Matthew Dillon has created a way to run a SMP kernel without using the APIC_IO option. This lets his Shuttle XPCs boot. He also solved a BIOS problem on AMDX2 dual-core machines.
This week, UnixReview.com has “Shell Corner: Reading Function and Cursor Keys in a Shell Script“, “Comparing Convergence Certifications“, and a review of “up.time 3.0“
Joerg Sonnenberger has a whole lot of prebuilt packages for DragonFly 1.3.x available. It’s showing up on mirrors, too. Going by a rough line count, it appears to have about 60 more packages (2%) than gobsd.com/pkgsrc.
Matthew Dillon is moving the FreeBSD-based pkg binaries out of the regular location to make room for the pkgsrc version, which will be in the next release. That next release, by the way, is coming before the end of the year.
On a related note, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has proposed moving to rsync instead of cvsup to get updated code; cvsup works well but requires a lot of resources to build.
The FreeBSD logo contest has a winner – more info can be found on the FreeBSD site. I can’t stop thinking “Kirby“.
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.
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Matthew Dillon is planning some major work on the routing of interrupts; if you are running the latest code, report any new breakages to bugs@, please.
DragonFly’s been under heavy development for some time, with large under-the-hood changes going on. However, thing seem to be proceeding at a stable pace.
Michael Lucas’s ongoing miniseries on network statistic collecting (neater than it sounds) has another installment up at OnLAMP.com‘s Big Scary Daemons.
Seen on hubertf’s blog: the Google Summer of Code official results page. There’s a metric buttload of BSD projects in there.
gobsd.com has the source code for various major BSDs at gobsd.com/code. It’s apparent;y been there for a while, but only recently reactivated.
UnixReview.com seems to have recovered from last week’s Linuxgasm and has several good articles up: a book review of “php|architect’s Guide to PHP Security“, “Regular Expressions: Getting Started with SCons” (a make replacement), and the Perl-oriented “Common Network Protocols“.
Adrian Nida has put together a new version of Andrew Atren’s atheros wireless driver; it’s worked for him on DragonFly 1.3.6, so far. I don’t know why this isn’t included in the DragonFly system yet.
If you’re running Preview or Development versions of DragonFly (1.3.x), David Rhodus has uploaded a new pkgsrc binary set, with over 3,200 packages built for DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon has added two new warnings in an effort to catch a mysterious DragonFly and FreeBSD bug.
drhodus’s blog on GoBSD.com now describes a problem with the “lost+found” directory created during a fsck.
Peter Schuller has a nice writeup (and addendum) explaining the capabilities of pkgmanager, an new utility for handling pkgsrc installation.
OpenOffice, which has been around for 5 years now, just released version 2.0. Wow, the web site is pretty.
OnLamp.com has an interview up now of some OpenBSD developers, talking about the about-to-be-released OpenBSD version 3.8.