If anyone wants to convert NFSv4Â support over from OpenBSD, Rick Macklem has some tips.
Matthias Schmidt has added a handy tool for converting USB ids from other BSDs into a format for DragonFly.
Micropolis, a cleaned-up version of the original SimCity game, is now available under the GPL. Anyone know if this works on a DragonFly system? Don Hopkins’ blog is a good place to see details about the history and ideas involved, among other things. (Via lot of places)
Note that there’s already some open-source clones out there, like lincity-ng. Feel free to comment with more links if you know them.
Peter Avalos has an update for the aac(4) device; give it a whirl if you have this hardware.
I love to alliterate. The Southern California Linux Exposition schedule for their show in early February is up. There’s some potentially BSD-related events on there, including a talk on OpenBSD failover by Jason Dixon and Dru Lavigne’s presentation on open source publishing, for which I assume she’s using a BSD platform given her authorial bent.
Dario Banno and Matthias Schmidt have both been doing a lot of cleanup work on the version of the Handbook contained in the wiki. I want to point out the work they are doing because it’s helpful, and also because it’s possible for anyone else to contribute to this. If you’ve been feeling an itch to do something, here’s your chance to contribute to DragonFly with only a few seconds of labor.
Matthew Dillon wrote an update on the state of HAMMER, and what remains to complete. (summary: not too much) He also wrote out some explanation of the balancing code, and the ‘spikes’ used for cluster expansion.
Matthew Dillon wants the 2.0 release of DragonFly to include HAMMER, so 2.0 won’t be ready until HAMMER’s ready too. This may mean a delay of the usual 6-month release to February.
In the meantime, the Preview tag has been moved up, for those folks following nearly bleeding-edge code.
HAsso Tepper has committed changes that allow recognition of the EVDO/UMTS card found in in a Thinkpad X61.
Sepherosa Ziehau is planning to remove support for the awi(4), ray(4) and gx(4) devices in the next DragonFly release. These are (I think) all wireless devices; please speak up on kernel@ or users@ if you actually need/use them.
Matthias Schmidt has added support for the em(4) device found on Intel ICH9 chipsets.
Welcome DragonFly’s newest committer (we’ve had a lot lately!): Nuno Antunes.
Matthias Schmidt has committed a useful feature from FreeBSD that uses dumpfs to get the correct newfs command to duplicate an existing filesystem. Also, he added PAM support to cron, which I’m surprised we didn’t have already.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s dri/drm update has a followup; you will need to update your sources to try it. Other people (who have been reporting success) have some other tips.
Hasso Tepper has described some simple steps for using Bluetooth under DragonFly.
Peter Avalos, in reply to a question from ‘walt’, has pointed out that DragonFly is available via git on repo.or.cz, though it’s infrequently updated.
Max Herrgard has been cleaning up bug reports on bugs.dragonflybsd.org. (Thanks, Max!) Please contribute, as many of these reports just need someone to mark them closed.
If there’s a report from you on there, make sure it’s up to date, too. It would be helpful to clean up as much as possible before the next release.
Matthias Schmidt has committed Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s pkg_radd, a wrapper script that allows installation of pkgsrc binaries, even if there isn’t a local pkgsrc tree. Check the commit message for an explanation, or the script itself for the details. Note that this is a DragonFly-specific pkgsrc utility, meaning it doesn’t appear on any other pkgsrc platform.
The 2007Q4 quarterly release of pkgsrc is out, with almost 7,500 packages available. Prebuilt binaries for DragonFly will be available ‘soon’.
New ones are popping up everywhere! Our newest committer: Aggelos Economopoulos.