A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Mark Weinem passed along a link to the second part of the “10 Years of pkgsrc” articles. (First part still available here.) In addition to more coverage of pkgsrc, it also delves into PacmanGoboLinux, mports, and Zero Install.
Edit: It’s GoboLinux, not just pacman; thanks, Mark!
zsh is one of those shells I hear people talk about but have never tried; if you’re in the same boat, I came across this “Get the most out of zsh” article at IBM’s developerWorks. (Via rootprompt.org)
Thomas Klausner is removing some software from pkgsrc; check to see that it’s not still installed on your system.
Hasso Tepper has fixed an overflow in ppp, from OpenBSD errata 2008-009.
Sascha Wildner has created the framework for something I’ve wanted for a long time: the DragonFly Live CD able to support X and various programs. His post mentions various uses for it; his diff has since been committed.
The latest @Play column on GameSetWatch describes Slash’EM, which is apparently a roguelike for people who find NetHack too simple. Nethack’s in pkgsrc, and I think Slashem should compile on DragonFly…
BSDTalk 143 is an interview with Deborah Norling, focusing on computer accessibility for the blind on BSD, and old computer equipment. It’s a very different interview from the normal technical overview. A choice quote: “We don’t have a [PDP] 11/70 cause they’re just too darn big”.
Sascha Wildner has added a way to get a new list of PCI IDs added to the system; for those who don’t know, these lists are how the system knows what names to use for devices detected and listed in dmesg.
wiki.dragonflybsd.org has been updated by yours truly to 1.6.1 of MoinMoin; this should fix some reported errors with 1.6.0.
Peter Avalos has been working on CAM locking using lockmgr; he has a patch set available for anyone who wants in on the action.
Welcome our newest committer: Dave Hayes.  His first project will apparently be importing the BSD Installer.
If you’re willing to mentor a DragonFly project for Google Summer of Code, please speak up now, as the application is going in soon.
HEAD users will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel because of Sepherosa Ziehau’s recent changes to ifnet.
The relentless Sepherosa Ziehau has written a new iwl(4) driver for Intel’s 2100BG wireless chipset. As he warns, please drop ipw(4) and switch to this more capable driver.
Because my name is attached to a variety of DragonFly ‘things’, including this digest, sometimes I get bizarre email.
Sascha Wildner’s added experimental support for NICs using Silan Microelectronics’ SC92301 chip.
Adam Hoka is running another hackathon, based on pkgsrc-wip packages (hence ‘Wipathon‘), this weekend and next. Contributions from people willing to run patched programs – say, testing DragonFly support – are welcome.
Francis Gudin is working on IKE/IPSEC support for DragonFly; he has patches for racoon in pkgsrc, plus there’s other patches available out there.
If you need an XSLT2 processor, or like programs written in Eiffel, Colin Adams has a program for you.
If your configure is out of date, Sascha Wildner pointed out the right place to get the most recent config.sub and config.guess.