Category: Goings-on

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.

Oh, looky! The Installer has its own domain now.

If you’re using a DragonFly or a FreeBSD computer to mirror the release data, don’t forget to turn on net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable=1, as that will improve performance.

There’s an Installer Errata page for the curious, or (less common, hopefully) for those who experience problems.

The main page of DragonFlyBSD.org has the official release announcement for 1.0. It nicely enumerates all the changes so far, and what’s to come.

Release 1.0 is officially out.

Matt Dillon’s posted a note about the new DragonFly Copyright notice. It’s very similar to the traditional 3-clause BSD license, so there’s no real worries.

Matt Dillon’s diary has been updated.

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for OpenSSH 3.8.1p1; we’re close enough to release 1.0 that this is being delayed until after it happens because it’s not a security upgrade.

The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC2a. The CVS archive for the Installer is temporarily down, so the frenzied rate of new releases may slow temporarily.

leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where the mail archives are kept, is temporarily down because of a recently-discovered Apache security problem.

In a response to a post I made, Matt Dillon said he is looking into creating DragonFly as an official non-profit entity (PDF link), which means (U.S.) donations to the project can be tax-deductible.

Federico Biancuzzi interviewed DragonFly developers Matt Dillon, Joerg Sonnenberger, Jeffrey Hsu, and Hiten Pandya for O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com BSD DevCenter. It’s a good 3 pages of Q&A.

Jeroen Ruigrok is making an effort to get DragonFly recognition into large thrid-party programs, like Apache.

The geekgod.net DragonFly wiki has a number of different topics on it.

The DragonFly Installer is now based on Release Candidate 2.

I have a report of the RC2 ISO image at http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFlyBSD/iso-images/dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz having the wrong MD5 checksum; double-check when downloading. You should get:

MD5 (dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz) = 9b39227698a0b7a4d4f3d18f7ad6ff75