This Internetnews.com article makes a good point: DragonFly has thrived since splitting from FreeBSD 5+ years ago, and the difference between the systems is more apparent now, with the introduction of DevFS and Hammer.
Some months ago, Nikita Glukhov started working on a port of tmpfs to DragonFly. It’s incomplete, but Alex Hornung has put together a nice summary and is looking for someone to take it up again. I’d sure like to see it active again; it’s much better than mfs.
If you had any trouble with the dramatic changes in the 2.4 page, there’s a page on the DragonFly BSD site that lists possible workarounds.
The dragonflybsd.org site(s) were down due to a network provider problem over the last 24 hours; they’re back now.
Hubert Feyrer posted a link to a set of benchmarks of various BSDs (and Linux) using Ruby. DragonFly, despite not working with a SMP kernel on the test software, had comparatively good results.
I don’t know how recently this recording was made, but Dru Lavigne found a recording of Jeffrey Hsu (longtime DragonFly committer) taking about How To Get Started with Kernel Programming.
It’s alliterative, so it must be good. Brian Gianforcaro has offered to set up Doxygen for DragonFly, which if nothing else would show where more comments were needed.
The 2.4 release will be later this month; Matthew Dillon has details. He appears to have already fixed the Hammer bug he mentions as a final issue before release.
Alex Hornung has posted a summary of what Unix98 pty devices are, and how they are supported under DevFS. If something screwy happens, there’s even a debug option to turn on.
Say hello to the newest DragonFly committer: Alexander Polakov. Hello, Alex!
The September issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, and Dru Lavigne has a rundown of the articles. People who hear the term “Business Intelligence” do one of two things: look confused, or avidly read up on it.
This article about how to not treat project contributors reminds me: have you contributed to DragonFly? (and I don’t mean as a committer) Make sure your name is on the Team page.
ÆrieBSD; a fork from OpenBSD. (via) It appears to be GNU-free.
Update: Steven Rosenberg has some further research.
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If you have any remaining issues for DragonFly that you want fixed before the 2.4 release in September, link them to the ‘umbrella issue‘ in the bug tracker. It makes them easier to find.
www.dragonflybsd.org is now running a newer version of ikiwiki because of me; tell me if you see problems, as they’re probably my fault. Oh, and I cleaned up the developer docs page too.
DragonFly’s size_t and ssize_t have been modified. This creates more exact warnings of 64-bit problems when building on 32-bit systems. It may cause trouble with pkgsrc, though, so it will be reverted before the release (on 32-bit) if needed.
Be careful if you’re running bleeding-edge DragonFly. A full buildworld is needed because of this.
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I totally missed this, but Sascha Wildner reminded me: Alex Hornung now has commit access to DragonFly, due to all the devfs work he’s done.
Matthew Dillon provided a summary of the state of the dynamic device filesystem work, plus a note about the preliminary iSCSI work. He also brings up the notion that iSCSI would eventally allow booting off a drive no matter where it’s physically connected.