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A rambling conversation on users@ brought about the idea of a editor that would work under dire circumstances (i.e. /usr missing). A improved version of mined was brought in.
DragonFly now runs CVS version 1.12.11, thanks to Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert.
The Donations page on dragonflybsd.org has a number of new entries. Take a look, and help out if you can.
DragonFly apparently doesn’t work (easily) on a 386. This probably only affects 1 person.
Things are being added in right and left: Eirik Nygaard has updated ncurses to version 5.4.
A semi-milestone: This is news item 1001. That works out to an average of 2 posts per day over the last 18 months.
YONETANI Tomokazu has brought in Intel’s acpica-20050211 package. That’s power management software, if that’s not familiar.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has committed code from Steve O’Hara-Smith adding improvements to the bktr (TV input) driver, similar to those in FreeBSD, and adding support for newer cards.
If you haven’t guessed from his commits, Joerg Sonnenberger is bringing in the Citrus project from NetBSD, which handles internationalization.
ONLamp.com has a new article on sending email securely. In fact, it’s UUCP over SSH, an acronym combo I didn’t think I’d ever type. I think it’s been more than a decade since I’ve even seen a UUCP address.
Registration is open now.
Tom Hummel mentioned AMD Turion 64 laptops as a possible good fit for DragonFly, given their low power and cooling needs.
I have yet to encounter anyone who has bought one of the AMD 64-bit CPUs and been unhappy with the purchase.
Todd Willey announced on the GoBSD mailing list that a new set of pkgsrc prebuilt binaries have been placed on the gobsd.com site.
Matt Dillon mentioned that he hopes to have the next major release of DragonFly out, with journaling included in some form, before Usenix ’05 in mid-April. More info on this plus a stable tag slip are in his post.
In the ongoing discussion about journaling, Dan Melomedman linked to Paul Jarc’s “/fs“.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org is apparently down or unreachable, at least from where I’m standing.
Update: Working, now – thanks, Hiten!.
shiningsilence.com was down for a good chunk of yesterday; a construction worker tripped a fuse in my house, and my UPS only kept going for so long… It’s obviously better now.
Matthew Dillon gave a further update on the journaling work, plus he noted (as many had hoped) that there would be no background fsck in DragonFly.