Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert posted a lengthy writeup of his thoughts on fixing nullfs
Unixreview.com has, among other things, a review of “C++ Coding Standards”, and a review of “The Mathematical Century” (for those who like reading about math problems). It is a nerdfest!
Would graphs like this help people working on DragonFly? If you would be helped, speak up. “ALiene” recommended creating them.
David Rhodus announced that there’s now a pkgsrc mailing list hosted at gobsd.com.
In addition, there are now binary pkgsrc packages available for DragonFly at gobsd.com!
Matthew Dillon, on kernel@, described the details of disk drivers under DragonFly
gobsd.com has an extensive writeup from Todd Willey on how he got pkgsrc working on DragonFly. There’s a number of links at the end of the article that carry more pkgsrc info.
Support for DragonFly in X.org requires people to “vouch” for the required patches to work, by trying them out. If you’ve got the spare time, read this bug report and try it out.
David Rhodus pointed out that UFS2 (what FreeBSD 5/6 uses) will eventually be supported on DragonFly, which will help with large filesystem support, and also with upgrading from FreeBSD 5/6 to DragonFly.
If you use Vinum, VINUMDEBUG is going away because of what Joerg Sonnenberger is doing.
“ALeine” is looking to backport GEOM to FreeBSD-4/DragonFly, though Matthew Dillon indicated it’s possible, though he has other plans.
A post by Ivan Voras on kernel@ led to a useful discussion talking about tokens contrasted with mutexes.
Hubert Feyrer‘s blog mentioned the 2004 Report of the NetBSD Foundation, which mentions the new DragonFly support in pkgsrc, thanks to Todd Willey. It also links to some interesting performance followups and the new NetBSD store, among other things.
If you have a development account on leaf.dragonflybsd.org, please make sure it’s cleaned of files you don’t need – /home is getting full from all the people on there.
Josua Coombs tried out pkgsrc, and found it mostly working.
Also, pkgsrc on DragonFly now builds X.org. There will be a new pkgsrc-using build of DragonFly on gobsd.org soon.
While talking about jails, Matthew Dillon brought up the idea that a user-level virtual DragonFly system, sorta like UML, is possible.
If you have 10 minutes to waste, there’s a “Which BSD should I use” post over on Slashdot/BSD.
Andre Nathan posted a link to an interview of Matthew Dillon over at BSDNexus.com, with some good information on where DragonFly is headed in the short term.
The DragonFly mirror at bsdtech.com is down due to an employment change. (Good luck, Erik Skaalerud!) There’s a new source mirror in Riga, Latvia, located at http://alxl.info/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=DragonFly. Also, the new mirror at vt220.com now has HTTP access.
Maxime Labelle has a new DragonFly mirror up in Quebec, Canada, at ftp://bsd.vt220.com/.
“Ed” found that Qt 3.3.4 now explicitly supports DragonFly.