Author: Justin Sherrill

Matthew Dillon, on users@, gave a short outline of how to buildworld/kernel on a different, faster computer, and then move to another machine to install.

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for libc that makes it possible to run multithreaded programs under xorg 6.8. If you really like testing out the bleeding edge, try it out.

Joe Love posted on the new users@ list a question about having the SPDIF output on his sound card recognized, instead of the analog out. Jonas Trollvik mentioned that the Open Sound System (which supports DragonFly) made his sound card work, including SPDIF.

Joerg Sonnenberger’s got the latest test version of PF available. This will hopefully be the last before it goes in.

There is now a mailing list specific to the Installer program. Email discussion-subscribe@bsdinstaller.com – subject: subscribe

Emiel Kollof has posted bug 89544 for KDE 3.3.3, for getting KDE to compile on DragonFly. It may be worthwhile to register on KDE’s Bugzilla and vote for that bug, so that it gets “on the radar”.

Update: There’s related bug 89577 too.

Update update: Joerg Sonnenberger noted (see bug report linked above) that the DragonFly code can be changed to make this work, though the Single Unix Specification implies that the problem is with where KDE is looking. Quote below:
Continue reading “KDE Bug prominence”

The list archives now are tracking messages on the new users@dragonflybsd.org list.

In an ongoing conversation about Vinum on kernel@, Matthew Dillon notes what he’d like to see, Greg Lehey says Vinum should, generally, still work on DragonFly. As an outgrowth of this conversation, Matthew Dillon described what he plans next for VFS.

Crescent Anchor’s operating system based on DragonFly, originally called “Silver OS”, has been renamed “FireFly“. Thanks Jeremy Almey.

Joerg Sonnenberger noted that 4th-clause (see example) sections on code copyright should be removed if the person is willing, so as to make later distribution of DragonFly easier.

“Users”, a new list/newsgroup for “general, non-kernel postings” is available.
Mail “subscribe” to users-request@lists.dragonflybsd.[excised to spamprotect] to sign up.

This thread started by Joshua Coombs names some good resources to start with if you plan to learn programming in C.

Apparently, a history of CVS commits to the Installer is available. There’s some mentions of the installer and OpenBSD in recent commits…

The next release of X is almost out; it’s not released yet contrary to some reports. When it is out, or if you are running a release candidate, there’s a note here about how to enable some of the new features. Hopefully a port will be available.