Joerg Sonnenberger asks: could someone fix the Java 1.4 (or later) JDK so that it builds on DragonFly? Many would thank you.
Matthew Dillon asks that people concentrate on fixes for the next few weeks as we get ready for the 1.10 release.
Speaking of logos, why hasn’t this one been chosen for pkgsrc yet?
I’ll take a moment to point out that Joe “Floid” Kanowitz wrote up a lengthy analysis of the parts of GPL v3 as a comment to an earlier story here. I’ve posted a bunch of stories since then, so I’d hate for people to miss it after he did all that typing.
Joerg Sonnenberger has built binary packages from the recent 2007Q2 release of pkgsrc; the “stable” directory will be changed to point there. In fact, it may be a good idea to stick with that version for the next little while.
Incidentally, there has been some name changes in the Apache 2.2 modules. You will know if this matters to you.
Michal Belczyk has been experimenting with ways to make his Core 2 Duo system run less hot; he’s had some success. His patches should make it into DragonFly.
It’s a buzzword frenzy! Matthew Dillon has committed work performed by he and Joe Talbott on making virtual kernels able to emulate up to 31 CPUs at a time. This has the side effect of making it almost possible to hot-swap CPUs, easily. Testers wanted.
If cvsweb isn’t enough, Csaba Henk has updated his OpenGrok site of the DragonFly source code.
If you want to experiment, Matthew Dillon has added a little program that tests syslink connectivity. Syslink is the protocol that will be used for communication between DragonFly systems in a cluster. Don’t get too excited – it’s just a test program.
The pkgsrc release for the second quarter of 2007 is now available. Update, if you are following the regular branches with your /usr/pkgsrc.
The Gnu Public License has reached version 3. Generally, everyone seems indifferent or, in Jem Matzan’s case, apathetic. (Links via hubertf) Everyone’s more interested in the Jesusphone. While we’re being mean about GPLv3… that’s one ugly logo.
Here’s two slightly tangential things that involve DragonFly: The first is a thread about large (64-bit) file support in Apache, and how it is treated as a special case because of poor planning under Linux – it’s not a problem in BSD. This led to an excellent quote from an excellent book, “The Cuckoo’s Egg“, by Clifford Stoll:
“We’re watching someone who’s never used Berkeley Unix.” He sucked in his breath and whispered, “A heathen.”
Also, “_why” posted a question about checkpointing to the users@ list, for an issue that Matthew Dillon later fixed. I recall that this _why is the same fellow who wrote “Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby“, a programming book that is unlike any other.
Theo De Raadt’s description of bugs in recent Intel processors has made it to Slashdot, where in the comments, Matthew Dillon went through each bug and listed his opinion on each. (two comment entries, starting here) In contrast, Linus Torvalds’ general response was much more subdued. (Thanks, Wiger Van Houten, for links)
According to these reports from the OpenBSD-misc mailing list, Intel’s Core Duo is buggy, and upcoming features on Intel motherboards create a second running environment accessible even when your computer is off, both of which create security risks. (Thanks, Hasso Tepper)
Before anyone starts to hyperventilate, keep in mind: 1: this is a warning of potential problems, not an assessment of existing problems. 2: It’s an OpenBSD mailing list, which can be described as ‘adversarial’.
Sascha Wildner posted a patch that allows direct use of WPA and DHCP commands within ifconfig for wireless connections, along with some other changes.
It is indeed possible to watch every file access made on your system, everywhere, by attaching ktrace to the init process. It’ll generate a lot of data, though.
Here’s an entertaining possibility: Brian de Alwis, on the port-i386 NetBSD mailing list, noted that he was able to get ATI’s proprietary drivers for XFree86/Xorg working on NetBSD, at least for Xinerama support.  I daresay this would work for DragonFly too – anyone have a recent ATI card to try out? (Original link from Greg Troxel)
Because my timing is awesome, I wrote an entry about Joerg Sonnenberger’s new pbulk system just as the computer hosting it went down. It’s back up, so, go back to the original entry if you missed the original output from that bulk build.
A recent post here on the Digest attacted a lot of comments – some trolling, some useful. Read at your leisure.
BSDTalk, which has a working RSS feed again, has a 9 minute interview with Sidsel Jensen from EuroBSDCon.