Lazy Reading for 2012/10/07

DragonFly 3.2 branches tomorrow if all goes to plan. Until then, I have a lot of reading here for you.

Your unrelated link of the week: Dog Shaming.  I have a parrot, rabbit, and lizard.  They seem like easy, normal pets compared to some of these stories.

 

3.2 branch and release plan

As I typed elsewhere, my general plan is to branch DragonFly 3.2 on the 8th, and release on the 22nd.  That should give the recent scheduler and gcc work a chance to settle, and perhaps get a new version of USB support in too.  It will probably be using pkgsrc-2012Q3, also, though we may not have binary i386 packages.  3.2 is shaping up to be a much more significant release than I expected.

 

gcc 4.7 in, gcc 4.1 out

John Marino has accomplished the difficult task of putting gcc 4.7 into DragonFly.  Version 4.4 is still the default, and the older 4.1 version has been disabled.  If you want to try this newer version, setting WORLD_CCVER=gcc47 will build kernel and world that way too.  If you’re curious about what’s different in this version of gcc, there’s a 4.7 changelog.

Are we the only BSD with this new a version in base?  I think so.

P.S.: You’ll want to do a full buildworld if you’re running DragonFly 3.1

P.P.S.: you may need to put ‘NO_GCC47=true’ in make.conf, going from IRC comments.

P.P.P.S.: Nope, now it’s fine.

 

Lazy Reading for 2012/09/30

It’s been an extremely busy week for me, but I still have a batch of links here.

Your unrelated link of the week: Did you know one of the original ideas was to name DragonFly “TortoiseBSD” “TurtleBSD”?  Probably not the best name.

Lazy Reading for 2012/09/23

The weather is finally turning cooler, which makes me happy.

  • I don’t think I’ve seen this before: Very old UNIX releases, listed for running in emulation.  (via)
  • Where the red-black tree name came from.  A red-black tree underpins Hammer 1’s data structures, though it does not in Hammer 2.  (also via)
  • Someone with a HP passport login want to help this guy?  He just needs to reinstall Windows in IDE mode, or perhaps find the right sysctl to toggle.
  • The acme editor, from Plan 9.  I didn’t realize it’s 20 years old.
  • Speaking of editors, Replace in Multiple Files with Vim.  I haven’t seen the argdo command before, or the Vim Ninjas site.  Their color schemes article is useful just for the screenshots. (via)
  • Adbuntu.  It’s not as bad or as inconsequential as most reactions would lead you to believe, but advertising within an OS seems heavy-handed.  The BSD model has been to use the operating system as a vehicle for selling hardware, and that’s been much more successful.  (see iOS, PC-BSD.)
  • Where Did the Internet Come From?
  • The map for Adventure.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the day: Victorian Sci-Fi.  It’s not just a reference list, it’s a link to a lot of the original material, since copyright no longer applies.