DragonFly is (one of?) the first to plan for ZFS, but it appears another BSD – Mac OS X – may also take it up. More information is (unsurprisingly) on the Wikipedia ZFS entry. Gee, it’d be nice to have ZFS across all BSD platforms, wouldn’t it?
PC-BSD, which is FreeBSD 6 with KDE 3.5 and a GUI package management system, is now at version 1.0. I can only describe it as the way a BSD should be packaged.
One of the design goals for DragonFly is creating a BSD with clean, clear code. Here’s one example.
Matthew Dillon would like feedback and perhaps even testing on his BUF/BIO separation patch.
Oliver Fromme noticed that the cheap DVD sold at Lehmanns for LinuxTag 2006 now contains FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD – and DragonFly.
2 weeks until BSDCan! I won’t be able to make it, but there will be a few DragonFly people up there…
If you’ve got an hour or two, check out the many organizations participating in the Google Summer of Code. The idea lists have a lot of neat material.
This week on UnixReview.com has a lot more content than usual:
Examining the Updated Security+ Certification - Part One, Shell Corner: Graphing Perl's Regular Expressions,
Security: Unpatched and Doing Fine?,
and the book reviews Migrating to IPv6 and Cryptography in the Database
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Adrian Nida has a huge patch for the Handbook, removing outdated ports info and replacing it with pkgsrc mentions.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.