Peter Avalos has updated libarchive to version 2.1.9.
Matthew Dillon posted an update on how he’s organizing syslink to handle the sharing of machine resources in a cluster.
It is possible to use multiple make processes when building from pkgsrc, similar to using -j when performing buildworld to speed things up. It can be set in mk.conf or as an environment variable, and turned off for specific packages if it causes trouble.
Joerg Sonnenberger has binary packages of the 2007Q1 pkgsrc release now available on his server.
Aggelos Economopoulos’s second article about DragonFly’s virtual kernel is now available to non-subscribers on lwn.net. (The first article is also available.)
Welcome our newest committer: Hasso Tepper. In addition to his recently committed patched for DragonFly, he’s also been working on KDE support for DragonFly.
rsync.net (which offers Backup Done Right, as far as I can tell) is offering a number of code bounties for various (mostly FreeBSD) projects. One of them is a standardized stress test for UFS2 – a general filesystem testing framework would do everyone good – especially someone using a distributed file system…
The PHP and PEAR packages in pkgsrc are being decoupled from each other, for ease of maintenance.
When we say DragonFly is a modern BSD, we mean it in every way. Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert taught morse(6) to produce actual sounds and allow them to be saved to a file, among other things.
There’s a variety of ways to turn on multiprocessing support in a kernel; Matthew Dillon recently explained the variety and reasoning.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has pointed out that pkg_rolling-replace is very helpful when recompiling to use a different threading library.
Peter Avalos has updated tnftp to the latest version.
I’m a bit slow in mentioning this, but: the most recent quarterly release of pkgsrc, 2007Q1, is officially released.
Do you have a bge(4) network card? If so, Sepherosa Ziehau would like you to test his patch – it shouldn’t do anything but improve the card performance.
A very busy week on UnixReview.com: the oddly-titled Regular Expressions column “Tuple Spaces Help Organize Concurrency Solutions“, and Shell Corner’s “Perl Is a Gem: One-Liners and Programs“. There’s also an article called “The Joys of Data Classification“, along with book reviews of “UNIX: The Complete Reference, Second Edition“, and “Backup and Recovery“.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has added the ability to switch between threading libraries. It needs a little bit more work, for which he could use the help – see the message for details.
Syslink, the method for having DragonFly systems communicate within a cluster, has been added in a basic form. This is the infrastructure – it can’t be used for clustering yet. (Don’t want to get anyone overexcited.) The man page isn’t online yet, but you can look at the raw page.
The USENIX 2007 Technical Conference will be on June 17th-22nd of this year, and early bird registration is due June 1st. There’s a number of ‘BSD People’ there, as speakers.
Apparently virtual kernels are useful no matter the operating system. (Thanks, somebody I lost the name of on #dragonflybsd)
A recent discussion of RAID cards revealed some known working 3ware models, plus the fact that Matthew Dillon plans to duplicate some RAID functionality at the filesystem level, probably by the end of the year.