Look! Joerg Sonnenberger committed something big and it looks important and I have no clue what it is! Oh, I am so tired.
What kind of payoff is Matthew Dillon expecting from the threaded subsystems in DragonFly? *HUGE*
Oliver Fromme posted two helpful notes – one on mounting devices as non-root, and another on booting a group of computers without disks. The ‘diskless boot’ discussion continued on, with comments from Joerg Sonnenberger and Matthew Dillon.
UNIXReview.com has posted three new articles, all of which may be useful for DragonFly users: One on using OpenOffice, and another on integrating Cisco and Unix equipment, both of which are really book reviews. There’s a third article that covers the ports for Logmon, Portmanager, and Nullmailer.
Jeffrey Hsu’s comitted more work to get ready for a parallelized routing setup. Interestingly, if you look at the commit message and count the lines added and subtracted (the ‘Changes’ column), there’s generally less code as a result.
A fellow named Robert T. Kopp posted a question on whether a new BSD user should pick FreeBSD 5.3 or DragonFly, and Matt Dillon did a short summary on the reasons for picking either.
The DragonFly BSD website has had its main page updated with a link to this log and to the Sitetronics Wiki, and Matthew Dillon’s updated his diary.
Matthew Dillon posted the plans he and Hiten Pandya have for working on I/O and dma-direct buffering (msf_bufs). His post dives right into specific details, so a link to it is in order.
Joerg Sonnenberger has placed gcc-3.4.3 into DragonFly; it is still considered experimental, so use it by setting the environment variable CCVER to ‘gcc34’ only after careful thought. His post has other details.
FreeBSD 4.11, the final release in the FreeBSD-4 series, is due around the end of January. The next official release of DragonFly will probably be out soon after, which makes a handy upgrade path if you are trying to avoid the FreeBSD-5 experience.
YONETANI Tomokazu posted a detailed list of instructions on how to get the FreeBSD port of the linux-based Flash 7 plugin working.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added binutils-2.15 and cvs 1.12.11 into the DragonFly source tree.
Matthew Dillon said this weekend is when the Stable tag in CVS will be moved up to match the most recent version of DragonFly.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has added OpenSSL 0.9.7e to DragonFly. YONETANI Tomokazu also fixed a bug where each directory committed to the DragonFly CVS generated a separate CVS message – the OpenSSL addition generated something like 90 messages.
There’s been lots more discussion on getting a German keyboard and characters to work. Along with that, Jonas Sundstom asked if standardizing on UTF8 would help.
Matthew Dillon’s added the first parts of the journaling infrastructure, among other things, in his most recent VFS work.
Joerg Sonneberger committed a patch from Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert that fixes a longstanding problem with X.org and multithreaded applications. Read the commit message for more details.
Sascha Wildner is gaining the ability to commit DragonFly changes, due to his frequent submissions. Congratulations, and get to work.
Craig Dooley posted a description of his dfport override for DRI, and asked for help finding a place to host it, as it needs testing.
FreeSBIE 1.1 is out, using the very same installer technology as DragonFly – the BSD installer! (thanks GeekGod for the note)