Since there’s not much else in the way of news today, I’ll point at the gobsd.com blog section, which mentions, among other things, Todd Willey’s recent work on getting KDE in pkgsrc working, and Eirik (Nygaard?) mentioning that he has TenDRA compiling.
Are you using the most recent DragonFly code from CVS? Matthew Dillon warns that the new red/black tree work may be causing file system problems. If this worries you, you should be running with a less dangerous tag in your cvsup file. (See his post for details.)
A new French translation of the FAQ is up on the wiki.
Adrian Nida has put together a nice HOWTO for pkgsrc on the wiki.
Guillermo Garcia Rojas translated the DragonFly FAQ to Spanish; it’s now in print, in the Spanish magazine “Linux Free Magazine“, issue 9.
The BSDnewsletter store has a T-Shirt with the BSD license on it. Supergeeky, but fun.
If you’re trying to boot DragonFly on a serial-only machine like a Soekris 4801, you may have some troubles with serial output. However, there is a possible fix.
The minor ifconf() security flaw found in FreeBSD affects DragonFly too; however, it’s already fixed.
Found on Hubert Feyrer’s blog: Bus Error, Passengers Dumped. If you are entertained by mass transit accidents, there’s always more.
I’ve added the Adobe Illustrator and (encapsulated) PostScript versions of the official DragonFly logo to the wiki. The art is originally by Joe Angerson.
Jonas Sundstrom pointed at a open source NVIDIA driver that supports 3D, and currently runs on BeOS. Could it work under X? Maybe, with a pile of work.
Emiel Kollof warns that the newest binary driver from NVIDIA is now FreeBSD-5 specific, and so does not yet work on DragonFly. If you’ve got a working driver now, don’t upgrade.
UnixReview.com has 2 new book reviews available: one on “Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Administrators” and one on “Disaster Recovery Yellow Pages“.
If you’re going to USENIX this week, tell Matthew Dillon. If time permits, he’ll be setting up a DragonFly BoF session, in addition to presenting a paper in Kirk McKusick’s session.
Brad Harvell posted a link to a torrent for the 1.2 DragonFly release.
NetBSD’s first quarter report is out. Some of it’s already been linked here.
Matthew Dillon warned that a number of new, destabilizing technologies are going to be entering the bleeding edge DragonFly code, otherwise known as HEAD. Unless you enjoy trouble, the PREVIEW-tagged code (formerly known as STABLE) is a better target.
Correct tags to use in your CVSup files are named on the Download page.
If you’ve got lots of bandwidth and you’d like to provide a mirror for the upcoming release, contact Matthew Dillon.
BSD Updates is apparently planning to extend the binary updates service to all major BSD flavors – Net, Open, and, most importantly, DragonFly. (Thanks BSDNews) The BSDNews article mentions only NetBSD and OpenBSD, but the website mentions DragonFly.
ONLamp.com/BSD has a new “The Month in BSD” article up, covering March.