Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has shifted the ‘Preview’ tag to add in a recent bugfix. This issue just interfered with some packages compiling in pkgsrc, so this is not an urgent update.
Emiel Kollof, who at one point had managed to get the NVIDIA binary video driver working for FreeBSD, doesn’t think it’s going to happen again.
UnixReview has a review of the ActiveState Tcl Dev Kit version 3.2, and a book review of “Software Security: Building Security In“.
Steve Mynott posted an interesting link: ZFS-on-FUSE. It appears to be a not-yet-complete implementation of ZFS on top of the FUSE (userspace filesystems)
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert would like to get rid of ipfw, slowly. This means it wouldn’t be gone until release 1.7.  While pf doesn’t have all needed functionality to work as a replacement, Gary Allan pointed out that ipfw2 is a suitable replacement as it has similar features but is less of a mess. (And look – he’s on it!)
‘walt’ has 3 pkgsrc packages set up to work on DragonFly – gnome-multimedia, nautilus-cd-burner, and sane-backends – he’d like folks to test.
Attilio Rao would like to make some improvements to the DragonFly kernel. Follow the link and resulting discussion between him and Matthew Dillon for details, because it’s far enough into the internals of the system that it’s like another language.
Matthew Dillon wrote about some of the remaining hurdles for ZFS.
Joerg Sonnenberger posted a short list of how he was able to make openvpn work. Your mileage may vary.
UnixReview.com has a larger-than-normal number of new articles: book reviews of “The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4: Generating All Trees“, “The Definitive Guide to SQLite“, and “Eric Sink on the Business of Software“, a game review of SolarWolf, a Regular Expressions article on dictionary skills, and a note on Disaster Recovery.
If you enable device ehci(4) in your kernel, for USB 2.0 support, you’ll see some extra output on boot. It’s harmless.
Sascha Wildner and Joerg Sonnenberger will be representing DragonFly at FrOSCon, happening in Bonn, Germany, June 24th and 25th.
Are you trying to put together the BSD Installer? Taken from an email from Scott Ullrich (sorry, no web archive):
Here is the steps I take to build the installer once it is checked out of cvs: cd installer/scripts/build ./create_installer_tarballs.sh ./copy_ports_to_portsdir.sh ./build_installer_packages.sh
The title sums it up: EuroBSDCon 2006 is ready to accept proposals, due by July 15th.
Demokritos University of Thrace (Greece) is the newest DragonFly mirror – links are on the download page.
A few kernel options, such as INVARIANT_SUPPORT, have gone away. Watch for this when upgrading from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. If you are a Release (1.4.4) user, this won’t affect you until the next release.
A short question about a warning message, while answered, led to a short discussion about optimization.
Matthew Dillon noted that due to general stability, the Preview tag will be slipped on the 16th, and the next Release will happen in July.
A proposal to remove sendmail and replace it with postfix has resulted in a variety of reactions. Matthew Dillon is surprisingly frustrated with sendmail, though Claude Assman, who is working on Sendmail X (the rewrite of Sendmail), says there are improvements.
Sascha Wildner pointed out that we get immediate, direct vendor support for Sendmail, such as the update today to 8.13.7 by Gregory Neil Shapiro, which is unlikely to happen with any other MTA.