A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
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.
“TIV” posted some notes on how to make a custom DragonFly LiveCD; Matthew Dillon suggested some additional tips.
David Rhodus posted a patchset to X.org 6.8.1 that should make it work on DragonFly; it may or may not make it in time for the next X.org release.
I don’t normally post about test patches, but I am linking here to one of Matthew Dillon’s recent VFS patches, as he explains a bit of the work that is going into it.
The GAG graphical boot manager now includes an icon for DragonFly.
forknibbler.com, where I hosted builds of DragonFly documentation, is down for the next while as I have been chaning network layouts. However, the docs that were there are still available at http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/.
An excellent thing has happened: H.Miyamoto has started another log of DragonFly news over at http://wids.net/dbsdlog.jp/. This new log is in Japanese, which certainly reaches an audience I cannot.
WordIQ.com appears to have a DragonFly section on its site. However, it appears to be a copy of the excellent Wikipedia DragonFly page. A legal copy, but probably a moneymaking gambit, given the advertising on the WordIQ page. This is similar to something that happened over at freshports.org site some time ago, though not quite so mercenary.
Hidetoshi Shimokawa described in a post to kernel@ just how to get a console working over Firewire, instead of serial.
As mentioned in an aside while talking about current work, Matthew Dillon expects his VFS work will leads to a journaling file system.
There’s a new DragonFly mirror in Germany. It’s not that new, but I’m catching up on all my mail since I moved the site, and I never posted this:
Douwe Kiela wrote in to mention that the Dutch Linux Magazine (October edition) has an article about DragonFly, written by him, and on page 48.
In this ONLamp.com story about the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6, it’s revealed that apparently the new multiprocessor support will be much like the Big Giant Lock (BGL) in FreeBSD-4.
Andreas Hauser has a FireFox 1.0.1 package for DragonFly. Add it using pkg_add -r url. (You may need this patch.)