Matthew Dillon has a third VFS patch up; he’s looking for anyone using UFS under heavy load, or other filesystems. This is dangerous, as he expects there to be crashing with this patch.
Looks like Serenity Systems has a Serenity Virtual Station (link from Slashdot) product that lets you run a virtual machine, much like VMWare, and they have a FreeBSD-native version. This may work on DragonFly, though it’ll take someone with a spare $50USD to find out.
But the base is there.
If you’re looking for something to do, you can always help with language locales. This does not require programming experience.
If you happen to live in Holland with some spare NVIDIA cards, SMP motherboards, or hard drives, or you live anywhere in the US with a spare laptop that could run DragonFly, then you should be looking at the Donations page.
Sascha Wildner is looking for people to try his 16/32 bit patch for syscons, the DragonFly console mechanism.
Matthew Dillon’s clarified how to have source recognition for your contribution to DragonFly.
dragonflybsd.org now has a donations page.
David Rhodus posted that the packages at GoBSD.com have been updated. This is the remote package location that is used by default by the ‘pkg_add
‘ tool.
For instance, pkg_add -r gnome2
‘ or ‘pkg_add -r kde3
‘ will pull down the new versions of each. (pkg_delete
existing packages first.) You can see the latest packages or the whole list.
Matthew Dillon has committed code that makes a ‘make buildkernel/nativekernel
‘ remove the obj heirarchy before starting; this solves the occasional out-of-date file problem during a system build. Also, ‘make quickkernel
‘ is now possible, so if you are building a system with source that has not been updated since the last build, you can save time and use the ‘quickworld
‘ and ‘quickkernel
‘ targets instead of ‘buildworld
‘ and ‘buildkernel
‘.
Emiel Kollof has updated (Jeroen Ruigrok/’asmodai’ committed) dfports/x11/nvidia-driver to version 6.1.1.3.
Micha³ ‘GiM’ Spadliñski posted a followup to his small DragonFly banner: a page full of similar buttons for various operating systems, languages, and the like.
I’ve set up a Bugzilla bug tracker at forknibbler.com, to use until a full-blown system is available at dragonflybsd.org. Be kind – it’s a woefully underpowered machine.
Leaf.dragonflybsd.org has been significantly upgraded; this is where shell accounts and the mail archive are located.
Joerg Sonnenberger has committed a large update, written by Andreas Hauser, to the port overrides for Xorg. It’s much more likely to work now, if you are looking to switch from XFree86.
“Micha³ ‘GiM’ Spadliñski” posted a link to a 80×15 DragonFly banner.
If you’re feeling religious: a petition for Flash on BSD.