A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Matthew Dillon has the mailarchive working again. It pulled from the NNTP version of the DragonFly mailing lists, and when NNTP broke, so did the archive. NNTP isn’t working, but at least the mailing list archive is functional.
I’m hoping to try out Mailman (with NNTP) as a replacement soon…
There’s a Youtube video showing how to set up a virtual kernel on DragonFly. I don’t think I linked to this before. (via)
There’s a new Technology Innvation Management Review out, with Open Source Business as the theme. The guest editor for this issue is possibly known to you – Leslie Hawthorn, who was the coordinator for the first years of the Google Summer of Code project.
I said posting would be more regular now that the holiday’s over, didn’t I? I lied.
Your unrelated link for the day: The Restart Page. (via) Make your browser full-screen when trying any of them.
Happy new year! Regular posting should resume soon now that my holidays are over.
Your completely unrelated link of the day: Tiny Legs of Fire. (video) Worth it for the origin of Beardslap.
(Sorry about the giant text block. This isn’t as readable as I’d like.)
Chris Turner got it working on i386, at least, and his post will help you do the same. I don’t know if these changes have made it through to pkgsrc or for x86_64 yet.
I’m linking to this small discussion about licensing and its documentation in pkgsrc, just because these paragraphs, out of context, are good for any pkgsrc user to know.
The freeze for pkgsrc-2011Q4 has started. No updates to pkgsrc, other than for security, for the next two weeks.
There’s a new DragonFly mirror, in Colorado, USA – at dragonflybsd.mirrorcatalogs.com. It’s on the mirrors page on the DragonFly site, too.
The last quarterly release of pkgsrc for the year is scheduled for the end of this month. This means the freeze, where only bugfixes are applies, will be starting on the 17th.
I do this almost every year, with a little bit more every time. Check those previous years for non-comics/books, cause that’s most of what I’ve seen lately. I’ve recently seen a number of comics lists:
Comics/books: Wondermark gift guide – Wondermark store and cards – Dr. McNinja store – Schlock Mercenary guide – Spacetrawler (scroll down) – Secret Headquarters 1, 2, and 3 (via).
Other lists: Matthew Baldwin’s Good Gift Games list, plus his followup. (The defectiveyeti site is funny, too.)
Last week was low on links, but this week is great! I hope you have some time set aside.
Your unrelated link of the day: Since we’re talking about old things and environments, why not look at some pictures of my workplace?
Two tips for working with pkgsrc, derived in part from this mailing list post on users@ (follow the thread) and from my own experience. If you put WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/pkgsrc into /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf :
Siju George asked about how he could figure out which serial number (in /dev/serno) maps to which disk. Tim Darby posted a script he used for it, or you can just use devattr(8). There’s also a linking trick described by Chris Turner to remember how the names map.
Happy (post) Turkey Day for the U.S. readers! A light link week this week.
Your unrelated link of the week: Animals Talking In All Caps. It is what it says it is.
Francois Tigeot has updated his PDF of Postgres benchmarks with some OpenIndiana results. They’re crazy high, though he reported some freezes too, as with Linux.
When building world and kernel on DragonFly, /usr/obj is where the work files get placed. This can eat a bit of space, but it can be safely deleted. If you keep the files around, subsequent rebuilds can be done faster with a quickwork/quickkernel, but this may not matter to you.
(This was answered on the mailing lists by Max Herrgaard, but I don’t have a link to his reply – sorry!)
Remember the Postgres benchmark I described here a few days ago? Francois Tigeot has updated it with numbers from Scientific Linux running the same pgbench procedure. (see page 2) If you’re too lazy to look at the PDF, his summary is this: Linux is fastest of all, and also crashes the most.