Mat Dillon noted in a posting on the submit mailing list that he intends to roll Release Canidate 2 today. He’s also committed changes to the serial output during boot that may fix booting for some laptop users, fixed CD issues for those with multiple CD drives in one PC, and added support for a number of different AGP chipsets.
Another day, another installer version.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai noted that cvs for DragonFly has proxy support. No, I don’t know what that’s good for.
Jonathan Fosburgh posted, on the kernel mailing list, some of his subjective impressions of DragonFly vs. FreeBSD performance.
Curious about what short-term goals remain for the installer? Wonder no more.
Matt Dillon’s (post-)updated his work diary.
There’s a package system wiki up at http://www.livebsd.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/dflypkg. I’m waiting for someone to use that spiffy DFUI used in the installer to make a good packaging system…
The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC1.002. This version now better handles canceling an action, creates a /proc mountpoint, and does a better job of autoguessing partition size.
David Rhodus has announced Crescent Anchor, a company selling SilverOS, based on DragonFly.
If you are an experienced C programmer looking for work, you may want to see this job link on the FreeBSD Jobs mailing list.
There’s another ISO mirror at http://nibble.hp48.org/dragonfly/iso-images/.
The DragonFly Installer now installs RC1.
Antonio Dolcetta translated the installation README into Italian, at http://gelo.dolcetta.net/antonio/docs/dragonfly.README.it.
The port for acpitools may not work; if you want to take advantage of the new ACPI support, Hiten Pandya pointed at http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/
Mirror list:
http://home.hackerheaven.org/~coolvibe/mirrors
Devon O’Dell San Jose California, 100Mbit
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Torrent:
http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org/files/dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz.torrent
The DragonFlyBSD LiveCD is at version 0.3. It was 1.2 previously, so I assume the major number was dropped to emphasize that it’s not released yet. What’s new? I don’t know, as I haven’t been in #dfinstaller (on EFNet) this weekend.
‘walt’ found out that if you switch from GCC 2 to GCC 3 (and probably vice versa), libtool needs to be rebuilt.
As Erik P. Skaalerud pointed out in the bugs list, there’s been a lot of source changes lately. If you encounter an error when doing a buildworld/buildkernel, update your sources and try again. A number of people have managed to fall right inbetween updates lately.
The ISO on the DragonFly download page has been updated. This version has an an updated ATA driver, and some other patches that are not yet part of the normal codebase, in an effort to help out some folks that have been reporting installation difficulty.
Beta 1.2a, released as of Fri Jun 23 13:30:40 GMT 2004.
Andre Nathan made some nice “Powered By DragonFly” buttons.