DragonFly BSD

Do you use info pages?  Yeah, me neither.  John Marino’s removed or converted the various info pages already in DragonFly, and removed texinfo since it’s no longer required.  (I’ve linked to a few examples, but there were a number more commits than this.)

This week’s BSDNow has the usual roundup of news, including some… suspicious items, plus an interview of Kamila Soucková about conferences and Google Summer of Code.  They note this Hammer2 proposal.

Today’s the annual Bad Tech Joke, also known as April Fools Day.  I don’t do those here, cause I think of them like this.  This is your public service announcement to ignore most of what you read for the next 24 hours or so.

The default .cshrc in DragonFly has had some changes, which shouldn’t be anything but handy… assuming you are using tcsh.  Also: the loader menu defaults to a blue Fred, now.

In the process of committing binutils 2.25 to DragonFly, John Marino also broke its build into parallel parts and removed the build of the gold linker.  Buildworlds should be noticeably faster now, though I don’t have a before/after.

John Marino’s written an extensive page about wireless and DragonFly, on dragonflybsd.org.

Pre-assembled over the week, since I have an odd weekend schedule this week.  On the plus side, there’s lots to click here. How to Be a Good Open Source Community Member.  (via) Reliable Cron across the Planet.  (via) How to irritate people away from your website, example 1 and example 2.  I hate being repeatedly asked […]

Francois Tigeot has performed a major upgrade of DragonFly’s sound system.  If you had sound problems or unsupported hardware before, this may fix them.  It will require a full buildworld+buildkernel.

Romick posted some more tips on setting up various special keys on an Acer c720 Chromebook, running DragonFly of course, and Matthew Dillon also has backlight key configuration.   I wish I had a spare $200 right now for one of these.

I managed to miss this last week because of issues with my RSS feeds, but the 71st episode of BSDNow is/has been up.  It’s “systemd isaster”, cause the interview is with Ian Sutton talking about BSD replacements for systemd dependencies.  There’s a ... [More] number of at-least-slightly DragonFly-related things in there, including OPNSense, pkgng, and Hammer mentions. [Less]