December 2009
50 posts
New version of ncurses to test →
Jan Lentfer has created an update for ncurses in DragonFly, but wants further testing. Give it a try if you use a curses-based application.
Vi, nvi, vim, variety →
Alexander Polakov has suggested that nvi (what you get when you type vi) should be replaced with traditional vi, since that would deliver UTF-8 support, and nvi appears to no longer be updated….
Time for a buildkernel →
If you’re running DragonFly 2.5, Matthew Dillon has changed thread and process structures, meaning that a full rebuild of kernel and modules is necessary on the next system update.
Libtool and some other pkgsrc updates →
The package for libtool has been updated in pkgsrc, which touches almost every package. If you follow pkgsrc-current, that may mean a lot of packages get dragged in for upgrades.
In somewhat less…
Pkgsrc 2009Q4 branch coming up →
The freeze for pkgsrc-2009Q4 starts December 16th, which means the tentative date for the branch release is right at the start of the new year.
A little more MP →
Matthew Dillon has moved the Big Giant Lock off of a whole bunch of syscalls. This should make a noticeable difference in a multiprocessing context, though I don’t have measured results to point…
Graphical loader, please →
I’m pretty sure I’ve linked to this before, but: Oliver Fromme has a graphical bootloader (see example) which can work on DragonFly. I’d love to see this on DragonFly.
Coincidentally, this…
simplepbulk: bulk build wrapper →
I have a wrapper script I use for bulk builds of pkgsrc that I think others would find usable. If you are interested in building some/all of pkgsrc to generate binary packages using pbulk, may I…
New BSD Magazine issue out →
The 2010Q1 issue (Is that their numbering now? I’m not sure.) of BSD Magazine is out. (via) Subscribe or pick it up in a local store. Back issues are still available online, too.
USB work on the way →
Several people really want a USB update, even offering a bounty. Alexander Polakov has volunteered himself for it – a large but worthwhile task. It’ll be the USB4BSD code, as Alex Hornung recommends
What if there’s good closed source software? →
Open source is good for clashes, and the latest is a vote by GNOME on whether to continue as a GNU project. (via) The triggering event appears to be a request from Richard Stallman for GNOME to…
Pkgsrc things to do →
Proposed changes in pkgsrc:
JDK 1.4 and perhaps JDK 1.5 will be removed.
Kerberos 4 also will be removed.
There’s not too many packages without DESTDIR support left; please help if you…
Hammer disk removal →
Thanks to Michael Neumann, it’s now possible to remove a drive from a Hammer volume. It’s experimental, so all the standard warnings apply.
This can’t be done on a root volume, for hopefully…
Messylaneous for 2008/12/10 →
I’ve been building this entry up for a while, so some of these entries are newer than others.
From the howling void: OpenSolaris or FreeBSD. I’ll admit I haven’t tried OpenSolaris, but I’m also…
Hammer expanding →
Did you know you a Hammer volume can span multiple disks? And that you can add extra disks later on? There’s no RAID-like features – it’s just a straight multiple-disk volume, but it works. The…
Hammer saves my bacon →
Some of the ikiwiki configuration files on dragonflybsd.org were accidentally overwritten during a software upgrade. Normally this would mean some work to locate and replace them from backups, but…
If T/TCP fell in the forest, would anyone care? →
Aggelos Economopoulos thinks that T/TCP should be removed, and Matthew Dillon agrees. So, it’ll be gone soon. Given the description, I don’t think anyone will miss it, so this is a heads-up…
Dan Langille on BSDTalk 181 →
BSDTalk 181 has a 16 minute conversation with Dan Langille, mostly about the upcoming BSDCan and PGCon.
More people for the 26C3 meetup →
There’s more people showing up for DragonFly at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress, in Berlin December 27th-30th. I’ve posted about it before , but it’s worth mentioning as the end of the…
More development tools →
A number of recent changes will be important to you if you develop on DragonFly:
Sascha Wildner has added a indent(1) profile that matches what is usually done in DragonFly.
Also, there’s a…
