Joerg Sonnenberger’s presentation and paper (PDF) about pkgsrc, from EuroBSDCon 2006, is available (See abstract). Jeffrey Hsu, another DragonFly developer, also gave two presentations.
The virtual kernel work Matthew Dillon is doing will help support architectures other than x86 someday, but the work isn’t complete yet.
I post this in part because I see people ask “Does DragonFly support the AMD64?” relatively often. There’s also other platforms that are becoming more common (ARM) or less (PowerPC) that would be nice to support.
Of course, AMD64 is a relative term, since it certainly works on AMD64 – you’re reading this web page served from such a system now.
Today brought a number of commits for support of disk controllers and various networking chipsets.
The call for papers (check the list of people’s titles at the end of that document) has gone out for EuroBSDCon 2007.
From Sascha Wildner in #dragonflybsd: when you’re rebuilding parts of the world, use wmake instead of buildworld; the correct environment will be used, but the build will go much faster.
A combination of software upgrades and me changing my apache config on shiningsilence.com led to some unplanned downtime this weekend – sorry!
Matthew Dillon expounded a bit on the reasoning and method behind his kernel file reorganization.
Out of a conversation on users@, Oliver Fromme gave a list of the ports used by NFS. Someday, you may be on the other side of a firewall wondering what those ports are…
‘walt’ gave some details on configuring X to use DMPS, so that your monitor turns off when your console is inactive for extended periods. Good for conservation, but not as fun as the alternative.
lukemftpd (the ftp server nowadays known as tnftpd) was removed from the base DragonFly system by Perter Avalos. It wasn’t built by default, and it’s still available in pkgsrc if you need it. Note that the server version was removed, but the client version, lukemftp (also now known as tnftp) has been updated.
Will Backman wrote a journal of his experiences at the recent NYCBSDCon. (Thanks, Undeadly)
Matthew Dillon is planning major cleanup in the kernel files, in part because it’s been historically inconsistent, and in part to support virtual kernels. The part that will affect most people is a new location for the kernel config file, and ‘i386’ is now the more relevant ‘pc32’. (or maybe not. I’ll post when it’s defined.)
Matthew Dillon has committed a change that adds new lines to the template when committing to DragonFly; most notably, it includes a line for a link back to the appropriate issue on the DragonFly bug tracker.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, which hosts the mail archive and developer accounts, has a dead power supply. The drive has been moved to a slower backup machine, so it’s still reachable until the original is resurrected.
Sepherosa Ziehau has a test version of the FreeBSD stge(4) driver ported to DragonFly, which supports a good number of gigabit networking devices. Please test and give feedback.
Seen several places: Jason Dixon’s humorous “BSD is dying” talk from NYCBSDCon06 is available with audio and slides online on Google Video and in other formats from his site.