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Author: Justin Sherrill

Posted on 2005/08/29
SPECFS pain

Matthew Dillon, while looking at a locking problem on chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de, happened to explain a bit about SPECFS and the trouble it causes.

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Posted on 2005/08/29
New spinlocks

Jeffrey Hsu has committed his new spinlock implementation – the commit message has a short explanation of how it was implemented.

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Posted on 2005/08/28
Under the hood

I’ve upgraded the software behind this site; it should make no real difference to you, the reader. Please tell me if you encounter something that’s broken.

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Posted on 2005/08/28
More new committers

A big welcome to our two newest DragonFly committers: Sepherosa Ziehau and Noritoshi Demizu. Yep, those are names I’ll have to cut and paste.

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Posted on 2005/08/28
Texinfo 4.8 added

Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has upgraded texinfo to version 4.8.

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Posted on 2005/08/28
Changes in, Preview updated

Matthew Dillon posted that the last (major) ABI changes are done, and Preview has been updated. If you’re running Preview, now is a good time to update. However, you’ll have to rebuild everything, as he describes.

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Posted on 2005/08/27
Quake 3 Arena server howto

Joerg Anslik has written a very complete bit of documentation on getting a Quake 3 Arena server running under DragonFly; it’s available on the Wiki.

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Posted on 2005/08/27
HEADS UP: final ABI changes, Preview bump

Matthew Dillon posted a warning that the final ABI changes would go in this weekend, and that Preview would soon be bumped to match the bleeding-edge HEAD. That means everything on non-Release systems will have to be rebuilt – pkgsrc/port packages, too.

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Posted on 2005/08/27
New install guide

Scott Robbins mailed in a link to his page, which contains some DragonFly notes, and a much more up-to-date install guide than what’s in the current Handbook.

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Posted on 2005/08/26
Bulk pkgsrc build started

Jeremy C. Reed has started a bulk build of pkgsrc packages for DragonFly; so far, he has 907 built of 5,523. He’ll have a full report when it completes.

2 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/26
Journaling as database

Matthew Dillon explained why his journaling system will be more like a transactional database. (He should know; he wrote one)

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Posted on 2005/08/25
UnixReview.com: OS X, regex, podcasts

UnixReview.com has a review of “Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks“, an article about regular expressions titled “Don’t Fear Reliability“, and a review of the podcasting application jPodder, which may work on DragonFly

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Posted on 2005/08/25
More journaling details

Matthew Dillon described some of the possibilities and hurdles for his journaling code.

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Posted on 2005/08/25
Cert. roadmap

Jeremy C. Reed announced a new roadmap (.pdf) for the planned BSD certification process at BSDCertification.org.

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Posted on 2005/08/25
Installing multiple BSDs

Chris Pressey found out the hard way that installing DragonFly and then FreeBSD can lead to DragonFly being wiped out by the FreeBSD installer.

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Posted on 2005/08/24
More journal work

Matthew Dillon committed the remaining large portion of kernel work for journaling; he followed up with some comments on remaining userland work.

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Posted on 2005/08/24
ARECA users?

Do you have an ARECA based RAID/SATA card? Hiten Pandya needs guinea pigs

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Posted on 2005/08/23
ifconfigured

Joseph Garcia proposed a new format to ifconfig.

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Posted on 2005/08/22
Buncha software

There’s several new programs to try out. First, “walt” mentioned his ‘rlc’ program, which can be used to randomize background colors in new xterms. Joerg Anslik ported over the recently released Quake 3 Arena server, and Jeremy C. Reed posted (untested) patches for postgresql 8 in pkgsrc,

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Posted on 2005/08/22
pkgsrc gdm fix

Todd Willey posted a fix for compiling gdm in pkgsrc. gdm is necessary for using Gnome.

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