“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.)
While talking about other issues, Matthew Dillon noted that if you pull your source files from CVS to a local repository and then check them out, you should have a ~/.cvsrc containing:
update -Pd
checkout -P
This will prune directories otherwise deleted in CVS but still present for “bookkeeping”.
The latest entry in David Rhodus’s journal notes the strange “unreleasing” of FreeBSD 5.3 back to first release candidate status.
(from bsdnews) Dru Lavigne of BSD Hacks and FreeBSD Basics fame has made a pamphlet called “BSD Success Stories“. (Alternate link to the PDF) There’s a mention of DragonFly in there.
There will be another version of this pamphlet, so if you have a DragonFly success story, you should be able to guess what to do next. Here’s Dru’s original blog mention of “Success Stories”. Also worthwhile in her blog is a visit to NYCBUG‘s recent event with Kirk McKusick/Eric Allman.
Joerg Sonneberger is itching to get rid of OLDCARD. Anyone using it?
Crescent Anchor has had a site redesign. Crescent Anchor makes FireFlyBSD, which is (as far as I know) a commercial derivative of DragonFly. The product is showing up in Google ads, too.