filesystem in a clustered latent environment. (i.e. DragonFly’s goal)
This wasn’t on DragonFly, but it can apply: a BSDNexus post detailed the benchmark differences between Win4BSD, VMWare, and native Windows.
Found on the web: WarpBSD, a “project to incorporate OS/2 support into FreeBSD”, though it sounds like the vkernel now makes DragonFly a better choice.
Version 1.8 has been released! See the release announcement, or proceed directly to the download page (and errata).
Updated: mentioned on BSDNews, Reddit, and Digg. Download also available as a Metalink. (Description at metalinker.org)
If you want to read a very dense chunk of text, the “December 2006 Pkgsrc Changes Summary” is out.
UnixReview.com has 2 new articles up: “Parsing Web Form Input in CGI Shell Scripts“, which deals with the crazy notion of shell scripts handling interactive web pages, and “New Year, More Security Challenges“, which covers some U.S. federal law changes for 2007 that require computer data as part of the discovery phase of a lawsuit.
OnLAMP.com has a nice interview of the people behind PC-BSD, and details on their latest release.
I’ve changed the theme, and added some elements to make this match the other DragonFly sites a bit more. If I’ve removed a link you need, please let me know.
Jeremy C. Reed is writing an article about DragonFly’s virtual kernel, and he had some comprehensive questions. Matthew Dillon had some answers which make a good read.
1.8 has been branched in CVS, and release is scheduled for Monday.
An ongoing conversation about virtual kernels led to a description of just how virtual kernel and real kernel memory usage interacts; they are surprisingly well synchronized.
Matthew Dillon has synchronized Preview with the latest bleeding-edge code, to match up with the large number of commits lately.
xfce 4.4 is out; it’s in pkgsrc-wip now if you want to try it early; otherwise, it should be officially in pkgsrc soon.
Matthew Dillon was planning to branch 1.8 today, but Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert came up with a fix that lets a kernel successfully boot using gcc 4.1, so the branching will be tomorrow.
Peter Avalos has updated bzip2, which fixes some minor security issues.
A minor update to 1.6 is out, to incorporate some recent backpatches.
Matthew Dillon reports changes to the kernel configuration file are needed now. Also, if you are running bleeding-edge code, a full buildworld/buildkernel is required on the next upgrade.
Branching for 1.8 will happen very soon; as soon as ACPI is ready. The release date has not slipped.
OnLAMP.com has a new article up about using PF and spamd to kill spam.
Matthew Dillon is doing CVS surgery tonight to revert the architecture name changes; if you are using bleeding-edge code, don’t update it until tomorrow.
The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List has been resurrected. Much of what’s on that list will also apply to DragonFly, so keep it in mind for your next laptop purchase. (Thanks, BSDNews)