If you’re using a DragonFly or a FreeBSD computer to mirror the release data, don’t forget to turn on net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable=1, as that will improve performance.
There’s an Installer Errata page for the curious, or (less common, hopefully) for those who experience problems.
The main page of DragonFlyBSD.org has the official release announcement for 1.0. It nicely enumerates all the changes so far, and what’s to come.
Release 1.0 is officially out.
Matt Dillon’s posted a note about the new DragonFly Copyright notice. It’s very similar to the traditional 3-clause BSD license, so there’s no real worries.
Matt Dillon’s diary has been updated.
The Installer has been made part of the base system. Congratulations are due to the Installer Team (Chris Pressey, Devon O’Dell, Eirik Nygaard, Hiten Pandya & Scott Ullrich), who managed in a few months to crank out a program better than any other non-commercial BSD installer. And there’s more to come!
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for OpenSSH 3.8.1p1; we’re close enough to release 1.0 that this is being delayed until after it happens because it’s not a security upgrade.
The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC2a. The CVS archive for the Installer is temporarily down, so the frenzied rate of new releases may slow temporarily.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where the mail archives are kept, is temporarily down because of a recently-discovered Apache security problem.
In a response to a post I made, Matt Dillon said he is looking into creating DragonFly as an official non-profit entity (PDF link), which means (U.S.) donations to the project can be tax-deductible.
Federico Biancuzzi interviewed DragonFly developers Matt Dillon, Joerg Sonnenberger, Jeffrey Hsu, and Hiten Pandya for O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com BSD DevCenter. It’s a good 3 pages of Q&A.
Jeroen Ruigrok is making an effort to get DragonFly recognition into large thrid-party programs, like Apache.
The geekgod.net DragonFly wiki has a number of different topics on it.
The DragonFly Installer is now based on Release Candidate 2.
I have a report of the RC2 ISO image at http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFlyBSD/iso-images/dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz having the wrong MD5 checksum; double-check when downloading. You should get:
MD5 (dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz) = 9b39227698a0b7a4d4f3d18f7ad6ff75
There’s a nice screenshot at http://www.sitetronics.com/installer-config.jpg of the new CGI installer layout.
Release Candidate 2 is out on the Download page. It’s also available via Miguel Mendez’s Torrent.
Matt Dillon’s posted his photos from USENIX 2004 at http://apollo.backplane.com/USENIX2004/.
Matt Dillon committed YONETANI Tomokazu’s patches bringing in build 20040527 of Intel’s ACPICA. Also, some ACPI tools.