Crescent Anchor has had a site redesign. Crescent Anchor makes FireFlyBSD, which is (as far as I know) a commercial derivative of DragonFly. The product is showing up in Google ads, too.
Yeah, OK, I’ve been traveling, and not keeping up, if you can’t tell by all the posts today. There’s a Quicktime video of fearless leader Matthew Dillon up on Daemonnews, found by Emiel Kollof. (A direct link to the .mov file if you don’t have movie playing working with your browser-of-choice)
Liam J. Foy has commit access, the lucky fellow. There’s been a number of new committers added – Hidetoshi Shimokawa, YONETANI Tomokazu, and Scott Ullrich. DragonFly commit status is not as exclusive a club as with FreeBSD, so I’ve been lax in keeping track.
Matthew Dillon posted that the Stable tag will be moved up as of late tonight. A new “known good” ISO image should be up later this week, too.
GNU readline 5.0 has been committed by Joerg Sonnberger, from suggestions by Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert. Joerg also added GDB 6.2.1 which (at this point) requires “make obj; make depend all install”
in gnu/usr.bin/gdb in order to use it.
Joerg Sonnenberger removed gcc 3.3 – nobody should miss it, as gcc 3.4 is installed.
uname -a will now use the CVS tag from the cvsup of code involved in building that kernel. In more explicit terms, DragonFly_Stable will now be reported as such, instead of CURRENT.
Matthew Dillon’s idea about installing a kernel with debug symbols made it to the FreeBSD-current mailing list; much discussion ensued.
Ever wonder how to save those crash dumps, especially if your /var is teeny-tiny? Wonder no more.
Matthew Dillon noted that including a debug kernel by default may make bug reports much easier, at the expense of a relatively small quantity of disk space. After some discussion, it was generally decided to be good enough to implement. (Strangely, it saves disk space, overall.)
Scott Ullrich mentioned that the BSD Installer with FreeBSD 5 is now available. Haters of sysinstall, rejoice!
Update: the FreeSBIE Project is now using it too.
I’ve been changing jobs; I’ll do my best to catch up on news.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert came up with a nice description of how to install DragonFly using tftp and nfs. Matthew Dillon found a way to get that almost automatic, with some dhcpd.conf changes.
The aforementioned spamblocks are now on the DragonFly mailing lists, except for bugs@.
Atte Peltomaki reports that F-Secure SSH builds and runs on DragonFly just fine.
Matthew Dillon posted about some changes to the way the mailing lists work; this is to avoid the ever-increasing spam that has been coming in. The short summary is that is you post through news, or use your subscribing address when posting mail, it should work normally. Otherwise, read his plan further.
If you have an existing DragonFly system, and want to use rm -I, it’s explained here.
Matthew Dillon changed the download page to note that dfly-stable-20041009.iso.gz is the best recent release to start with.
Matthew Dillon wrote a little more about how the VFS work is set up, and he posted a patch with his first day of work on the issue. (11,000 lines of code!) Don’t try it unless you feel really lucky.