DragonFly BSD Digest

The list archives now are tracking messages on the new users@dragonflybsd.org list.

In an ongoing conversation about Vinum on kernel@, Matthew Dillon notes what he’d like to see, Greg Lehey says Vinum should, generally, still work on DragonFly. As an outgrowth of this conversation, Matthew Dillon described what he plans next for VFS.

Crescent Anchor’s operating system based on DragonFly, originally called “Silver OS”, has been renamed “FireFly“. Thanks Jeremy Almey.

Joerg Sonnenberger noted that 4th-clause (see example) sections on code copyright should be removed if the person is willing, so as to make later distribution of DragonFly easier.

“Users”, a new list/newsgroup for “general, non-kernel postings” is available.
Mail “subscribe” to users-request@lists.dragonflybsd.[excised to spamprotect] to sign up.

This thread started by Joshua Coombs names some good resources to start with if you plan to learn programming in C.

Apparently, a history of CVS commits to the Installer is available. There’s some mentions of the installer and OpenBSD in recent commits…

The next release of X is almost out; it’s not released yet contrary to some reports. When it is out, or if you are running a release candidate, there’s a note here about how to enable some of the new features. Hopefully a port will be available.

By the way, there is a test version of pf for DragonFly, available to try.

‘walt’ posted in kernel@ a note about the new Linux staircase scheduler, available here, and how it may be useful for DragonFly.

Matthew Dillon noted in this post to kernel@ that he anticipates 64-bit work in perhaps 6 months, after VFS is completed.

‘Rum’ has started work on dfport overrides for KDE 3.3.0. (The link he supplies appears not to work yet, however.)