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Posted on 2009/09/17
pkgsrc via git

There’s now a Git repo of pkgsrc.  This is just a copy from cvs every 15 minutes, so it won’t allow changes back to pkgsrc, but it’s much faster to download via git than it is via cvs.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/09/17
How did your upgrade go?

If you had any trouble with the dramatic changes in the 2.4 page, there’s a page on the DragonFly BSD site that lists possible workarounds.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2009/09/162009/09/16
2.4 released

The 2.4 release of DragonFly is out.  This is a major release, with a lot of new features packed in, so read the release notes carefully.  There’s a 64-bit experimental version, too

By the way, please use a mirror.  Avalon is a good one, as is chlamydia.

Updating steps I used after the cut.

Continue reading “2.4 released”

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Heads Up!
Posted on 2009/09/15
2.4 packages available

Well, technically, they are 2.3.1+ packages, but they will work fine on 2.4 and can be installed via pkg_radd.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/09/152009/09/15
Release imminent

The 2.4 release has been branched, and the release ISO should be available Wednesday.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Heads Up!
Posted on 2009/09/14
kbdmux added

Alex Hornung has ported FreeBSD’s kbdmux, making it possible to run multiple keyboards.  This can help if a system has a built-in virtual keyboard, as some newer HPs do.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, Device support, DragonFly, FreeBSD
Posted on 2009/09/14
Running too fast? This will help

If you’re running 10G Ethernet, Matthew Dillon’s turned on the inflight limiter by default, which should help keep your system from being overwhelmed if it’s not handling the greater volume of packets.  If you’re not running 10G Ethernet, this shouldn’t affect you.  If only we all could be so lucky.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/14
i386 and amd64 for pkgsrc

The packages directory on avalon.dragonflybsd.org now has a i386 directory and an amd64 directory.  I’ve changed pkg_search and pkg_radd to base their search/retrieval on processor arch; this means that once we have pkgsrc packages built on a 64-bit platform, they will be accessible.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/09/132009/09/12
Hammer mirror header output, just in case

If you back up the pseudo-file-systems (PFS) on your Hammer volume to a non-Hammer disk, and then need to restore them to a new Hammer volume, and then realize you forgot to write down the shared-uuid, well, then, YONETANI Tomokazu has a patch for you.  I haven’t seen this committed yet, but it appears valuable.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Hammer
Posted on 2009/09/12
PowerNow support

Alexander Polakov has added PowerNow! support, which allows slowing of AMD processors to save energy.  This is superseded by ACPI, but if you happen to not run ACPI and need to save energy/reduce heat…

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/12
chkmoddeps added

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert added a tool, chkmoddeps, which checks for missing modules that are required by other modules.  Useful if you are working with the kernel.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/122009/09/12
Disk monitoring improvements

Alex Hornung has added support for ATA command passthrough.  As a pleasant side effect, smartmontools works with AHCI again.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/112009/09/10
Buffer cache and performance

Matthew Dillon’s changed the scheduler to fix a problem with small writes taking longer than they should.  This should have a noticable, though not necessarily perfect effect on interactivity, especially for those using DragonFly as a desktop.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/112009/09/10
UTF8 now available

Alexander Polakov has made it possible to use UTF8 as the default system encoding, which makes non-ASCII characters viewable everywhere.  It makes a full buildworld/buildkernel process necessary.  He also did it without making /bin and /sbin dynamic, which is good news for anyone who might happen to lose /usr.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/10
64-bit pkgsrc build results

Matthew Dillon posted the results of a full bulk build of pkgsrc on a 64-bit DragonFly system; the success rate was relatively high for a new platform and pkgsrc-current.  The pkg_radd(1) and pkg_search(1) utilities will need some changes.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/09/10
dragonflybsd.org returns

The dragonflybsd.org site(s) were down due to a network provider problem over the last 24 hours; they’re back now.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2009/09/092009/09/08
Ruby and DragonFly: not too shabby

Hubert Feyrer posted a link to a set of benchmarks of various BSDs (and Linux) using Ruby.  DragonFly, despite not working with a SMP kernel on the test software, had comparatively good results.

1 Comment - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2009/09/092009/09/08
Laptop users, please speak up

Are you running DragonFly on a laptop system?  Please mention the brand and model number on the appropriate page on the DragonFly website. (Also: Laptop tips and tricks, thanks to Alexander Polakov)

8 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/09
RSS information added

The main page of the dragonflybsd.org site now has a feed of the most recent 10 articles from this Digest.

1 Comment - Categories: About This Site, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/09/08
Kernel Programming as an mp3

I don’t know how recently this recording was made, but Dru Lavigne found a recording of Jeffrey Hsu (longtime DragonFly committer) taking about How To Get Started with Kernel Programming.

3 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on

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