Seen on KernelTrap, then OpenBSD Journal and then Slashdot: BSD support (specifically OpenBSD) hardware support is improving faster than Linux in some cases.
I did not realize this, but if you want to browse SMB shares using KDE, KDE has to be compiled explicitly with support for it. The message linked happens to cover ‘show-options’, a handy pkgsrc option.
There’s been some conversations about getting OpenVPN to work, though it’s still not complete.
Stefan Krüger’s writeup of how to do a stress test on DragonFly is now on the wiki.
Stefan Krüger has written up a nice description of how to use Peter Holm’s kernel stress test on DragonFly.
UnixReview.com has a much larger than normal set of new (new since I last linked) articles up; instead of linking to individual ones, I’ll just say “go visit“.
Due to a disk problem, some of the archived mailing list messages/articles on the news server are missing. The mail archives appear OK, however.
Preview, the halfway step between ‘safe’ and bleeding edge code in DragonFly, is due for an update soon.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s been building from the most recent branch (2006Q1) of pkgsrc, and the binaries are now available. His existing packages were built from the current version of pkgsrc, i.e. from CVS.
Ever have your console filled with messages from some bizarre hardware issue? Bill Hacker knows how to fix it.
Max von Seibold identified a nice installation guide for DragonFly. (His other question about bootblocks is answered later.)
Joerg Sonnenberger is removing old versions of postgres from pkgsrc, and reconfiguring the PHP, PEAR, and Apache packages to make the installable combinations a little more comprehensible.
Joerg Sonnenberger added a ‘-p’ option to kdump, so that only data for a specific PID is recorded. This can greatly reduce the output.
If you use the OpenLDAP package(s) in pkgsrc, it’s undergone some changes that affect it and its dependencies.
Chris Csandy offers these helpful tips on how to build a bridge.
If you’re looking for some extra small programming work, Matthew Dillon suggests teaching inetd to bind to one interface like in OpenBSD, or allowing userspace threads to pick a CPU on which to run.
wiki.dragonflybsd.org is now pointing at a new site hosted by fortunaty.net. It also includes this new Device HOWTO by Thomas Schlesinger.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has added a change that makes cvs ask for confirmation before using a filename when adding a commit message.
As Matthew Dillon posted, SMP builds may be broken for the next few days, so rebuild with caution.
Matthew Dillon warned that he is committing a lot of work on multiprocessor support over the next few days; if you are one of the people who run bleeding-edge versions of DragonFly (1.5 from CVS, or ‘HEAD’), there will probably be some instability. It’s not called bleeding-edge for nothing…