BSD-Systems.co.uk has been added to the Commercial links section of the dragonflybsd.org download page.
Joerg Sonnenberger has added a new timer method, for those who are seeing the “high-speed clock” problem:
“Add a new option “TIMER_USE_1″, which allows switching the primary heartbeat from i8254 timer 2 to timer 1. This also reactivates the console beep if TIMER_USE_1 is active.”
It’s “OPTIONS TIMER_USE_1” in your kernel config, if you want to build a kernel that uses this.
Eirik Nygaard has added KTR, for logging kernel events, to aid debugging.
This LinuxInsider article about alternative operating systems namechecks DragonFly, though it doesn’t do much more.
Matthew Dillon has committed BSD-licensed versions of bc and dc, ported from OpenBSD by Sascha Wildner.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has brought in BIND 9.2.4rc7.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai has updated apr with some security fixes.
Matt Dillon and Joerg Sonnenberger have been making about a zillion commits over the last while; cleaning up the old callout_* implementation. It’s been split into so many commits so that folks from other systems can easily import them.
There is now a “stable” cvs config file at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/DragonFly-stable-supfile for tracking the known stable point in DragonFly code. Added by Matthew Dillon.
dragonflybsd.org now has a new latest known stable ISO mentioned on the download page, and a new entry on Matthew Dillon’s diary page.
Joerg Sonnenberger warned that a full buildworld will be needed when next upgrading your system. You will also want to recompile any ports that use cam/libcam, like many CD-reading tools.
Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai removed the “host.conf to nsswitch.conf” conversion.
The aforementioned bug in compiling KDE 3.3 on DragonFly seems to be getting straightened out.
Matthew Dillon, on users@, gave a short outline of how to buildworld/kernel on a different, faster computer, and then move to another machine to install.
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for libc that makes it possible to run multithreaded programs under xorg 6.8. If you really like testing out the bleeding edge, try it out.
Joe Love posted on the new users@ list a question about having the SPDIF output on his sound card recognized, instead of the analog out. Jonas Trollvik mentioned that the Open Sound System (which supports DragonFly) made his sound card work, including SPDIF.
Joerg Sonnenberger’s got the latest test version of PF available. This will hopefully be the last before it goes in.
There is now a mailing list specific to the Installer program. Email discussion-subscribe@bsdinstaller.com – subject: subscribe
Emiel Kollof has posted bug 89544 for KDE 3.3.3, for getting KDE to compile on DragonFly. It may be worthwhile to register on KDE’s Bugzilla and vote for that bug, so that it gets “on the radar”.
Update: There’s related bug 89577 too.
Update update: Joerg Sonnenberger noted (see bug report linked above) that the DragonFly code can be changed to make this work, though the Single Unix Specification implies that the problem is with where KDE is looking. Quote below:
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