Old ISA drivers and what to do about ...
Some ISA devices have been removed from DragonFly. That probably affects approximately 0% of everyone, cause they’re old devices, but a few of them are were in the GENERIC kernel configs, so you’ll get an error for an unrecognized option when you next rebuild your kernel using a GENERIC-based config, based on an older version of [...]
Debugging with pkgsrc
At some point, you may want to generate binary programs that are unstripped of debugging information. You may want to generate them with pkgsrc. Here’s a little note on what options will make that happen.
April-June, 2011 Status Report
The April-June, 2011 Status Report is now available with 36 entries.
Pkgsrc in freeze soon for 2011Q3
The ‘freeze’ period (when bugfixes are the only addition) for pkgsrc will start on September 18th, with the next quarterly release of pkgsrc, 2011Q3, scheduled for the 25th. Think of it as an early Christmas present.
PC-BSD 9.0-BETA2 Available for Testin...
Kris has just announced that BETA2 is now ready for testing:
The next BETA release of the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available! This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 base, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements.
Notable changes in this release, in no particular order:
* Fixed an issue fetching large sets of packages durin [...]
Participate in Software Freedom Day
This Saturday, September 17, is Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is an annual global event that encourages open source software users to reach out to their local community to educate others about the benefits of using open source.
Frederic Muller, President of SFI, the non-profit organization behind Software Freedom Day, has been very helpful [...]
Participate in Software Freedom Day
This Saturday, September 17, is Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is an annual global event that encourages open source software users to reach out to their local community to educate others about the benefits of using open source.
Frederic Muller, President of SFI, the non-profit organization behind Software Freedom Day, has been very helpful [...]
Participate in Software Freedom Day
This Saturday, September 17, is Software Freedom Day (SFD). SFD is an annual global event that encourages open source software users to reach out to their local community to educate others about the benefits of using open source.Frederic Muller, President of SFI, the non-profit organization behind Software Freedom Day, has been very helpful i [...]
Request for project specs to remove t...
Dear users and developers,
The Board of Directors is interested in improving the performance of the networking subsystem of the NetBSD kernel on multiprocessor machines. To help people interested in working towards this goal, the board is willing to fund related projects.
The main idea behind any project that attempts to achieve the goal st [...]
Request for project specs to remove t...
Dear users and developers,
The Board of Directors is interested in improving the performance of the networking subsystem of the NetBSD kernel on multiprocessor machines. To help people interested in working towards this goal, the board is willing to fund related projects.
The main idea behind any project that attempts to achieve the goal st [...]
New commit bit, but not for DragonFly
John Marino, who already has commit access for DragonFly, now also has commit access for pkgsrc. What does this mean? It means if you have a pkgsrc problem, submit it through NetBSD’s Problem Report system as normal, and maybe let him know about it too. He’s already made some DragonFly-specific fixes.
A new release schedule?
I posted some ideas about changing how DragonFly does releases. In short, I’d like to see a long term release, and otherwise point people at a rolling release; e.g. that day’s build. There are other people that think the same way about speeding up releases of other software. (Thanks, Samuel Greear for that last link)
Lazy Reading for 2011/09/11
Happy birthday to my younger daughter, Claire, who is 9 today. That’s a much better anniversary to celebrate today.
A musing about the waveform and how it’s the most iconic representation of music. It’s also a holdover from analog days, if you think about it. (via)
There seems to be a new kinda-improper activity from GoD [...]
Puppet support for DragonFly
Noticed through a saved Google search: DragonFly BSD support as part of Puppet. This was thanks to the work of a ‘jaydg’. Thanks, person whose name I probably should know!
Future changes for PF and ALTQ
The recent OpenBSD 5.0 pre-release announcement on undeadly notes that ALTQ is being replaced by new priority settings. This should make it to DragonFly at some point, since pf in DragonFly has been catching up to the current version of pf in OpenBSD, thanks to the efforts of Jan Lentfer…
Postfix 2.8.5 imported into NetBSD-cu...
Postfix 2.8.5 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.4 are:
The Postfix Milter client logged a \"milter miltername: malformed reply\" error when a Milter sent an SMTP response without enhanced status code (i.e. \"XXX Text\" instead of \"XXX X.X.X Text\").
The Postfix Milter client sent a random {client_con [...]
Postfix 2.8.5 imported into NetBSD-cu...
Postfix 2.8.5 was imported into NetBSD-current today. The changes since Postfix 2.8.4 are:
The Postfix Milter client logged a \"milter miltername: malformed reply\" error when a Milter sent an SMTP response without enhanced status code (i.e. \"XXX Text\" instead of \"XXX X.X.X Text\").
The Postfix Milter client sent a random {client_con [...]
28c3 CFP
The Call for Papers for the 28th Chaos Communications Congress is out, as Matthias Rampke noted. Each year, there seems to be at least a few DragonFly people there…
