Hasso Tepper is planning to remove Arcnet and Token Ring support. This probably affects no-one at this point.
The latest BSDTalk has an interview with Lucas Holt, founder of the MidnightBSD project.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has been busy; in addition to adding Noah Yan’s work to get a 64-bit world to cross-build, he’s switching to vendor branches in CVS, asking people to pay attention to the AMD64 changes in the tree, and wanting to dump the pc64 platform.
Matthew Dillon pointed out that an update of our dump system, as used by dumpsys() (sorry, no man page), would be useful – perhaps taking from recent FreeBSD changes.
YONETANI Tomokazu mentioned the minor steps needed to have a program other than sendmail handling local mail delivery.
BSDTalk has a new interview up of Matthew Dillon, where he talks about the 1.10 release.
In addition, Will Backman, the person who conducts BSDTalk, is himself interviewed on episode 74 of “Linux Reality” (Via BSDNews)
The latest version of BSDTalk has an interview with Chris Moore, the founder of the PC-BSD project.
A question of what exactly is a domain, in relation to a host, led to several explanations of the concept. Even if this is already clear to you, it’s interesting to see the different ways it was explained.
Michael Neumann did some playing with jscan; he detailed the steps he went through, which may serve as a handy usage example.
GCC 4.1 is now the default compiler for DragonFly versions > 1.10. GCC 3 is staying around for a while in case it’s needed, though.
Matthew Dillon has updated leaf.dragonflybsd.org (where developer accounts are located) to 1.10.
Matthew Dillon answered some questions recently about how far along DragonFly is to its goals and what it will take for SMP without the giant lock.
Peter Avalos has updated libpcap and tcpdump to version 0.9.7 and 3.9.7, respectively.
There’s a new mirror for DragonFly in Ukraine; it includes the 1.10 release ISO.
There’s a new interview of Matthew Dillon up on KernelTrap, covering a lot of details on what is intended for the 2.0 release of DragonFly.
The Diary page on the DragonFly website has been updated with what’s new in the 1.10 release. Incidentally, we are now more than 50% of the way to a distributed system.
Matthew Dillon detailed a future idea he’d like to see: a DragonFly system having both 32 and 64-bit parts, with usages controlled by varsyms.
TWAREN in Taiwan has set up a new DragonFly mirror, including pkgsrc binary packages. I think there are a few other new mirrors on the download page that I missed over the past few months – check for one near you.
If no problems are found, this release candidate will turn into the release, this weekend.
The latest BSDTalk is with William Hurley, who is the impressively titled Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software.