December 2011
16 posts
OpenJDK 1.7 on DragonFly →
Chris Turner got it working on i386, at least, and his post will help you do the same. I don’t know if these changes have made it through to pkgsrc or for x86_64 yet.
Going to 28C3? →
Are you going to Chaos Communication Congress 28? There’s going to be a number of DragonFly developers there, so it’s a good time to meet up. They’re in EFNet #dragonflybsd IRC, so speak up there…
NFS fixes, too →
Since I’m already talking about imports, several changes from FreeBSD and OpenBSD for NFS, plus more original material, have been brought in by Venkatesh Srinivas. Those changes from FreeBSD…
Lazy Reading for 2011/12/18 →
The links are sheer entertainment this week. No strong options or anything, not even about that U.S. legislative mess called SOPA.
I greatly enjoyed this history of personal computer mishaps and…
Keeping binutils out of the build →
There is now a NO_BINUTILS221 option, added by Sascha Wildner, that will keep your system from building binutils 2.21 during a buildworld. The system will still build binutils 2.22, so there will…
pkgsrc-2011Q4 freeze started →
The freeze for pkgsrc-2011Q4 has started. No updates to pkgsrc, other than for security, for the next two weeks.
New DragonFly mirror →
There’s a new DragonFly mirror, in Colorado, USA – at dragonflybsd.mirrorcatalogs.com. It’s on the mirrors page on the DragonFly site, too.
Shopping shopping shopping! →
I do this almost every year, with a little bit more every time. Check those previous years for non-comics/books, cause that’s most of what I’ve seen lately. I’ve recently seen a number of…
Lazy Reading for 12/11/11 →
Last week was low on links, but this week is great! I hope you have some time set aside.
This article “The Strange Birth and Long Life of UNIX” has a picture of a PDP-11. I don’t know if I ever…
Coccinelle usage examples and DragonFly →
Sascha Wildner has been using a new-to-me tool called coccinelle (no, not that) to scan for a number of problems. Patches for this tool may be useful for anyone else using coccinelle…
BSDTalk 209: BSD Certification →
BSDTalk 209 is out, and it’s a 16-minute conversation with Jim Brown about BSD Certification. (who I think I met at NYCBSDCon 2010; a pleasant guy)
Moving files with a virtualized DragonFly →
If you’re running DragonFly in a virtual machine – specifically in VirtualBox, on Windows – there’s a recent thread on users@ that may have some tips, including a link from John Marino to …
Two pkgsrc work directory tips →
Two tips for working with pkgsrc, derived in part from this mailing list post on users@ (follow the thread) and from my own experience. If you put WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/pkgsrc into ...
Remember rcrun? →
I think a lot of people don’t realize rcrun exists, and run files in /etc/rc.d directly. If you’re one of those people, read the rcrun(8) manpage. Then, notice that Sascha Wildner has extended…
Parallelized buildworld now possible →
Buildworlds are now much faster, because they can run themselves in parallel. Invoke it using the -j option to make. Matthew Dillon saw a 25% reduction in time when using ‘make -j 12 buildworld’…
ldns update to 1.6.11 →
Jan Lentfer has updated ldns in DragonFly to version 1.6.11. This brings in a bunch of bugfixes, which can be viewed at the ldns site’s changelog.
