Archive for March 2007
From a discussion on users@: if you’re thinking about a UPS, look at what apcupsd can support. (hint: apparently, almost anything)
dragonflybsd.org has been down for a good chunk of today; it was due to a blown transformer.
Google Alerts told me of two links: “Baby Steps with DragonFly BSD 1.8.1“, and “Review: DragonFly BSD 1.8.1“. Both excellent reviews, in that they describe an accurate picture of the good and bad points of the recent release.
Joerg Sonnenberger has pkgsrc packages built using 1.8 and the new modular xorg packages, available at: ftp://packages.stura.uni-rostock.de/pkgsrc-modular (Thanks, Hasso Tepper)
The title says it all - visit the download page for 1.8 to get it. Most every mirror appears to have it right now - not just the ones on the 1.8 page.
Note that some sites have an early version of the 1.8.1 release that lacks the installer; that image is ‘dfly-1.8.1.iso.gz’. Instead, be sure to download ‘dfly-1.8.1_REL.iso.gz’, which should be the newer file of the two.
I’ve given the main page of leaf.dragonflybsd.org a slight update, to show more of the resources available to developers.
Peter Avalos has upgraded DragonFly to use libarchive 2.0.25, for increased speed relative to both libarchive 1.x and GNU tar, and other bugfixes.
A task where much of the heavy lifting has been done: making a kernel boot no matter how many processors are in the system. (notes) Right now, SMP kernels can’t boot on a system with 1 CPU, so the LiveCD runs only a non-SMP kernel.
Sepherosa Ziehau warned bleeding-edge users that recent network interface changes will require a rebuild of both kernel and world when next updating. This does not apply to 1.8 users.