“Haidut” kindly send along news of the NeWBIE project, where a NetBSD CD is used as a bootable end-user system, similar to FreeSBIE (which also uses the BSD Installer, same as DragonFly). He also sends word that he’s working on a DragonFly version of that same CD.
Joerg Sonnenberger announced that binary pkgsrc packages for 1.4.0 are now available, with a whopping 85% of all pkgsrc packages represented. He also noted that pkg_chk now can remotely update binary packages.
Csaba Henk wrote up a detailed explanation of his patch for cache coherency; it’s a good, highly technical read on the various issues involved.
informit.com has the typical BSD overview article: BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family. (Seen on hubertf’s site) Shadow Development has an article about FreeBSD as a desktop; topical after this previously-linked DragonFly review. There’s some interesting material about the Intel Macs on there, too. (From BSDnewsletter.com, via Liam Foy’s BSD Portal.
Also: this is the 1,501st post on this blog! I am curious to see how this volume stacks up to the other BSD sites out there…
I’m adding DragonFly BSD Digest JP over to the links – a site that does what I do here, but in Japanese.
There’s a harsh but accurate review of the DragonFly 1.4 release up now on OSNews.
Matthew Dillon has posted his second parallel routing patch; there’s still some issues, listed in his post along with a link to the patch.
A bit unusual, but here’s a pkgsrc “wallpaper“, courtesy of Hubert Feyrer
Freshports.org is changing servers, so it may be intermittently unavailable over the next few days.
mod_php, in pkgsrc, is the package ap-php. If you install the binary version, Apache 1.3 is the dependency it tries to load. This can be a problem if you are alreay running Apache 2.
The ap-php package works with Apache 2 – it has to be built from source, however. Joerg Sonnenberger has more details.
There’s an ongoing debate about this on the pkgsrc tech-pkg list, too.
Matthew Dillon’s posted the first patch for parallelizing the route table. People who don’t mind mangling their network connection are encouraged to give it a try.
UnixReview.com this week has a book review of Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response, and a book review of Book Review: Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution – good for those who got religion.
Linux ’emulation’ packages are present in pkgsrc, same as they are in ports, but the use is slightly different. Joerg Sonnenberger detailed some of the differences in a recent post.
Updated: And check this post too.
This is a test, to ensure I didn’t mangle the database connectivity. Ignore me.
OnLAMP.com/BSD has a new Big Scary Daemons article up about emulation – specifically, Linux emulation on FreeBSD. It should mostly apply to DragonFly.
Jeremy C. Reed has been adding to the PF documentation to cover other operating systems, including DragonFly. He needs another set of eyes to look it over, though.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has put together a Roundup issue tracker and has been collecting issues off the bugs@ mailing list for a while. He says it’s about 5 minutes of work daily to keep things straight, which isn’t bad at all for mailing list integration.
Garance Drosihn wrote up a little summary about the oft-revisited subject of: why isn’t there something easier to build than CVSup?
At Daniel Sturm’s suggestion, I’ve put a link for the DragonFly BSD Frappr group over on the side of the page.