FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE has happened. This is the start of a 5.x stable branch, after 4 (long) years. OpenBSD 3.6 is out too.
‘asmodai’ provided a link to this Intel web page as a reference for handling hyperthreaded processors. It’s Windows-specific, though.
“TIV” posted some notes on how to make a custom DragonFly LiveCD; Matthew Dillon suggested some additional tips.
David Rhodus posted a patchset to X.org 6.8.1 that should make it work on DragonFly; it may or may not make it in time for the next X.org release.
I don’t normally post about test patches, but I am linking here to one of Matthew Dillon’s recent VFS patches, as he explains a bit of the work that is going into it.
The GAG graphical boot manager now includes an icon for DragonFly.
forknibbler.com, where I hosted builds of DragonFly documentation, is down for the next while as I have been chaning network layouts. However, the docs that were there are still available at http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/.
An excellent thing has happened: H.Miyamoto has started another log of DragonFly news over at http://wids.net/dbsdlog.jp/. This new log is in Japanese, which certainly reaches an audience I cannot.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s removed a.out support.
WordIQ.com appears to have a DragonFly section on its site. However, it appears to be a copy of the excellent Wikipedia DragonFly page. A legal copy, but probably a moneymaking gambit, given the advertising on the WordIQ page. This is similar to something that happened over at freshports.org site some time ago, though not quite so mercenary.
Hidetoshi Shimokawa described in a post to kernel@ just how to get a console working over Firewire, instead of serial.
As mentioned in an aside while talking about current work, Matthew Dillon expects his VFS work will leads to a journaling file system.
Matthew Dillon committed changes from Andreas Hauser that makes the default firewall setup (in /etc/rc.firewall
relatively normal and usable.
Upgrade using ‘make upgrade’, not mergemaster. Why? Well, for one thing, ‘upgrade’ only touches files that you shouldn’t.
There’s a new DragonFly mirror in Germany. It’s not that new, but I’m catching up on all my mail since I moved the site, and I never posted this:
Up and running again – shiningsilence.com is now running through my home connection on a home machine. Neither of those are terribly high-powered, but that’s OK. I’ll attempt to get a more beefy machine in the coming months, and a better connection may be available within the year.
In the several hours this afternoon when I was rebuilding this Log, comment spam filtering was turned off – some 400-500 spams came rolling in. Wow.
Almost have this working again – I slightly mangled the restoration of entries here, so it’ll be a bit.
I’m moving my hosted locations around; this site may not be available temporarily dring the next few days as DNS updates.