What kind of payoff is Matthew Dillon expecting from the threaded subsystems in DragonFly? *HUGE*
Oliver Fromme posted two helpful notes – one on mounting devices as non-root, and another on booting a group of computers without disks. The ‘diskless boot’ discussion continued on, with comments from Joerg Sonnenberger and Matthew Dillon.
UNIXReview.com has posted three new articles, all of which may be useful for DragonFly users: One on using OpenOffice, and another on integrating Cisco and Unix equipment, both of which are really book reviews. There’s a third article that covers the ports for Logmon, Portmanager, and Nullmailer.
A fellow named Robert T. Kopp posted a question on whether a new BSD user should pick FreeBSD 5.3 or DragonFly, and Matt Dillon did a short summary on the reasons for picking either.
The DragonFly BSD website has had its main page updated with a link to this log and to the Sitetronics Wiki, and Matthew Dillon’s updated his diary.
Matthew Dillon posted the plans he and Hiten Pandya have for working on I/O and dma-direct buffering (msf_bufs). His post dives right into specific details, so a link to it is in order.
YONETANI Tomokazu posted a detailed list of instructions on how to get the FreeBSD port of the linux-based Flash 7 plugin working.
Matthew Dillon said this weekend is when the Stable tag in CVS will be moved up to match the most recent version of DragonFly.
There’s been lots more discussion on getting a German keyboard and characters to work. Along with that, Jonas Sundstom asked if standardizing on UTF8 would help.
Sascha Wildner is gaining the ability to commit DragonFly changes, due to his frequent submissions. Congratulations, and get to work.
Craig Dooley posted a description of his dfport override for DRI, and asked for help finding a place to host it, as it needs testing.
FreeSBIE 1.1 is out, using the very same installer technology as DragonFly – the BSD installer! (thanks GeekGod for the note)
Todd Willey pointed out on GoBSD.com that the pkgsrc bootstrap kit now should work on DragonFly, now that his changes have been committed. It should be possible to download the most recent version of pkgsrc and start using it normally (barring individual package issues).
If it hasn’t already happened, Matthew Dillon will be moving the stable tag up to the newest version of DragonFly, as there are no major problems right now with the bleeding edge code. He’s waiting to see how well Jeffrey Hsu’s network stack parallelizing code (!) works.
Joerg Sonneberger brought the DragonFly version of OpenNTPD into sync with the OpenBSD version, and added an example configuration file. Also, David Rhodus has posted a writeup about the integration of OpenNTPD into DragonFly over at GoBSD.com.
A poll for your favorite BSD personality was posted on the users@ mailing list. Relive high school years – in Dutch!
Joerg Sonnenberger posted a solution that creates a working German keyboard layout on DragonFly.
‘walt’ has a patch for /boot/loader that lets DragonFly be installed to an extended partition, and he’s looking for testers.
Glenn Johnson described just how to change optimization flags when compiling X.org, though Joerg Sonnenberger recommends against it.
An old corecode suggestion about cleaning up the “$XXX is not set properly” warning has been reinforced by Robert Garrett, the fellow who brought RCNG into DragonFly.
If you see that error message on startup or shutdown, this will fix it:
sed -i -e 's/FreeBSD)/DragonFly|&/' /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rc.subr