The release version of DragonFly has been brought to 1.4.3 to incorporate the recent Sendmail security update, among other things. Bleeding edge code has been brought up to version 1.5.2, because Matthew Dillon has added (after the bump) his potentially destabilizing BUF/BIO code. If you like running Preview, update and plan to stick with it a while until this new technology gets sorted out.
Sascha Wildner sent along a link to “The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin“, a many-part history of Unix.
Several FreeBSD security issues were found recently that also apply to DragonFly: ipsec (DragonFly fix), opie (DragonFly fix), and sendmail (DragonFly fix). The fix for sendmail incidentally brings it to version 8.13.6. David Rhodus has also started to bring in some applicable changes from NetBSD found by the Coverity scan. (Coverity is apparently not accepting any new source collections to scan at this time, so we don’t get it directly.)
Joerg Sonnenberger, who has been fixing a ridiculous number of pkgsrc packages to run on DragonFly, is giving a presentation at PkgSrcCon. The convention is happening May 5-7, in Paris. The registration deadline is April 15th, by the way.
A recent post on undeadly.org highlights the need for OpenBSD to find new funding sources to support the various hackathons held around the world for OpenBSD. It appears that the normal funding source, selling CDs of each release of OpenBSD, has become much less lucrative. OpenBSD also has a donations page.
With the growth of broadband access, the need to order a separate CD has dwindled. It appears the OpenBSD Project is going to have to supply some different form of services in order to continue the same revenue stream. According to the article, they previously generated US $80,000 each year for the last two years, and still came up $20,000 short.
Along the same lines, the FreeBSD Foundation is accepting donations. According to the most recent newsletter, the Foundation is doing well enough that a part-time administrator has been brought in to handle affairs. The most recent Foundation newsletter does not describe their financial status in specific terms, other than to sound positive. The newsletter for 2004 shows a small loss.
NetBSD also has a non-profit Foundation, with donations possible. The most recent financial report for the NetBSD foundation shows a positive balance, and recent newsletters show 2005 went well.
What about DragonFly? DragonFly is not yet a non-profit, so there’s no direct place for donations to go, though there are requests for equipment that can be filled. Pretty much all costs for dragonflybsd.org come out of Matthew Dillon’s pocket. Given the relatively huge size of these other project’s budgets, Dragonfly appears to be doing well.
Sven Willenberger saw some odd “cache_lock” messages; these are relatively benign.
The links for the old RSS/XML news feeds for this site now redirect to the new feed locations.
Francis Gudin, I think it is, posted a link on his GoBSD blog to Dave Glowacki’s GCC warnings.
Please update your links to the RSS file, if you are using it. I’ve configured the permalinks to hopefully be more reasonable.
Sepherosa Ziehau has a new version of ifconfig, taken from FreeBSD 6 and put together for DragonFly by Andrew Atrens and Adrian Michael Nida. Give it a test, if you can.
Apparently, ruby has its own internal package management system, called gems. If you want to try this Ruby on Rails technique that’s all the rage lately, read this post from Csaba Henk.
Because of recent circumstances, I’m looking for at least 1 ‘new’ laptop. Is there anyone using DragonFly on a laptop? (Other than those mentioned here.)
Along the same lines, has anyone put together a server recently with a focus on low power usage?
I moved from Movable Type to WordPress. The original links to the XML and RSS feeds are broken, as are old links to individual stories. This will be fixed soon, and then I’ll improve the layout from the current default.
LinuxTag 2006 is happening in Germany May 2-6, and the BSD booth needs volunteers.
Some packages in pkgsrc, if they were built in the past few days, will need to be rebuilt. This post to the tech-pkg@ mailing list has details.
If you’re trying to mount a windows/samba share, load the right libraries first.
My house was robbed today; I lost my desktop computer, among other things. Not surprisingly, posting here may be slow for a little while…
For a bit of clarification, Matthew Dillon noted that his goal of having a single system image takes into account having “slow” network links to connect system, which means fancy (and expensive) high-speed interconnection will not be necessary.
I discovered that, at least on my uniprocessor test system, -j doesn’t make a speed difference for ‘make buildworld‘. The -jn flag creates nextra processes, and is supposed to speed the process up to some extent. I’d like if someone could show me a system where it does make a difference…