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Posted on 2009/08/042009/08/04
DevFS arrives

DevFS has been added.  There’s some issues, each with a workaround.  Please test, as it’s certain that a major change like this will cause new problems around video and sound.  Once those are fixed, however, device management will be a lot easier.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support, DragonFly, Heads Up!
Posted on 2009/08/04
How long those packages will last

I published a retention policy for pkgsrc packages.   It works out to “current release and last release” for what will be kept as pkgsrc binaries that you can add with pkg_radd.  If you need longer-term support, speak up, but I don’t think this will be a problem for anyone.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/08/03
Spreading Hammer

Want to bring Hammer to Slackware Linux?  People want it, and there’s some work already in progress.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on, Hammer
Posted on 2009/08/03
New gcc coming in

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has been working on an import of gcc 4.4 to DragonFly; it’s not usable yet, but when it is, it means the 3.x gcc code can be dropped.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/08/02
Fixed links on site

The web pages on www.dragonflybsd.org now show individual page history through gitweb, and the RecentChanges page will link to diffs for each new edit.

(My apologies for not figuring this out sooner.)

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2009/08/01
Postgres 8.1 removal soon

Postgres version 8.1 is going to be removed from pkgsrc soon, since Postgres 8.4 is now available (in general, and in pkgsrc).  Speak up on the pkgsrc mailing lists if this is a significant problem for you.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/08/01
NFS clients work after a reboot

A recent change from Matthew Dillon makes it possible for a NFS client connection to be cleanly re-established after a reboot.  Previously, the server would lose track of the client.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/31
Gzip expands

Thanks to Xin Li, gzip now supports pack and can unpack archives in that format.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/30
DevFS this weekend

The DevFS Summer of Code project is going into DragonFly this weekend; be ready for surprises if you update.  It’s not complete yet; there’s a few more weeks for Summer of Code, but there’s other work that this code will enable.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Google Summer of Code, Heads Up!
Posted on 2009/07/30
ACPI update to test

Sepherosa Ziehau working on merging some of Alexander Polakov’s ACPI work; testers needed.  If you have a system that pitches a fit with ACPI enabled, you would make a perfect subject.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2009/07/28
pkgsrc 2009Q2 announced

The latest quarterly release of pkgsrc, 2009Q2, is out.  The release announcement has details on what’s new.

0 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, pkgsrc
Posted on 2009/07/27
Autosizing available

Peter Avalos has made it possible for TCP buffers to be automatically sized according to need, which improves performance when latency goes up.  It’s already in.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/27
Development machine upgrade

The system leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where developer accounts are located, has had a significant bump in CPU and RAM, and has the newest scripts for automated vkernel setup.

As always, leaf accounts are available for anyone who wants to develop something on DragonFly, independent of commit access.

2 Comments - Categories: DragonFly, Goings-on
Posted on 2009/07/262009/07/20
2.3.2 released

Release 2.3.2 has been tagged, for anyone who wants to stick with DragonFly past the current release but before the recent radical changes to NFS.  Check the commit message for a summary of what’s changed since 2.3.1, taken from the commit messages.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/26
NFS over TCP now default

Well, default as of the next release.  With the recent changes to NFS, TCP will be needed in most circumstances.  It’s still possible to force UDP if desired with the ‘mntudp’ option, or ‘udp’ if you’re using a 2.3.x system.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/26
PFS and NFS now play nicely together

It is now possible to mount a Hammer PFS via NFS, though you’ll want to use NFSv3.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly, Hammer
Posted on 2009/07/252009/07/20
New gzip

Peter Avalos has updated gzip, with a far longer list of updates than I would have thought possible with a utility that’s been around for a while.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/252009/07/20
NFS changes

Matthew Dillon made some major changes to NFS, which have greatly improved speed.  He’s also made the clients able to write asychronously, which can overwhelm a server because of this increased throughput.  Be careful.

1 Comment - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly
Posted on 2009/07/242009/07/20
Hammer gets bigger

Hey, look at what Michael Neumann’s doing: making Hammer expandable!  It will be possible to expand your Hammer volumes while online, even.

(note: it’s experimental; don’t be surprised if it destroys data.)

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, DragonFly, Hammer
Posted on 2009/07/242009/07/20
Support for mxge(4) and 10G

DragonFly has its first 10G network driver, mxge(4), for the Myricom Myri10GE.  Aggelos Economopoulos ported it from FreeBSD. Check his post for notes and credits for the people who helped out.

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code, Device support, DragonFly

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