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Who still wants a shirt?

I have DragonFly shirts, helpfully printed up by Sepherosa Ziehau in China.  I have a list of people that are interested in shirts, most of whom remembered to give a shirt size.  I don’t have anyone’s email address or mailing address on that list.

If you are on that list, send me your mailing address.

The shirts are marked L/XL/XXL/XXXL, but they run smaller than U.S. versions of those sizes.  I usually find a U.S. XL shirt baggy, but “XXXL” is the one that fit me, for instance.  I’ll do my best to place the appropriate one.  This is just an advance apology, since it’s too late to change anything if it turns out tight.

I’ll mail these out as I have the spare cash and time on hand.  (I hope most of you live in the continental U.S.)

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Whole lotta reading

Rimvydas Jasinskas has consolidated/restored/updated a large number of papers into share/doc on DragonFly.  I’m not going to link to his large number of commits, but instead point you at the directory where they all went.  There’s a number of design documents in there that date back to 4.4BSD and beyond (and some much newer), which may interest or educate you.  Of special note: The Guide to the Dungeons of Doom, for rogue, or the KAME IPv6 implementation notes.

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Privatization means rebuilds

That’s a pretty cryptic headline, isn’t it?  John Marino has ‘privatized’ several libraries in DragonFly, so that they can’t get included involuntarily as part of a port build.  That may mean you will need to perform a full rebuild of your system if you are tracking DragonFly-current.

(This is the way to fix ‘system’ languages like Perl was in FreeBSD 4.x – keep them clearly separate from the port version.  It’s about a decade too late for that idea to work out, though.)