Thomas Schlesinger found KDE would not run on his DragonFly 1.5.4 system; Matthew Dillon committed a fix for a problem.
If you enable device ehci(4) in your kernel, for USB 2.0 support, you’ll see some extra output on boot. It’s harmless.
Sascha Wildner and Joerg Sonnenberger will be representing DragonFly at FrOSCon, happening in Bonn, Germany, June 24th and 25th.
Are you trying to put together the BSD Installer? Taken from an email from Scott Ullrich (sorry, no web archive):
Here is the steps I take to build the installer once it is checked out of cvs: cd installer/scripts/build ./create_installer_tarballs.sh ./copy_ports_to_portsdir.sh ./build_installer_packages.sh
The title sums it up: EuroBSDCon 2006 is ready to accept proposals, due by July 15th.
Demokritos University of Thrace (Greece) is the newest DragonFly mirror – links are on the download page.
Dmitri Nikulin has a quick tip on how to remove some package dependencies in pkgsrc, in the (rare) chance that you don’t want and don’t need certain other programs.
FreeBSD committer Ruslan Ermilov’s wife has cancer, and he needs money for treatment. Please help.
Pkgsrc has regular quarterly releases, and the one for the second quarter of 2006 is starting up. These releases are designed to provide known stable points, or at least points more stable than pulling from CVS.
A few kernel options, such as INVARIANT_SUPPORT, have gone away. Watch for this when upgrading from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4. If you are a Release (1.4.4) user, this won’t affect you until the next release.
Sepherosa Ziehau has improved support for the acx networking chipset, adding WPA2 support, though not yet for the acx100.
Let’s say you want to identify the pkgsrc packages on your system that are ‘leaves’, meaning no other packages are dependent on them. Johnny Lam, on the pkgsrc-users@ mailing list, has a short script to find just that.
As predicted, the Preview tag has been synced with HEAD, meaning all recent changes are now available. Now’s a good time to update if you’re not on Release (1.4.4). Because of ABI changes, there’s a specific procedure one should follow.
A short question about a warning message, while answered, led to a short discussion about optimization.
Matthew Dillon noted that due to general stability, the Preview tag will be slipped on the 16th, and the next Release will happen in July.
A proposal to remove sendmail and replace it with postfix has resulted in a variety of reactions. Matthew Dillon is surprisingly frustrated with sendmail, though Claude Assman, who is working on Sendmail X (the rewrite of Sendmail), says there are improvements.
Sascha Wildner pointed out that we get immediate, direct vendor support for Sendmail, such as the update today to 8.13.7 by Gregory Neil Shapiro, which is unlikely to happen with any other MTA.
If you’re running a development version of DragonFly; namely 1.5.3, it’s time to update to 1.5.4. Be careful, as your kernel has to be updated first.
Seen on KernelTrap, then OpenBSD Journal and then Slashdot: BSD support (specifically OpenBSD) hardware support is improving faster than Linux in some cases.
I did not realize this, but if you want to browse SMB shares using KDE, KDE has to be compiled explicitly with support for it. The message linked happens to cover ‘show-options’, a handy pkgsrc option.