Since there’s not much else in the way of news today, I’ll point at the gobsd.com blog section, which mentions, among other things, Todd Willey’s recent work on getting KDE in pkgsrc working, and Eirik (Nygaard?) mentioning that he has TenDRA compiling.
A new French translation of the FAQ is up on the wiki.
Adrian Nida has put together a nice HOWTO for pkgsrc on the wiki.
Guillermo Garcia Rojas translated the DragonFly FAQ to Spanish; it’s now in print, in the Spanish magazine “Linux Free Magazine“, issue 9.
The BSDnewsletter store has a T-Shirt with the BSD license on it. Supergeeky, but fun.
If you’re trying to boot DragonFly on a serial-only machine like a Soekris 4801, you may have some troubles with serial output. However, there is a possible fix.
I’ve added the Adobe Illustrator and (encapsulated) PostScript versions of the official DragonFly logo to the wiki. The art is originally by Joe Angerson.
Jonas Sundstrom pointed at a open source NVIDIA driver that supports 3D, and currently runs on BeOS. Could it work under X? Maybe, with a pile of work.
Emiel Kollof warns that the newest binary driver from NVIDIA is now FreeBSD-5 specific, and so does not yet work on DragonFly. If you’ve got a working driver now, don’t upgrade.
UnixReview.com has 2 new book reviews available: one on “Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators” and one on “Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages“.
If you’re going to USENIX this week, tell Matthew Dillon. If time permits, he’ll be setting up a DragonFly BoF session, in addition to presenting a paper in Kirk McKusick’s session.
Brad Harvell posted a link to a torrent for the 1.2 DragonFly release.
NetBSD’s first quarter report is out. Some of it’s already been linked here.
If you’ve got lots of bandwidth and you’d like to provide a mirror for the upcoming release, contact Matthew Dillon.
BSD Updates is apparently planning to extend the binary updates service to all major BSD flavors – Net, Open, and, most importantly, DragonFly. (Thanks BSDNews) The BSDNews article mentions only NetBSD and OpenBSD, but the website mentions DragonFly.
ONLamp.com/BSD has a new “The Month in BSD” article up, covering March.
Joerg Sonnenberger is talking about a major change to libc, after this upcoming release. Follow the thread for some interesting comments on versioning, including Matthew Dillon wishing there was more Matthew Dillons in the world.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has put together a standards conformance checklist for DragonFly. If you want to tackle something on it, let him know.
Joerg Sonneberger pointed at this batch script for building ports in a jail, so that the building process cannot crap out while your installed ports are in flux.
Jeremy C. Reed is looking for a DragonFly host to use for bulk-building pkgsrc. He’d need about 20G of space, and an open port for reports through http.
I have a computer for it, but no connection yet. He mentions in his post (linked above) that currently, just over 40% of packages in pkgsrc build on DragonFly, which works out to over 2,000 programs.