Category: Goings-on

Matthew Dillon slipped the stable tag again, to get a few more bugfixes in.

He also discovered some problems with the OpenBSD version of NTPd currently in base; it will probably be replaced or significantly changed at some point after this upcoming release.

The stable tag has been slipped again; there is still a few issues to work out.

Matthew Dillon also described his plans for release schedules.

If you were trying pkgsrc but having trouble building gtk2 (and therefore Gnome), Todd Willeyt has placed a binary of pkgsrc gtk2 on gobsd.com, and is trying to get the appropriate changes made upstream.

Sascha Wildner has created a DragonFly Artwork section on the wiki; upload if you got some!

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.