A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
Quoted from the download page:
IMPORTANT ERRATA ADDENDUM: Using the installer on a multi-slice disk will improperly resize the target slice when it is not the last slice, to be the same size as the last slice, leading to a corrupt disk! We will have an update to fix this problem in the next 24 hours!
Matt Dillon posted about the beginning of the BUF/BIO work that he and Hiten Pandya will be starting. Matt’s post is pasted in here:
Continue reading “BUF/BIO Begins”
Crescent Anchor is selling DragonFly BSD 1.0 on CDROM. There’s also SilverOS, which is based on DragonFly.
Oh, looky! The Installer has its own domain now.
If you’re using a DragonFly or a FreeBSD computer to mirror the release data, don’t forget to turn on net.inet.tcp.inflight_enable=1, as that will improve performance.
There’s an Installer Errata page for the curious, or (less common, hopefully) for those who experience problems.
The main page of DragonFlyBSD.org has the official release announcement for 1.0. It nicely enumerates all the changes so far, and what’s to come.
Release 1.0 is officially out.
Matt Dillon’s posted a note about the new DragonFly Copyright notice. It’s very similar to the traditional 3-clause BSD license, so there’s no real worries.
Matt Dillon’s diary has been updated.
The Installer has been made part of the base system. Congratulations are due to the Installer Team (Chris Pressey, Devon O’Dell, Eirik Nygaard, Hiten Pandya & Scott Ullrich), who managed in a few months to crank out a program better than any other non-commercial BSD installer. And there’s more to come!
Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has a patch for OpenSSH 3.8.1p1; we’re close enough to release 1.0 that this is being delayed until after it happens because it’s not a security upgrade.
The DragonFly Installer is now at version RC2a. The CVS archive for the Installer is temporarily down, so the frenzied rate of new releases may slow temporarily.
leaf.dragonflybsd.org, where the mail archives are kept, is temporarily down because of a recently-discovered Apache security problem.
In a response to a post I made, Matt Dillon said he is looking into creating DragonFly as an official non-profit entity (PDF link), which means (U.S.) donations to the project can be tax-deductible.
Federico Biancuzzi interviewed DragonFly developers Matt Dillon, Joerg Sonnenberger, Jeffrey Hsu, and Hiten Pandya for O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com BSD DevCenter. It’s a good 3 pages of Q&A.
Jeroen Ruigrok is making an effort to get DragonFly recognition into large thrid-party programs, like Apache.
The geekgod.net DragonFly wiki has a number of different topics on it.
The DragonFly Installer is now based on Release Candidate 2.
I have a report of the RC2 ISO image at http://ftp.fortunaty.net/DragonFlyBSD/iso-images/dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz having the wrong MD5 checksum; double-check when downloading. You should get:
MD5 (dfly-1.0RC2.iso.gz) = 9b39227698a0b7a4d4f3d18f7ad6ff75