A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
YONETANI Tomokazu noted that there is a kernel environment variable called ‘debug.acpi.disabled’, to which you can specify the following keywords:
acad bus button children cmbat cpu ec
isa lid pci pci_link sysresource thermal timer
“acpi” disables everything
“bus” disables “children”
“pci” disables “pci_link”
The Installer is at version RC1.004c.
Mat Dillon noted in a posting on the submit mailing list that he intends to roll Release Canidate 2 today. He’s also committed changes to the serial output during boot that may fix booting for some laptop users, fixed CD issues for those with multiple CD drives in one PC, and added support for a number of different AGP chipsets.
A band named Universal Hall Pass (which is Melissa Kaplan, formerly of the band Splashdown) has a song called ‘Dragonfly’, two versions of which are available on the band ‘Sound’ page.
This has nothing to do with DragonFly BSD, other than coincidence in name.
Another day, another installer version.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai noted that cvs for DragonFly has proxy support. No, I don’t know what that’s good for.
Jonathan Fosburgh posted, on the kernel mailing list, some of his subjective impressions of DragonFly vs. FreeBSD performance.
Curious about what short-term goals remain for the installer? Wonder no more.
Matt Dillon’s (post-)updated his work diary.
There’s a package system wiki up at http://www.livebsd.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/dflypkg. I’m waiting for someone to use that spiffy DFUI used in the installer to make a good packaging system…
The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC1.002. This version now better handles canceling an action, creates a /proc mountpoint, and does a better job of autoguessing partition size.
David Rhodus has announced Crescent Anchor, a company selling SilverOS, based on DragonFly.
If you are an experienced C programmer looking for work, you may want to see this job link on the FreeBSD Jobs mailing list.
There’s another ISO mirror at http://nibble.hp48.org/dragonfly/iso-images/.
The DragonFly Installer now installs RC1.
Antonio Dolcetta translated the installation README into Italian, at http://gelo.dolcetta.net/antonio/docs/dragonfly.README.it.
The port for acpitools may not work; if you want to take advantage of the new ACPI support, Hiten Pandya pointed at http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/
Matt Dillon posted an announcement about 1.0RC1 last night on the kernel mailing list; it contins some important notes about ACPI.
Mirror list:
http://home.hackerheaven.org/~coolvibe/mirrors
Devon O’Dell San Jose California, 100Mbit
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Torrent:
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org/files/dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz.torrent
The DragonFlyBSD LiveCD is at version 0.3. It was 1.2 previously, so I assume the major number was dropped to emphasize that it’s not released yet. What’s new? I don’t know, as I haven’t been in #dfinstaller (on EFNet) this weekend.
‘walt’ found out that if you switch from GCC 2 to GCC 3 (and probably vice versa), libtool needs to be rebuilt.