Matthew Dillon has two comments on some small things that are absolutely essential: how to reach the CDROM and how to really back up existing partitions before installing DragonFly.
Thomas Schlesinger is trying to get his ipw2200 wireless connection to work. The pkgsrc package sysutils/iwi_firmware will do it, though it’s not packaged as a binary, so there’s some trickery to install.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s bulk builds of pkgsrc are showing that almost everything in pkgsrc now builds on DragonFly.  That’s 92% complete.
I can’t find the original post, but apparently pkg_install no longer complains about minor changes in system name, which can affect anyone installing binary packages.
“fader” has a post on gobsd.com that mentions Qemu works very well with DragonFly as a client environment, especially if you have the accelerator. Something similar that has been attracting attention: Parallels.
Petr Janda had the misfortune of overwriting his Master Boot Record; helpfully, a number of people had ways to fix it.
Andreas Hauser recommends using greylisting to combat spam, and talks a little bit about how to do it.
As Matthew Dillon and others have described, if you install the latest bleeding-edge code (1.5) of DragonFly, there is a bug in the installer. To keep from being bit, first log in as ‘root’ and type:
ln -s a /etc/malloc.conf
Then log out and log in as ‘installer’ and proceed normally.
April 6th is the 1024th day since the DragonFly project was formed. Happy 8*8*8*2aversary, us!
Daemonnews has an interview with Jan Schaumann up;
the interview is about NetBSD as a desktop system. Many of the answers also apply to DragonFly, as NetBSD and DragonFly both use pkgsrc.
dragonflybsd.org has been updated with a different logical layout; it’s my fault.
Apparently the Mozilla Foundation donated US$10K to OpenSSH. That’s good! They still need money, though.
Matthew Dillon writes that it is back in the system, with a different methodology. Try it if you are running bleeding edge.
Matthw Dillon has unhooked ext2fs from the build temporarily as he disassociates it from the existing UFS code.
Matthew Dillon is planning to start userland VFS work in about a month; this led Andreas Hauser to ask if FUSE could be brought in as for FreeBSD. Csaba Henk, who ported it to FreeBSD, said “yes, but better“!
Sepherosa Ziehau has added a new version of ifconfig, taken from FreeBSD 6. The interface is the same from the user perspective, but is apparently more flexible.
FreeBSD 2.2.9 is released.
YONETANI Tomokazu got a letter from folks at JMicron, looking for someone to work on driver support for their drive controllers under DragonFly. Interested?
While on that topic, Matthew Dillon wrote some notes about device driver writing and the example driver code.
Joerg Sonnenberger forwarded along the announcement that the first quarterly release of pkgsrc for 2006 is out. Notably, there’s nearly 6,000 packages, and these two interesting tips:
As always, we’d like to encourage users of the packages collection to install and run pkgsrc/security/audit-packages at least every day – this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable to exploit.
We’d also really appreciate it if people would install the pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script for us. This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating system. The results will be kept confidential, but the output will help us analyse the packages that are most used.
Daemon News has an interview of OpenBSD’s Theo deRaadt, where he mentions DragonFly. The last response in the interview is also entertaining.