July 2011
21 posts
Summer of Code: midterm passes →
All 6 Google Summer of Code projects for DragonFly have reached the midterm, and passed!
More benchmarks, graphs →
Francois Tigeot has repeated his benchmarking, this time changing out the CPU instead of the operating system. There’s still more graphs, yay!
Summer of Code midterms due →
If you are a Summer of Code student or mentor, make sure you’ve filled out your midterm survey. Without it, your project fails – and they are due for everyone in roughly the next 24 hours!
Summer of Code Doc Camp →
One of the perpetual questions about Summer of Code is “Why can’t there be documentation projects?”, since most open source projects need docs as badly as code. There’s various reasons that I’m too…
Blogbench and Areca RAID tests →
F Tigeot tested a system under both FreeBSD and DragonFly using various RAID setups with arcmsr(4) and blogbench. Hooray for graphs! Like any good benchmark, it quickly went to discussion of…
Summer of Code halfway point →
The Google Summer of Code midterms are coming up, which generally means students get graded on a pass/fail basis for their work so far, and both mentors and students fill out surveys. What’s this…
TCP update for 2.11 →
If you’re running a recent version of DragonFly 2.11, it’s worth updating. Matthew Dillon fixed a networking bug that I’ve seen cause problems. It was introduced within 2.11′s lifetime, so as far…
pkgsrc-2011Q2 is branched →
The latest quarterly release of pkgsrc, 2011Q2, has been branched. There’s no formal announcement yet to describe the highlights, but I’ll link it when it shows up. I’ve already started building…
Man pages through DuckDuckGo →
I happened to stumble on this: the DuckDuckGo search engine will take you directly to a DragonFly man page, if you type ‘!dfman’ at the start of your query. For instance, “!dfman hammer“.
July OSBR: Women Entrepreneurs →
The July issue of the Open Source Business Resource is out, and the theme is Women Entrepreneurs. Next month’s issue is unthemed, so here’s a good time to write about open source and get…
Lazy Reading for 2011/07/03 →
I digress mightily this week, so I’m not doing the bullet points.
You probably heard of this already, but hey, look! DragonFly BSD, ubersearched.
Along with all the other Google announcements…
Twofish and serpent in crypto →
Alex Hornung has added Twofish and Serpent support to crypto(3).
BSD Magazine: BSD Security, Hammer →
The July issue of BSD Magazine is out. The putative theme is “BSD Security”, but there also happens to be an article featuring Hammer deduplication on real-world data, by yours truly.
June 2011
7 posts
Intel networking updates →
Sepherosa Ziehau has been committing a bunch of changes for em/emx(4) and bce(4). You may have hardware that has suddenly become supported, for instance. Also, credit is due to David…
Xen ports, and support for it →
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado really wants a port of DragonFly to Xen. He can’t do it himself, but he did a nice job of writing up the problem, and even found resources to help any developer…
Lazy Reading for 2011/06/26 →
Somehow, I ended up with the most concise link listing I’ve ever done, even though I have a pretty good batch here. Go figure.
Who doesn’t like the taste of BSD? Mmm, delicious.
“redundant…
A change for committers, a change for pkgsrc →
Two completely separate and unrelated changes:
First, Alex Hornung has added a check to look for certain lines in a commit message, and add a MFC reminder note to the commit message if they are…
Instructions for iwi(4) →
Do you have a Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, 2225BG, or 2915ABG wireless card? The driver is iwi(4). It requires a kernel module and some downloadable firmware, which makes it slightly more…
Donation credit where it’s due →
Jeremy Chadwick donated an SSD to DragonFly developer ‘josepht’. Thanks, Jeremy!
Normally I’d take this moment to point out the other donations that could be useful for DragonFly developers… but…
Two SSD things →
Here’s two items I meant to post and for some reason did not:
Sven Gaerner posted a short description of how he migrated his DragonFly system from a hard disk to a SSD. This may be useful for…
