Category: Goings-on

The Sitetronics wiki now has a copy of the DragonFly FAQ; add to it if you feel you have something good to explain.

Volume 2 of the FreeBSD Handbook is available in print form now, at the FreeBSD Mall. A good amount of it will apply to DragonFly, though this material is availble free.

BSDCan 2005 is coming May 13-14th, in Ottawa, Canada. The Call for Papers is out!

Matthew Dillon suggested a small, easy project for anyone who wanted it would be to support booting from logical partitions.

The Perl Review issue 1 is out, too. This, like the Perl Journal, you need to have a subscription.

I suggested on the docs@ list that using a Wiki to allow people to make documentation updates may make it easier to actually have people contribute, and then changes can be merged back into CVS. Discussion ensued, with some folks pointing at Wikipedia‘s MediaWiki, or TikiWiki. Similar discussion popped up elsewhere. I plan to try this … soon.

The latest issue (November) of The Perl Journal is out, if you happen to subscribe. Quick! Someone make a Python comment, apropos of nothing!

Liam J. Foy has put together a new page to track what needs to be cleaned in DragonFly; take a look if you are curious, or(even better) if you wanted a relatively simple task.

Spotted on Unixreview.com: a review of Unix Shells by Example; a decent review, plus it covers the interesting term “UUOC“.

Jasse Jansson is putting together a list of supported hardware; he’s at jasse ‘at’ hornet ‘dot’ ac if you want to contribute.

Macomnet.net is a new DragonFly mirror: http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/

The GoBSD site has been visually updated, with a new GoBSD ‘distribution‘ of DragonFly, which includes pkgsrc as a built-in ports replacement. There’s also an ambitious mission statement.

Joerg Sonnenberger (here) and Matthew Dillon (here) both did a nice explanatory writeup of how the timer system works.

leaf.dragonflybsd.org is moving to the most recent version of DragonFly (HEAD) so as to serve as a test for some SATA fixes.

Andreas Hauser mentioned that he and others are going to 21C3, and are looking to meet up with other DragonFly enthusiasts.

Oliver Fromme suggested a way to make it possible to boot a CD into a variety of operating systems – specifically either FreeBSD or DragonFly.

‘Rum’ noted he has a dfport of Firefox 1.0.1 available.

Freddie Cash described on kernel@ how he got his atheros card working, using a FreeBSD driver.

Joerg Sonneberger followed up on his own commit message saying that Perl seems to be out of the base system.

Read an interesting conversation that I don’t understand.