Unless it’s with a very old Linux binary, you no longer need to use brandelf(1) to run Linix binaries; you just need pkgsrc: emulators/suse100_base and a symlink.
Peter Avalos has switched DragonFly to use bsdtar, though CNU tar will still be available through the next release, and always available from pkgsrc.
Joerg Sonnenberger has uploaded the full set of pkgsrc binary packages for pkgsrc-2006Q3 to his site. (See the earlier message for the link.) Please test, especially if you are a KDE or GNOME user.
Pulled from many other conversations: a number of tips on how to burn CDs with cdrdao, save your shell command history, and estimate how much contention is caused by locking on a multiprocessor system.
A question about saving dumps from a crash led to some explanations of the process.
Matthew Dillon has committed a number of improvements to nullfs put together by him and Joerg Sonnenberger. The biggest changes are that nullfs can now be mounted recursively, and does not have to have a distinct mounting path; e.g. mount ‘anywhere’.
The 2006Q3 pkgsrc release is coming up, and Joerg Sonnenberger has built a good number of the binary packages for DragonFly using that release. Please test and report issues.
As part of a larger discussion on users@, I wondered what can be done to reduce power usage. There’s different options available, but it doesn’t matter much unless you have multiple servers.
Peter Avalos has updated libarchive and bsdtar to version 1.3.1. This leads to the question: should GNU tar be replaced with bsdtar, in DragonFly?
The tersely named chsh command is what changes a user’s shell: Gergo Szakal has the best description of several on how to use it.
Matthew Dillon has added documentation of how to use cpdup for incremental backups, and some scripts that show useful examples.
BSDCertification.org has the results of their “Test Delivery Survey” available as a PDF. It “summarizes the results from a recent survey of potential testing candidates to determine their geographic locations, the price they are willing to pay to take an examination, and their thoughts on various methods for delivering IT certification exams.”
It’s mind-bogglingly complete like many of their reports, though I question the idea of surveying to see what price people will want – the only price anyone can agree on is ‘free’; nobody volunteers to pay more money, no matter how realistic the price.
Welcome to the newest committer: Victor Balada Diaz.
OnLAMP.com has a 3-page interview of Charles M. Hannum, recently known for describing NetBSD as ‘stagnant‘.  DragonFly gets a slight mention.
A conversation about NFs led Matthw Dillon to give a short description of locking under NFS for most any operating system: generally broken. DragonFly clusters ought to, in contrast, work.
After making some adjustments, Matthew Dillon created a new test program for his virtual memory page tables.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has imported CVS 1.12.13.
Matthew Dillon warns that he is doing some virtual kernel memory mapping work; it may destabilize the bleeding-edge of DragonFly.
Are you a DragonFly user who can give a talk at NYCBSDCon, October 28th-29th? If so, contact Matthew Dillon.