Naming each version of DragonFly has been under discussion in kernel@ for a while; Matthew Dillon posted a changed naming plan based on all this talk.
I wrote a short article with details on developing for DragonFly. I finished the article a while ago, but didn’t link it anywhere. Mostly, it just talks about getting an account on leaf…
Zera William Holladay posted more art. (.gif format)
Not much to report lately… Spend some time reading up on a question about documentation in PDF form that strangely turned into a thread about things like the relative quality of ext3fs, reiserfs, and ufs.
The monitoring system Nagios, which I used in a previous incarnation as NetSaint, is reviewed on UnixReview.com.
Dru Lavigne has a new article in her ONLamp FreeBSD Basics column that talks about make. Most of what it says applies to DragonFly, too.
Martin P. Hellwig has an image(s) he plans to use for a shirt.
Adrian Nida posted that he’s added a “mail server with TLS” HOWTO to the wiki. It’s part of a larger HOWTO section, if anyone would like to contribute.
The Stable tag has not yet been moved forward, because of a new error found. Matthew Dillon posted another summary.
Devon H. O’Dell’s girlfriend happens to do dragonfly jewelry. That’s based on the bug, not BSD.
Adam Kirchoff described something I did not know: MergedFB is the way to get multihead, 3D video going. Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has been working on it, too.
The Stable tag will be slipped today; there are a few minor bugs remaining.
Update: Stable is not slipped yet.
Paul Grunwald is selling his IBM laptop, which happens to run DragonFly just fine.
This week, UnixReview.com has a review of the tools Detox and jMemorize, a Linux book review that may be vaguely related to DragonFly, a conversation about regular expressions titled “Ten Years for Overnight Success“, and some other material that isn’t really on-topic enough for linking.
Matthew Dillon found this interesting collection of quotes from FreeBSD users who have purchased amd64 hardware.
John Leimon saw that DragonFly gathered some attention on the “fox-toolkit” mailing list.
The upcoming DragonFly release (1.5, probably) will be good, but the next release will be huge.
As part of a longer thread about making your computer configure itself appropriately to available networks, Freddie Cash pointed at the profile.sh work in FreeBSD. This may be convertible to FreeBSD…
Matthew Dillon listed remaining bugs before the next move of the Stable tag, and also plans for the next release, which will probably be “1.5”.
Dan Langille of FreshPorts and FreeBSD Diary fame has an article up at ONLamp/BSD that talks about monitoring a RAID system with Netsaint.