A resurrected experiment: this local page shows the creation date of each binary pkgsrc package in Joerg’s archive, sorted in reverse chronological order. It’s updated daily. It’s an easy, cheesy way to tell when new packages have been uploaded. (The link for this page is also in the Links list on this page.)

Matthew Dillon is performing some significant cleanup of the kernel startup/VM code, so watch out if you are using the bleeding edge code.  He synced Preview before starting, so Preview users can move to the code version just before this (potentially) destabilizing code.

Petr Janda linked to a review of the open-source ‘Nouveau’ NVIDIA drivers, which plan to have 3D support.

Also, Gergo Szakal found that a recent poll on the Hungarian Unix Portal listed DragonFly as the 4th most popular BSD-based operating system - more popular than NetBSD.

If you could use over $100 USD, Petr Janda needs someone to port the getcontext and swapcontext calls to DragonFly’s libc, and he’s willing to pay the aforementioned money for it. Hop on now and make some quick money.

Undeadly.org has a review of “The OpenBSD Packet Filter Book“, which is Jeremy C. Reed’s version of the PF FAQ and other material, in printed form.  It’s available through Lulu.com print-on-demand.  DragonFly is mentioned in there, as we (along with I think pretty much every other BSD) also use PF.

Peter Avalos has updated libpcap to 0.9.5 and  tcpdump to 3.9.5.  I never realized tcpdump was a separate utility.

User ‘Haidut’ wrote up some notes on how he got DragonFly to boot from a USB stick.  (Summary: it just worked.)

In an effort to prevent spam messages from showing up in bugs.dragonflybsd.org via the mail gateway, some work is being done on the bugs site.  This may cause some bounce messages to show on the bugs@ mailing list.

Sepherosa Ziehau’s been busy, committing a bunch of networking updates and improvements to driver support.