Archive for July 2004

07/31/2004
OpenSSH in, and Scott too.

Scott Ullrich committed OpenSSH 3.8.1.p1 into the base system today. You will need to do a full makeworld/buildworld to upgrade.

Incidentally, congratulations to Scott Ullrich on getting a ‘commit bit’, meaning he can now add code directly to the project. You may know Scott from his previous work on the Installer.

07/30/2004
Bug’s Life

Jonas Sundstrom posted a link to a site about real dragonflies, noting they do not bite or sting. Alexander Leidinger also posted a link to a German site.

(I will note I’ve been rammed in the head by dragonflies - that, you notice.)

NDIS eNabled

Matthew Dillon has added NDIS support, enabling a variety of network cards on DragonFly. (This is also known as “Project Evil”) He also added a README describing how to get a Windows driver working.

07/29/2004
Scene to wrap

During a conversation about ssh, ‘esmith’ pointed at a HOWTO on tcpwrappers. (It’s a Mac site - how strange!)

Buildworld is the only way

Matthew Dillon noted that a full make buildworld/kernel and installworld/kernel is needed on the next update, due to a number of changes he has made.

If you haven’t updated recently to catch the scheduler changes, you may want to do this in any case.

Big things to come

Matthew Dillon commited the start of MBUF/cluster accounting, plus some LWKT changes to accomodate NDIS.

07/28/2004
Don’t go quickly into that build

There were a few problems with the recent 802.11 commits; they appear fixed, but doing a make quickworld will probably not complete. Try a make buildworld on your next update, and it should sail through clearly.

Source and dfports snapshots available

Erik Paulsen Skaalerud now has daily snapshots of source and dfports available on his site. If you are setting up a new DragonFly install, this shortcuts having to update via CVSup.

Crapload of commits

There’s been over 50 commits made in the past two days, including such things as nvidia-driver improvements from Emiel Kollof, a pkill import from Chris Pressey, and wicontrol updates from Joerg Sonennberger.

boot2 better

Matthew Dillon’s made a number of improvements to the booter code, so (re)installing a master boot record may help those having trouble with the basic boot system.