Peter Avalos has updated libarchive to version 2.0.27.
Joerg Sonnenberger has created a new source of binary pkgsrc packages for DragonFly. He has packages up now built with modular xorg, and will have a new batch up soon using the upcoming quarterly release of pkgsrc.
If you’re feeling generous, he could use another 4G of RAM – model number is given in his message.
pkgsrcCon 4 is in Barcelona, Spain from April 27 – 29, 2007. Be warned: there’s only 2 days left to register!
On UnixReview.com: “Test Your Knowledge of Regular Expressions and Shell Basics“, a book review of “Scripting VMware Power Tools“, and a product review of Komodo 4.0.
pkgsrc now has the new modular version of xorg. There isn’t yet a single meta-package to pull it all in as there was for monolithic xorg, but you can find the packages pretty easily by just looking at what Joerg Sonnenberger is working on. If you want to build packages using this latest version, set ‘X11_VERSION=modular’ in your mk.conf file. (Thanks to Joerg for cluing me in to this.)
Someone want to get DRI/DRM working? NetBSD just started getting it together, and it would be handy to take advantage of some of the xorg features with it.
Mike Wolman posted some benchmarks using a virutal kernel, and Matthew Dillon followed up with an explanation on what affects speed in the virtual environment.
Matthew Dillon has written up some details of how he wants the syslink protocol to deal with a variety of situations, like asymmetrical bandwidth, or having to discover the network path when the state of the network is changing or broken. I see some similarities with other successful protocols you may have heard of.
Steve O’Hara-Smith has managed to get nspluginwrapper working. This program acts as a wrapper for FireFox plugins compiled for other platforms, most notably Flash. The changes have been submitted (and already included!) upstream into pkgsrc, but you can get details from him now, if desired.
Rumko posted a kdebase patch to the pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org mailing list. This patch corrects kdebase to work with the recent 1:1 threading changes in DragonFly.
From an anonymous post: dragonfly clusters.
From a discussion on users@: if you’re thinking about a UPS, look at what apcupsd can support. (hint: apparently, almost anything)
dragonflybsd.org has been down for a good chunk of today; it was due to a blown transformer.
Google Alerts told me of two links: “Baby Steps with DragonFly BSD 1.8.1“, and “Review: DragonFly BSD 1.8.1“. Both excellent reviews, in that they describe an accurate picture of the good and bad points of the recent release.
Joerg Sonnenberger has pkgsrc packages built using 1.8 and the new modular xorg packages, available at: ftp://packages.stura.uni-rostock.de/pkgsrc-modular (Thanks, Hasso Tepper)
The title says it all – visit the download page for 1.8 to get it. Most every mirror appears to have it right now – not just the ones on the 1.8 page.
Note that some sites have an early version of the 1.8.1 release that lacks the installer; that image is ‘dfly-1.8.1.iso.gz’. Instead, be sure to download ‘dfly-1.8.1_REL.iso.gz’, which should be the newer file of the two.
I’ve given the main page of leaf.dragonflybsd.org a slight update, to show more of the resources available to developers.
Peter Avalos has upgraded DragonFly to use libarchive 2.0.25, for increased speed relative to both libarchive 1.x and GNU tar, and other bugfixes.
A task where much of the heavy lifting has been done: making a kernel boot no matter how many processors are in the system. (notes)Â Right now, SMP kernels can’t boot on a system with 1 CPU, so the LiveCD runs only a non-SMP kernel.
Sepherosa Ziehau warned bleeding-edge users that recent network interface changes will require a rebuild of both kernel and world when next updating. This does not apply to 1.8 users.