Almost great

Matthew Dillon wrote out his final report on the Shuttle XPC with a AMD X2 dual-core processor. The short version: it works under the latest DragonFly code, except for the built-in ethernet. It’s zippy.

pkgsrc and bugs

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote me to describe the preferred bug reporting path for pkgsrc issues on DragonFly:

1: Mail Joerg Sonnenberger or users@dragonflybsd.org
2: Mail DragonFly developers known to work on pkgsrc
3: send-pr, on the NetBSD site. (The first page I found for that looks to be focused on NetBSD…)
4: Mail to the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list.

Prepping for pkgsrc

pkgsrc is the upcoming application packaging system for the next release of DragonFly, and there are several mailing lists just for pkgsrc (not DragonFly-specific) that talk about what’s going on. It’s also a good place to go if you have trouble with a particular package, as the maintainer of that package may not be on any of the DragonFly lists, due to the extreme cross-platform usage of pkgsrc.

BSDCert Usage Survey Report

Jeremy C. Reed posted to users@ a note explaining that the BSD Certification Group has published its Usage Survey Report (k PDF).

Some interesting things in the survey results – there were over 100 respondents using DragonFly in their work area, which is much more than I expected. Some of the “smaller” BSDs linked are interesting, too, as I had never heard of things like “Frenzy“, “S-Core“, or “MOS“. Also, there are a number of good anecdotes that were written in as responses in the survey.

The BSD Certification website seems to have had a nice makeover, too.