Matthew Dillon changed the download page to note that dfly-stable-20041009.iso.gz is the best recent release to start with.
Matthew Dillon wrote a little more about how the VFS work is set up, and he posted a patch with his first day of work on the issue. (11,000 lines of code!) Don’t try it unless you feel really lucky.
Joerg Anslik pointed out that dreamsticker.de now has specific DragonFly case badges available. No image needed, no minimum order, and shipping outside of Germany is possible.
The DragonFly_Stable tag has been slipped up to correct a memory leak and incorporate the ‘rm -I’ fix. This does place the stble code right smack in the middle of the VFS changes, but those appear to be at a stable point right now.
In a recent post to kernel about adding devices, Matthew Dillon describes how and why device adding on DragonFly deviated from FreeBSD-4, and how it could (eventually) lead to a different sort of devfs.
The Installer is spreading – look at livebsd.com. Specifically, the 5th item down mentions using the Installer with FreeBSD 5.3b7.
Matthew Dillon found that his recent VFS changes made linux_base-8 work again. Be warned that these changes are in the not-necessarily-completely-stable current version of code, not stable.
Joerg Anslik sent along a note that dreamsticker.de took a supplied image and turned it into a 2.5 sq.cm case badge for him.
Joerg Anslik wrote: “Just order “3D-Wunschsticker” (5 is minimum) and send him a 300 dpi picture (or whatever) in a separate mail refering to the order number
you’ll receive.”
This should work for any Germany residents; the dreamsticker.de is in German so I can’t identify if they ship outside of the country.
OffMyServer.com has apparently donated an Intel-based blade server for general use in developing DragonFly. It’s being set up today by Devon H. O’Dell, as far as I know… Thanks, OffMyServer!
Update: Pictures!
Some problems have been reported now that the new code is in; this sort of trouble was anticpated, so stick to the DragonFly_Stable tag if you want to avoid this trouble.
George Georgalis found The C Book from 1991, which he said was helpful with learning.
Matthew Dillon pointed out just why the complete BSD license is reprinted in a file, instead of a reference to another location as is usually done with GNU.
Matthew Dillon has posted his 5th VFS patch; included is some backstory on just how the old and new APIs work.
Update: and it begins. This is going to be unique to DragonFly, probably.
If your buildworld chokes on a nonexistent authpf group, read this note from Matthew Dillon.
The recent move to non-GNU patch(1) can cause some trouble building ports. Andreas Hauser has a patch to bsd.port.mk that will fix it until the change can be added “upstream” in the FreeBSD ports collection.
Matthew Dillon gave an answer on the kernel@ list to Magnus Eriksson’s timer question; explaining in the process why DragonFly uses a different timer process than FreeBSD.
Emiel Kollof has posted a patch fixing the NVIDIA binary video driver override; this still does not provide Linuxulator support, but it should otherwise work.
Matthew Dillon gave an interesting description of the machines powering the various parts of dragonflybsd.org.
Joerg Sonnenberger posted a note that code added to the project should meet a certain level of WARNS cleanness.