GCC 4.1 is now the default compiler for DragonFly versions > 1.10. GCC 3 is staying around for a while in case it’s needed, though.
‘elekktretterr’ posted his extra steps needed to get spamd running, from pkgsrc.
Matthew Dillon has updated leaf.dragonflybsd.org (where developer accounts are located) to 1.10.
xorg 6.9 is going to be removed from pkgsrc soon; upgrade to the modular version when the chance presents itself. As the linked post says, you need these packages:
- meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps
- meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-fonts
- meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers
- x11/modular-xorg-server
- x11/xterm
(Though xterm can be replaced with other terminal programs) All these are available as packages from your local mirror, though programs dependent on X will need to be recompiled or reinstalled from binary packages.
Matthew Dillon found a mbuf problem, and fixed it. It’s severe enough that it will cause 1.10.1 to be brought out very soon; it’s led to some other changes.
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.