Category: Goings-on

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.

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.