Aggelos Economopoulos is looking for opinions/compatibility stories on AMD hardware, as he’s shopping for a new system.
Hasso Tepper reports via #dragonflybsd his WinTec Pegasus ADD2 card works just fine under DragonFly. For those who are unfamiliar with this card, like me: it uses a PCI Express x16 slot to offer two additional DVI connections in addition to an existing Intel 915/945/965 chipset’s analog video output. Three video outputs, very cheaply.
A conversation about encrypted filesystems turned up some links on the topic from Chris Turner.
Dmitry Komissaroff has ported the uticom driver from FreeBSD to DragonFly; it’s available at SourceForge and may get into the system too.
The next AsiaBSDCon will be in Tokyo, in March 2008. If you want to present a paper, the abstract is due on December 1st.
There is apparently a new version of Skype available that is expressly designed to run under Solaris/FreeBSD (download the static version) using Linux emulation. This may work on DragonFly, if it doesn’t require emulation of a Linux 2/6 kernel. (Thanks, Yair K.)
The latest FreeBSD status report notes that the Google Summer of Code project to port OpenBSD’s sensor framework to FreeBSD is successful, and also that it made it into DragonFly before it even came to FreeBSD. (via trevorjk on #dragonflybsd)
I posted my most recent results from a bulk build of pkgsrc; I’m planning to follow the quarterly release branches of pkgsrc.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a web archive of this to point at, but Chris Pressey just posted a patch to the long-dormant BSD Installer mailing list that updates the installer to work with Lua 5.1.2. It previously only worked with 5.0.x versions. (Thanks, Chris Buechler, for the link!)
‘walt’ has some tips on how to get at least a relatively recent version of Java running on DragonFly. We really need an update of the Linux emulator, as that’s what keeps this and some other things from working.
Traditionally, in BSD-land, MFC means ‘merge from current’, bringing code changes from the bleeding edge back to a recent release. Apparently, it’s a bizarre mashup of the fast food chains McDonalds and KFC in China.
The latest interview on BSDTalk is an interview with Anders “Ragge” Magnusson about his work on pcc. Looking at the mailing lists, there is apparently a new website being put together.
Here’s some lazy reading for a Friday: “The Digital Revolution“, a history of digital technology, which not surprisingly is mostly about computer history. There’s some interesting mentions of World War 2-era computer technology there. (via)
There’s a buffer overflow in OpenSSL that was (re)found recently; there’s a patch available, and it looks like we need it.
BSDTalk 130 is out, with a conversation between Michael Dexter and Marko Zec at EuroBSDCon 2007.
It’s apparently possible to listen to this by phone: +1 (360) 227-6093. I have no idea what the charges are…
The Lost Format Preservation Society documents the different data storage formats that have existed in recent times. Scroll to the right, as they cover a lot. Depending on your age, you will be surprised by the number of analog recording formats that have vanished in the past 10 years. (via)
Jeremy C. Reed, who has contributed to DragonFly, has a new book out: ”
BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book“, which collects the ISC documentation on BIND. He has a number of other publications both in print and upcoming. (via)
There’s been a number of code additions worth noting that I’ll place here in bullet form:
- Hasso Tepper has committed the sensor framework to DragonFly, coming from OpenBSD via FreeBSD. He’s also added the coretemp and lm/it drivers.
- Sascha Wildner has updated timezone info, which apparently changes much more often, and more bizarrely, than I’d expect.
- There’s a UUID now for Matthew Dillon’s upcoming HAMMER file system.
Joerg Sonnenberger pointed me at a recent post on the NetBSD tech-kern@ mailing list: Andrew Doran did some comparisons of MySQL’s sysbench on a multi-CPU system, with different operating systems. It unfortunately doesn’t include DragonFly, as DragonFly apparently would not boot on that system, but I’m a sucker for graphs.
It also shows generally better performance for NetBSD recently than for a Linux 2.6 kernel. This is interesting in part because MySQL performance on BSD has historically been worse than on Linux.
OnLAMP has another of its rare BSD articles up; this time on installing Subversion on BSD, with all the ‘bells and whistles”.