DragonFly BSD Digest – Page 339 – A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.

2007/08/102007/08/10

xorg 6.9 removal

xorg 6.9 is going to be removed from pkgsrc soon; upgrade to the modular version when the chance presents itself. As the linked post says, you need these packages:

meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-apps
meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-fonts
meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-drivers
x11/modular-xorg-server
x11/xterm

(Though xterm can be replaced with other terminal programs) All these are available as packages from your local mirror, though programs dependent on X will need to be recompiled or reinstalled from binary packages.

2007/08/092007/08/09

mbuf leak found, plugged

Matthew Dillon found a mbuf problem, and fixed it.Â It’s severe enough that it will cause 1.10.1 to be brought out very soon; it’s led to some other changes.

2007/08/08

More state of the system

Matthew Dillon answered some questions recently about how far along DragonFly is to its goals and what it will take for SMP without the giant lock.

2007/08/07

libpcap, tcpdump updated

Peter Avalos has updated libpcap and tcpdump to version 0.9.7 and 3.9.7, respectively.

2007/08/07

New Ukrainian mirror

There’s a new mirror for DragonFly in Ukraine; it includes the 1.10 release ISO.

2007/08/07

New KernelTrap interview

There’s a new interview of Matthew Dillon up on KernelTrap, covering a lot of details on what is intended for the 2.0 release of DragonFly.

2007/08/062007/08/06

1.10 released

1.10 has been released; check the page describing the release and then please use a mirror when downloading the ISO or updating your sources. The release page also has a list of the many changes in this version. Check the errata, as there’s a few small issues that remain within the installer.

2007/08/05

Progress report for 1.10

The Diary page on the DragonFly website has been updated with what’s new in the 1.10 release.Â Incidentally, we are now more than 50% of the way to a distributed system.

2007/08/05

32 and 64, living together

Matthew Dillon detailed a future idea he’d like to see: a DragonFly system having both 32 and 64-bit parts, with usages controlled by varsyms.

2007/08/05

Linux support fix

Seen on pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org: Steven O’Hara-Smith fixed Linux emulation support with pkgsrc and DragonFly.Â Thanks, Steven.

It’s not an earthshaking change, of course, but I like to give credit for things that otherwise would pass unnoticed.

2007/08/03

New mirror in Taiwan

TWAREN in Taiwan has set up a new DragonFly mirror, including pkgsrc binary packages.Â I think there are a few other new mirrors on the download page that I missed over the past few months – check for one near you.

2007/08/03

One less common step

Something that is a very good idea: When running 1.10 or later, it will be possible to cd to /usr and update DragonFly source or pkgsrc files using only a make command.

2007/08/02

1.10 RC1 available

If no problems are found, this release candidate will turn into the release, this weekend.

2007/08/02

BSDTalk: William Hurley

The latest BSDTalk is with William Hurley, who is the impressively titled Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software.

2007/08/02

Fontconfig cleanup

Clean out your /var/cache/fontconfig the next time you upgrade the fontconfig package.

2007/08/01

Temperature sensing available

Thomas E. Spanjaard has a kernel module that reads temperatures from recent Intel CPUs; read his post for details on how to get it working.Â It’s not yet in the source tree.

2007/08/01

1.10 close and packages ready

The 1.10 release looks likely to be this weekend, due to a number of bug squashings, and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert reports aÂ successful build of pkgsrc binary packages for 1.10 is complete.

2007/07/31

Goals for pkgsrc improvement

Dieter Baron wrote up a list of possible pkgsrc improvements on the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list; it’s a list of goals that have been talked about in fragments other places.Â Much discussion ensued, with Joerg Sonnenberger pointing out that some of these goals are near completion.

2007/07/31

Sendmail and authentication

Joseph Garcia wrote up an entry on the users@ mailing list about how to get Sendmail working as a relay agent using authentication, and what that requires from pkgsrc.

2007/07/30

BSDTalk: embedded FreeBSD

The latest BSDTalk has M. Warner Losh talking about embedded FreeBSD.