March 2011
24 posts
Anatomy of a Summer of Code proposal →
“Arjun S R” wrote to the kernel@ mailing list asking about the Google Summer of Code projects for DragonFly that he found interesting. Samuel Greear has a response so detailed it includes…
February 2011
21 posts
virtio drivers and GSoC 2011 →
Stéphanie Ouillon expressed interest in the virtio drivers as a Google Summer of Code project for DragonFly; Aggelos Economopoulos followed up with an explanation of the various work that’s been…
pkgsrc packages removes, Postfix to test →
Matthias Scheler is looking for Postfix testers. If you run it, he has a patch to version 2.8.1 he’d like you to try.
Also, the final list of GTK1-using packages that are not actively updated has…
Bridge building better →
Matthew Dillon’s improved bridging to the point where you can now modify the MAC address of the bridge and most everything, including ARP, will come from it correctly. It’s even possible to …
Better bridge built →
Matthew Dillon has continued his bridge work, with another commit adding various features. Go, read.
Scheduling, fair or not →
Venkatesh Srinivas did a comparison of the default scheduler in DragonFly with the “fairqueue” scheduler, using Interbench, the “interactivity benchmark”. The numbers don’t show a deficit…
Lazy Reading →
You can probably infer the new (to me) blog I found this week from some of the links…
Adding IPv6 to a FreeBSD Mail/Web Server – from Michael Lucas, repeat BSD author. I link to this because…
DragonFly network handicap →
I posted before about a move to use AT&T’s U-Verse fiber/DSL product for dragonflybsd.org’s connection. It led Matt Dillon to try to add features to compensate for the service’s shortcomings,…
Assume it’s multiprocessor-safe →
As Matthew Dillon notes in a recent post, procedures are now assumed to be MPSAFE (i.e. without the Giant Lock) by default. Any new work should follow this idea, and it doesn’t have to be…
Lazy Reading →
I’m going to just title these “Lazy Reading” – I end up with too much diverse information/links to fit within the title.
Neal Stephenson’s thoughts on UNIX. (via)
Also stolen from the same…
fork and exit more mpsafe →
Matthew Dillon’s made fork() and exit() (mostly) multiprocessor-safe. It’s only two calls, but both are very frequently used. One more step closer to removing the Giant Lock…
Scheduler updates →
Matthew Dillon’s made some scheduler changes, which blogbench tests are showing give the default scheduler better performance under heavy load. It’s a pretty technical writeup, so I’ll just point…
GSoC 2011: want to mentor? →
If you’re interested in mentoring for DragonFly and Google Summer of Code for 2011, please speak up. You don’t have to mentor if you don’t see any projects you like – I just need an initial count…
OpenSSL update, MFC’d →
Peter Avalos updated OpenSSL to 1.0.0d, due to a recently discovered bug. He’s also brought the fix back to DragonFly 2.6 and 2.8, so it’s available for most anyone.
cryptdisk and keymaps →
This is one of those scenarios that I’m noting because it might bite someone, some day: if your root partition is encrypted, you can’t fit in a different keymap. However, kernel options to build…
bin-install does it all →
If you’ve ever installed pkgsrc packages from source, you probably typed ‘bmake install’. There’s a ‘bin-install’ target that will use binary packages if they are available, but you have to set the…
New pkgin version for testing →
If you’re using the binary pkgsrc package installer pkgin, version 0.4 is available for testing.
More Google Code-In work arrives →
Samuel J. Greear committed some more code that happened to come from DragonFly/Google Code-In projects. There’s a surprising large amount of code that came from those projects…
pkgsrc-2010Q4 binaries out →
They’re finally uploaded! See my rather lengthy post about it on users@ for all the details.
Good news for people with excess memory →
Matthew Dillon’s made some changes that will speed up the booting process for people with a ridiculous amount of memory, like 64G. This is x86_64 only, but that should not be a surprise if you…
January OSBR: Recent Research →
The theme for this month’s Open Source Business Resource is “Recent Research“. The topic’s broad, so there’s something for everyone. The article on licensing (BSD and otherwise) is of interest.
