The Sitetronics wiki now has a copy of the DragonFly FAQ; add to it if you feel you have something good to explain.
Volume 2 of the FreeBSD Handbook is available in print form now, at the FreeBSD Mall. A good amount of it will apply to DragonFly, though this material is availble free.
BSDCan 2005 is coming May 13-14th, in Ottawa, Canada. The Call for Papers is out!
Matthew Dillon suggested a small, easy project for anyone who wanted it would be to support booting from logical partitions.
A recently discovered security problem in FreeBSD’s proc also affects DragonFly; it’s already been fixed.
The Perl Review issue 1 is out, too. This, like the Perl Journal, you need to have a subscription.
I feel I should mention Max Okumoto has been submitting patches and updates relentlessly over the past while – no specific links, other than these search results to show the volume.
I suggested on the docs@ list that using a Wiki to allow people to make documentation updates may make it easier to actually have people contribute, and then changes can be merged back into CVS. Discussion ensued, with some folks pointing at Wikipedia‘s MediaWiki, or TikiWiki. Similar discussion popped up elsewhere. I plan to try this … soon.
The latest issue (November) of The Perl Journal is out, if you happen to subscribe. Quick! Someone make a Python comment, apropos of nothing!
Liam J. Foy has put together a new page to track what needs to be cleaned in DragonFly; take a look if you are curious, or(even better) if you wanted a relatively simple task.
Spotted on Unixreview.com: a review of Unix Shells by Example; a decent review, plus it covers the interesting term “UUOC“.
Jasse Jansson is putting together a list of supported hardware; he’s at jasse ‘at’ hornet ‘dot’ ac if you want to contribute.
Macomnet.net is a new DragonFly mirror: http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/
The GoBSD site has been visually updated, with a new GoBSD ‘distribution‘ of DragonFly, which includes pkgsrc as a built-in ports replacement. There’s also an ambitious mission statement.
The Stable tag has been moved up to the most recent code, as some critical fixes required what’s in the most recent code. In general, this should only be positive, unless you are using unionfs or nullfs, as they will be broken if you upgrade. So, if you are using those file systems, hold off on upgrading for a few weeks. When you do upgrade, it has to be a full buildkernel/buildworld.
Checkpointing has now been fully integrated, with man pages and everything.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org is moving to the most recent version of DragonFly (HEAD) so as to serve as a test for some SATA fixes.
Matthew Dillon reported a hard disk failure knocked out the DragonFly website and mailing lists over the weekend; there’s a new disk, filled from backups, back in place now.