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Posted on 2005/08/05
Acquiring a taste for Opera

Bob Bagwill found that the FreeBSD version of Opera works on DragonFly, with some minor modifications.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/05
Followup on BSD books

Doug Keester noted that Bill and Lynne Jolitz have jolix.com and 386BSD.com, where you can read/buy various bits of historical BSD documentation.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/05
UnixReview.com: books, exams, scripts

UnixReview.com has several articles that may be of interest: a book review of Learning Perl (4th edition), a look at the Cisco CCIE Security Exam, and a shell script for verifying backups.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/04
Stress stress stress!

Wiger van Houten pointed at the FreeBSD kernel stress test and OpenPOSIX Test Suite as potential test methods for DragonFly; Matthew Dillon plans to try out the former.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/03
Historical BSD/Unix book

A conversation about BSD architecture books led to “Basic Kernel Source Code Secrets” by Lynne and Bill Jolitz, who also penned a series of articles on porting Unix (what we now call BSD, of course) to the 386. These articles came out around the same time Linus Torvalds started his little project…

3 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/03
cvsup tag mysteries explained

Matthew Dillon posted a thorough description of that the different tags mean when using cvsup to update your DragonFly system.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/02
Power line move

shiningsilence.com will be going down for a short period today, due to a repositioning of an exterior power line.

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Posted on 2005/08/02
1.2 Compatibility needed

If you are running bleeding edge DragonFly code (HEAD), you will need to have COMPAT_DF12 in your kernel config file, unless you’re using the GENERIC kernel. This is because of the stat(2) work Joerg Sonnenberger plans to commit.

0 Comments - Categories: Heads Up!
Posted on 2005/08/01
Pleasant package push buttons, please

‘walt’ found what may eventually be a nice way to manage pkgsrc packages: pkgmanager.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/08/01
Precleaned

FreeBSD, as one of the Google Summer of Code projects, is going through a networking code cleanup. Would DragonFly benefit from this? Yes, except it’s already happened.

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Posted on 2005/08/01
Userland and LWKT, sitting in a tree

Matthew Dillon wrote a little explanation of how the kernel and userland schedulers interact.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/31
BSDInstaller internal changes

Chris Pressey sent a recent announcement about the BSD Installer infrastructure, and changes thereto. I don’t see web-accessible archives of the message, so I’ll paste it here as an extended entry.
Continue reading “BSDInstaller internal changes”

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/31
GNOME Preview

There is a preview of the next version of GNOME (2.12), found via Slashdot.

Anyone compiling GNOME from CVS on DragonFly? It’d be interesting to know how compatible it is.

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/29
Coming in PREVIEW

Matthew Dillon and Hiten Pandya outlined their plans for what goes into the next PREVIEW revision.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/28
BSDInstaller spreads

The first version of the BSDInstaller on FreeBSD is available.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/28
Shuttle BIOS nitpicks

Matthew Dillon mentioned a couple of obstacles in booting with a Shuttle board.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/27
Monthly BSD summary is a blog!

Sam Smith (I assume) wrote in a comment that his monthly BSD summaries for OnLAMP/BSD have become a blog, with June being the latest entry.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/27
FreeBSD on XBox

FreeBSD’s been ported to the XBox, interestingly enough. It’s more proof-of-concept right now – once networking works, it could be very useful.

1 Comment - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/27
Dirty daemon

Seen on Hubert Feyrer’s blog: The BSD daemon used for sex toy vending machines. Wierd.

0 Comments - Categories: Goings-on
Posted on 2005/07/27
retro-zlib

Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert committed a fix to 1.2-RELEASE for the recent zlib security problem.

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