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Posted on 2007/05/06
awk updated

Peter Avalos has updated DragonFly’s One True Awk to the latest version.

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Posted on 2007/05/052007/05/05
DragonFly in Dutch Linux Magazine

Douwe Kiela passed along word that he authored an article on DragonFly BSD’s clustering goals for the Dutch ‘Linux Magazine‘, in their “BSD Corner”.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/05/05
Big commit this Sunday

Matthew Dillon will be committing his integration of SYSREF and struct vnode this Sunday, 2007/05/06.  A side effect of this is dynamic allocation and unallocation of vnodes.

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Posted on 2007/05/04
ONLamp.com: OpenBSD 4.1

In a rare update, OnLAMP.com has a new article: all about the latest release of OpenBSD.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/05/03
bge(4) patch to test

Sepherosa Ziehau has an update for newer bge(4) devices; grab the patch and test if that’s your network driver.

0 Comments - Categories: Device support
Posted on 2007/05/032007/05/04
An interesting combination

Noticed on the FreeTDS mailing list: the Coverity open source scan, like DragonFly, is using pkgsrc to build software.

Update: “”Building Development Code from pkgsrc” was the presentation at the recent pkgsrcCon that described this, though the abstract does not mention it.  Slides may be available soon.  (Thanks, Joerg)

0 Comments - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2007/05/02
The rolling-replace trick

If you wanted to rebuild all your already-installed pkgsrc software, this post on pkgsrc-users@ describes the way to do it using pkg_rolling-replace.  This can be useful if you want to try a new threading library, for instance.

1 Comment - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2007/05/01
Generic benchmarks go well

‘Haidut’ benchmarked several different systems using a vanilla install, and posted the results at his website.  (Scroll down)  Interestingly, the DragonFly results are quite competitive, especially considering that it’s in a massive transition.

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/04/30
Getting X Windows working

I’ve posted about it before, but the question returns: how does one install modular Xorg from pkgsrc when there’s no single meta-pkg for it?  Gergo Szakal links to some answers.

3 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/04/302007/04/30
Faster boot groundwork

Matthew Dillon has committed a huge update to the system initalization code, which, among other things, allows parallel processes during boot. This means that system initialization can be greatly sped up, which he plans to have working by Monday.  (and is already starting on it!)

(Reminds me of my old BeOS/PPC system – a desktop within 10 seconds.)

0 Comments - Categories: Committed Code
Posted on 2007/04/29
Preview synched, huge SYSREF commit made

Matthew Dillon has synchronized the Preview version of DragonFly with the bleeding edge code, since his commit of the SYSREF system may cause some stability problems.  The first commit incidentally fixes some other issues he found.

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Posted on 2007/04/28
libarchive updated to 2.1.9

Peter Avalos has updated libarchive to version 2.1.9.

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Posted on 2007/04/27
Syslink update

Matthew Dillon posted an update on how he’s organizing syslink to handle the sharing of machine resources in a cluster.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/04/27
pkgsrc and multiple make processes

It is possible to use multiple make processes when building from pkgsrc, similar to using -j when performing buildworld to speed things up.  It can be set in mk.conf or as an environment variable, and turned off for specific packages if it causes trouble.

0 Comments - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2007/04/272007/04/27
pkgsrc 2007Q1 packages ready

Joerg Sonnenberger has binary packages of the 2007Q1 pkgsrc release now available on his server.

0 Comments - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2007/04/262007/04/27
lwn.net: More on the vkernel

Aggelos Economopoulos’s second article about DragonFly’s virtual kernel is now available to non-subscribers on lwn.net. (The first article is also available.)

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/04/25
New committer: Hasso Tepper

Welcome our newest committer: Hasso Tepper.  In addition to his recently committed patched for DragonFly, he’s also been working on KDE support for DragonFly.

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/04/25
rsync.net code bounties available

rsync.net (which offers Backup Done Right, as far as I can tell) is offering a number of code bounties for various (mostly FreeBSD) projects.  One of them is a standardized stress test for UFS2 – a general filesystem testing framework would do everyone good – especially someone using a distributed file system…

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2007/04/24
PHP changes in pkgsrc

The PHP and PEAR packages in pkgsrc are being decoupled from each other, for ease of maintenance.

0 Comments - Categories: pkgsrc
Posted on 2007/04/22
Modernizing everything

When we say DragonFly is a modern BSD, we mean it in every way.  Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert taught morse(6) to produce actual sounds and allow them to be saved to a file, among other things.

2 Comments - Categories: Committed Code

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