A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
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.
The Summer of Code samples from all the DragonFly participants are available now on the Google Code-hosted site. Visit the Downloads section to get the tarballs.
Matthew Dillon made some changes to the scheduler; his commit message has some interesting details.
The 2008Q2 packages collection on pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org has been rebuilt and updated by me; any new binary packages should appear at a mirror soon.
Hasso Tepper has another power patch; this one to turn off PCI devices when the corresponding module is unloaded. This can make laptops cooler by turning off the sound or network, for instance. It has been commited, though you need to tweak a sysctl to enable it.
The NYCBSDCon 2008 schedule is up. Will Backman, of BSDTalk, will be there, and there will be BSD Certfication exams. Among other presentations, a certain Matthew Dillon will be talking about Hammer. (via Dru Lavigne)
Thomas Klausner is removing qt1 and qt2 from pkgsrc. If you’re using one of the few applications that still require them, tell him before the 14th.
This sentence caught my eye from a recent commit by Sepherosa Ziehau: “it accidentally doubles the current lo0 performance“
Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL to version 0.9.8h, which fixes “two moderate security flaws“. The original diffs came from Andras Voroskoi.
Hasso Tepper has committed Dashu Huang’s “RFC3542 support” Summer of Code project.
In addition to committing acpi_cpu(4), Hasso Tepper has also enabled the powering-down of unused PCI devices. His post to users@ explains the details.
Matthias Schmidt has added a release info page for 2.2. This next release won’t be out for a few months, yet, but if you’re adding something new for that release, write it there so we don’t have to remember it all within 24 hours in January.
Remember rconfig(8)? Matthew Dillon’s added an example that will format a disk with UFS /boot and Hammer /everythingelse.
Hasso Tepper has updated coretemp(4) to read from all cores, and has a test port of FreeBSD’s acpi_cpu code, which can reduce power usage and heat.
Matthew Dillon’s made more changes to the boot process, allowing the boot code to boot directly from a /boot partition. I’m abusing the English language with that last sentence.)Â This allows having a UFS /boot and a Hammer /everythingelse