Scott Ullrich has a version of OpenNTPD, a network time daemon, available for testing.

The ports/x11/nvidia-driver port currently stops during build with an error about vnode_if.h. This is being worked on.

As Matthew Dillon described in a post to bugs@, anyone with a little assembly knowledge could fix up 8254 access.

Matthew Dillon’s 4th VFS patch probably will go in today. ‘esmith’ asked why nullfs was so broken on FreeBSD, and how it was better on DragonFly, to which Matthew Dillon posted this reply, which happens to include some details of his next major task.

Update: commited, with further explanation of what changed.

(seen on DaemonNews) BSD Ports Manipulator appears to be rather spiffy, and may work with the ports system on DragonFly. The “B” instead of “F” implies it should be handling more than just ports, though.

As a few people have found out, turning on some compiler optimizations such as -O2 with gcc 3.4 will cause problems, though Joerg Sonnenberger did just fix one issue. The speed benefits may be more mental than real, anyway

Matthew Dillon has a third VFS patch up; he’s looking for anyone using UFS under heavy load, or other filesystems. This is dangerous, as he expects there to be crashing with this patch.

Looks like Serenity Systems has a Serenity Virtual Station (link from Slashdot) product that lets you run a virtual machine, much like VMWare, and they have a FreeBSD-native version. This may work on DragonFly, though it’ll take someone with a spare $50USD to find out.

If you’re looking for something to do, you can always help with language locales. This does not require programming experience.

If you happen to live in Holland with some spare NVIDIA cards, SMP motherboards, or hard drives, or you live anywhere in the US with a spare laptop that could run DragonFly, then you should be looking at the Donations page.

Scott Ullrich’s working on an import of OpenSSH 3.9p1.

Sascha Wildner is looking for people to try his 16/32 bit patch for syscons, the DragonFly console mechanism.

dragonflybsd.org now has a donations page.

Well, this is a good thing.

David Rhodus posted that the packages at GoBSD.com have been updated. This is the remote package location that is used by default by the ‘pkg_add‘ tool.

For instance, pkg_add -r gnome2‘ or ‘pkg_add -r kde3‘ will pull down the new versions of each. (pkg_delete existing packages first.) You can see the latest packages or the whole list.

I’ve set up a Bugzilla bug tracker at forknibbler.com, to use until a full-blown system is available at dragonflybsd.org. Be kind – it’s a woefully underpowered machine.

Leaf.dragonflybsd.org has been significantly upgraded; this is where shell accounts and the mail archive are located.

“Micha³ ‘GiM’ Spadliñski” posted a link to a 80×15 DragonFly banner.

If you’re feeling religious: a petition for Flash on BSD.

The FreeBSD NVIDIA driver has been updated; Emiel Kollof has a test DragonFly version of this new update he’d like people to try out.

A discussion about the planned and ongoing VFS changes has led to some very informative posts (that’s 3 different links) from Matthew Dillon about what he plans to do.

The Center for Internet Security has released a “FreeBSD Benchmark and Scoring Tool“. This may also work on DragonFly.

Matthew Dillon posted about the start of work on the new VFS subsystem.

dragonflybsd.org will be going though some upgrades soon, as Matthew Dillon noted in a recent post. Notably, leaf.dragonflybsd.org is going to be an AMD64 machine.

The qt33 override is gone; TrollTech has incorporated Joerg Sonnenberger’s patches.

dragonflybsd.org is now back on a T1, with a slightly better connection. So, now you don’t have to use the mirrors, though you should.

Matthew Dillon mentioned something of how well programming is going, and how close we are to a major step in the networking cleanup.

There’s a review of DragonFly 1.0A over at Newsforge by Jem Matzan of The Jem Report. It has valid points (Using the ports system is a hack) and some invalid ones (The reviewer wouldn’t benchmark with SMP off.)

Joerg Sonnenberger has a x.org port that uses the same layout as the FreeBSD port, available for testing.

Adam Kirchoff noted his computer would have trouble when he hooked up a USB2 CDROM; Matthew Dillon followed up by pointing out EHCI (the subsystem that deals with USB2) is somewhat troublesome, though UHCI (USB1) should work fine. (I’m linking to the start and end of the thread.)

‘walt’ used the x.org port mentioned earlier, and came up with some additional notes on installation.

Matthew Dillon added a handler to adjust the CPU throttle when power is removed. (As when you go to battery on a laptop – obviously, this wouldn’t help a desktop model.)

When CVS was updated, mails to the Commit mailing list/newsgroup were broken, leading to a lot less traffic over the last 24 hours. It appears to now be fixed.

Seen on Blue’s News: a page describing the process of getting Doom 3 to run under WineX. If/when Linux binaries come out for Doom 3, this may be more feasible to run on DragonFly.

(Missed this, initially) Richard Nyberg has made Arla able to run on DragonFly, with the latest snapshot. Heimdal, in base, needs to be updated too, for which he has submitted a patch.

James L. Davis has created a new version of the x.org package that correctly deals with the mouse and with TrueType fonts.

If you haven’t heard of what xorg is, visit freedesktop.org and see – it’s a de facto/drop-in replacement for XFree86. It’s not a significantly different package at this point, but it may be, by the next release.

Slow news in the past 24 hours or so, so I’ll post about Dru Lavigne’s always entertaining column, of which the most recent version has a good collection of links.

If your laptop running DragonFly doesn’t want to boot while on battery power, try this in /boot/loader.conf:

set debug.acpi.disabled="acad thermal"

Taken from a suggestion by YONETANI Tomokazu.

Martin P. Hellwig found that Java Web Start did not work on DragonFly; the fix is to find $USER/.java/.deployment/deployment.properties and
change ‘FreeBSD’ to ‘DragonFly’.