Supplied by Alexander Schrijver: the happiest dragonfly ever.
As a followup to his pkgsrc bulk build, Hasso Tepper would welcome contributions from anyone interested in making pkgsrc’s version of the GNOME desktop and the various C# utilities work better on DragonFly.
The development machine leaf.dragonflybsd.org has been upgraded with a lot more disk space. Development accounts on there are free for everyone, though keep in mind only some parts are backed up.
Hasso Tepper completed a bulk build of pkgsrc (current) on DragonFly 2.1 – about 7/8th of all the packages built.
Some random links for browsing that I’ve been holding onto:
- PCMag’s top 10 Greatest Hacks of All Time – Item #3 mentions my alma mater. (via)
- Readers of a certain age will enjoy Atari Modern Classics, plus the Bootleg Demakes (via)
- This GameSetWatch article on managerial rhetoric will be familiar to most anyone working in software.
- FreeBSD phone job in Canada – anyone interested?
The freeze on pkgsrc development for the next quarterly release has been announced; expect the 2008Q3 branch in about 2 weeks.
Will Backman has put up a new, 6 minute BSDTalk episode, where he asks for suggestions on live streaming while visiting NYCBSDCon and also for ideas for his new hardware.
I did not realize this is possible: you can rename your network interfaces. This example uses FreeBSD, but it translates to DragonFly.  (via)
Also, Giorgos Keramidas has written up his experience getting his FreeBSD system moved from one laptop to another – useful steps to know, plus on DragonFly you could use cpdup to copy wholesale. (via)
Sepherosa Ziehau has added the ids for the JMicron JMC250 and JMC260, both PCIe Ethernet chipsets. Strangely, the lower model number is gigabit, while the higher number is 100Mbit, if I read my searching correctly.
DragonFly 2.0.1 is going to be rolled this Wednesday, so if there’s anything you need in there, speak up.
Software Freedom Day is September 20th. It’s a “worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software” – check to see if there’s an event happening in your city. (via)
Apparently, there’s some changes happening to DRI (the project, not just what’s in DragonFly). This may make it better or worse for any platform that isn’t Linux to keep up with the new code. Check the comments on that story for a variety of opinions.
(Linked by Hasso Tepper on #dragonflybsd on EFNet)
I’ve seen plenty of graphs, but this one describing BitTorrent performance on a FreeBSD cluster is surpisingly pretty, perhaps because of the scale.
(Spotted by sjg on #dragonflybsd on EFNet.)
Undeadly has an brief, interesting article up, written by Mitja MuženiÄ, describing the OpenBSD releasing process. Worthwhile reading if you are involved in any sort of release cycle.
This Digest turned 5 a little while ago, and here’s another milestone: this is post 3,001. There’s 1,300 comments or so, too.
If you are running bleeding edge DragonFly, and you don’t mind panicing your system, Sepherosa Ziehau has made some changes. Specifically, if you see messages on your console about rtfree_remote(), set net.route.remote_free_panic to 1 and post a link to the resulting coredump.
Hasso Tepper has supplied a patch to sysutils/pciutils that lets it compile on DragonFly; this means you can check the state of your devices and see if they are actually powered down.