A NFS optimization brought about a short conversation, culminating in Matt Dillon’s thoughts about NFS performance.
Firewire frenzy
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has committed support for a number of different Firewire and USB chipsets. Check the commits list for info.
OSS for DragonFly released
Open Sound System 3.99.1d has been released for DragonFly.
New Release 1.0A
There’s a new image available that fixes the installer problem when installing to a partition that isn’t the last one on the disk.
Portupgrade knows
Hiten Pandya commited YONETANI Tomokazu’s changes that make the very essential tool portupgrade deal with ports that have DragonFly-specific overrides.
Getting a quick start
For those of you with new installations of DragonFly, David Rhodus noted that the package builds on GoBSD.com are up-to-date, and these commands may come in handy:
pkg_add -r XFree86
pkg_add -r http://gobsd.com/packages/All/openoffice-1.0.3_3.tgz
pkg_add -r http://gobsd.com/packages/All/kde-lite-3.2.2.tgz
Up Next
There’s a changelog for the Installer work, if you’re curious to see what comes next.
Installer and partition problem
Quoted from the download page:
IMPORTANT ERRATA ADDENDUM: Using the installer on a multi-slice disk will improperly resize the target slice when it is not the last slice, to be the same size as the last slice, leading to a corrupt disk! We will have an update to fix this problem in the next 24 hours!
BUF/BIO Begins
Matt Dillon posted about the beginning of the BUF/BIO work that he and Hiten Pandya will be starting. Matt’s post is pasted in here:
Continue reading “BUF/BIO Begins”
Buying DragonFly
Crescent Anchor is selling DragonFly BSD 1.0 on CDROM. There’s also SilverOS, which is based on DragonFly.
Installer moves up
Oh, looky! The Installer has its own domain now.
A serving trick
If you’re using a DragonFly or a FreeBSD computer to mirror the release data, don’t forget to turn on net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable=1, as that will improve performance.
Installoops
There’s an Installer Errata page for the curious, or (less common, hopefully) for those who experience problems.
Release announcement
The main page of DragonFlyBSD.org has the official release announcement for 1.0. It nicely enumerates all the changes so far, and what’s to come.
1.0 is here!
Release 1.0 is officially out.
Licensing standardized
Matt Dillon’s posted a note about the new DragonFly Copyright notice. It’s very similar to the traditional 3-clause BSD license, so there’s no real worries.
Release Diary
Matt Dillon’s diary has been updated.
Sooo very close
The Installer has been made part of the base system. Congratulations are due to the Installer Team (Chris Pressey, Devon O’Dell, Eirik Nygaard, Hiten Pandya & Scott Ullrich), who managed in a few months to crank out a program better than any other non-commercial BSD installer. And there’s more to come!
Soooo close
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for OpenSSH 3.8.1p1; we’re close enough to release 1.0 that this is being delayed until after it happens because it’s not a security upgrade.
Installer update, slowed
The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC2a. The CVS archive for the Installer is temporarily down, so the frenzied rate of new releases may slow temporarily.