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Author: Justin Sherrill

Posted on 2005/08/31
UnixReview.com: Database book

UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Database in Depth“.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/31
How to MFC

Matthew Dillon wrote a small entry on how he goes about merging important fixes back into the Release version of DragonFly.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/29
Codeweavers petition

There’s a petition on bsdnexus.comto bring Codeweavers’ Crossover Office to BSD (meaning FreeBSD, probably).

Update: I’ve traded a few emails with Frank Jahnke, the man behind this work, and I take back every unoptimistic thing I’ve ever said about it.

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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.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
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.

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
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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