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.
As Oliver Fromme found, bsdstats.org has a script that reports on BSD usage. It’s easy enough to run on your own, though it could be added to the base DragonFly system. (which would no doubt affect the per-flavor BSD scores on the site.)
Want something to do? Bring dcron to feature-parity with vixiecron (check end of post), or shave some time off the DragonFly boot process.
Adrian Nida was looking for a ‘how-to’ for Postgres. Petr Janda supplied one.
If you’re unfamilar with Postgres, Postgres is to MySQL as BSD is to Linux.
UnixReview.com has a light week, this week: Exploring the RFID+ Certification and a review of the book CCNA Official Exam Certification Library.
To go with an earlier post about rc and launchd, Rahul Siddharthan described a similar tool from Ubuntu Linux: Upstart.
Strangely, one of the listed reasons for Upstart is that Apple’s launchd isn’t free enough in GPL terms, but it’d probably be easier (in licensing terms, thanks to the BSD license) to integrate launchd in DragonFly than the ‘more free’ Upstart.
Sepherosa Ziehau has a description of how to set up your DragonFly box as an 802.1x client, whether wired or unwired.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has fixed a recently-discovered BIND security problem.
Rahul Siddharthan asked why BSD shutdowns happen so much faster than with Linux. Out of a number of responses, Oliver Fromme seems to have the most complete writeups.
While on the topic, I posted a note about Apple’s replacement for rc/init/inetd: launchd. It has been partially ported to FreeBSD, though it’s not in the base system.
Delete files that start with – by preceding the filename with two dashes. Someday, you’ll thank me and the 5 people that answered this question on users@.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has imported OpenSSL 0.9.8c, which fixes a recent security issue.
Matthew Dillon, in his effort to create virtual kernels, is renaming the kernel functions malloc(), free(), and realloc(). (They’ll be prefixed with a ‘k’.) The procedure’s happening already.
Julio M. Merino Vidal is working on improving GNOME support in NetBSD and pkgsrc; this has some side benefit for DragonFly, since we use pkgsrc too.