Jeremy Messenger suggested this comparison list for bug trackers; Hiten Pandya also wants to look at MySQL’s Eventum.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has updated gcc to version 4.0.1.
If you want to build the system using gcc version 4, you must put WANT_GCC40=yes into make.conf and rebuild your system. Then, rebuild again with the environment variable CCVER set to ‘gcc40’.
The first build builds gcc4 using your existing compiler; the second uses it during the build. I have not done this myself, so be careful.
dragonflybsd.org may be down at times this weekend, as Matthew Dillon is adding/moving a whole lot of hardware.
Update: There’s downtime tonight, starting 9 PM PDT. If you have data on leaf:/unused3, it’ll be gone.
Brad Schonhorst kindly sent along this announcement about NYCBSDCon:
“There are only 2 days left to preregister for the first ever NYCBSDCon, to be held September 17th at Columbia University, in the Davis Auditorium.”
There’s more at the NYCBSDCon site. Among other notable speakers, our very own Jeffrey Hsu will be presenting “History, Goals, Objectives, and Structure of DragonFlyBSD”. I’d really like to go see this.
Hot on the neels of the 1.19.1 update, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated groff to groff 1.19.2. Ooh, the excitement of typesetting languages!
UnixReview.com has a review of the book “Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach“, some writeups of what some people think of computer certifications, and some date-related shell functions.
Joerg Sonnenberger noted there are some useful steps one can perform for transition to pkgsrc.
Author Neil Gaiman found a tomato that looks like it has a horn; add a matching second horn and it would look like Beastie.
Incidentally, Neil Gaiman has little to do with BSD, but he has written some excellent books and comics.
Joerg Sonnenberger has added the just-released OpenSSH version 4.2
Matthew Dillon made a number of journaling-related commits today; in one of them, he included an extended writeup of some of the problems encountered when dealing with multiple transactions forwards – and backwards – in time.
The systems mentioned in a previous post as being ordered for dragonflybsd.org will be “ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe”, which means that they will probably be good choices for supported hardware.
Matthew Dillon’s ordering some new hardware for dragonflybsd.org. Among other improvements, there will be a new machine specifically for building world, kernel, and pkgsrc.
On users@, Andreas Hauser talked a bit about his experience with filesystems, and included some links. Among other things, he pointed at the possibility of NFSv4.
Matthew Dillon listed his two major UFS goals: changing filesystem size, and speedier reboots.
Tomaž Borštnar used ubench to test DragonFly and various FreeBSD systems, and wrote up the results.
Speaking of benchmarks, the fefe.de benchmarks done some time ago may be coming in for a second round of tests. Of course, that blog entry is in German, so I’m going on what Hubert Feyrer said.
If you’ve been running a DragonFly mirror, the BSD Certification Group would like to know your download stats. Several people have quoted healthy numbers. (post them to kernel@dragonflybsd.org, if you have them)
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated groff to version 1.19.1
Matthew Dillon wrote a little more on why he thinks pkgsrc is the best direction for DragonFly.
He also followed up on a separate thread describing the current disk size limits for UFS1. Hiten Pandya added comments, too.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert proposed using cvstrac for bug tracking, and he has set up an example. Scott Ullrich has already been using cvstrac for pfsense. However, Hiten Pandya was intending to set up Bugzilla.