News
386 processors gone FOR REALS
The 386 processor is no longer officially supported for DragonFly. I say “officially” because it probably didn’t work anyway, as I doubt anyone was crazy enough to try it in the last few years.
Now appearing in a /dev near you
Hasso Tepper has added some USB to serial drivers: uticom(4) for TI TUSB3410, moscom(4) for the MosChip Semiconductor MCS7703, and uchcom(4), for WinChipHead CH341/CH340. Dmitry Komissaroff contributed to the uticom(4) driver.
Programming languages, then and now
Some entertainment: This article at American Scientist talks about programming language choice and the arguments that have come up over the years. The bibliography at the end of this 5-page essay is worth special attention, because of the links to
More ipfw changes
Sepherosa Ziehau has made more changes to ipfw, which means a more complete rebuild is required for bleeding edge users when upgrading. This is in addition to the earlier ipfw/dummynet changes.
Everybody blogs, even ICANN
Hasso Tepper updated the root servers list to accomodate an IP change. The interesting part of this is Hasso linking to something I didn’t know existed: the ICANN blog.
Sendmail updated to 8.14.2
Gregory Neil Shapiro has updated Sendmail to version 8.14.2.
libarchive upgrade
Peter Avalos has upgraded libarchive to version 2.4.0, which apparently eats much less CPU than earlier, inspired by benchmarks comparing it to other tar implementations.
No more ipfw1
Sepherosa Ziehau has removed IPFW1; IPFW2, which is already in the system, is generally compatible from a configuration point of view. Check the ipfw man page to find out what’s different.
No realquick buildworld for you
If you are running bleeding edge code, Sepherosa Ziehau has made changes to ipfw and dummynet that require a more complete rebuild of code on the next update.
Struct vattr changes coming up
Matthew Dillon warns of struct vattr changes being done to support his new filesystem, HAMMER. This may cause problems in userland, though of course this can only affect you if you are running the bleeding edge of code.