Matthew Dillon answered some questions recently about how far along DragonFly is to its goals and what it will take for SMP without the giant lock.
Peter Avalos has updated libpcap and tcpdump to version 0.9.7 and 3.9.7, respectively.
There’s a new mirror for DragonFly in Ukraine; it includes the 1.10 release ISO.
There’s a new interview of Matthew Dillon up on KernelTrap, covering a lot of details on what is intended for the 2.0 release of DragonFly.
1.10 has been released; check the page describing the release and then please use a mirror when downloading the ISO or updating your sources. The release page also has a list of the many changes in this version. Check the errata, as there’s a few small issues that remain within the installer.
The Diary page on the DragonFly website has been updated with what’s new in the 1.10 release. Incidentally, we are now more than 50% of the way to a distributed system.
Matthew Dillon detailed a future idea he’d like to see: a DragonFly system having both 32 and 64-bit parts, with usages controlled by varsyms.
Seen on pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org: Steven O’Hara-Smith fixed Linux emulation support with pkgsrc and DragonFly. Thanks, Steven.
It’s not an earthshaking change, of course, but I like to give credit for things that otherwise would pass unnoticed.
TWAREN in Taiwan has set up a new DragonFly mirror, including pkgsrc binary packages. I think there are a few other new mirrors on the download page that I missed over the past few months – check for one near you.
Something that is a very good idea: When running 1.10 or later, it will be possible to cd to /usr and update DragonFly source or pkgsrc files using only a make command.
If no problems are found, this release candidate will turn into the release, this weekend.
The latest BSDTalk is with William Hurley, who is the impressively titled Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software.
Clean out your /var/cache/fontconfig the next time you upgrade the fontconfig package.
Thomas E. Spanjaard has a kernel module that reads temperatures from recent Intel CPUs; read his post for details on how to get it working. It’s not yet in the source tree.
The 1.10 release looks likely to be this weekend, due to a number of bug squashings, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert reports a successful build of pkgsrc binary packages for 1.10 is complete.
Dieter Baron wrote up a list of possible pkgsrc improvements on the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list; it’s a list of goals that have been talked about in fragments other places. Much discussion ensued, with Joerg Sonnenberger pointing out that some of these goals are near completion.
Joseph Garcia wrote up an entry on the users@ mailing list about how to get Sendmail working as a relay agent using authentication, and what that requires from pkgsrc.
The latest BSDTalk has M. Warner Losh talking about embedded FreeBSD.
During a discussion of disk activity while doing a bulk build of pkgsrc, Roman Divacky posted a link to the Anticipatory Disk Scheduler, which should be portable to DragonFly. Whether it would help or not is another question.
I just found Etoile (screenshots linked) today; it’s apparently a GNUStep-based desktop. This would be of interest to people who like the Windowmaker (or even Mac OS X) interface No version in pkgsrc yet, so I don’t know if it compiles…