Archive for April 2006
PC-BSD, which is FreeBSD 6 with KDE 3.5 and a GUI package management system, is now at version 1.0. I can only describe it as the way a BSD should be packaged.
Some relative stats on how platforms are doing with pkgsrc; results found in recent entries to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list.
NetBSD 3.0_STABLE/i386 96%
NetBSD 3.99.18/i386 94%
NetBSD 2.1/i386 92%
NetBSD 1.6.2/i386 92%
DragonFly/i386 90%
NetBSD 3.0/x86_64 87%
NetBSD 2.1/sparc 82%
Darwin 8.5.0/powerpc 60%
IRIX64 6.5/mipseb 31%
DragonFly appears to be the best place to run pkgsrc, if you aren’t running NetBSD.
One of the design goals for DragonFly is creating a BSD with clean, clear code. Here’s one example.
Matthew Dillon would like feedback and perhaps even testing on his BUF/BIO separation patch.
Oliver Fromme noticed that the cheap DVD sold at Lehmanns for LinuxTag 2006 now contains FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD - and DragonFly.
Matthew Dillon has removed libcr, since libc_r now links correctly against libc, and libcr is no longer needed.
2 weeks until BSDCan! I won’t be able to make it, but there will be a few DragonFly people up there…
pkgsrc has reached 6,000 total packages. How many of those build on DragonFly? About 93%. For comparison, pkgsrc builds about 97% of all packages on NetBSD 3.0_STABLE, which is possibly the most common platform using pkgsrc. That’s fantastic statistics.
Joerg Sonnenberger followed up on the pkgsrc bug reports, noting that checking recent bulk builds (via the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list) is another way to check up on pkgsrc problems.