Noah Yan is working on porting DragonFly to AMD64, with some notes on the wiki. He and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert have set up a Git repo of the DragonFly code for this.
Newest on BSDTalk: Fast IPSec, with George Neville-Neil.
As part of a larger discussion of large size memory pages, called ‘superpages’, Oliver Fromme linked to a 2002 OSDI article that talks about implementation.
DragonFly just turned 4 years old!
Wiger Van Houten made even more original wallpapers.
There’s two new BSDTalk podcasts since last I checked: one on IPv6 testing (15 minutes), and one interviewing Isaac “Ike” Levy (26 minutes).
There’s a post by the ZDNet Technical Director, George Ou, talking about the recently found issues with the Core 2 Duo processor. Rather, he’s talking about people’s opinions about it.
I’m not linking it because it necessarily has more information, as it’s already been covered here, but rather to show the difference in speed and depth that can be found between what more annoying people like to call old media (print magazines) and new media (this Digest).
Leonardo Baldelli posted a link to a number of DragonFly desktop backgrounds he created.
Noah Yan has volunteered himself for porting DragonFly to AMD64; Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert, who has worked previously on this, suggested using git for handling changes, what with the next release coming soon. Simon even gave a short writeup on git.
Joerg Sonnenberger asks: could someone fix the Java 1.4 (or later) JDK so that it builds on DragonFly? Many would thank you.
Matthew Dillon asks that people concentrate on fixes for the next few weeks as we get ready for the 1.10 release.
I’ll take a moment to point out that Joe “Floid” Kanowitz wrote up a lengthy analysis of the parts of GPL v3 as a comment to an earlier story here. I’ve posted a bunch of stories since then, so I’d hate for people to miss it after he did all that typing.
Michal Belczyk has been experimenting with ways to make his Core 2 Duo system run less hot; he’s had some success. His patches should make it into DragonFly.
If cvsweb isn’t enough, Csaba Henk has updated his OpenGrok site of the DragonFly source code.
The Gnu Public License has reached version 3. Generally, everyone seems indifferent or, in Jem Matzan’s case, apathetic. (Links via hubertf) Everyone’s more interested in the Jesusphone. While we’re being mean about GPLv3… that’s one ugly logo.
Here’s two slightly tangential things that involve DragonFly: The first is a thread about large (64-bit) file support in Apache, and how it is treated as a special case because of poor planning under Linux – it’s not a problem in BSD. This led to an excellent quote from an excellent book, “The Cuckoo’s Egg“, by Clifford Stoll:
“We’re watching someone who’s never used Berkeley Unix.” He sucked in his breath and whispered, “A heathen.”
Also, “_why” posted a question about checkpointing to the users@ list, for an issue that Matthew Dillon later fixed. I recall that this _why is the same fellow who wrote “Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby“, a programming book that is unlike any other.
Theo De Raadt’s description of bugs in recent Intel processors has made it to Slashdot, where in the comments, Matthew Dillon went through each bug and listed his opinion on each. (two comment entries, starting here) In contrast, Linus Torvalds’ general response was much more subdued. (Thanks, Wiger Van Houten, for links)