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DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly is developing a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems.

DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating system as BSD and Linux and is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs.

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Anon32

Large commit — Merge branch 'vendor/GREP'

More than 1000 lines of source code were added or removed in this commit.

In commit 83cc4c50 by John Marino on 2012-05-08 (15 days ago)

Anon32

Large commit — Upgrade grep version 2.9 to 2.12 on the vendor ...

More than 1000 lines of source code were added or removed in this commit.

In commit cf28ed85 by John Marino on 2012-05-08 (15 days ago)

Anon32

Large commit — grep: Upgrade from version 2.9 to 2.12

More than 1000 lines of source code were added or removed in this commit.

In commit 073c18e4 by John Marino on 2012-05-08 (15 days ago)

Anon32

Large commit — kernel: Remove newlines from the panic messages...

More than 1000 lines of source code were added or removed in this commit.

In commit ed20d0e3 by Sascha Wildner on 2012-04-21 (about 1 month ago)

Anon32

Large commit — mpt(4): Sync with FreeBSD.

More than 1000 lines of source code were added or removed in this commit.

In commit 4c42baf4 by Sascha Wildner on 2012-04-17 (about 1 month ago)

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News

acpica-unix 20110527 added

Thanks to Magliano Andrea, a new version of ACPI  has been added to DragonFly, acpica-unix 20110527. (Or is it Andrea Magliano?  I’m not 100% sure.)


libpthreadbroken, fixed

If you are running bleeding-edge DragonFly, libpthread was broken for a short period.  If you built anything in the last … 12 hours?  You may want to rebuild it.  If that doesn’t describe you, it’s a nonevent. It’s funny that I’m reporting a short-term break in bleeding-edge operating system code as any sort of surprise. [...]


igb(4) added

Sepherosa Ziehau has added igb(4) version 2.2.3 direct from Intel, for support of  their 82575 and 82576 Ethernet controller chips.  It now shares a hardware abstraction layer with the em(4) driver, too.


Even better pkgsrc status

John Marino posted a report of pkgsrc-currentbuilding on DragonFly i386.  The success rate for package building is so good that the “top” package break was security/libpreludedb, with only 9 dependencies.  Everything else was less than that. ... [More]  I have never seen a pkgsrc build report before with only single-digit figures for dependent breakage; this is fantastic. [Less]


Lazy Reading for 2012/05/20

There’s been so much activity this week in DragonFly that I’m having a hard time keeping up.  There’s always time for Lazy Reading, though. The March of Progress.  (via) My Third Attempt at Vim.  Follow the link to pathogen, if you haven’t heard of it. From the same article, Destroy All Software screencasts.  They look [...]


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