Joseph Garcia wrote up an entry on the users@ mailing list about how to get Sendmail working as a relay agent using authentication, and what that requires from pkgsrc.

The latest BSDTalk has M. Warner Losh talking about embedded FreeBSD.

During a discussion of disk activity while doing a bulk build of pkgsrc, Roman Divacky posted a link to the Anticipatory Disk Scheduler, which should be portable to DragonFly.  Whether it would help or not is another question.

I just found Etoile (screenshots linked) today; it’s apparently a GNUStep-based desktop.  This would be of interest to people who like the Windowmaker (or even Mac OS X) interface  No version in pkgsrc yet, so I don’t know if it compiles…

The release will be ‘soon‘.  There’s still some bugs to work out, the most notable of which is that vinum has some serious issues that have been revealed by updating the disk code.

It’s (call for) papers season, as SCALE 6 has issued a call for papers, too.

Adrian Nida happened to mention that his employer is looking to hire, down in South Carolina, USA.  It’s not DragonFly work, but mostly Redhat.

Matthew Dillon is planning for a release on Monday, so that he can squash two remaining bugs. Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has already started a bulk build of pkgsrc so that 1.10 binaries will be available.

This release will come with a pre-built virtual kernel, too.

If you wanted to tackle something difficult, Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert has suggestions around multiprocessor development and also what is essentially a devfs.  (Follow the threads for more information.)

1.10 has been branched in CVS, with release coming soon. From the followup post, while the development branch will be 1.11, the next release will be 2.0, so this is the end of 1.x.

Is it that time already? The Call for Papers for the USENIX 2008 Technical Conference is online, with the papers due by January 7th, 2008, for the June 2008 event.

Because of some bugs that were just fixed, Matthew Dillon is waiting one more week before releasing 1.10.

An article on undeadly.org lists what Echothrust Solutions has done to move to OpenBSD for their client and server needs.  What I find interesting is the list of all the applications they use to solve various problems, including some nontraditional (for open source) things like project management and CRM.

Noah Yan is working on porting DragonFly to AMD64, with some notes on the wiki. He and Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert have set up a Git repo of the DragonFly code for this.

Newest on BSDTalk: Fast IPSec, with George Neville-Neil.

As part of a larger discussion of large size memory pages, called ‘superpages’, Oliver Fromme linked to a 2002 OSDI article that talks about implementation.

DragonFly just turned 4 years old!

DragonFly 1.10 will be branched tomorrow night, with the release scheduled for Sunday.  I daresay I will be both reading and updating at that point.

Wiger Van Houten made even more original wallpapers.

There’s two new BSDTalk podcasts since last I checked: one on IPv6 testing (15 minutes), and one interviewing Isaac “Ike” Levy (26 minutes).

I’ve added desktop wallpapers for DragonFly to CVS, put together by Leonardo Baldelli, Wiger Van Houten, and Peter Avalos.

Baldelli: 1 2 3 4 5

Van Houten: 1 2 (widescreen)

Avalos: 1 2 (widescreen) 3 4 (widescreen)

Pictures marked ‘widescreen’ are at a wider aspect ratio.

There’s a post by the ZDNet Technical Director, George Ou, talking about the recently found issues with the Core 2 Duo processor.  Rather, he’s talking about people’s opinions about it.

I’m not linking it because it necessarily has more information, as it’s already been covered here, but rather to show the difference in speed and depth that can be found between what more annoying people like to call old media (print magazines) and new media (this Digest).

FreshBSD is a new site that collates commits to FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly, and pkgsrc in a web interface, along with filters, thank goodness.  (Via hubertf)  Alright, maybe not every BSD flavor and variation, but still a pretty comprehensive slice.

Leonardo Baldelli posted a link to a number of DragonFly desktop backgrounds he created.

Noah Yan has volunteered himself for porting DragonFly to AMD64; Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert, who has worked previously on this, suggested using git for handling changes, what with the next release coming soon.  Simon even gave a short writeup on git.

Joerg Sonnenberger asks: could someone fix the Java 1.4 (or later) JDK so that it builds on DragonFly? Many would thank you.

Matthew Dillon asks that people concentrate on fixes for the next few weeks as we get ready for the 1.10 release.

I’ll take a moment to point out that Joe “Floid” Kanowitz wrote up a lengthy analysis of the parts of GPL v3 as a comment to an earlier story here.  I’ve posted a bunch of stories since then, so I’d hate for people to miss it after he did all that typing.

Michal Belczyk has been experimenting with ways to make his Core 2 Duo system run less hot; he’s had some success. His patches should make it into DragonFly.

If cvsweb isn’t enough, Csaba Henk has updated his OpenGrok site of the DragonFly source code.