GoBSD.com has a ‘packages’ section which holds prebuilt software packages for DragonFly, suitable for adding with pkg_add -r packagename. It doesn’t happen to have many KDE packages, which can be very time-consuming to build by hand. However, there’s a whole bunch in a different directory, http://gobsd.com/packs/.
Apparently, there’s a ISC DHCP vulnerability just discovered – DragonFly could use an update.
Gabor Mickso linked to a story in Hungarian about the new installer; if you can’t read Hungarian, there’s plenty of (English) screenshots.
A newer version of the beta installer is up at http://www.livebsd.com/dfly.
Chris Pressey announced the DragonFly Installer has gone to ‘beta’ status; his announcement is pasted here:
Continue reading “Installer in beta”
Hey, look – a new installer screenshot of the curses frontend.
God a small hard drive and want to simulate a CD build? Try Chris Pressey’s ‘Mock CD‘ trick. (Link stolen from a mention on IRC.)
The libh project for FreeBSD was supposed to replace the creaky sysinstall program, though it hasn’t been worked on extensively enough to offer a real replacement. Robert Watson writes some interesting points on the right way to go about working on an installer.
Why do I point this out? The DragonFly Installer has followed this general plan already; it’s nice to have external verification that something was done right.
Chris Buechler found out that varsyms don’t work (yet) on a per-jail basis. Darn.
I’ve been remiss, and haven’t mentioned YONETANI Tomokazu’s ACPI patches. They aren’t in the tree yet, but if you have a laptop and want to try them out, they are at http://les.ath.cx/DragonFly/.
Having trouble with loading a splash screen? “beastie_disable=YES” in your /boot/loader.conf. Note: this may or may not work; it’s untested.
Running DragonFly under VMWare? Try GeekGod’s XF86Config, if you don’t have one set up.
This should be bugfix week; DragonFly BSD 1.0 should be ready for USENIX, starting on the 27th in Boston. This week may be rather quiet…
After several iterations, we now now a “offical” archive of discussions on the dragonflybsd lists. This pulls right from the news server. It’s currently updated every 2 hours. Credit’s due to Matt and Hiten for hitting me with ideas for it, and for adding the support applications.
There’s still some work to be done: Search functions, raw messages, and archive downloads. That’ll be the next version.
Other archives out there:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/
http://www.gmane.org/ (dragonflybsd.kernel only)
The DragonFly Live CD with installer now includes a web-based installer in addition to the existing ncurses installer.
Hiten Pandya posted that work for DragonFly 1.0 should be done by June 13th, which gives a week of testing before USENIX.
(flop sweat time!)
I had been thinking, “How big a market is there for BSD-based systems?” Netcraft’s very nice websurver-survey shows just how much, at least for FreeBSD and webhosting. It also shows something else – the Internet/computer market is definitely back into a growth cycle.