Spotted on Unixreview.com: a review of Unix Shells by Example; a decent review, plus it covers the interesting term “UUOC“.
Jasse Jansson is putting together a list of supported hardware; he’s at jasse ‘at’ hornet ‘dot’ ac if you want to contribute.
Macomnet.net is a new DragonFly mirror: http://mirror.macomnet.net/pub/DragonFlyBSD/
The GoBSD site has been visually updated, with a new GoBSD ‘distribution‘ of DragonFly, which includes pkgsrc as a built-in ports replacement. There’s also an ambitious mission statement.
The Stable tag has been moved up to the most recent code, as some critical fixes required what’s in the most recent code. In general, this should only be positive, unless you are using unionfs or nullfs, as they will be broken if you upgrade. So, if you are using those file systems, hold off on upgrading for a few weeks. When you do upgrade, it has to be a full buildkernel/buildworld.
Checkpointing has now been fully integrated, with man pages and everything.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org is moving to the most recent version of DragonFly (HEAD) so as to serve as a test for some SATA fixes.
Matthew Dillon reported a hard disk failure knocked out the DragonFly website and mailing lists over the weekend; there’s a new disk, filled from backups, back in place now.
Matthew Dillon has added code that should hopefully fix the long-standing timer bug some people have seen.
Oliver Fromme suggested a way to make it possible to boot a CD into a variety of operating systems – specifically either FreeBSD or DragonFly.
A big was found in SACK; it could cause downloaded file corruption – it’s fixed now.
Matthew Dillon did an update of checkpointing, as apparently someone had expressed interest in porting it.
A vulnerability was found in FreeBSD’s fetch, which also affected the DragonFly version. Jeroen Ruigrok has already fixed it.
‘Rum’ noted he has a dfport of Firefox 1.0.1 available.
Freddie Cash described on kernel@ how he got his atheros card working, using a FreeBSD driver.
Joerg Sonneberger followed up on his own commit message saying that Perl seems to be out of the base system.
Read an interesting conversation that I don’t understand.