Justin Sherrill – Page 382 – DragonFly BSD Digest

2004/09/11

Learning C

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

2004/09/10

bsdinstaller CVS records

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

2004/09/08

Dangerous programming

Code carefully, because otherwise someone may become homicidal.

2004/09/08

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.

2004/09/08

Unix history, GameBoy

Someone got 5th edition Unix running on a Game Boy Advance, in a demo loop of sorts. I’m linking to this not because it has any real use, but because the page also contains a nice history of very early Unix.

2004/09/07

apr Approved

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added a dfport override for devel/apr, the APache Portable Runtime, which happens to recognize DragonFly.

2004/09/07

Test pf

By the way, there is a test version of pf for DragonFly, available to try.

2004/09/06

It’s ips

Joerg Sonnenberger’s committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s changes to the ips driver, for RAID devices such as ServeRAID. Among other benefits, it now supports more recent Adaptec hardware.

2004/09/06

Scheduler alternatives

‘walt’ posted in kernel@ a note about the new Linux staircase scheduler, available here, and how it may be useful for DragonFly.

2004/09/06

New wi(4)

Joerg Sonnenberger has imported a new wi(4) driver for 802.11, taken from FreeBSD. Update: if this new driver doesn’t work for you, use owi(4), which is the older version.

2004/09/06

VFS, then 64

Matthew Dillon noted in this post to kernel@ that he anticipates 64-bit work in perhaps 6 months, after VFS is completed.

2004/09/05

Better USB keyboards

Matthew Dillon made some improvements to USB keyboard support.

2004/09/05

KDE 3.3 port overrides

‘Rum’ has started work on dfport overrides for KDE 3.3.0. (The link he supplies appears not to work yet, however.)

2004/09/04

Syscons upgraded

Sascha Wildner’s patches have been committed by Matthew Dillon, enabling VESA support for the console driver. (Discussion on submit@ starts here.)

2004/09/04

See you, Tip.

The cu program has been out of the system for a long time; Matthew Dillon has committed
cu emulation in tip.

2004/09/03

Sanity for me

Spam was being placed in the comments for various entries on this page at the rate of 1 every 10 minutes or so; I’ve changed the setup to block most of it. If you post a comment and it doesn’t appear immediately, it may be waiting for approval.

2004/09/03

Sanity for other OS developers

Matthew Dillon pointed out that when comitting functional changes to the DragonFly source, keep them separate from other modifications. That way, when other BSDs/projects use these modifications, it will be much easier for them to review and use.