Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has committed two changes that account for the FreeBSD-originated security issues mentioned previously.
If you can read Swedish, you can read Jonas Sundström’s entry about Matthew Dillon at unix.se.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai sent along word that he got MathML working on DragonFly. Even better, he wrote down what he did.
3 different security issues have been reported for FreeBSD; these may affect DragonFly because of its FreeBSD-4 heritage.
Have you ever hit the keyboard during boot and ended up on the boot.config prompt? And then, became annoyed that the path shown didn’t run by default? (I know I have.) YONETANI Tomokazu has a potential fix.
Matthew Dillon pointed out that the recent TLS work will make for much less complex code, and also means that GCC 2.95 will finally be retired from the DragonFly system.
UnixReview.com has some new articles up: A review of Visual SlickEdit, a description of the USENIX @ 30 event, and an ongoing look at Server+ certification.
Matthew Dillon has added a set of compatibility libraries that will keep DragonFly 1.2 binaries working even after the drastic library changes going on now.
Adrian Nida noted that he has updated his pkgsrc HOWTO located on the DragonFly Wiki.
Hiten Pandya has warned that his recent changes will require a full buildworld/buildkernel. This affects you only if you are running bleeding edge code, of course.
If you’re following the EXPERIMENTAL branch right now, there’s a lot of breakage going on because of the library upgrades, which will break some/many applications until they are recompiled. Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has put up a recompiled version of cvsup that works with EXPERIMENTAL at this point in time.
If you’re running anything else other than EXPERIMENTAL, you don’t need this.
Joerg Sonnenberger is changing errno to a thread-local variable this weekend, which means for those running the latest DragonFly code (i.e. from CVS, not 1.2.1), you will need to rebuild everything. That includes ports, and drastic changes like this will happen again.
Some articles to read: the story of USB, and why comments are more important than code. Also, there’s a new live backup option for NetBSD that is has some similarities with the planned journaling work in DragonFly. (From Hubert Feyer’s NetBSD blog)
UnixReview.com has an article up on using telnet to test network services; if you aren’t nodding your head in recognition of what this is, you should read the article. It’s a basic and useful tool.
Steve O’Hara-Smith found that running the Knoppix CD left his network card in a wierd state and unable to pass traffic. He had to physically remove power from his machine before DragonFly (or FreeBSD) could use the card again.
A minor point that came up during conversation on user@: DragonFly releases do not slowly move into new versions, as STABLE does on FreeBSD; 1.2 will always remain 1.2.x, while the next stable version (1.4) will be built from the new code that’s in 1.3 right now.
I’ve seen links in a few places for PC-BSD, which is a flavor (dare I say distribution?) of FreeBSD 5.3 with a nice installer.
There’s been precious little news – lots of activity, but nothing new – for the past 24 hours, so here’s a wierd link: Hubert Feyrer’s blog has a link to a Chinese operating system called Kylin, which apparently has some BSD-like elements, though it’s not clear just how much or from where.
Matthew Dillon’s put together a new NTP daemon. xntpd is apparently too large, and OpenNTPd has been problematic since its import.