Matthew Dillon posted a patch for the scheduler that seems to improve DragonFly’s (already excellent) responsiveness. Normally, I don’t post about code until it’s in, but this can be helpful code for those willing to test it.
Previously, if you wanted to use x.org instead of XFree86, a package was your best bet. However, the FreeBSD port appears to be up to date, and may build correctly.
Scott Ullrich noted (via IRC) that there’s a DragonFly forum over at bsdnexus.com.
The software used for this page has been upgraded; there shouldn’t be any visible changes for now.
What’s next for the installer team? They’re working on an upgrade path (a wiki, not much there yet) for the installer, from FreeBSD 4.x to DragonFly.
‘MACHINE’ pointed at a Wine mailing list discussion about problems getting WINE to compile on FreeBSD; he wondered if the necessary changes could be made in DragonFly to accomodate WINE.
When compiling Mozilla, FireFox, or Thunderbird, you should stick with gcc 2.95.
Emiel Kollof is working on a new version of the NVIDIA driver to match their upcoming new release. He’s also working on the settings application. Also, Emiel posted a patch to submit@. If you are using the NVIDIA binary griver, please try it out.
There’s an errata page for the recent DragonFly release, now on the dragonflybsd.org site.
Devon H. O’Dell and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has done an initial port of pf for DragonFly.
Bosko Milekic is putting together a benchmark setup for various BSDs – he mentions that DragonFly will be tested there, eventually.
There’s a thread on the freebsd-current mailing list with some posts from Matthew Dillon (look for subject: ‘Re: panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck’) talking about how DragonFly’s IPI model would benefit FreeBSD enormously if ported over; no new facts, but a good read.
According to various reports, VirtualPC 2004 (XP), VirtualPC 6 (Mac), and VMWare 4.5.1+ should work fine if you want to run a virtual Dragonfly.
A NFS optimization brought about a short conversation, culminating in Matt Dillon’s thoughts about NFS performance.
Open Sound System 3.99.1d has been released for DragonFly.
For those of you with new installations of DragonFly, David Rhodus noted that the package builds on GoBSD.com are up-to-date, and these commands may come in handy:
pkg_add -r XFree86
pkg_add -r http://gobsd.com/packages/All/openoffice-1.0.3_3.tgz
pkg_add -r http://gobsd.com/packages/All/kde-lite-3.2.2.tgz
There’s a changelog for the Installer work, if you’re curious to see what comes next.
Matt Dillon posted about the beginning of the BUF/BIO work that he and Hiten Pandya will be starting. Matt’s post is pasted in here:
Continue reading “BUF/BIO Begins”
Crescent Anchor is selling DragonFly BSD 1.0 on CDROM. There’s also SilverOS, which is based on DragonFly.