This is interesting: Getting Flash to work on FreeBSD without Linux compatibility. It may apply to other BSDs – otherwise untested. (Thanks, BSDNews) If you want to do it with the Linux compatibility options, that’s documented on the wiki.
In an effort to make testing of a new installer easier, Matthew Dillon added support for having a virtual kernel boot from a CD image. It works, though you can’t quite run an installer on it yet.
It’s a sparse week on UnixReview.com: Examining MySQL Certification, book reviews of “FISMA Certification and Accreditation Handbook“, and “PC Technician Street Smarts“. If you’re curious to know, FISMA stands for “Federal Information Security Management Act”, which means it’s probably only of interest to U.S. readers or people who enjoy bureaucratic paperwork.
I’m going to be cleaning leaf.dragonflybsd.org – watch out! This should not affect services located there, like developer accounts or the mail archive. I hope.
Aggelos Economopoulos’s lwn.net articles titled “A Peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel” are now available as a single item on dragonflybsd.org, with some additional details that didn’t appear in the initial version.
Gergo Szakal suggested using FeedBurner to put recent wiki changes onto the doc@ mailing list. I think it would work well to make sure major changes get discussed – opinions?
UnixReview.com has 4 new items this week: A liitle quiz titled “Test Your Knowledge of PHP“, book reviews of “Apache Phrasebook” and “Beginning C: From Novice to Professional“, and a review of Up.Time 4.
If you wanted to use GCC4 instead of the current default of GCC3, on DragonFly, check this description by Matthew Dillon of the proper environment variables to change.
Matthew Dillon laid out his support policy for DragonFly, which boils down to: current release and the previous one.
Hasso Tepper pointed at this interesting page of DragonFly C99 projects that I no doubt linked to long ago and then forgot.
Chris Turner posted a nice summary of work that would be needed for C99 compatibility in libm. Sepherosa Ziehau also posted a short guide on how to create new drivers for wpi(4), as the existing drivers (in any BSD) are not up to snuff.
Note: I noticed again while writing this: developerWorks is neat.
Douwe Kiela passed along word that he authored an article on DragonFly BSD’s clustering goals for the Dutch ‘Linux Magazine‘, in their “BSD Corner”.
In a rare update, OnLAMP.com has a new article: all about the latest release of OpenBSD.
‘Haidut’ benchmarked several different systems using a vanilla install, and posted the results at his website. (Scroll down) Interestingly, the DragonFly results are quite competitive, especially considering that it’s in a massive transition.
I’ve posted about it before, but the question returns: how does one install modular Xorg from pkgsrc when there’s no single meta-pkg for it? Gergo Szakal links to some answers.
Matthew Dillon posted an update on how he’s organizing syslink to handle the sharing of machine resources in a cluster.
Aggelos Economopoulos’s second article about DragonFly’s virtual kernel is now available to non-subscribers on lwn.net. (The first article is also available.)
Welcome our newest committer: Hasso Tepper. In addition to his recently committed patched for DragonFly, he’s also been working on KDE support for DragonFly.
rsync.net (which offers Backup Done Right, as far as I can tell) is offering a number of code bounties for various (mostly FreeBSD) projects. One of them is a standardized stress test for UFS2 – a general filesystem testing framework would do everyone good – especially someone using a distributed file system…
There’s a variety of ways to turn on multiprocessing support in a kernel; Matthew Dillon recently explained the variety and reasoning.