Douwe Kiela wrote in to mention that the Dutch Linux Magazine (October edition) has an article about DragonFly, written by him, and on page 48.

In this ONLamp.com story about the upcoming OpenBSD 3.6, it’s revealed that apparently the new multiprocessor support will be much like the Big Giant Lock (BGL) in FreeBSD-4.

Andreas Hauser has a FireFox 1.0.1 package for DragonFly. Add it using pkg_add -r url. (You may need this patch.)

Steve Jothen managed to transcribe the recent bsdnews.org video of Matthew Dillon, and posted it to the users@ list.

Also, Adrian Nida found out how much trouble a spurious error message can cause…

While talking about other issues, Matthew Dillon noted that if you pull your source files from CVS to a local repository and then check them out, you should have a ~/.cvsrc containing:

update -Pd
checkout -P

This will prune directories otherwise deleted in CVS but still present for “bookkeeping”.

The latest entry in David Rhodus’s journal notes the strange “unreleasing” of FreeBSD 5.3 back to first release candidate status.

(from bsdnews) Dru Lavigne of BSD Hacks and FreeBSD Basics fame has made a pamphlet called “BSD Success Stories“. (PDF link) There’s a mention of DragonFly in there.

There will be another version of this pamphlet, so if you have a DragonFly success story, you should be able to guess what to do next. Here’s Dru’s original blog mention of “Success Stories”. Also worthwhile in her blog is a visit to NYCBUG’s recent event with Kirk McKusick/Eric Allman.

Joerg Sonneberger is itching to get rid of OLDCARD. Anyone using it?

Joerg Sonneberger added the NetBSD version of gzip. It uses the new libz, so it works more efficiently, plus it’s not GNU, which matters to some folks.