The wiki now has an Italian version of the FAQ.
Alex Burke has a writeup of his experiences installing DragonFly to a third partition.
Adrian Nida has a huge patch for the Handbook, removing outdated ports info and replacing it with pkgsrc mentions. He’s looking for feedback, and there’s already some.
Also, Jeremy C. Reed has improvements to the X11 documentation in the handbook for review.
If you speak a language other than English, Trevor Kendall wants you to check out and sync the wiki FAQs.
It’s open! We need to incorporate a DragonFly nonprofit to be involved, at some point. (Thanks, Christian Sturm)
Apparently there’s a good number of BSD-based jobs out there. These examples are based on NetBSD, but there’s surely more. (From Hubert Feyrer and others)
Matthew Dillon has two comments on some small things that are absolutely essential: how to reach the CDROM and how to really back up existing partitions before installing DragonFly.
“fader” has a post on gobsd.com that mentions Qemu works very well with DragonFly as a client environment, especially if you have the accelerator. Something similar that has been attracting attention: Parallels.
Petr Janda had the misfortune of overwriting his Master Boot Record; helpfully, a number of people had ways to fix it.
Andreas Hauser recommends using greylisting to combat spam, and talks a little bit about how to do it.
April 6th is the 1024th day since the DragonFly project was formed. Happy 8*8*8*2aversary, us!
Daemonnews has an interview with Jan Schaumann up;
the interview is about NetBSD as a desktop system. Many of the answers also apply to DragonFly, as NetBSD and DragonFly both use pkgsrc.
dragonflybsd.org has been updated with a different logical layout; it’s my fault.
Matthew Dillon is planning to start userland VFS work in about a month; this led Andreas Hauser to ask if FUSE could be brought in as for FreeBSD. Csaba Henk, who ported it to FreeBSD, said “yes, but better“!
BSDTalk has a new interview up with Liam Foy, who is porting CARP to NetBSD, created BSDPortal.org, and (most importantly!) also contributes to DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon posted a description of his near-term work that will get us closer to the vaunted Cache Coherency Management System and, incidentally, userspace VFS.
“walt” posted about the upcoming change from 512-byte to 4-kbyte sector size on disks. Apparently, this won’t cause problems.
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My fault: the Goals section on the DragonFly BSD website is now moved to a single page under Docs.
Robert Sebastian Gerus found that it is possible to see filenames after deletions, which is an outgrowth of UFS (and a number of other filesystems). If this concerns you, use rm -P to overwrite the data before marking it unused.
IBM developerWorks has a nice article up (by Chris Herborth, former BeOS dev) on using Eclipse as an IDE even with non-Java projects.