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Author: Justin Sherrill

Posted on 2008/10/04
I’m repeated

Is it good or bad that Google searches for BSD material turn up mostly my own writings, reposted?

6 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/10/032008/10/06
DragonFly, threading, and a thesis

Robert Luciani’s EuroBSDCon bachelor’s thesis presentation on DragonFly’s threading model is available as a PDF.  (anyone have a mirror?  That link is intermittent.)  Previous versions have been linked here before.

3 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/10/03
BSDTalk 159: Kris Moore and PC-BSD

The latest 12-minute BSDTalk has an interview with Kris Moore, one of the folks involved in PC-BSD.  Version 7 of PC-BSD was just released.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/10/022008/10/03
Two old-school game links

The most recent @Play article talks about Legerdemain, a cross between roguelikes and old-style RPGs like Ultima.  It’s old school twice over.

The entries in the 2008 Interactive Fiction Competition are all available.  (Think Infocom-style games.)  (via)

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/10/012008/10/01
Hasso adds a lot

Hasso Tepper has committed Sascha Wildner’s port of FreeBSD’s devinfo(3) and devinfo(8), for “userspace access to the internal device hierarchy”.  Hasso also updated acpi_battery(4), for battery monitoring.

He’s also ported devd(8) from FreeBSD, with an inital patch for testing.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/09/30
Realtek 8102EL support and history

Mitja Horvat purchased an Intel D945GCLF motherboard, which worked fine with DragonFly except for some minor issues with hardware checksumming on the Realtek 8102EL network card.   He supplied a patch to fix this, which was committed.  Edward O’Callaghan chimed in with some history of why this particular card was problematic in DragonFly and other operating systems.

1 Comment - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2008/09/30
OpenSSL, OpenSSH updated

Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL to version 0.9.8i and OpenSSH to version 5.1p1.  Thanks, Peter!

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code
Posted on 2008/09/29
DragonFly on VirtualBox

Michael Neumann has a patch that makes DragonFly able to run on VirtualBox; Matthew Dillon has a suggestion on how to make the fix permanent, which also may help with clock timing under other virtualized setups.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/09/29
2.0.1 is out

Somehow I missed this commit, but DragonFly 2.0.1 is out, with many changes to Hammer and other miscellaneous updates.

0 Comments - Categories: Heads Up!
Posted on 2008/09/26
BSDTalk 158: Chess Griffin

This week’s BSDTalk is a 24-minute talk with Chess Griffin, who put together the 100-podcast LinuxReality series.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/09/26
Buncha Links

Dru Lavigne’s blog brings news of her upcoming convention schedule, the September issue of the OSBR, themed on “Social Innovation”, and an always-fun linkpile.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/09/252008/09/30
More cross-BSD work

It’s always nice to see work benefiting multiple BSDs.  (via)  Joerg Sonnenberger also gets credit for committing patches from Hasso Tepper to pkgsrc, contributing to the upward success rate for pkgsrc packages building on DragonFly.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/09/24
pkgbox upgraded

pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org has been upgraded to DragonFly 2.1, and now has several Hammer volumes.  This is the system that builds and hosts the pkgsrc binary packages.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/09/24
More pkgsrc success

Hasso Tepper is continuing his pkgsrc bulk builds, with his most recent build showing 7,130 packages built successfully, an increase of 116 over his last build.  (I don’t know if he’s using local patches…)

1 Comment - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2008/09/232008/09/24
Another step closer to lock removal

Sepherosa Ziehau has added code to make it possible to run network threads without the Big Giant Lock.  It’s still experimental, so it has to be manually set via sysctl.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code
Posted on 2008/09/23
2.0.1 Real Soon Now

The 2.0.1 release of DragonFly will arrive soon, incorporating recent improvements to Hammer, including the new cleanup utility.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2008/09/22
Happy!

Supplied by Alexander Schrijver: the happiest dragonfly ever.

0 Comments - Categories: Off-Topic
Posted on 2008/09/22
New Hammer utility: cleanup

Matthew Dillon has added a new tool for Hammer: ‘cleanup‘.  This does the normal pruning, reblocking, and snapshots all together, with some sensible defaults.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code
Posted on 2008/09/19
GNOME and C# work

As a followup to his pkgsrc bulk build, Hasso Tepper would welcome contributions from anyone interested in making pkgsrc’s version of the GNOME desktop and the various C# utilities work better on DragonFly.

0 Comments - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2008/09/19
A bigger leaf

The development machine leaf.dragonflybsd.org has been upgraded with a lot more disk space.  Development accounts on there are free for everyone, though keep in mind only some parts are backed up.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on

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