Hubert Feyrer noticed that slides are up for all the pkgsrcCon 2007 presentations.
I’m going to be cleaning leaf.dragonflybsd.org – watch out! This should not affect services located there, like developer accounts or the mail archive. I hope.
Aggelos Economopoulos’s lwn.net articles titled “A Peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel” are now available as a single item on dragonflybsd.org, with some additional details that didn’t appear in the initial version.
Gergo Szakal suggested using FeedBurner to put recent wiki changes onto the doc@ mailing list. I think it would work well to make sure major changes get discussed – opinions?
Matthew Dillon has done some careful reworking of the disklabel system; it will require a full make buildworld and etc. process if you are running bleeding edge code and want to upgrade. Be careful!
Incidentally, this makes a dynamic /dev possible, for anyone wanting to put it together.  Again, be careful!
UnixReview.com has 4 new items this week: A liitle quiz titled “Test Your Knowledge of PHP“, book reviews of “Apache Phrasebook” and “Beginning C: From Novice to Professional“, and a review of Up.Time 4.
If you are running bleeding edge DragonFly, make sure your next buildworld/buildkernel is a full one. Matthew Dillon has made changes to ccdconfig/vnconfig that require it.
Joerg Sonnenberger has posted his initial plans for making bulk build of pkgsrc run in parallel.
Since Matthew Dillon’s working on the disklabel code, be careful if you’re running bleeding edge code in the next few days. Disklabel errors eat data.
Matthew Dillon was considering completing AMD64 support for the next release, and it looks like he might be starting on it.
 Update: No, that’s disklabel work. Thanks to ‘anonymous’ for indirectly pointing that out.
kern.ipc.nmbufs and kern.ipc.nmbclusters sysctl variables are now read-only, and can only be set at boot. Previously, changing them on a running system would show changed values in any application that reported them, but it wouldn’t actually take effect. If you don’t already change these values, this won’t affect you.
The pkgsrc packages for FireFox and Thunderbird are going through a minor shuffle, to make naming consistent with the latest versions of each. Watch for this on your next upgrade.
If you wanted to use GCC4 instead of the current default of GCC3, on DragonFly, check this description by Matthew Dillon of the proper environment variables to change.
Matthew Dillon laid out his support policy for DragonFly, which boils down to: current release and the previous one.
If you have a DragonFly system, you should update it now. (Point releases have been rolled for 1.8, 1.6, and even 1.4) Non-DragonFly systems should also be updated, if available.
Hasso Tepper pointed at this interesting page of DragonFly C99 projects that I no doubt linked to long ago and then forgot.
Chris Turner posted a nice summary of work that would be needed for C99 compatibility in libm. Sepherosa Ziehau also posted a short guide on how to create new drivers for wpi(4), as the existing drivers (in any BSD) are not up to snuff.
Note: I noticed again while writing this: developerWorks is neat.
If you are mirroring Joerg Sonnenberger’s pkgsrc binary archive from its old location at packages.stura.uni-rostock.de, it’s time to switch. He has a new site, and until his bandwidth has stabilized, it’s best to mirror from Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s site at chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de.
Hasso Tepper passed along word that he has added a more permanent fix for the IPv6 ‘Type 0 routing header‘ bug. The fix has been brought to DragonFly 1.8, 1.6, and 1.4, too.
Sepherosa Ziehau has commited encryption support for 802.11 cards that aren’t ath(4). The commit message goes into far more detail than I can sum up (or understand).