The kernel mailing list is getting hit with a Windows mail virus in a big way; be careful when viewing it through your mail client/news interface if you use Windows.
Update: fixed now.
Matt Dillon has added bind-9.2.4rc4 to contrib. This replaces bind8 that was being used for DragonFly (and I assume FreeBSD-4) by default. Things may be somwhat unstable for a few days; if that is trouble for you, don’t update your system this week.
Andre Nathan noted that marc.theaimsgroup.com is archiving the dragonfly.bugs, dragonfly.commits, dragonfly.kernel, and dragonfly.submit newsgroups.
Sascha Wildner has placed converted DragonFly man pages at http://www.yoyodyne.de/dfly/doc/
‘GeekGod’ has an alpha version of the DragonFly Live CD with the Nympha installer. Try it out, if you feel lucky – it is alpha, so read the caveats.
Update: now works on VMWare.
Emiel Kollof’s changes to the NVIDIA binary video driver have been committed; it will no longer break with the recent /dev changes.
Hiten Pandya noted that, if you are creating a port override in dfports, setting CCVER=gcc3 and testing your override using the different compiler is a good idea. He’s found a few ports where poeple didn’t do that and the build was broken.
Sascha Wildner described in a post to dragonfly.bugs,
dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b"
placed in /etc/rc.conf will enable your system to save crash dumps in /var/crash, saving the effort of retyping them in a post. (“makeoptions DEBUG=-g” in your kernel config is also needed.)
Emiel Kollof has fixed up the NVIDIA driver – This diff makes it possible to update your kernel and still use the driver; the change to the dfports override is forthcoming.
‘esmith’ got Java applets working in Opera 7.5 thisaway:
Continue reading “Java Applets in Opera”
Chris Pressey committed the last stage of Andre Nathan’s gigantic K&R -> ANSI cleanup of source. 21 stages, in all.
The latest dev numbering changes from Matt Dillon will break the NVIDIA binary driver, if you are using it. Emiel Kollof is working on a new version, and until that’s set, avoid updating if you want to keep your NVIDIA driver working.
cvs is now at version 1.12.8, updated by Matt Dillon.
Mark Miller has updated the DragonFly Wikipedia entry to include information on serializing tokens.
The network connection to dragonflybsd.org appears to be down – nntp is not accessible, and the website isn’t either.
Update: It’s back online.
I’ve committed a partial section on installation in docs, which – if we’re lucky – will be completely superseded by a DragonFly installer program.
Joerg Sonnenberger has updated the bktr(4) driver to match what’s current in FreeBSD, including a new msp driver (from Linux), and support for the Terratec TValue, which was submitted by Patrick Mauritz.
cc3 has been switched back to stabs output, temporarily until DWARF2 support comes into gdb5 or DragonFly gets gdb6.
Matt Dillon’s procured an initial patch moving the device system to a reference-count mode, plus other things detailed in his lengthy post, which I’ve copied in below.
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