There’s a whole lot of changes in the development branch (HEAD) of DragonFly. These are good changes, especially if you are a multiprocessor user, but HEAD users will shortly need to recompile everything – kernel, world, and ports/pkgsrc! Matthew Dillon lays it out in a recent post.
Bob Bagwill found that the FreeBSD version of Opera works on DragonFly, with some minor modifications.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Matthew Dillon posted a thorough description of that the different tags mean when using cvsup to update your DragonFly system.
shiningsilence.com will be going down for a short period today, due to a repositioning of an exterior power line.
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.
‘walt’ found what may eventually be a nice way to manage pkgsrc packages: pkgmanager.
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.
Matthew Dillon wrote a little explanation of how the kernel and userland schedulers interact.
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”
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.
Matthew Dillon and Hiten Pandya outlined their plans for what goes into the next PREVIEW revision.
The first version of the BSDInstaller on FreeBSD is available.
Matthew Dillon mentioned a couple of obstacles in booting with a Shuttle board.
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.
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.
Seen on Hubert Feyrer’s blog: The BSD daemon used for sex toy vending machines. Wierd.