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.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org is moving to the most recent version of DragonFly (HEAD) so as to serve as a test for some SATA fixes.
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.
Andreas Hauser detailed his X.org 6.8.1 packages and caveats in a recent post to the submit@ mailing list.
Is anyone even using a 386 processor anymore? If you are, go look for some pocket change and buy a faster computer.
Matthew Dillon noted that all chronic bugs appear to have been fixed, this week.
Joerg Sonneberger detailed the changes inherent in using OpenNTPd, which will be in the system momentarily.
No, I’m not branching out. :) Hubert Feyrer is running an unadorned blog similar to this one, but concentrating on NetBSD.
There’s also a similar page at undeadly.org for OpenBSD. I suppose KernelTrap is in the same vein mostly for Linux, and the FreeBSD Project has src summaries.
A question about programming brought some interesting tips on how to deal with source code and other issues. There was quite a lot of suggestions, in fact.
Steven Looman pointed out a different way to handle ports: Portsnap.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE has happened. This is the start of a 5.x stable branch, after 4 (long) years. OpenBSD 3.6 is out too.
‘asmodai’ provided a link to this Intel web page as a reference for handling hyperthreaded processors. It’s Windows-specific, though.