Steve Jothen managed to transcribe the recent bsdnews.org video of Matthew Dillon, and posted it to the users@ list.
Also, Adrian Nida found out how much trouble a spurious error message can cause…
While talking about other issues, Matthew Dillon noted that if you pull your source files from CVS to a local repository and then check them out, you should have a ~/.cvsrc containing:
update -Pd
checkout -P
This will prune directories otherwise deleted in CVS but still present for “bookkeeping”.
The latest entry in David Rhodus’s journal notes the strange “unreleasing” of FreeBSD 5.3 back to first release candidate status.
(from bsdnews) Dru Lavigne of BSD Hacks and FreeBSD Basics fame has made a pamphlet called “BSD Success Stories“. (Alternate link to the PDF) There’s a mention of DragonFly in there.
There will be another version of this pamphlet, so if you have a DragonFly success story, you should be able to guess what to do next. Here’s Dru’s original blog mention of “Success Stories”. Also worthwhile in her blog is a visit to NYCBUG‘s recent event with Kirk McKusick/Eric Allman.
Joerg Sonneberger is itching to get rid of OLDCARD. Anyone using it?
Joerg Sonneberger added the NetBSD version of gzip. It uses the new libz, so it works more efficiently, plus it’s not GNU, which matters to some folks.
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.